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dissasale t1_j6brqne wrote

its like going to your favorite closest place to have a lunch at, you know the staff, employees, menu, offers, they know you versus going out eating driving to another city to a different place

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ActualGiantPenguin t1_j6bqysm wrote

When the home team is on offense, the crowd will be quiet as church mice before every play, so that players can hear play calls. Conversely, when the visiting team is on offense, the crowd will scream their heads off.

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squigs t1_j6bqx9o wrote

Nothing technical. Just like you can scan and OCR a book, you can copy the code for a website.

But that's copyright violation, which is illegal.

In practice it will rarely do you a lot of good. Sure, there are some static websites, but most are interactice in some way, and usually rely on server side stuff.

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sterlingphoenix t1_j6bpkud wrote

The fields my be the same dimensions, but they're not the same. It's your field, your stadium, your livery, your equipment, your dressing rooms, and mostly your fan base. Also, you didn't have to travel to be here. There could be other factors, too, like you being used to the weather or other conditions.

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[deleted] t1_j6bpa2h wrote

It's basically like fighting and defending your turf, house, grounds whatever. People get a little more defensive about their ground/ property taken from them. I understand your confusion, usually it relates to warfare. Where an invasive country comes into another. People that live their,grew up there, know the territory better than the invasion army. Therefore homefeild has advantage. People just view football as war apparently and think same situations apply.

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Target880 t1_j6bp7rd wrote

Voltage is originally not created using in the KMS system with kilo, meter, and second but a unit in the CGS system that has the base in centimeters, gram, and second. That were the customary units in science when the field was created.

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It is when International Electrical Congress (IEC) defined the unit in 1881 it was scaled up for the voltage in the MKS system, International Electrical Congress become International Electrotechnical Commission in 1906 still called IEC, and is still a standard organization for that field.

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So it is units that were very quickly defined within the international agreement before any large-scale adaptation.

This also shows there is no metric system, there are many metric systems. MTS(meter-tonne-second) was used industrially in France and the soviet union in the first half of this century.

What is commonly used today is the SI system which is A metric system, not THE metric system.

The CGS system is still used in for example magnetism. The usage have decreased with MKS standards in 1940 and the SI standards in the 1960s. It has been used longer in theoretical sciences compared to practical engineering.

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