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  • Money or currency is a way to represent value

    It is a medium of exchange

    Could your boss pay you in cows? Could you take those cows and trade them for a car? Yes but this would be difficult.

    So if your boss gave you a cow voucher “money” and you could trade that for a car, then you wouldn’t have to lug the cows around.

    It facilitates trade

    Why a US dollar, or another currency, has value is a whole other question


  • Socialism. Production and distribution is owned by the community (government).

    It has nothing to do with “Handouts”. Or helping your neighbor really.

    There is no redistribution of wealth. That is communism.

    Socialism with handouts is communism.

    You could have a completely Socialistic society that let’s some of it’s people starve because it benefits the majority.

    A great example to look at socialism is the nazi party creating Volkswagen.

    People in Germany needed an affordable car. They created the production and distribution of affordable cars, owned and operated by the controlling government party.

    Now, you can debate all you want on if it was a good or bad idea.

    Average German looking for simple affordable car? Probably would think it was a good idea.

    Rich German looking for a Duesenberg? Probably hates the idea of Volkswagen and spending their tax dollars on it.

    Poor German? They aren’t getting a car anyways

    A large government can easily have a monopoly on a good or service.

    If that’s a good or bad thing is debatable

    For example, say America was 100% Socialistic.

    Government would gain access to all satalites and towers and issue the Volkstelefon. Affordable phone and internet for everyone!

    Sounds great?

    Imagine if tomorrow Trump issued his phone in that style.

    Probably not a good idea?

    So why all the hate?

    ELI5: Because socialism is not always the right answer just like capitalism isn’t always the right answer.






  • Ehh

    I feel like most people that really care about their operating system are more than likely going to build a PC

    Most people buying a pre-built device are like Apple users “It just works”

    I have an expensive PC I built but I’m a console gamer

    I enjoy a comfy couch, big TV, and controller.

    It’s the ease of just hitting a couple buttons and getting to play a game.

    Could I hook my PC to my TV? Yes, but that would require me to move my PC from my desk.

    Also things like controllers. If I hooked my PC to my TV to play something like Overwatch I’d have to play with m/kb people which I would be at a severe disadvantage if I played with a controller.

    Like if Xbox overwatch allowed m/kb (yeah I know people cheat) I’d probably stop playing it.

    It’s the PC gamers that always want consoles to support m/kb. Console gamers do not want to play on m/kb.

    In my mind lack of m/kb is why consoles exist

    People aren’t buying PS/Xbox for a living room PC. They want a console gaming experience



  • Thing is you can’t make everyone happy.

    Daylight savings time sole objective is to move 1 hour of sunlight in the morning to the evening.

    I’m not sure how it’s supposed to help farmers unless they want to sleep in and work an extra hour into the evening. I think that it helping farmers is more of a myth.

    So much of DST is misunderstood

    Most people I have heard hate daylight savings time because “the sun sets so early in the winter”

    Yet that’s the outcome of not staying on permanent DST. Winter is standard time.

    Others hate the switch. Once again it’s because we don’t stay permanently on one.

    I’m with you though, I enjoy the extra hour of sunlight in the evening.


  • Let’s look at NY city.

    June 21th longest day, sunrise is at 5:24 am (Set 8:31 pm)

    December 21th longest night, sunrise is at 6:42 am (Set 4:32 pm)

    If you got rid of daylight savings time then the sun would rise at 4:24 am in June and set at 7:31 pm.

    (Most people in NY probably want the extra hour of light at 7:31 pm instead of 4:24 am)

    If you kept permanent daylight savings then the sun would rise at 7:42 am in December and set at 5:32 pm)

    (Most people in NY probably want some light before 8 because it’s going to be dark after dinner anyways)

    So many people are awake before 8 am compared to 5 am

    So many people enjoy the light at 7:30 pm in the summer

    Switching really is the sweet spot for NY

    Location is definitely important too in hating or liking DST

    Ontonagon, Mi sun sets at 5:25 pm tonight (7:58 am rise)

    Dexter, Me sun sets at 4:10 pm tonight (6:33 am rise)

    Same time zone, both northern cities.

    If we didn’t get off DST Ontonagon wouldn’t see the sunrise until almost 9 am today

    People in Dexter might have preferred to stay on DST getting light between 7:33 am to 5:10 pm today

    The farther west you live in a time zone the less you like DST generally. Farther east, the more you like it.

    Ontonagon is so west it should really be in Central Time zone.

    If that was the case then the sun would set at 4:25 pm tonight (6:58 am rise) (basically Dexter ME times)

    At that point they might want to stay on DST and it would make it exactly what it was today, sunset at 5:25 pm tonight (7:58 am rise)






  • Steepness has nothing to do with time.

    Say your goal was to climb a 20km mountain

    If it was a steep mountain it would be harder than a flat dune mountain.

    If you could walk at a max speed of 10km an hour both mountains would take 2 hours to climb.

    X-axis: Time Y-axis: Difficulty

    Example Yo-yoing.

    Doesn’t have steep learning curve. You can throw a yo-yo and get it up fairly easy. As you practice the difficulty of things you can do goes up.

    It’s learning curve would look like

    Example wake boarding.

    Does have a steep learning curve. You more than likely will be dragged under water a couple times and probably fall as soon as you get up the first time to be dragged under water again. But once you get the hang of it it becomes second nature.

    It’s learning curve would look like

    Steepness is the difficulty required to move on in time