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Well when you have to dodge an unfit person going up a hill you notice.

I’m all for bike lanes. And bicycle licenses. Can’t go up the 80 percentile hill in your town at 20 mph? You fail.

To start off that’s ableist. And reeks of privilege (can he afford to live a biking distance to work?)

But that doesn’t matter - someone unilaterally changes something and everyone else is supposed to get with the program or find a hole to die in.

Free if the leader escapes the assasination attempt from the French special forces.

The Convertible franc was clearly an attempt from France to dilute the effects of its inflationary spending by spreading it over its former colonies.

Just the classical? Just the literature?

I thought that cycle was the nutshell of Russia. Then again I only know Russia through her authors. Holy S*^% they’re brilliant!

I can’t speak for the OP, nor can I express how D. changed my life.

Perhaps D. is the exact opposite of a self-help book at the airport. It’s hard to read and emotionally devastating. You go into the depths of human depravity. Sin is real. Modernity is fraught with contradictions, with danger. Modernity offers mechanical band aids for what are sicknesses of our souls. For Doestoyevsky the greatest man is Christ but he is what we would consider an Idiot.

In the end you are offered catharsis. accept it and you are changed.

I loved Brothers Karanazov. Brilliant.

In fact the Russian authors are amazing. It’s a shame I discovered them when I was in grad school and not earlier.

I didn’t know that existed, but no it’s not good enough. Try referring to the complex value in a cell in another cell. You get a value error.

I.e say A1 = complex(1,1) Then A2 = A1*2 -> error.

Things like imsum() are not enough and awkward. (We have calculators for simple complex math.)

Experimentalists use excel as a visual vector computer language. I’ve used it like that as well, and honestly, for many problems in science, the spreadsheet’s paradigm of interacting with the user is better.

So what you end up with is hacked complex support by using two columns to represent real() and imag(). Then your’s truly has to parse it to use in my models.

You can do cute things in excel though. My advisor had me program the electric field resulting from a (large) distribution of dipoles.

He wanted it done - he insisted it be done - in excel. Don’t ask.

I work in a govt lab, and if you’re dealing with exp. you’re dealing with excel.

What I wished excel had, therefore, was the ability for the cell itself to be a complex number (or, better, a list of lists [0]).

[0] what is it they say and complex systems and LISP? :P

My biggest gripe with excel is that it doesn’t support complex numbers. Otherwise it’s bloody brilliant.

Life in science would be so much easier if it did

(I work on the simulation end of electrochemistry. All the data I receive is in excel sheets)

I don’t like to give out my fake one either. Wouldn’t want my porn spam to get diluted by COMCAST offers.

Actually you could learn a lot about me and who I am by cross referencing all the places i’ve given my fake address to. Since I don’t want to create a thousand fake addresses, I don’t give that out either for a mere $100

I actually click on sponsored links just to help DDG.

“For one study, Norton and his collaborator paid each respondent about 46 euros for every completed questionnaire. “You can run a survey on regular people for like a dollar,” “

Hmm I refused to give my email to a cable provider for a $100 Best Buy gift card (I was in Best Buy). At the time I thought who would trade their email address for a lousy $100?

Now I know.

“Its a matter of setting up bunch of mirrors reflecting sunlight. Of course you need sun to grow.”

Doesn’t work > see thermodynamics.

The mirror you’d be setting up would have to set up away from the building where the food is grown and therefore occupy space.

In agronomy there is a concept that the rate of growth is set by whichever one necessary nutrient is limited. Since we fertilize and pump water, the limiting factor is sunlight.

EDIT: 1. This is why Brazil gasohol is the only net positive bio-fuel

2. Manual picking of produce is far superior to mechanized harvest. Tomatoes in the US are large and tasteless because they’ve been bread to be easily picked by machine. ( A lot of thought goes into picking a ripe fruit. It’s not obvious AI can do that. Or that the robots can ever grab fruit with dexterity and w/out crushing)

3.What energy source do you want to run your automatic tractors off of? Diesel for agriculture is arguably the segment that should be given the most slack when transitioning to “green” alternatives.