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  • So THAT'S why a biologist had to reinvent calculus in 1994:

    “A Mathematical Model for the Determination of Total Area Under Glucose Tolerance and Other Metabolic Curves”, Mary M. Tai, Diabetes Care, 1994, 17, 152–154

  • Insurance companies rarely go bankrupt as it requires insane incompetency to achieve this.

    Insurance companies work like casinos: Develop a probabilistic model to determine the average amount of claims per customer per region and then charge more.

    That's why they are exiting regions where the expected yearly damages exceed what they are allowed to charge. Insurances are the first to exit a sinking ship.

  • To be fair, any realistic hacking scene would be extremely boring to watch.

    It would be like watching someone solve a jigsaw puzzle. Except there is no light so you just hear them click a piece in place occasionally.

  • For anyone else wondering what a "MENSA" member is:

    Mensa International is the largest and oldest high-IQ society in the world.[3][4][5] It is a non-profit organization open to people who score at the 98th percentile or higher on a standardised, supervised IQ or other approved intelligence test.

    I was already questioning why school/university cafeteria staff should get any benefits that aren't present in other jobs.

  • The store will be liable for any and all damages to life and property which incurs from selling faulty products though.

    There's significantly more risk when purchasing directly from a Chinese supplier. It's borderline impossible to hold a foreign company with no actual presence in your country accountable for damages.

  • Literally every single government on this planet classifies and restricts weapons based on potential of danger/lethality.

    Anything from knife types/blade lengths to gun caliber is regulated everywhere. The same applies to chemicals with which explosives/poisons can be manufactured. You can't order them in any country without filling out forms.

    It's literally the most basic type of risk assessment possible and by far the most effective way to reduce harm.

  • My point is there is clearly a limit to how many people a weapon can kill before no sane person would allow people to possess it.

    Apparently, for you this number is greater than 61 deaths per weapon, seeing as this is the number of people killed in the Las Vegas Mass Shooting.

    So, which is it? 100? 1000? 1 million? When is a weapon too dangerous to be available commonplace in your opinion?

  • Technically speaking Beethoven was born in Austria. Austrian Netherlands that is (current day Belgium), owned by the Habsburgs.

    Or even more generally, he was born in the Holy Roman Empire of Germanic Nations (today Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, parts of France, parts of Poland, Austria, Czechia, Germany) and died in the Austrian Empire.

  • They also have decent records of relevant political figures which are in no doubt in the hands of the US.

    Seriously, the nazis were able to compile lists of political enemies (suspected to be) in Brtiain 85 years ago.

    It's not a stretch to suggest the US knows exactly who is relevant to keeping the regime alive, whom to imprison and whom to kill.

    Collapsing a nation is far easier than establishing a new one after all.

  • which can also be gotten literally anywhere other than work

    Can it? For absolutely everyone, regardless of (mental) health? No one benefits from being monetarily pressured to interact with people even if the interaction is only surface level?

  • Nah, the Polish resistance was slaughtered by the Soviets anyways:

    Most soldiers of the Home Army (including those who took part in the Warsaw Uprising) were persecuted after the war; captured by the NKVD or UB political police. They were interrogated and imprisoned on various charges, such as that of fascism.[226][227] Many of them were sent to Gulags, executed or disappeared.

    Wikipedia

    Poland remained occupied for 45 years after WW2 and was forcibly "shifted" to the West causing millions of Polish people to be deported from their homes in the East.

    The best decision any Pole could have made for themselves, their family and even their country was to flee. You won't do anything for Poland if you die as a slave in Siberia.