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[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

I'd like to think the guy answered as a joke.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

What's weird is that 17 feels like a small enough number where it seems like we should know intuitively what its multiples are. And it feels like by this point in our lives we should at least know all numbers up to 100 or so that are composite vs prime. But yeah it's actually not that weird when you consider that the multiplication table usually stops at 12. And also that we really don't get that much exercise in multiplication in daily life.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

This one has always bothered me a bit because ....999999 is the same as infinity, so when you're "proving" this, you're doing math using infinity as a real number which we all know it's not.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Saw_Final_OKREALLYFINALTHISTIME_2.docx

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

That's a good point but it's also important to note that a Snickers bar has much less nutritional value than the cheeseburger shown in the original image. So if you're training for a marathon or something, you can totally get away with a cheeseburger every night, but not the equivalent amount of snickers (you will feel like absolute shite)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

I see 306 issues and 0 pull requests. That's got to be a bit discouraging as an open source project maintainer - plenty of people filing bug reports but no one that cares enough to help fix the bugs.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Are you a programmer? If so, the code is open source, so you could try fixing it on your own; it doesn't seem that hard to fix. You could try to find where they are handling scroll input and see if there is anything that tells you what direction it is. Then if it's horizontal just ignore it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

That'll never happen, the tobacco industry is too big and too many jobs will be lost all at once, so it becomes highly politicized and loses popular support. With the proposed law, the tobacco industry at least has time to pivot to something else.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I just visited Canada for 4 days, was around a lot of people and I only smelled smoke twice. Both times were outside the airport (once arriving and once departing).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

You are exactly right. This whole thread is full of people complaining about the price, but it's perfectly justifiable for this one reason. If you have a significant other then it's actually cheaper to rent than it is to go to the theater. And big screen TVs are commonplace, so the experience is about the same (arguably better since you can pause if you have to go pee, can rewind if you missed something, can be as obnoxious as you want, don't have to commute there, and don't have to deal with sticky floors and overpriced popcorn).

I'm not saying the price is reasonable (it's too high in my opinion) but people need to stop pretending like it makes no sense from a business perspective. It's a no-brainer to the average non-pirating consumer: they are getting something better, for cheaper.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's distinctly different in this case: they're just trying to prevent people who are turning smoking age from conveniently being able to buy cigarettes. They're not taking away cigarettes from people who can already buy them, which was not the case for prohibition.

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