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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 minutes ago

What about a couple thousand decaffeinated espressos (there is certainly 0.x mg of caffeine in one, not 0)?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

But the first few values are:

1 + 1/3 + 1/6 + 1/10 + 1/15 + 1/21 + 1/28...

I really don't see any pattern there showing why it converges to 2 exactly

Edit:

After thinking some more, you could write the sum as:

(Sum from n=1 to infinity of): 2/(n * (n + 1))

That sum is smaller than the sum of:

2 * (1/n^2^) which converges to π^2^/3

So I can see why it converges, just not where to.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

I wish piracy were stealing content. You created a movie? Nuh uh, that's mine now, fuck you.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

For Celsius, 0 is freezing cold and 100 is boiling hot - that's intuitive too.

I have literally never felt 0°F in my life and couldn't tell you how cold it is, just that it's very cold. I believe everyone has a rough understanding how 0°C and 100°C feel though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Well, as much as possible anyway. When considering mass alone, life is quite efficient.

According to Wolfram Alpha:

The sun produces 3.8 * 10^28^ watts.

A single human produces 104 watts (calculated through the average caloric intake assuming that intake ≈ energy consumption) through heat radiation.

Therefore:

1 kg of human converts 1.5 watt into heat.

1 kg of the sun converts 0.0002 watt into (heat) radiation.

And while I have nearly no understanding how entropy is calculated, from those values alone it seems like humans produce more entropy per kg than the sun. I'm pretty sure entropy is somewhat related to energy production though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

But are we actually creating order? To maintain life's order, we are creating much more disorder somewhere else.

Life is but an entropy maximization machine.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Not really, the words are pronounced differently

Although I've seen the email address burger@[domain] and wondered why anyone would have an address named after a food - until realising the sender was a Mr. Burger (pronounced like this: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fe/De-Burg.ogg + er).

Also, the food burger is pronounced almost like the Americans do because we took the English pronunciation and modified it slightly to fit existing German sounds.

The "ü" in Bürger however is pronounced like the "ue" in the French word rue, which is a sound that doesn't exist in English.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Kreig ≠ Krieg

The order of letetrs matters

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

The bar to be a good partner is different from the bar to be a good person/man though.

I dislike the conflation between the two because it implies being unable to have a partner implies being a bad person.

Take a hypothetical man with severe mental impairments necessitating 24/7 care: Is it impossible for him to be a good man? Yes, that is a more extreme example but it just goes to show that there is a difference between the two. Being a good partner requires different skills than "just" being a good man.

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