Tag: geek

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge’.

Isaac Asimov

Best protest sign ev4r:

It’s taken me most of the week, but I now have redundant backups of the home computers. The most painful bit was cleaning up the multiple copies of stuff I’d accumulated over the years. I had duplicate media files all over the place. Good news is that I’ve regained something like 100gb of space, and it shouldn’t take as long to sync everything from now on. 

Which box has the most pie?

Highlight box to get the answer: They all have the same pie content. Assume that the length of the side of the square is x. Box A has pie area of π(x/2)^2. Box B has pie area of 4*π(x/4)^2. Box C has pie area of 16*π(x/8)^2. All of these equations simplify to the same value (πx^2)/4.