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JamesYanik (548 D)
03 Mar 17 UTC
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American Free Speech
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/28/meps-say-marine-le-pen-can-be-prosecuted-over-violent-isis-images
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orathaic (1009 D(B))
16 Feb 17 UTC
Rojava
Shared without comment: https://youtu.be/qoqds4LV9RI
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Ogion (3817 D)
03 Mar 17 UTC
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Cat fight between Pence and Pruitt over Hillary's server
But wait there is more. Mike Pence is fighting with EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt over the server!
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brainbomb (295 D)
03 Mar 17 UTC
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Webdip valued at $44 billion ???
Confirmation that I'm a fuddy duddy, I don't understand how a website that produces what ? Stabbings? can instantly be valued at $44 billion
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JamesYanik (548 D)
03 Mar 17 UTC
Future of Healthcare in the United States
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/01/health/policy/01swiss.html

https://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2011/04/29/why-switzerland-has-the-worlds-best-health-care-system/#1d921e687d74
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Thaneofwhiterun (1516 D)
03 Mar 17 UTC
Throwing a game
What is everybody's opinion on players throwing a game? There's a debate going on in a game of mine whether it's a form of metagaming or a valid strategy, or just unsportsmanlike, and I'd be curious to see how everyone feels about it.
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Hauta (1618 D(S))
03 Mar 17 UTC
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Looks like Mike Pence got a good deal on Hillary's email server
Mike Pence using private email server which got hacked. Who would've known that emails were so complicated!

http://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2017/03/02/pence-used-personal-email-state-business----and-hacked/98604904/
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fourofswords (415 D)
04 Mar 17 UTC
I forgot - see inside
I forgot. Can we advertise on the forum to get a player to take the place of a player who has left?
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BooBoo (15 DX)
03 Mar 17 UTC
Live game!
http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=193100
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Jamiet99uk (1307 D)
25 Feb 17 UTC
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Daily Abortion Debate Thread
Instead of turning every debate about social policy into a debate about abortion, please conduct your never-ending abortion debates HERE AND ONLY HERE.
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brainbomb (295 D)
02 Mar 17 UTC
Is wjessop getting unbanned on April 1st?
Last year he was banned on April 1st but was told he could appeal his ban and return if he went through the proper channels. Has he done this? I am not saying I miss him - but curious if he appealed
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BooBoo (15 DX)
03 Mar 17 UTC
Live Game happening within the next hour! Come Join
http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=193031
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Jamiet99uk (1307 D)
28 Feb 17 UTC
College Softball: Turning Godly Girls to Gayness
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2017/02/24/pro-trump-pastor-womens-sports-games-are-homo-bait-to-make-girls-into-lesbians/
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Ayreon (3398 D)
02 Mar 17 UTC
KW 901
I tried to create a new Known World 901 game but I cannot found this variant, what's happened to it?
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principians (881 D)
01 Mar 17 UTC
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English interview
I'm about having a job interview, but it's in english, and if this sentence is poorly written, sure my spoken english is worse.
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cspieker (18223 D)
28 Feb 17 UTC
Gunboat as Austria: Suicide pact with Italy
Premise: Whenever playing gunboat as Austria and you are attacked by Italy right out of the gate, one should always give up as many centers to Turkey as possible and get your last dying armies onto the boot to drag Italy down with you. This is the only way the madness will stop.
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Zollern (123 D)
01 Mar 17 UTC
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FUEL IT.
Innovation and low cost inputs are fuel for the american economic engine.
Fuel The American Economic Engine --> Make Opportunity --> Fix America --> Spread the System --> Fix The World. FUEL THE ENGINE. FUEL IT!
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Durga (3609 D)
06 Feb 17 UTC
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Mafia 27: Welcome to Westworld
Game thread
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OB_Gyn_Kenobi (888 D)
25 Feb 17 UTC
I muted your dumb thread
Discuss
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orathaic (1009 D(B))
25 Feb 17 UTC
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Demons
And how they affect our mental health...

https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/5vx3p1/demonic_influence_the_negative_mental_health/
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c0dyz (100 D)
01 Mar 17 UTC
American Game
gameID=192901

2 day phases, Full press, low risk, High fun
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abgemacht (1076 D(G))
01 Mar 17 UTC
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Salary Comparison
Curious if anyone knows better places than glassdoor and indeed to get realistic salary comparisons.
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DammmmDaniel (100 D)
28 Feb 17 UTC
Help With a Calculus Problem!!!!
Proving the derivative of secant inverse is what it is.... please send help
KingCyrus (511 D)
28 Feb 17 UTC
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http://lmgtfy.com/?q=proof+of+secant+inverse+derivative
Lethologica (203 D)
28 Feb 17 UTC
Implicit differentiation is your friend.
DammmmDaniel (100 D)
28 Feb 17 UTC
We haven't gotten there yet =( I can't use it Lethologica
DammmmDaniel (100 D)
28 Feb 17 UTC
King Cyrus thanks a ton you A55. I need someone to explain it tho
ghug (5068 D(B))
28 Feb 17 UTC
In what world do you learn things in that order?

