I agree. I was not precise in my statement—what I wanted to say was that if for some reason they are trying to use it in place of picture, as a decoration (which I can’t really see why), then this would be the approach. Still, I think using ligature for the word Google is the right approach.

I don’t see this as anyhow reasonable still. This eg will break all the screen readers as well. If you really want to do this, use specialized font and a single unprintable Unicode character instead. Like font awesome does.

Well, using ligature to display ‘Google’ with slanted ‘e’ would be just fine. But why in the heavens would someone make a completely different set of characters “googlelogoligature” draw as “Google”? That’s just stupid.

It’s very simple. We have the following assumptions (axioms):

1. for any two states, you prefer one over the other, or, you are indifferent, we will say A > B to mark A is preferred over B, A~B to say that you are indifferent, and A ≥ B to say you are either preferring A or you are indifferent.
2. if A ≥ B and B ≥ C, then A ≥ C, and at the same time A ~ C iff both A ~ B and B ~ C.
3. ~ is equivalency relation (behaves like =)

The conclusion of above assumptions is no cycles. Now, each of them seems as a reasonable assumption. Sure, we can choose different set of axioms, but why? What are we trying to model?

I wonder if this lurch happens at the two meter mark in countries that use the metric system?

 

No way. First, we do centimeters, so 195cm not 1.95m.

Second, 2m is crazy high. You pity people over 2m for their terrible life in a society that is not accustomed to that height, you don’t envy them. 

Is there any chance for her to win? I mean, whether it happened or not, it’s word against word, right?

No. Nuclear plant has a fixed output, zero elasticity of production. It has to sell all the electricity it produces, even if it should sell it for 0.

But, it doesn’t really matter. There certainly exists such a day price that nuclear is competitive with solar and is able to sell the same amount of produce as before.

No. Average price must go down. The evening price might go up—it might go up even to the level where the average price doesn’t change at all, but it can’t go up to the level where average price would rise.

Think about it. You run a nuclear plant. Suddenly, due to solar competition, the day price went to 10%. You can’t turn nuclear off just during the day, so you keep it running and lower your day price to 10% as well. Your costs didn’t change, so to keep the same level of profitability, you need to rise the night price to 190%. This way your revenue doesn’t change.

There is no reason why you would be able to rise the price above that level.

I don't get what is the issue with rotating cylinder and stability. As I imagine the cylinder, it has radius << length, thus his axis of rotation will be the one with the smallest possible moment of innertia and thus should be stable.

Dzhanibekov effect applies only to 2nd principal axis so should be relevant only for cylinders with radius similar to length.

The thumbnail is framed as super important, a critical component that creates other criticials, and needs to be in place in advance. Feels weird that you can’t go back and modify it later if the video changes?

The idea is that you want to have a high CTR, so you need to have a good thumbnail. If you do a video that can’t be turned into a best thumbnail possible, you are screwed. The only way to fix this is to redo the video. Thus, that’s the reason you should start with thumbnail.