There are more detailed ways to measure whether a group has cult-like characteristics. See the BITE model, for example.

I hope you never turned in a handwritten essay.

I used to grade such things. Any paper with bad handwriting was an absolute horror. It did not save the author from a poor grade.

At the very least, you should be able to read your own handwriting. If not, you are a Lost Boy.

I'm inclined to agree. I think it's more like 90%.

Short answer: no.

Longer answer: two neutrons that collide will just bounce off each other (if the energy is low enough) or create new particles (if the energy is high enough.) But in both cases, the net spin will not change, because spin is intrinsic angular momentum, which is conserved.

But they do have spin.

Look, I'm not trying to defend technobabble. I'm just saying that plausibly there's something to reverse in a neutron flow.

Wait, I think I have my own answer. Maybe they were referring to the number of states 300 qbits could represent simultaneously. Yes, that would be 2^300, well over the number of particles in the universe.

I read that and decided it wasn't worth reading any further, not because it's delusional, but because it's meaningless.

How much information is contained in "the number of particles in the known universe?" Thant's a number between 10^80 and 10^82, or about 2^265 to 2^273. That number can be stored easily in 300 ordinary bits.

Or maybe they mean something else?

TFS is about people getting tired of waiting for a government-supported solution and finding their own.

Your post is about encountering municipal bureaucracy when you had it in mind to do it yourself in the first place.

I'm no fan of bureaucracy for its own sake. But there's a reason you need to jump through some hoops when you want to change something on your property. Those trees you want to cut down might be crucial for flood mitigation. That room you want to turn into a spare bedroom might be a fire-trap if it lacks a window or quick access to an exit route. Digging on your property might disrupt buried pipes or cables.

Like it or not, we do need rules, even though sometimes they may seem silly to you.

I was not aware you could tell whether someone was gay from their urine.

Maybe it's not the CO2, but the methane from cow belches. Methane is a more potent greenhouse gas than CO2, although it breaks down more rapidly in the atmosphere.

Fine, but let's not stop planting trees.

By "efficient" did you mean technologies for hydrogen harvesting that have a net carbon footprint that is lower than using fossil fuels in the kilns? Because it wouldn't make sense otherwise.

Actually you can deduct losses, but not more than you have in winnings. Just like gambling.

Sounds like you're trying to help your soul rather than help others. (I apologize if I'm wrong.)

Give it to charities that help communities directly (e.g., the homeless, scholarships for disadvantaged youths, animal shelters, environmental causes, etc.) Many churches have outreach programs, but not all, and you can't be sure the money won't just make the church bigger.

I meant human vendors, but point taken.

You still need to transport and manage coins in smaller denominations. I'm not saying there isn't a measurable increase in costs for transportation, etc. It's just that such costs are already there, and likely would increase only nominally.

I'd argue these issues could be mitigated by offering coins in larger denominations, such as $2 or even $5. You'd need to handle fewer $1 coins. Also, you can make the coins lighter, e.g. by employing aluminum-magnesium alloys.

Consider also that eliminating pennies results in a reduction of all of these costs, so perhaps it could be a wash.

Yes, cheaper to make. But coins win out when you consider their lifetimes.

Canada realized this decades ago, and switched to $1 and $2 coins. Other countries (such as the UK) also have switched their unit bills to coins.

The USA is an odd hold-out. US dollar coins exist of course, and are even accepted by most vendors, but dollar bills have been tenacious.