If by "held in hands" you actually mean "sit on top of your lap" then you may understand why laptops aren't called handhelds.
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If I have a 3 Watt doohickey, I don't go looking around to find a 0.025A socket, I plug it in to my 15A wall socket and everything works great.
For larger things, there's coin. One coin is "A full purse of silver pieces. A week’s wages." Coin can be spent/sacrificed for significantly larger things than day-to-day expenditures.
A character banks coin in their stash which determines their lifestyle quality and, eventually, their quality of retirement.
It feels much more like a stat to me, but has some of the flexibility of a resource as well.
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For wildfires, I would expect the proportion of oxygen to matter much more than other gasses not involved in combustion.
Perhaps there's a difference in humidity levels, and therefore specific heat of the air?
Veritasium video about Los Angeles' reservoir black spheres project. They used black because
- The goal was light-blocking more than anything else; black worked best
- The black pigment held up to the environment (especially UV degradation) better than anything else they tried
I expect the second point was the most important thing. Black plastic is very stable.
I remember a youtube video from years ago explaining this problem with photoshop's gradient tool (and other naive implementations), but I can't find it now.
Colors are hard.
And yet it comes across as a mere clone of Venmo.
And yet they did, but it was not big news. There is currently an instant payment system integrated with all major American banks for person-to-person transactions, and yet they somehow fumbled it so Venmo takes all the publicity.
I've read elsewhere that you don't have to lie to the person to still have a successful placebo effect- they can still receive a benefit even knowing it's not a real drug.
Every time we propose the government spend money on something we must remember where that money comes from and seriously consider if it's justified.
WHAT?? Why not "oh this phone call has weird information and is untrackable. That's weird and abnormal, almost like this is a hoax. Let's go check assuming it is a hoax."
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