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You're referring to the fictitious centrifugal force [0] which is actually a minor change in inertia—very much out shined by the centripetal force of gravity. For example, on earth if you weigh 200 lbs on the North Pole, you'd weigh about 199lbs on the equator. On the moon, this tiny effect would be wiped out by gravity.

[0]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrifugal_force


Your example with the North Pole refers to the centrifugal force from the Earth spinning on its axis. But the relevant centrifugal force here is not the one from the Moon spinning on its axis, but rather the one from the Moon orbiting the Earth.

But in any case, you can think about the whole thing without considering centrifugal force. If the Moon wasn't orbiting but rather in freefall towards us, then the Earth would continue to have two tides right up until the moment it hit us.

The point is simply that gravity weakens with distance. So the pull of the Earth on the near side of the Moon is slightly stronger than the pull of the Earth on the Moon's centre. And the Earth's pull on the far side of the Moon is slightly weaker than the pull of the Earth on the Moon's centre. So if we consider the near and far regions of the Moon relative to whatever the Moon is doing on net, it will be as though the near side is being pulled towards the Earth and the far side is being pushed away.


The ACTUAL Solution to Traffic - A Response to CGP Grey

https://youtu.be/oafm733nI6U


Trains are fine for inter-city traffic > 20 km or so, below that, if you can, take a bicycle. It is a much better solution than a train for door-to-door.


This is on its face absurd, and makes it clear you've never actually spoken with an unhoused person.


I have helped multiple friends into government housing. Housing didn't suddenly cure their addictions or absolve them of mental health problems. It doesn't remove the victim mindset. Resources such as education and work can only be done if the individual is prepared to do it. But we don't have good resources, therefore the problems are cyclical.

Trusting the word of people is not representative of what they actually do. All of these people claimed to want X but make no effort towards it. People lie, especially to themselves.


What would the incentive be for a current emacs user? It's hard to imagine giving up org-mode would ever be worthwhile personally.


Yeah. I liked it when I used it, but it's not actually an emacs replacement in a general sense. There's a much smaller community and set of extensions (plug-ins in their term, packages in emacs). It was pleasant to use as a notebook front-end with Maxima and Octave when I used them.


Maybe someone could write a WYSIWYG org-mode for TeXmacs.


The productive write the most about productivity, it turns out.

I'll say that for me, I hopped across note and productivity apps until I switched to emacs/org-mode. It has not made me wildly more productive, but it has (or can have) any feature other programs offer, so there is no productivity FOMO when I learn about new programs.


See, in my opinion, the issue with every org-mode suggestion is that it assumes productivity is only tied to being sitting down on your computer. Would I really need to grab my laptop to note that I did grocery or cleaned my house?


That is a huge "living paycheck to paycheck" upcharge!

I get the incentive, but considering how financial planning can be most vital to folks with spotty income, I'd strongly encourage you to bring the price of the monthly plan down. Or perhaps a bare-bones "free" tier folks can use between paid months?


Yep, I agree, it's a pretty big upcharge. That's precisely why our 'free tier' is the 'no account' option (https://ufincs.com/noaccount). I'm not kidding when I say it's the full version of uFincs; the only (real) difference is that you don't have an account to sync to. And if you make sure to never log out (or take the time to export/import your data every time), then you can basically simulate having an account. It's just a free tier of 'inconvenience' rather than 'features' or some such.

But yeah, there's definitely some pricing psychology at play there. Thanks for taking the time to leave some feedback!


A not-anti-capitalist socialist is not a socialist. TLDR: Capitalism is when production is determined by people holding capital. Socialism is when production is determined by the members of society. So the question being, should an economy be democratic or run by the rich.So long as socialists workers work democratically, there is no hypocrisy in earning money.


Even the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_socialism says you're right. Huh. TIL.


On the other hand, leveraging the network effect to form a monopoly which compromises privacy and user security by coordinating with state aggressors around the globe...probably more unethical than controlling the software running on your own device?


Wow two logical falacies in one sentence.


They pair really well together too.

At the moment Signal really thrives at replacing texts (ephemeral one-to-one chats), while riot excels at team communication.


actually Riot is not worse at replacing texts..


I believe the point was that phone numbers are already used as unique IDs people know intuitively. Essentially make it quick to onboard new users

Thankfully they are moving away from this with the option to use a PIN instead pf phone #. Not sure when that rolls out, but I'm v. excited for it


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