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https://i.reddit.com, or equivalent reddit.com/.compact

If they remove that then they'll finally have pushed me off reddit on mobile, but I think it's obscure enough that it'll stay in the near future


Because the standards are made for people who makes measurement devices. It is much easier to measure electric current than charge.

They also did make charge more fundamental, as they derive the Ampere by fixing the charge of an electron.


The old definitions are still essentially correct, so for teaching nothing really changes except the word "approximately" being inserted somewhere.


Right. So in other words, the SI unit definitions are for scientists wishing to affirm the base units, but the old definitions are superior for education purposes (well, except maybe for the prototype kilogram...)


The pre-prototype kilogram is essentially valid- mass of liter of water. But now in terms of physical constants.


It has his meaning in tiling window managers (where a floating window is in another layer, usually above the others), and probably in window managers in general. I'm curious if there are other examples.


Definitely not for full automation. The question "do I have a case?" could involve basically anything, and sounds very AI-complete to me.

Of course, discovery and a lot of the repetitive work can be automated much more easily, but that's more like keeping the car in a highway lane, which we can already do for cars.


Attorney here. Frequently do case evaluations for my firm. I prototyped this last year. It was not as hard as you would think if you have some experience in the area of law.


It sounds like you are proposing a perpetual motion machine, which cannot work because of the laws of thermodynamics (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_motion).


Don't get me wrong. I agree with the laws of thermodynamics :) , but just like we exploit a "closed loop" / "seemingly perpetual" system between the moon and the oceans, or flowing rivers, couldn't there exist other "closed loop" systems? After all, on the scale of a human life that closed loop system (between moon and oceans) is, for all practical purposes, perpetual.


The water cycle is not "perpetual": it depends on input from the sun.

The tides are not "perpetual": they depend on gradually taking energy from the orbit of the moon.


Sure you can, get me a moon and I'll show you how.


Yes, but where does the energy come from for your perpetual machine?


Someone made a nice graphic that shows opening times in the US: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/3ddapj/bar...


All of those are ideologies with certain views on how the world is and how it should be, which can also said of religions.

If religions where purely spiritual and said nothing about the world then I would agree with you, but then I guess there wouldn't be any problems either.


Sure, they're like religion.

But the claim wasn't religion or things like religion lead to extremism.

It's wrong to say that only religion leads to extremism, and it's even more wrong to say that only Islam leads to radicalisation.


Nobody is saying only religion leads to extremism.

When you recognize that I hope you also recognize that religion is the main cause (or tool) of extremism in the world right now, and that Islam plays the biggest role there.


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