bigpEE

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[–] bigpEE@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

And we invented the transistor!

[–] bigpEE@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like you're thinking of 538's election needle, not polling data. If a candidate has 60% of the votes in a poll, assuming the poll is accurate, they win 100% of the time. The standard deviation on a population this big is practically 0

[–] bigpEE@lemmy.world -4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

You pulled a hit and run and are complaining that you got a ticket and a dent?

[–] bigpEE@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Reattaching the connector is relatively easy. But unless the pcb itself is really mangled, a missing connector won't affect the computer POSTing. Can you send a closeup of where the connector should be?

[–] bigpEE@lemmy.world -3 points 5 months ago

How many countries owning or hosting nukes have been invaded?

[–] bigpEE@lemmy.world -5 points 5 months ago

Nothing did go wrong, though. If you're saying there was a close call, that's true, but Russia doesn't have the ability to threaten a conventional response. And no one gets nuked for moving nukes around; look at Belarus.

[–] bigpEE@lemmy.world -1 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Countries that have nukes don't get invaded. Simple as

[–] bigpEE@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I agree with the OP. You're bad at reading graphs, unfortunately

[–] bigpEE@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

My recollection is that Columbus was also wrong about its size. He thought the distance from Europe to Asia via the Atlantic was much smaller than it really is, but got lucky and found the Americas on the way

[–] bigpEE@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

without growth you can't save

What? Why? If I'm making a million dollars profit a year, why can't I just put it in a bank account or ETFs or whatever every year?

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