Fine, what if the drug causes a violent psychotic break and you harm your loved ones?
What if some weird interaction sensitizes your nerves, and you spend your last weeks in incredible pain, begging to die? Not only would that suck for you, it would, again, affect your loved ones. It would also cause distress to the nurses that cared for you and the doctor(s) that administered it to you; remember, they don't just have to convince you, they have to convince medical professionals that this wouldn't be violating their code of ethics.
VAT doesn't exist in the US (and sales tax, which we do have, is more like 5-10% of sale cost), so are you talking about something specific to tech companies in Germany or the UK or something?
Not that everything has to be about the US, but it's weird to make a claim about the tech market as a whole that doesn't apply to its biggest single region.
Yep, I've used the € sign for a reason, to make sure people won't get confused.
The article goes into considerable detail about the EU tech industry. My comment relates to that context.
I also want to note, that EPP isn't the correct term here. For US, EPP would mean Manufacturer Employee Purchase Programs for New Products with a discount. Like, if you work for HP, you can purchase a product it manufactures at a discount price for your personal use.
The EU practice that I was mentioning is called IT Asset Disposition through employer to employee disposal program[0]. I don't believe big companies in the US get involved in employer to employee ITAD for lots of reasons. But in EU, it's a thing, much to my surprise.
To be fair, that's atoms in the observable universe.
The total size of the universe is unknown, and could (and likely does) have way more atoms than that.
Actually, that's a fun thought: assuming homogenuity of matter between the observable and unobservable universe, how much bigger would the unobservable universe need to be to render some of these claims no longer true?
Because you're right to point out that factorials grow absurdly quickly. It's entirely possible my caveat straight up doesn't matter.
Edit: Ok, I'm seeing Wikipedia has a (disputed) estimate for the diameter of the total universe as 10^10^10^128 megaparsecs. Then, radius cubed should be 1/2(10^10^10^128^3)=1/210^10^10^131, as opposed to the radius of the observable universe being a nice, clean 14 billion parsecs = 1410^3 megaparsecs, making the radius cubed 1410^4 megaparsecs.
I don't think I have a big enough calculator for this, but for fun, let's say 128^3 is roughly 2,000,000. Then we can rewrite T, the relative volume of the total universe, as 1/210^10^10^2*(10^
6). I guess if we call 14 close enough to 10, then our density is 10^80/10^6=10^74 atoms for every pi megaparsecs cubed.
Going off the heuristic that n!<n^n, and the total universe can trivially produce (10^10)^(10^10), we would need to rearrange >10^10 objects just to even start to think about the number of (megaparsecs cubed)/pi it might have, let alone the 10^74 those each have.
We might not have enough decks of cards for this one.
(Feel free to criticize/tear down my math or logic anywhere in this one, it's very much off the cuff and I'm sure I made at least as many egregious errors in computing exponents as I did computations. No math class I've taken yet really prepares you to handle exponents raised four deep.)
>there are pawns that could be promoted to queens if they weren’t blocked by other pawns, and those pawns prevent all other pieces on the board from taking pawns and from checkmating the king?
I'm having a hard time picturing this scenario. Is it that any move to take a pawn places the mover in check?
I have a hard time envisioning that, too, but I think one can construct boards with rook or two bishops being closed in behind a setup with all 16 pawns still on the board, with the opposing king on the other half of the board.
>native Americans
I know you don't mean indigenous people, so what's the cutoff?
Is it birthright citizenship? But then what about naturalized citizens? And if they count, thennare they screwing over "natives" up and until their swearing in when they instantly join the screwed, or is it more of a continuous spectrum of screwer/screwed?
Or, in the other direction, does your family need to have been here a couple of generations for you to count?
But they can't sell more widgets if nobody has any money to buy them.
Sure, you could model a pretend economy where only the wealthy ever buy stuff, but that's not how the US economy works, and Consumer Confidence has a massive influence over our GDP - so when our GDP goes up, it's often hand in hand with our population buying more widgets with extra money, even as they complain that they don't have the cash for "necessities" (I.E. burrito taxis, vanity pickup trucks, and owning a house with two spare bedrooms with a <30 minute commute to their workplace).
Note: I'm not saying that low-income Americans don't genuinely struggle, just that there's a mismatch between the Americans that are genuinely low-income and the Americans that perceive themselves as low-income because they need to save a little to make major purchases or need to tell themselves no sometimes.
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