Much of the confusion and misunderstanding is because when this subject is taught and explained, the teacher usually jumps from sine waves to music, where a musical note is thought of as a sine wave.
But it is better to think of a musical note as a set of sine waves. Each sine wave in the set has a frequency which is an integer multiple of the frequency of the longest sine wave. These frequencies are known as harmonics.
If we plot these frequencies on a logarithmic scale, they'll be evenly spaced.
Imagine a note as a comb, where each tooth represents the frequency of one of the sine waves. Now imagine a second comb where the teeth are spaced farther apart. Now imagine that you put one comb on top of the other so that the teeth line up. You'll see a nice pattern. This is the harmony of the combs.
But these combs aren't only in an abstract frequency space. The cochlea inside your ear maps each frequency to a specific physical location where your ear hairs are tickled, forming a comb-like pattern.
One way we can tell human voices apart is by the relative intensities of the harmonics. And the way we tell different vowel sounds apart is by the relative intensities of the harmonics. So our brains have lots of wiring for interpreting relative intensities of harmonics.
It should be socially acceptable to live in a tent. There shouldn't be a big jump between renting a room and living in a tent. People who live in tents shouldn't be seen as some kind of underclass with the label "homeless". There should be a continuum with painless mobility between a tent, a room, an apartment, a house. Everyone should be expected to follow the law. The system should work for all people, all the way from 0 to infinity.
I am not sure people complain about the tents. There is a lot more that comes with that. Tents block public areas and sidewalks. There is a lot of trash accumulated around tents. There are usually no bathrooms or showers around which leads to urine and poop, unpleasant smells, dangerous trash like needles, etc.
Do we? I don't think we do anything cheaper than an SRO. At the very least, tents in public areas (or on private land!) are not the answer. In any case, we have these campground solutions already. They are called "campgrounds". They are just not an efficient use of urban land, although sometimes they also exist close to cities, e.g. some in Hawaii iirc.
Mainly though, this is a strawman. Tents themselves are not the biggest problem when they don't e.g. block a sidewalk, piece of public infrastructure, or a road. The problem is piles of garbage, needles, dumping sewage into lakes and streams, increase in crime, not-yet-criminal or never-prosecuted safety concerns (e.g. someone I know can no longer take an obvious bike trail to where they're going because of some close calls with aggressive barely human campers).
> Lots of athletes come to the Olympics hoping to be the Best Ever. But not javelin throwers. They've been told to dream smaller dreams ("Best Since 1984!") and I think that's a bum deal.
> Why not take this event away from crowded arenas, go someplace safe, design the best flying spear possible, throw it as far as you can, and then whoever breaks the record can say to all spear throwers going back over the ages, "Now I'm Number One, in the truest sense — mine flew further than all of yours!
> That would be true Gold.
Maybe the best design would use a rail-gun as a booster.
And if the goal is to make it go as far as possible, you might want to consider throwing it outside the atmosphere.
> Maybe the best design would use a rail-gun as a booster.
And pitch-o-mat 5000 was just a modified howitzer. I agree though, a line should be drawn otherwise you can end up with things going a bit absurd. It's similar to hoe stock-csr and forumla 1 racing draw lines about what things are allowed to be done to the cars.
"Every airline doesn't need their own webpage. They could all provide a standard API."
That's sort of how it works in the corporate booking tool world. It is decidedly not a better experience for end users, IMO.
There's quite a lot about each airline that is different, so any unified approach is a lowest common denominator. You'll notice things like loyalty points, for example, have more rich data on the airline's website. And that some fares are ONLY on the website. Or that seat maps have more useful detailed info, etc.
And that's all shopping/booking. Departure control, flight status, upgrade/downgrade, check-in, seat upgrades, standby, etc, are for the most part only on the airline's website.
