It’s obviously pronounced Kicago, just like Chamäleon, Chemie and China :)

I dislike the .not() method a bit because it inverts the meaning of the previous code snippet you’ve read.

if (list.isEmpty()...

“Ah, so if the list is empty…”

if (list.isEmpty().not())

“Goddammit”

Huh, that wasn’t there yesterday when this was posted, I’ve checked everything I have access to

Either way, it’s everywhere now

Imagine a shortsighted wolf with dirty glasses. Cleaning its glasses would make it a more effective predator, right? The same applies to the vacuum which is why you shouldn’t clean it.

“I don’t hate group ABC. I just hate group XYZ that happens to be almost solely composed of members of ABC.”

Next you will be arguing why hating blues, jazz and rap with every fibre of your being isn’t racist.

And to further show why your analogy doesn’t work:

P(Person being white | Person being male) = P(Person being white).

Being white and being male is unrelated and separate (<=> statistically independent), unlike being a furry and being queer which is actually related as mentioned earlier.

I have no clue what you’re trying to say. How many women are men?

Exactly zero, because (excluding certain trans identities for the purpose of simplification) there is no intersection between the two groups. Talking about what it means to be a men doesn’t involve a single woman, therefore it doesn’t apply to them.

Hating a primarily queer subgroup has very much homophobic implications, the same way the war on drugs is obviously racist:

We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or Black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and Blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities

• A certain honest man

separate and unrelated

P(Person is queer | Person is furry) > P(Person is queer), therefore these are not separate and unrelated

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditional_probability#Statistical_independence

50% of mythology is just fetish, just check out Greek mythology. People most definitely masturbated to mythology in the past based on the amount of fetish oozing out of the stories.

You can’t tell me the ancient Greek equivalent to furries didn’t think Zeus transforming into animals and fucking was hot.

I genuinely believe the NSA et al is targeting those who attempt to avoid all targeting more than the average person. It’s difficult to avoid being tracked, it’s nearly impossible to additionally blend in with an unsuspicious façade. Might as well become a secret agent if you’re capable of avoiding the NSA’s gaze.

But the first few values are:

1 + 1/3 + 1/6 + 1/10 + 1/15 + 1/21 + 1/28…

I really don’t see any pattern there showing why it converges to 2 exactly

Edit:

After thinking some more, you could write the sum as:

(Sum from n=1 to infinity of): 2/(n * (n + 1))

That sum is smaller than the sum of:

2 * (1/n²) which converges to π²/3

So I can see why it converges, just not where to.

For Celsius, 0 is freezing cold and 100 is boiling hot - that’s intuitive too.

I have literally never felt 0°F in my life and couldn’t tell you how cold it is, just that it’s very cold. I believe everyone has a rough understanding how 0°C and 100°C feel though.

Well, as much as possible anyway. When considering mass alone, life is quite efficient.

According to Wolfram Alpha:

The sun produces 3.8 * 10²⁸ watts.

A single human produces 104 watts (calculated through the average caloric intake assuming that intake ≈ energy consumption) through heat radiation.

Therefore:

1 kg of human converts 1.5 watt into heat.

1 kg of the sun converts 0.0002 watt into (heat) radiation.

And while I have nearly no understanding how entropy is calculated, from those values alone it seems like humans produce more entropy per kg than the sun. I’m pretty sure entropy is somewhat related to energy production though.

But are we actually creating order? To maintain life’s order, we are creating much more disorder somewhere else.

Life is but an entropy maximization machine.

It isn’t safe at any dose but the amount of harm from licking it once is definitely rather small. Probably safer than having a couple of alcoholic drinks or a single cigarette.

Well

/*
 * Gets stupidFuckingInteger
 *
 * @returns stupidFuckingInteger
*/
public double getStupidFuckingInteger() {
    return stupidFuckingInteger;
}

Yes, but similar flaws exist for your proof.

The algebraic proof that 0.999… = 1 must first prove why you can assign 0.999… to x.

My “proof” abuses algebraic notation like this - you cannot assign infinity to a variable. After that, regular algebraic rules become meaningless.

The proper proof would use the definition that the value of a limit approaching another value is exactly that value. For any epsilon > 0, 0.999… will be within the epsilon environment of 1 (= the interval 1 ± epsilon), therefore 0.999… is 1.

Unfortunately not an ideal proof.

It makes certain assumptions:

1. That a number 0.999… exists and is well-defined
2. That multiplication and subtraction for this number work as expected

Similarly, I could prove that the number which consists of infinite 9’s to the left of the decimal separator is equal to -1:

...999.0 = x
...990.0 = 10x

Calculate x - 10x:

x - 10x = ...999.0 - ...990.0
-9x = 9
x = -1

And while this is true for 10-adic numbers, it is certainly not true for the real numbers.

Imagine if the algorithm were in Θ(n!²), that would be even worse