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D. Cold cake, hot tea.

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Akagami_Shanks posted...

it's legal tender, they have to take it.

Businesses have the right to refuse your money for a transaction. In practice this means you can't buy a load of groceries with 4,048 pennies, but it also gives them the right to refuse dollar coins and $2 bills if they don't want to deal with them.

Creditors, however, have to accept any legal tender given by a debtor.

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It's in capitalism's nature to become brutal to its workers. The USA is just further along the path of capitalism than most 1st world countries.

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Aren't Trump supporters the ones always saying that bullying victims should defend themselves and fight back instead of tattling to adults?

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Jen0125 posted...

Have you thought of just cutting up fruit and putting it in your water? Or cucumbers?

Fruit has sugar in it. This includes lemon, though it only has one fourth as much as an apple, for example. Cucumber also has sugar, about 2/3 as much as lemon.

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wolfy42 posted...

I did say "pure socialism" as in there is no privately owned property and the net profits or resources are split equally among the citizens.

Even in "pure socialism" where private property is completely abolished, there's no requirement for all resources to be split evenly between every citizen. You can have some citizens with more personal property and some with less personal property.


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wolfy42 posted...

Pure socialism where everyone gets paid the same amount and there is no competition for products is actually bad for innovation because of this (to some degree), that does not mean we need to be purely capatalistic and all about the competition, but a melding of both systems would be the best solution.

Socialism doesn't necessarily mean that everyone gets paid the same and there's no competition. Firstly, even in the USSR people were heavily rewarded for hard work, so the whole "now everyone's paycheck is the same" was always a myth. And in a market socialist system, you can have competition between multiple worker-owned enterprises, without even a hint of capitalism.


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GreenKnight127 posted...

But I also think it's ridiculous that there are 87 brands of batteries, if they are all, scientifically, physically, essentially....the same.

Even if the end products are identical, the companies making them can compete to improve their production efficiency and other factors, and use that to lower prices to increase sales. The competition will still improve the overall situation, even if the products themselves don't improve.

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18%, not fascist.

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Wouldn't be too surprised to see something like that when Luffy and Blackbeard finally clash in One Piece. Their first quarrel was over whether the local cherry pie was delicious.

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kayoticdreamz posted...

but the fundamental problem here is the alternatives proposed are socialism and communism, neither of which are good. Capitalism simply wins because it's been the best thing we've tried and alternatives have far higher death counts than capitalism by miles.

Even the highest estimates have communism killing a total of 100 million people during its existence. Even today, capitalism kills 20 million people each year due to lack of clean water, hunger, and disease. Capitalism has killed more in the 2010s than communism killed during all of its existence. Even if you account for the communist world being much smaller than the capitalist world, capitalism is still the system that kills more. It's a logical consequence of a system that steals from the poor in the 3rd world to enrich the wealthy in the 1st world.
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Not just the Mandalorians, but the Womandalorians and the Childalorians too.
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I guess you haven't heard of the Czechian Republic and the Former Yugoslavia Republic Of Northern Macedonia either?
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Wouldn't that be battery anyways?
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Zikten posted...

brestugo posted...

and basically any person over 30

that's dumb. I'm in my 30's still but technically "over 30" and I am not a fucking boomer. I was born in the 80's. boomers are the kids of WW2 vets. you can't be a boomer unless you are at least 60 or older.

Boomers making Millenials and Gen Z fight each other is the generational version of rich people making the poor and the middle class fight each other.
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I'd pour the water down the drain, recycle the bottle, and drink a glass of tap water just to make a statement.
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BeyondWalls posted...

Fuparulez posted...

The most economic way to acquire candy is to skip the costumes and just buy the candy on deep discount on November 1st.

How is this more economic than completely free?

Costumes cost money and/or time. Trick and treating costs time. What does the net hourly wage of a trick or treater end up at?

Of course, if you enjoy going from house to house, that's a different thing.
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It refers to all the oceans of the world (North, East, West, and South Blues plus the Grand Line) being united into one connected world ocean. It could also be the name of the device, method or process that achieves this, but the end result will always be connecting the seas.

The OP's other name is literally "one-connected great treasure". There's various hints thorought the series that the Red Line, the continent separating the oceans, will be destroyed. The World Nobles, the main villains of the series, have their capital on top of the Red Line.

It would also help fulfill the dreams of Sanji, Nami, and Brook. And it's something that Oda can have planned two decades ago, without having to have every detail of the lore set in stone.
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Sour cream, lamb meatballs.
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A cancerous term created in the cesspit of /r9k/. It should never have spread like it did. 4chan already had a similar term with a similar meaning, and communities that couldn't use it didn't need a replacement.
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scar the 1 posted...

ZeldaMutant posted...