Oh right, Texas.
DammmmDaniel (100 D)
28 Feb 17 UTC
Hey I am not defending Texas just trying to learn what they are teaching us. I mean it is a Uni though.... so they teach national standards? I think Idk here is our textbook

https://luonline.blackboard.com/bbcswebdav/pid-2526466-dt-content-rid-19054474_1/courses/12665.201710/Ted%27s%20Cal%20Notes.pdf
TrPrado (461 D)
28 Feb 17 UTC
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I hate calculus and haven't touched it in years, but yeah implicit differentiation is something you should've learned VERY early on.
DammmmDaniel (100 D)
28 Feb 17 UTC
we didn't =( it is up next tho.
Lethologica (203 D)
28 Feb 17 UTC
Without implicit differentiation? You mean, you're supposed to calculate the derivative without at some point acknowledging that x = sec(y) and differentiating the secant? I'm not sure how you go about doing that, honestly. Is there even a sum rule for arcsecant? I don't know it.
Peregrine Falcon (9010 D(S))
28 Feb 17 UTC
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Teaching yourself implicit differentiation and deriving it that way is probably a better use of your time than doing it some other way.
DammmmDaniel (100 D)
28 Feb 17 UTC
I have been told that I am using implicit differentiation to solve my problem so lawl. I was thinking of straight differentiation which we haven't gotten to yet. Thanks for everyones help!

CAPT Brad (40 DX)
28 Feb 17 UTC
@ DammmmDaniel King Cyrus thanks a ton you A55. I need someone to explain it tho

US Naval Academy strikes again! Go Navy! Beat Army!!
Lethologica (203 D)
28 Feb 17 UTC
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That's even more confusing, honestly, but I'm glad you solved the problem.
reedeer1 (100 D)
01 Mar 17 UTC
Im in highschool and we did that first semester. Though it is AP Calculus BC, so I could get collage credit for it.
abgemacht (1076 D(G))
01 Mar 17 UTC
"Im in highschool and we did that first semester. Though it is AP Calculus BC, so I could get collage credit for it."

Odd that you would get art credit for calculus.
abgemacht (1076 D(G))
01 Mar 17 UTC
Also this doesn't address your specific question, but I found these notes to be very helpful from Calc I-III and DiffEq.

http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/
mitomon (511 D)
01 Mar 17 UTC
@abgemacht
Doesn't add up, does it?
Tom Bombadil (4023 D(G))
01 Mar 17 UTC
Agreed. I found that site to be a tremendous resource.
TrPrado (461 D)
01 Mar 17 UTC
I would hope he could add if he's in calculus.
orathaic (1009 D(B))
01 Mar 17 UTC
the derivative is f'(x) = [ f(x+h) - f(x) ] / h

right?
Lethologica (203 D)
01 Mar 17 UTC
Not without the limit, and not as a constructive solution to the specific differentiation being performed.
orathaic (1009 D(B))
01 Mar 17 UTC
Oh my, calculus is so long ago, i forgot the limit (as h->0)

But isn't that the general form, if i was asked to prove any differeniation, i'd probably start there... And then realise i've forgotten how to get the limit of things like that...
abgemacht (1076 D(G))
01 Mar 17 UTC
@OP

So you're saying you haven't been doing the type of stuff described here?

http://www.math.brown.edu/UTRA/trigderivs.html
abgemacht (1076 D(G))
01 Mar 17 UTC
Or here?
http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/Classes/CalcI/DiffInvTrigFcns.aspx
Lethologica (203 D)
01 Mar 17 UTC
The difficulty there is, it's difficult to expand arcsec(x+h), which is necessary to reduce the numerator of the limit to something manageable.

That's why it's easier to switch to x = sec(y) and solve from there. The secant function is more amenable to such manipulations than its inverse.
abgemacht (1076 D(G))
01 Mar 17 UTC
Isn't the arcsec(x) = arccos(1/x)? I don't know how that helps, but maybe arccos is easier to work with.
Lethologica (203 D)
01 Mar 17 UTC
That equation is correct, but I haven't seen a direct solution for arccos either.
I'd do an implicit differentiation of x=sec(y), remembering that arcsec(x) = arccos(1/x), as abge said, and that sin(arccos(x))=sqrt(1-x^2).
I never have stuff regarding the arc functions memorized, so I had to look those two conversions up.


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Zollern (123 D)
01 Mar 17 UTC
how to find game
I thought I created a game, but I can't find it. Can you tell me how I can find it? Thanks.
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brainbomb (295 D)
27 Feb 17 UTC
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Did Jesus have horns?
Some have described Jesus as a Satyr, a bard half goat man. Is it possible scholars were right-- jesus did in facr have cloven feet and happy antlers?
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kaner406 (356 D)
25 Feb 17 UTC
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When did you realise that other people had a different point of view?
see below:
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WyattS14 (100 D(B))
24 Feb 17 UTC
Resolution discussion time!
Resolved: The United States ought to guarantee the right to housing.
DISCUSS!
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brainbomb (295 D)
24 Feb 17 UTC
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ISIS defeated
Trump has defeated ISIS within 30 days as President as he promised. Were not sure how he did it. Were not sure how many nukes it took. Were not sure what the secret plan was. But I for one am glad ISIS is gone. Now we can move on to Anubis, Ra and Osiris. I never liked them either.
46 replies
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Australia (109 DX)
20 Feb 17 UTC
Lets play a game
The first word is "The" add on to the sentence. You can only add one word per post and you can only post again if someone posts after you
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Technostar (251 D)
28 Feb 17 UTC
WW4 over on VDiplomacy
Over on this site's child site, VDiplomacy, we are currently setting up a 36-player game of the World War IV (v6.2) variant. As of writing, we need to fill 12 more slots in 2 days. If you are in the mood for a relatively-balanced massive game of Diplomacy, come on over!

http://vdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=30278
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