Also excluding the potential that the babies started before marriage, but yeah, she was basically pregnant for %40 of her 20s.

>5 kids at 31 wow

Not that 5 kids at 33 is that much less wow (5 kids of any sort is 5 too many), but it's 33.

Also, zorses. Horses and zebras have wildly different counts, and yet we can get zorses.

Because it's still cheaper or more accessible than travelling, buying and coming back. Which means, of your options for getting that product, getting the one nearby is the cheapest.

In most cases, it ends the current function and resolves in either a value or void/undefined depending on function type. Of course it depends on language and this isn't necessarily true for all languages, but it covers most.

If earth had more gravity, we'd need more force to get us out. I don't know if the 50% figure is a tight limit, but at SOME limit, the amount of fuel you need to escape gravity is more than the amount you can carry, so you stay grounded. That's of course a current-tech thing, future tech might fix it.

A larger earth means a larger gravity, hence the connection

>I think you are conflating "diplomat" and "Ambassador" a bit

Ambassadors are diplomats, but not necessarily vice versa, right? Ambassador is just a more permanent (not permanent, just longer lasting) appointment than a lot of other diplomats.

It's closer to a formula than it is to trial and error. There are mathematical methods to estimating square roots, and calculators do not need infinite precision. They iterate over a formula that gets more precise the more you apply it, looking for the desired precision, and then they return the result.

I'm sure they have types of authentication not in widespread public use. That's sort of a cool password.

https://www.snopes.com/news/2021/07/07/mattress-firm-money-laundering/

Fraud yes laundering not really it seems

Nice image, shows that no country is at 100%. Take a look at it.

Diplomats are people that represent a country and the country's interest in conversations with other representatives or leaders. They get cool passwords because they need to communicate back with the country they're representing to ensure smooth negotiations and relations.

You often need to work for the government, especially the country's foreign ministry (or equivalent) for a while before you're trusted with the power to represent the country

r/usdefaultism

Well, it's the npr answer. Do you have a better cited answer?

https://www.npr.org/2016/12/20/506215632/how-red-and-green-became-the-colors-of-christmas

Yes, all colours make an appearance of some sort in some holiday tradition. Appearance of widespread red is Coca-Cola's doing.

Green is because life, plants and especially holly has been a staple of winter festival throughout history. Red because Coca-Cola is very very good at marketing, and ran a campaign where Santa wore red. Now, christmas is half-red.

>And football, all of them, are named for the fact you play it on your feet, not how you can touch the ball.

So games like basketball, tennis or volleyball are also "football". That's some weird reasoning.

How is it a useful distinction? What ball games aren't played on your feet?

I definitely remove them at 3am, who knows if I'm putting new ones in at 3am or 9am.

VPN - Virtual Private Network. you can use this to pretend you're in a network that you aren't local to. Often used to connect to work or school.

Proxy - A different computer your computer sends/receives messages through. The other end of these messages often believe you're the proxy server, and never know who you are.

Torrent - Download parts of a file from different hosts, and merge them locally to get the original file. Filed are sliced into tiny portions which you then source from everyone seeding that torrent - it is peer-to-peer (e.g the files don't have to hit a server) so it can stay more anonymous.

Grading on a curve means setting the most mediocre student to a certain letter grade, say C, and scaling everyone up or down based on that. Means the class will have some fails, some As, and mostly Bs C's and D's

Contrast that with hard number limits (Below 50 fails or above 90 is A), which might mean the entire class could get As or Fs based on the exam difficulty and how the class does.

The first one assumes the class is somewhat normally distributed as far as knowledge on that topic. The second one assumes the teachers are infallible and create the exams at the same difficulty every time. Neither of these hold all the time, so neither method is necessarily better.

Farther away from the surface

People, like grapes, leak liquid when you bite into them.

Of course, good point! We indeed also try to answer questions like "if you have 10 people, split 6/4 or 7/3, how do you elect 2 representatives?", which are much harder to intuit an answer from compared to the case I described. No matter which way you swing that, you can't split equitably so you start finding other reasonable splits.

When electing representatives, we often divide cities/states into parts and let each of them elect their own representative. This seems reasonable at first look, but raises the question of who decides where the divides are.

Gerrymandering is when the lines are drawn intentionally to give a certain political faction an advantage.

For example, let's say you have a city of 21 people, and we need 3 representatives. If 8 of them want to vote for A, and 13 want to vote for B, one would expect a 1/2 divide in favor of B.

You could, however, rig the field. If you split the 21 into groups so that it's 4a/3b, 4a/3b, 0a/7b, you can get A more representatives than B. This is gerrymandering.

For the same reason a coin can be balanced on an edge, but rarely if ever lands on it when flipped. The center of mass is higher up when it sits on its smallest edge, which means any imbalance will knock it on a different face. Since dice and coins always have a horizontal and angular movement to them, it's very rare that everything lines up perfectly.