Recently, a bunch of people on tik tok found this "bug" in their banking app where you can write a bad check, then withdraw the funds before it clears... Then started crying about it when their balances updated
Dude definitely thought he discovered a cool new life hack
But they'll never leave ~~without money~~
Which would you pick - one person who will support you when the world turns against you, or a few tens of thousands who are rabbid fans so long as you keep saying what they want to hear
An explosion is pure entropy. It's high energy releasing to a low energy state in an uncontrolled manner
We climb down the energy slope very slowly to reverse entropy and create order
The universe is like us - temporary order emerges as it slides towards entropy
The comments in a healthy social network are the only way to get near the truth at this point. I read the comments before the article at this point
Because you can do kinematics two ways. You can look at it by speed*mass, or by energy - in both cases it quickly gets way more complicated when you move beyond spherical cows in a vacuum, but both are equally valid. There's trade-offs to each approach, but the answer should end up the same
Just like how you can say a rod from God or an asteroid impact is x kilotons of explosives, you're looking at the energy being scattered on impact. If you set your reference frame to Earth, you only have to look at the relative speed and mass of the other object and you get a reasonable estimate. You could also factor in how much the earth moves from the impact, factor in how much the atmosphere, water, and soil "soften the blow", you could theoretically look at how the movement of other celestial bodies gently tugs at both as they impact, the resistance of the materials moving through the earth's (and sun's) magnetic field, and endless other factors
Ultimately, models are extreme simplifications, as are measurements. The universe doesn't care about units or numbers, the universe works on ratios. Numbers aren't real - they're a mental shortcut. Something exists or it doesn't, there isn't two of anyone as far as reality is concerned. Our universe cannot be compressed beyond itself without losing information
You probably don't care about how much torque your car has on Io, but reality does. 10k tons of TNT is not remotely going to be the same as a nuclear explosion, but humans will only see a mushroom cloud and destruction over a similar area
But models are useful - they predict well enough to give us a starting point.
It's actually "Tesla real", learn to speak Spanish you uncultured swine
Printing for a single city has got to be more than hosting for an entire country
Think of all the people you need to print everything out before the next morning - you need a big enough staff of editors and reporters that you can get everything ready in a short time frame, you need the staff to handle the printing overnight, you need drivers to deliver within a 3-ish hour period and the staff to coordinate and load them up
Meanwhile, for a website, a team of 5 developers/devops could handle all of it. You still need journalists and editors, but they are no longer on the same time frame - they can just release things as they're ready, and maybe curate an email for the day and what appears on the homepage.
As far as paper and print costs vs hosting costs? If each paper cost 1 cent, were talking like between .01 cent and .0001 cent per page view, maybe even a tenth or hundredth of that. It adds up quickly, but compared to paper and ink?
I too appreciate when entities take the mask off
China has mythology about dynasties causing natural disasters through bad policies that disrupt the environment, and Pooh bear is changing his tone since the crazy series of natural disasters China has been having... They got a lot of flak for mishandling them, and, since finding out their military is in no shape to invade Taiwan, they're trying to show they can change before they get ousted
Russia was an economy the size of Mexico, before the latest sanctions hit (and we started investing in Mexican production to get away from China). They might be right - they're pretty far north, and they'd probably benefit from global upheaval - they have much less to lose, especially the regime (which is on very shaky footing due to Ukraine)
2024 has been a hell of a year. Russia is in no place to care about the long term, and the CCP could fall if they don't reform by the people's demands... The world is changing
We need to prepare, the adversaries have turned out to be toothless, but climate change is already here
Women are causing the same as a little bit of a lot of people
The aluminum ones have a plastic liner, and aluminum is cheap to make - recycling is incomparable to reuse, and a world away from reduce