/sci/ - Science & Math

>>4882470
That's because science isn't about faith, it's about experimentation to confirm theories.

What true scientist practices FAITH in science? I'd say that DOUBT in science should be practiced.

Both poles making up the ladder are 40m together, and if you include the steps, you'll have well over 40m.

An integral?

Ketoconazole for nail fungus. Dunno if it's even nail fungus anymore, think it's psoriasis.

That's it.

>>4147406
>It isn't doing anything
Well maybe your body's adapted to it. Don't take it unless you need it.

>>3918142
I got one of those at SJSU, but I didn't know De Anza was handing out counseling flash drives, too.

>>3879339
What is self awareness, though? What do we define it as? Are animals not self-aware?

>>3830432
The graph shows the boiling points at different air pressures. If you're in an area of low air pressure, water boils at lower temperatures (until eventually it will sublime from solid to gas and skip the middleman altogether) while at higher pressure the boiling and melting point rise until they are very difficult to attain.

That's what I got from the graph anyway.

>>3456021
Or rather, have to encourage ourselves by saying 'at least we're not as bad as those volcanoes!'

I'm doing research for a paper on volcanoes (for a college-level Geology class), and all this crap comes up with people saying that 'volcanoes produce more greenhouse gases than humans' and 'volcanoes could never meet industry emission standards'.

It is truly a dark day when it is considered a good thing to be producing fewer harmful atmospheric chemicals than a natural disaster.

Would it kill you weed smokers to wash before you get on board the bus, though? Holy crap you guys stink up the place. The bus I commute with smells like pigeon shit every goddamn day because you guys can't wash the smell out of your clothes.

>>3377287
Yes, they are paying the majority of the taxes. This has been the case for a long while. You have more income, you pay more taxes. The taxes used to be over 50% for the rich, but after certain laws were passed these standards were revoked. Back then they paid roughly 70% of GDP. Note the smaller increase in %GDP paid despite the increase in taxes. The rich now don't spend money in the economy because companies/corporations have a point at which it is not economically sound to expand (and thus create more jobs). Then they just sit on their fat stack of money and do little or nothing.

Corporations have a cap on how much they can be fined for illegal activities, have the rights of people, cannot be effectively addressed with legal action, and cannot go to jail (as a whole). The majority of their income comes from dividends, which are taxed on a smaller rate than pure income.

>>3113499
>Doesn't know about the bajillion interpretations and writing of the Bible
>Doesn't know about the parts and versions deliberately edited out of modern-day Bibles

All of my hate. Why are there MULTIPLE BIBLES if they are all the SAME THING? There's nothing wrong with believing in God per se, but to take the word of the Bible (and for that matter claiming X bible is better than Y bible), WRITTEN BY MAN, as the truth...

needs to be taken into account.

>>3029494
Actually it was coined in the 1870s as a problem (hence, debugging, a method for solving problems).

>>2998654
>mfw my teacher does this in my classroom and I burst into treats

>>2998807
Because unlike the art buildings in my college, the engineering/math department restrooms smell like shit and contain less accurate people.

I don't hate engineers, but god DAMN, you people need to take ACCURACY classes.

>>2998891
Approaching infinity. It wouldn't actually be infinity, and with that theory, you couldn't round and still expect it to be accurate.

>>2992809
>You could feasibly only cover costs, and make no profit, and stay in business.
Yes, but you wouldn't be making profit, then. You'd be staying in business because you are waiting for business to pick up, or business to fall and force you to exit the market. Also, that would be on the short run. On the long run, you want to make profit.

>I dont think I assumed it had to be highly competitive.
A highly competitive market grows and shrinks as people find profit in it/start taking losses in it. Lower competition makes it less difficult to get a consumer base, especially if a market for them already exists.

As for said events, yes, it is possible for them to be unprofitable, but there's the phenomenon of the 'golden parachute'. If the economy falters, it's not going to take most of the rich with it. The people near the bottom and the workers for companies taking a hit will fall out the bottom.

>>2992791
>implying his death created a positive effect for the Americans in the war and didn't turn him into a media martyr
The news is still on stupid tabloid tidbits like 'OHH HE WAS UNARMED WHEN HE WAS SHOT'

>>2992417
A few beefs with point 1 and 2.

First, throwing down %s as they are is misleading. 2% of a million is a lot more than 12% of a thousand, for instance.

Second, companies are not only out to cover costs, they ARE there to make profit. Otherwise they wouldn't be in business.

You also assume the positive/negative profit is under highly competitive industries (which make/lose profits as the market shrinks and grows, respectively), whereas in real life you have Oligopolies who often have those advantages because of brand loyalty and product differentiation (such as Apple and Microsoft), giving them a high point in those markets.

The banking crisis was influenced by banks attempting to make a profit by selling bundles of loans that defaulted, called securities. This sale of securities was common business, but when they started making 'packages' out of subprime loans, that's when shit started hitting the fan (and in fact they were warned more than half a decade prior to the collapse that this would happen, and ignored it).

And yeah, the supermarket analogy is bad. You only enter a market if you might reasonably make a profit in it in at least the short run. You don't enter the market HOPING for a profit.

>>2838545
Probability.
/trollthread

>>2781106
The difference is we use the Constitution as the basis for a code of laws, as opposed to the Bible which is moral guidelines and notably (supposed to be) separate from the government (at least in the US).

>>2781431
Seems ALMOST like the gigantic Tesla coil Nikolas Tesla was going to build. Except he lost funding for it... and didn't need to put it in outer space... and used the natural magnetic field of the Earth instead of a giant coil.

Answer is 'it depends' because this troll didn't include the definitive statement(s).

Depending on interpretation it is either 1/3 or 1/2.

/thread.