Four people by now. Maybe is not that they disagree but ended downvoting by accident.

how about “/c/” ?

indeed. I hate ads. Even more forced ads of liquid sugar. Would have loved to see that red tree if only to prove that its not about the familiarity to the item.

Thanks!

sorry, where is this from?

chip manufacturing uses water

Thank you for pointing out a mistake in a very polite way while being informative. You deserve an applesauce for making a better internet 👏.

I have a number of friends and that number is 0

Well, those properties are only for holomorphic functions, otherwise it’s just as hard or worse. Edit: ’

It is not about having your particular data. Is about the aggregated data of a population. On a shallow level that information can be used to engineer ads to appeal to a greater audience. On a deeper level, population dynamics can be used for nefarious purposes such as driving them to an agreement that wasn’t in their best interest. Brexit and the Trump election are two examples of this being possible thanks to data from Cambridge Analytica. See voting paradoxes and Asimov’s psychohistory that each day is getting farther from fictional.

This post expresses it better https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/9082580

Also Texas and California. If we change the point of view of what constitutes power in USA this days from precidency to wealth, both questions are easily answered, specially considering all the elections USA or money coming from USA has meddled with (Chile for starters, Mexico, Honduras, Argentina, Guatemala, Cuba, Libya, Iran, …).

It is how color works given our particular limitations. RGB and CMY only work because of our eyes, not because of nature. If somehow we could extract the frequency spectrum of the light that reaches our eyes we could know the chemical composition of some things when burned, particularly of the sun. On the other side, we are tricked into believing our screens can produce all possible colors when in reality they can produce only three.