AllbyMyRelf

Depends on which economists. You can always find someone who will support your policies with some rationalization.

Even Javier Milei’s policies are based in economic theory.

Not exactly. But for reasons I don’t really want to type out.

If the car accelerates through the collision, then yes, acceleration is important, but not for determining F in F=ma, and the overall principles don’t change.

If the car accelerates through the impact, the man experiences more force than if the car were at constant speed.

The SUV’s mass is no longer effectively infinite in the sense that the contact velocity is changing, and that directly affects dV(man)

The physics principle is unchanged: force depends on the relative change in velocity during the collision, but now the car is contributing extra velocity during the collision.

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Incorrect. Do you think a. body that has decelerated just prior to contact exerts the same force as a body that accelerated to that same velocity? The answer is mathematically “no.”

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Impact force depends on velocity change during contact, not on whether the object was accelerating or decelerating beforehand. If the contact velocity and collision duration are the same, the forces are the same.

Acceleration before impact is irrelevant except for setting the impact velocity.
The force of the hit comes from how quickly the car’s momentum changes during the collision, not from how it accelerated beforehand. Two cars that reach the same speed will hit with similar force if they stop over the same time or distance, regardless of how hard they accelerated to get there. Impact force depends on change in velocity over collision time, not pre-impact acceleration.

Any updates on Starlink connectivity?

Musk is like Batman. No one is asking Bezos or Gates for this kind of help.

I have never paid any interest on a credit card. This will result in less credit availability for riskier borrowers, but likely won’t affect me or people like me at all

On your list, Filomena is the best.

Old Ebbit is more touristy than actually good.

Hanks is ok and outrageously priced.

Founding farmers is good. The DC location is better than Tyson’s VA, but not as good as Rockville, MD.

I haven’t been to the others

For recommendations, there are a few places in Alexandria that are good (French and Italian) but avoid The Majestic

Arlington restaurant scene is overrated, though I’ve always enjoyed Lyon Hall.

Out toward Great Falls is a French restaurant called L’Auberge chez Francois, which is really good if you want fine dining.

Is State supposed to be good? What is this based on?

Gotcha. The derivatives market is insurance on commodity prices if used correctly. Seems like the smarter farmers would use it.

But again, I’m not a farmer—maybe some are and it’s just not sufficient in some way.

Where’s King David? Saul has killed his thousands and David his tens of thousands. Before he was king, he went and fought as a mercenary for the Philistines

There is a problem in the vet industry, but it’s not capitalism at fault. Capitalism is just how people respond to incentives.

My dad is a vet who sold his practice to PE because he never could find a partner willing to take equity in the practice. Seems like most graduates are women who have no long term ambition to own a practice after they start a family or they’re too in debt to purchase the practice.

After my dad sold, the corporation almost destroyed the business within a few years, but they had also purchased 4 other practices in the county.