5inister

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[–] 5inister@reddthat.com 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What units is the 1 above Nasa in? Is it a metric 1 or a "no public healthcare" 1?

[–] 5inister@reddthat.com 31 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Healthcare in Mexico has been free and public for decades. There are still paid private practices and having social security limits the public providers you can use but Article 77 Bis-1 of the General Health Law states that anyone without social security can be treated for free. That article was first published in 2002 and last modified in 2023. This is just the administration claiming that they enacted (excellent) old laws.

[–] 5inister@reddthat.com 22 points 2 months ago

Masturbation ~~among birds~~ is ‘natural’ and should not be punished. It's interesting how humanity has regulated its own biological behavior, we have rules for where and how to eat, sleep, defecate, urinate, menstruate, reproduce, masturbate, etc. I get that some of these came from hygiene and personal safety but still find it weird, and even weirder that some people expect birds to follow our social constructs.

[–] 5inister@reddthat.com 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You've obviously never kissed a naked mole rat

[–] 5inister@reddthat.com 6 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Artichokes. You pay for the whole thing but throw away half of it, you literally have to scrape the value out of it with your teeth.

[–] 5inister@reddthat.com 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I got diagnosed with ADHD when I was 6 and still concluded I am stupid, weak, annoying, and unlovable.

[–] 5inister@reddthat.com 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The Museum of Modern Art in New York has some games in their permanent collection: Games in MoMA

[–] 5inister@reddthat.com 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Is d/dx x^2 really equal to d/dx (x+x+x+...+x)? Inserting some value for x seems to break that part. Say x=5:

d/dx 5^2=10 and

d/dx (x+x+x+x+x)=d/dx 5x=5

10 ≠ 5

I understand that x^2, (x+x+x+...+x), and x*x are the same. But its equivalent to doing d/dx x*x =x as d/dx n*x=n. Again this results in 2x=x or 2=1.

The mistake is to treat a variable as a constant and deriving in that way. Doing a sum x times means you have an unaccounted variable when you do d/dx (x+x+x+...+x), this is not 1+1+1+...+1 x times. i.e. The rate of change of one of the x is not incorporated into the derivative.

[–] 5inister@reddthat.com 12 points 1 year ago

Mexico had a land reform in the first half of the XX century in which land was distributed to agricultural workers, that makes many of the poor have a family member that owns a house or a small plot of land.

Extended family relations also usually result in having someone willing to take you in no matter what condition you're in. There's still homeless people but nothing like the US and parts of Europe