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Almost all energy released in earthquakes is released in the biggest ones. No realistic number of smaller quakes is ever going to add up to even the single biggest earthquake ever recorded.

To dissipate the energy of a M9 (which happens about once per decade) you'd need about 32,000 quakes of M6 (still big enough to collapse buildings).

Energy scales as 10^(1.5 × ΔM)

ΔM = 9.0 − 6.0 = 3.0

10^(1.5 × 3) = 10^4.5 ≈ 31,600


Another factor is that literacy rates were very low before colonization, in Vietnam to read or write using Chinese characters was never a broadly known skill (outside of the elite). This is a pretty big contrast to Japan, which had double-digit rates of literacy during the same era.

I've only heard it used in tech when you have actual operations, in my experience that meant lab managers and technicians. I'm not sure what it is supposed to mean in this context.


How could one prove this is aperiodic? I'm guessing maybe you can prove that some or most of the triangles have globally unique rotations regardless of N?


In college we discovered everyone's ID number was evenly divisible by 13. Presumably it's because that's the smallest number you'd need so that you could detect any one digit being incorrect, or two adjacent digits being swapped (I think?). Or that it's just very easy to implement the increment when assigning new numbers.


Isn't 11 the smallest divisor that gives those guarantees?


It's what quite a few banks used to use as a check digit, maybe that where you remember it from. But it depends on the size of the number you want to verify and exactly what system is employed. Lots of banks used 9 or 10 digit numbers which worked with a "11 check". Nine was also often used on smaller numbers.

You can use any prime afaik for this example but your number space will be limited.


For 2 digit checks it's often mod 97 (largest prime < 100) because it can detect all single-digit errors and most adjacent digit transpositions.

Used in IBAN bank account numbers, EU VAT numbers (UK, FR, BE), etc


I've definitely done it in places (in the US) where locally it was not legal. But it's not like the cops ever checked and caused us trouble about it, so it's easy to get away with it if there aren't other legal issues going on.


Even where it's not legal, there's often ways around it - if one student is willing to be the "fall guy" so there's only ever one person on the lease.

The SRO bans went explicitly against a form of "hotel" really which was more individualistic.

An example is seen in Blues Brothers, before Carrie Fischer remodels it; probably to install higher density.


What's that? An app? I see a Chinese app of that name in the android play store, but it only has about 1k downloads



The Tesla service is colloquially called "Robotaxi".


Not just colloquially but officially...

https://www.tesla.com/robotaxi


They'd still need the electrical components, such as the transistors and passive components


Very convenient that you are able to rebrand apathy as approval. They're not actually the same, however.


If you don't vote, don't complain about the outcome. It is de facto approval with the result regardless of how one spins it.


If you believe the system to be flawed there is no hypocrisy in not engaging with it while simultaneously denouncing the outcome. For instance, I am vehemently opposed to the outcomes produced by a defacto two-party system so for my entire adult life I have exclusively voted for 3rd party candidates on principle. In practice this is akin to not voting at all. I have been accused on multiple occasions of failing to prevent the 'bad' two-party candidate from winning by 'wasting' my vote. Nevertheless, I find it well within my wheelhouse to cast critique.


You’re wrong. You have, at best, wasted votes your whole life.

But hey, you get to pretend it’s some moral high ground, so, yay! Nice job.


Well, as I said, your opinion is one I have heard before. If you have some deeper reasoning or insight to share I would love to hear it.


I think you're totally right if they're in a swing state, but it's less clear otherwise.


What if you were disenfranchised? This happened to me before, due to residency and main-in ballot rules. This may be a significant number of non-voters.


Your intentions don't matter, only your actions. The fact is that about two thirds of the population voted that they were okay with a Trump presidency, and slightly less than that with a Harris presidency.


If your land can be treated as an asset, then we don't really have LVT yet. The goal of LVT is to tax land to the point where it is no longer an appreciating asset (and, not too much that it becomes a liability)


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