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We can use that to render the next frame in server farm in the future after cheap fusion drops electricity prices, but before [Redacted Future Event]. That will mean optimization is entirely unnecessary.

The roll to hit is a single die, so if the attacker could hit or miss on a regular (1-19) roll, the best outcome is to block the lowest number, AC+6. The extra number gives no benefit against an attacker that couldn't roll that number on a (modified) ordinary roll, and gives a 5% miss chance against an attacker that could.

If the attacker has such a high chance to hit that they can roll AC+15 on a regular die, but cannot roll AC+6, you're in trouble - they'll basically never miss.

If you do only multiplication first, then 2×3÷3×2 = 6÷6 = 1.

If you do mixed division and multiplication left to right, then 2×3÷3×2 = 6÷3×2 = 2×2 = 4.

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I've been playing PAID Shadow Legends ever since they sent me $20,000, and now I have an unmitigated addiction to laxatives, so I can escape from my wife and kids on the porcelain gaming throne, and spend time with my favorite hero, WHICHEVER ONE WAS JUST ADDED THIS WEEK. Get that limited time premium champion with the link in my bio.

There's a brand of pens in the US (maybe elsewhere, too) called Bic. He has a Bic pen, and his penis enormous.

*rited

I've got two pretty radical, but easy to incrementally adapt ideas that would cut some of the most ridiculous waste examples floating out there, and cause a new kind that isn't nearly such a big problem, but might face political issues (like it did decades ago).

First: prescribe milspec requirements in terms of functional requirements, not specific materials or technologies, unless absolutely necessary. This is responsible for most of the things like $1000 toilet seats - Home Depot sells a perfectly useful toilet seat for $35, but the order form doesn't say "We would like 10 perfectly useful toilet seats", instead it says (I don't remember the details but) "We would like 10 toilet seats made exactly the way they were in the 1970s, out of 1970s plastic, with a 1970s shape. They must be brand new." So instead of popping over to Home Depot for a couple hundred bucks, some company has to make weird toilet seats out of weird stuff, and it's a lot more time consuming and difficult.

Second, default to firm fixed price contracts for most purposes. T&E contracts might have their place, but with only very slight incentive not to produce bad estimates, contractors are producing really bad estimates. There's also a huge amount of "Do it the worst way" in some programs, because you make More money by spending more time on tasks, and are directly punished for novel and more efficient work. I worked briefly with a Windows sysadmin paid by the government. He was supposed to set up a connection between a Windows server and a system I was responsible for. I googled how to do my end of the connection, and had it listening in a couple hours. He pulled out printed reference documentation, found the right chapters in the index, and spent 4 days reading before he "could" establish the connection.

The "problem" with firm fixed price is that if someone discovers a very efficient way to do something, they can make a ton of money. For example, if the army is buying tanks, and the going rate is $20 million, and some contractor comes up with a way to make a tank for $1 million, they'll bid $19 million, make them for $1 million, and pocket a cool 95% profit. This looks bad, despite everyone being better off. The army gets a cheaper tank, so the taxpayer is out less money, and the inventive company makes a bunch of money. Gradually other companies will work out ways to compete, and the price will fall until profits are less extreme. Politicians will get questions about it, though, so it will probably never happen.

They'll crash into the firmament at high speed, and die. God will probably smite their corpse for doubting Him.

In order to collectively own everything, you must have a mechanism to decide the use of the means of production. Some things can be produced, but should not be, and leaving it up to local decision making will produce imbalances, as things that are easier or more fun to produce are produced more often than required.

You need a central nexus of control, and a person or group of people to be the final arbiter of decisions. Every time it's been done in history, either the leaders of the revolution, or the people violent and powerful enough to stab them in the back and take control have landed in this position. Mysteriously, a small group of people controlling all production has only ever lead to tyranny.

Any communism that begins in revolution will devolve into tyranny, and there's no words a dictionary can string together that will change that. Voluntary communes also seem to have problems, but it's more often splintering, which is significantly less harmful.

I agree. The tipping threat on a TV is almost exclusively front to back, not side to side. Putting the support legs closer to the middle, but still spaced a third of the width of the TV should be totally adequate. I suspect it's an aesthetics thing now.

Card number: 3141 5926 5358 9791 Expiry date: 11/25 Cvv: 238

You'll notice that unlike many broke guys here, my card is not expired already, the luhn checksum is correct, and the issuer identification number... will probably exist in the future.