Frankly, if people didn’t enjoy driving quick cars, more people would drive cars with 50 hp. That’s all you really need to go on the freeway.

I mean, I can’t talk, my car goes 0 to 60 in under four seconds, but practically, there isn’t a great mood for this.

Pound is not a unit of force.

>1 pound (avoirdupois)= 0.453 592 37 kilogram

https://www.ngs.noaa.gov/PUBS_LIB/FedRegister/FRdoc59-5442.pdf

This is a misnomer, but it is common for periods of high profits to coincide with layoffs.

One of the biggest costs of running a business is staffing, by laying people off you can reduce the size of your payroll and increase your profits... at least in the short term.

The long term consequences of these actions are pretty obvious.

Would be interesting to have a space-scale that measures mass by pushing on and then stopping it.

Thanks for validating. I empathize with the math. When it comes to casinos or whatever, there are likely strings that will come out of any number of dice throws, but you bet your ass that at some point the pit bosses will start watching closely, never dismissing the lead up to this point. At some point the manager is called in from off duty. At some point the game is shut down. The gambler can't just get away with saying, "But each roll has an independent probability!" No, the casino crew has now "fallen victim to the gamblers fallacy". But inherently, we understand they haven't. They have made a reasonable decision that they can't afford that person throwing the dice one more time. But what was the point of shutting it down if the dice were fair and any number of gamblers could start doing the same thing on any other number of tables? Do all casinos just shut down forever, therefore falling victim to some version of the fallacy?

Very true. Many Americans are shocked at the cost of renting a car in Europe. They don't know how to drive a manual and automatics cost about twice as much to rent.

Manual transmissions are also a fairly effective anti-theft device here (US) as well. There have been cases where a carjacker tried to steal a car, found out it was manual, and left the car looking for something they could actually drive.

Pound or lb is a unit of mass defined as 0.45359237kg,

Pound-force or lbf is a different unit defined as weight of one pound. That is of course not a fixed quantity, but depends on location, Earth's gravity is not exactly the same everywhere.

>If you only get jurors that have the means and desire to take days or weeks off from their lives, you're likely going to have a demographic that isn't very representative of the overall population

You would basically get the same people as those who sit on HOAs. You know, all those well-adjusted, empathetic, reasonable citizens...

Are record profits followed by mass layoffs? Not usually.

That statement has less to do with the power of the engine and more to do with what the overall design of the vehicle. If one so desires they could take the civic engine and put it in a more suitable vehicle to do the task. The engine doesn’t care what you hook it up to, only that it is not overloaded with resistance to its force exerted.

There are two situations:

If the game is almost developed or already released, the developers can get support from a publisher to aid in marketing and distribution. It's uncommon for a development team to have any marketing talent so it's best left for the experts at the publisher. Distribution also means help in porting the game to different platforms like mobile and console with a separate development team. An example of this is Stardew Valley that had great success on PC but needed publisher help for porting to other platforms.

The second situation is where the publisher helps fund the game development. You can take a bank loan to fund your own game but you will be on the hook to pay off that loan. If the game doesn't do well, you might end up homeless and poor. Publishers take on that risk when funding developers. If the game does poorly, at least the developers were paid for making the game. In return, the publishers have some control over the development process for good or for worse. The developer also has access to the publisher resources like in-house game engines, knowledge/talent, and QA teams during development.

>Also, like book or music publishers, video game publishers may also advance some money to the developers to fund the development of the game, working essentially as venture capital.

Ok. Venture capital usually works by taking a percentage of a funded company's ownership (in the form of stock) in exchange for the cash. In the case of the videogame publisher, what do they get exactly - full ownership of the game's franchise including any control over future sequels, DLC, etc? Or do the developers retain some property rights (like an author would do when selling a book to a publisher)?

Also, I'm not at all downplaying the importance of marketing and funding, but basically this is all that a publisher does? Do they get involved with the actual creation of the game in any way, or with the way that the developer team does stuff?

Yup, in most places that's what they do (though it's usuappy minus the laughable amount the govt pays you to be a juror. Were I am it's like 5$/day)

If you're on salary jury duty is great. I've always thought of it as a week's paid vacation, with an added bonus at the end. And if you get sat on a jury you get to feel like Henry Fonda, walking out of the courthouse when it's all over.