FLOUR posted...

You guys nailed it. Actually, x^p - x is divisible by 2p whenever p is an odd prime. Though the general proof is way more difficult than for specific values.

Oh, right, Fermat's small theorem. I couldn't figure out a proof, so I checked Wikipedia and woah, there's quite a few. Most of them seem unintuitive, in the sense that you wouldn't approach a number theoretic problem from a weird necklace-counting angle. But in the middle there's a proof that uses tools mentioned in this thread, tools I tried using but got stumped. The trick was a very fascinating property of a certain object named after another famous mathematician. A property I never spotted despite using the object quite a bit. I've learned something today.

Do elaborate please

My idea was to use induction and the binomial expansion theorem.

To start, x^p - x is obviously divisible by 2, since odd minus odd is even. In fact, Fermat's little theorem is "x^p - x is divisible by p if p = prime", and that's what we're going to prove by induction.

Induction start step: x=1. 1^p - 1 = 0, which is divisible by any p.

Assume the theorem holds for x. Then for x+1,

(x+1)^p - (x+1) = 1*x^p + [a whole mess of binomical coefficients] + 1*1^p - (x+1) = x^p - x + [mess]

As per the assumption, x^p - x is divisible by p. So all we have to prove is that [mess] is divisible by p.
Feels impossible, right? And how do I get the fact that p is prime involved? So I gave up.

But wikipedia gave the answer. As I knew, the binomial coefficients can be found in Pascal's Triangle, but I had never realized one beautiful property of the triangle and the coefficients.

https://media.sciencephoto.com/image/a9000148/800wm/A9000148-Pascal_s_triangle.jpg

Now let's look at row 5, aka the (a+b)^5 coefficients. 1, 5, 10.
As for row 7, it's 1, 7, 21, 35.
And for row 11, it's 1, 11, 55, 165, 330, 462.

See the pattern? They're all divisible by the row number! This holds for all primes! The only expections are the 1s, but those are outside [mess], so no need to worry. So, if every coefficient in [mess] is divisible by p, then clearly the whole [mess] is divisible by p.

Now that we spotted this, we just have to prove it. The coefficients can be calculated as (n choose m), aka n!/(m!(n-m)!), where m runs from 0 to n. We need to prove that this is divisible by n if n=prime and 0<m<n.

n! is obviously divisible by n.

Because m is smaller than n, m! (1*2*3...*m) does not include n in the product. Furthermore, since n is prime, it cannot be the product of any of the numbers in m!. Thus, m! is not divisible by n. The same logic holds for (n-m)!.

So, we have an expression where the numerator is divisible by n, but the denumerator isn't. And since n is prime, there's nothing in the denumerator to divide it either. So whatever integer the division results in, it has to be divisible by n!
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FLOUR posted...

You guys nailed it. Actually, x^p - x is divisible by 2p whenever p is an odd prime. Though the general proof is way more difficult than for specific values.

Oh, right, Fermat's small theorem. I couldn't figure out a proof, so I checked Wikipedia and woah, there's quite a few. Most of them seem unintuitive, in the sense that you wouldn't approach a number theoretic problem from a weird necklace-counting angle. But in the middle there's a proof that uses tools mentioned in this thread, tools I tried using but got stumped. The trick was a very fascinating property of a certain object named after another famous mathematician. A property I never spotted despite using the object quite a bit. I've learned something today.
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Chris Elman.
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http://files.explosm.net/comics/Kris/dcw10pt1.png
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BK is just boring and tasteless, which is quite good compared to McD which is straight up garbage.
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Don't even need to factorialize, just calculate

1^5 = 1, 1-1 = 0 ~ 0mod5
2^5 = 32, 32-2 = 2 ~ 0mod5
3^5 = 243, 243-3 = 240 ~ 0mod5
4^5 = 1024, 1024-4 =1020 ~ 0mod5
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No, I'm a gig worker and all the unions in my country only accept people with stable jobs.
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In Yoshi's Island, you can shoot the boss of 3-8 with an egg from outside the boss room, killing it in one hit before it has a chance to transform. Kamek has special text for this occasion.
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Urgh, the key Madolche monsters were apparently only ever printed once, and at a high rarity to boot. So triple Anjelly, triple Magileine and double Chocolat-a-la-Mode would cost over 150, and with the other engine pieces the total price is close to $200. Plz reprint Konami.

A solid deck core is something like

3x Madolche Anjelly
2x Madolche Hootcake
3x Madolche Magileine
2x Madolche Messengelato
3x Madolche Petingcessoeur
1x Madolche Puddingcess

1x Madolche Chateau
1x Madolche Ticket

3x Madolche Fresh Sistart
2x Madolche Puddingcess Chocolat-a-la-Mode
3x Madolche Queen Tiaramisu
3x Madolche Teacher Glassouffle
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Those cards are all really cheap. You can get them for a fraction of the price. It also lacks all the top main deck cards that make Madolche function, like Anjelly, Magileine, Messengelato, and Hootcake. Looks almost like a scam.

Even at full force, Madolche isn't anywhere close to competitive these days.
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Middle hope posted...

If you're into guro or lolis then you found a winner

If you look at the OP's username, then MiA is a perfect match for them, on top of being excellent to begin with.
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With the second hangar of Cairo and the sniper alleys of Outskirts behind you, you're through the worst parts. Now you mostly just have to learn to deal with Flood and Brutes efficiently. And the boss fights, those are a big departure from the usual Halo gameplay and can be a serious pain.
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Meyer said he fired his gun when the burglar allegedly moved toward him.

Fair, next.

The burglar then ran toward a park behind the home, dropping his pickax in the process. Meyer said he then fired another shot "into the night."

Not fair, that's excessive force. Also yeah, he should have called the cops after the burglar fled.
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Hanky_Bannister posted...

you have to be a scientist i'm assuming, not some rando dumbass?

The application specifically asks what scientific experience you have, and how interested you are in science and environmental issues. They probably won't select idiots who aren't fit to do science.
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If they have a skillset that's in demand, the should be working. People need their help, and they would probably get paid well, so them working would improve everyone's situation.

If they have no valuable skils and would have to send dozens of applications to even get a job, it's fine to not bother. There's no point in having all those people competing for the few available jobs they can do. Since the economy forces a certain percentage of people to be unemployed, it's actually better for them to enjoy their lives instead of wasting their time hunting for jobs.
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TheWorstPoster posted...

Give me a mathematical proof that 1 + 1 = 2.

None of those "apples" bullshit either.

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Save those for dessert and eat some real food for now.
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Nothing is a 100% proven fact. Even the most certain things are in the 99.99% region. Even with the most certain-seeming things, there's a tiny chance of something outlandish like everything being a dream/simulation.

Those semantics aside, yes, I consider evolution a near-certainty, since it makes sense and is a cornerstone of all our biological knowledge. When I think about it, I even use it at work sometimes (allergies to plant groups).
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Solid Snake07 posted...

MrNintendo1213 posted...

Solid Snake07 posted...

One is trying to keep more of the money you earned from a wasteful government and the other is trying to leech more from the waste.

And I'm not saying welfare programs are entirely a waste or that everyone who uses them is a leech, just to get out ahead of some of the words about to be put in my mouth

How did they earn it? By sitting around while a bunch of underpaid workers made money. That isn't making money, that's stealing. At least closer to it than taxation is.

Have you ever run a business?

Cause if you just sit around all day banking on your employees to run it for you sorry to say you're not going to be in business very much longer.

Most investors appoint a CEO to run the business. Furthermore, by only owning a minor amount in shares in any given company, you can let the major shareholders handle the responsibility of choosing and managing the CEO.
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Questionmarktarius posted...

https://corporate.walmart.com/newsroom/company-facts

So, if this were somehow liquidated, assuming it even can, and then redistributed to walmart employees, it would be a whopping $1.82 an hour.

They're earning that much 24/7. Assuming the average Walmart employee works 29 hours a week, that's an increase of $10.54 per hour.

But it's not like it can be directly converted. Their wealth gain is caused by stock values rising, which is a result of security trading markets, even if expectation of future profits is ultimately the reason why stocks are worth anything. Looking at the article, the actual profits paid last year were $3 billion. So dividing that gives just $0.81 per hour.
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One of the guys he had dirt on is Prince Andrew of the UK so yeah, it's possible it was him.
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MonkeyBones23 posted...

Maybe you could try setting up a mini set of stairs leading up to the gate to see if that convinces him.

And then slowly deconstruct it so he learns to make bigger and bigger leaps.
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I don't think I even know of any 3rd cousins of mine. 5cor would be a 6th cousin line, way too distant to comprehend. Our shared parent would be my great^5-grandparent, aka someone who died 150 years ago. We really wouldn't be relatives by any definition.
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Smashingpmkns posted...

Pigs like mud more

Pigs like being washed (or at least the end result), and on hot summer days water will also help them to cool down.
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Lokarin posted...

isn't fish just a paraphyletic clade of aquatic chordates excluding eels and morays?

No, excluding tetrapods. Eels are included. Eels, like most other fishes, are ray-finned fishes, which is a proper taxonomic class.
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Singleplayer Offline Battle Adventure, or SOBA for short.
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Welcome to the NHK
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The national public broadcasting corporation is part of my daily mobile internet browsing, between Reddit and Twitter.
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