Quick way of doing it in your head: add 10% and then double it. It's not precise but pretty close.

Edit: sorry, it's the other way round. Lbs->kg would be dividing by 2 and substracting 10%

Check: 1lbs is 0.453592...kg

1/2 = 0.5

0.5 - 0.05 = 0.45 --> off by about 3.592g

The other way round: 1kg is 2.2046...lbs

1*2 = 2

2 + 0.2 = 2.2 --> off by about 0.0046lbs

Even more to the point.

Every scale ONLY measures the force an object puts on the scale. No scale measures the mass independent to a force being exerted on it.

I haven't been following all the aftershocks, but they are not uncommon especially after a large quake. The quake is generally large because there has been a long time since the last one, and a lot of stress has been built up. The large jolt relieved a lot of the stress, but there could be a lot more that end up as the aftershocks.

I'm from California and anything less than a 6 is barely mentioned. We expect quakes here, and have sufficient resources and regulations to require buildings be fabricated to withstand these relatively easily. In poorer parts of the world (or somewhere people don't expect them to occur) quakes we'd barely notice here can still be quite devastating.

I feel bad for you because I 100% think the exact same way as you do about this and am second-hand frustrated that nobody has dealt with your actual point

The UK doesn't have a central credit score.

There are central "Credit Reference" companies that record your credit history. Your bank reports that information to them.

The banks can then get that information and use it to calculate their own credit score for you. Each bank probably uses a slightly different scoring system.

Generally the credit reference companies will report:

• What loans and credit cards you have
• how much you owe on each account
• For each account, each month, whether you paid on time, how late you paid, or if you didn't pay at all. For the last 2 years.
• If you have a joint account with someone then they will report their finances too. Since if they get into financial difficulty that will probably affect your ability to repay too.
• If you are taken to court for non-payment, or declare bankruptcy, that will be reported for many years (maybe 7 years? Never applied to me so I'm not sure the exact duration)

You can get a copy of your own credit report for a nominal fee. (£2, about $2).

Gravity applies a practically constant force on you at earths surface. If you don’t go deeeep underground or really high above earth, 9.8 meters per second is a pretty good number.

So, on earth’s surface, one kg of mass is approximately 2.2 lbs of weight and 9.8 newtons.

Go somewhere where gravity is half as much as ours and the same kg weighs 1.1 lbs and 4.9 newtons.

Force is only worthwhile as a PROXY for mass when measuring on equal gravity. So, for most experiments on a single planet with a strong gravity, it’s fine to use force for calculations.

Someone here says they’re 400 lbs and you may be able to picture their fitness level. Someone on the sun’s gravity weighs 400 lbs and they’re the size of a baby. A 100 kg person weighs differently on the sun too, 30 times more, but they would still be 100kg. And dead, but this is a thought experiment.

When you’ve got multiple gravitational fields to think about, knowing the mass of an object makes your life way easier. Even in the US, physicists use metric for this very reason.

How did I do for simplicity?

It’s the collection of business people who profit from selling goods and services to military. They have corporations, companies, and even small business that provide for the military. Companies that produce ships, airplanes, tanks, other military vehicles, all their parts, missiles, ammunition, dresses, shoes, rations, communication devices, toilets, tents, computers, software, etc.

There are also academicians who work for them. Journalists who fork for them. Politicians who works for them. Intelligence organization personnel, judges, prosecutors, lawyers, etc. all who work for them officially or clandestinely.

All these people comprise a social network like a “state”. They actively push for policies that would result in more military spending.

The 6th and 7th Amendments give us the right to a jury trial. So, this means in order to assure this right, citizens are required to serve as jurors.

> If you load all the eggs in the same chamber to cook, it takes less water to fill to the ideal level of water than if you only have 1 egg in the same chamber.

If the eggs don't touch the water, the do not affect the level of water.

It more about soil compaction and disruption beyond what is really necessary to plant fertilize cultivate and harvest, any more than that and you are harming the productivity of the plants and soil.

Pounds of mass and pounds of force are both named pounds. 1 pound of mass has a weight of 1 pound of force while on Earth. We usually don't distinguish between them, but as long as you're on Earth it doesn't really matter.