IF a consciousness was housed in a black box (a brain, but we're ignoring it's internals) AND that black box had inputs connected to a computer that can send signals to the black box that it WOULD interpret as signals of sight, sound, touch, hunger, intoxication, etc.
THEN how is one suppose to conclude that they are not just a consciousness in a box because they 'feel' drunk after they 'feel' they've ingested alcohol.
There's no need to monitor alcohol levels because the alcohol hasn't been proven to exist!
Additionally 9 * n = [n-1, 10-n] for n = 2-11; where n-1 is the digit in the 10's place and 10-n in the single place. This just an aesthetic curiosity. I know the pattern continues for larger n I've just never bothered to generalize it. Also never compared it to other bases.
"Maybe they are planning for the audience they want rather than the one they have?"
That's definitely a reasonable possibility since it appears to me to be formatted for the Instagram crowd.
"Or maybe they just feel safe since there aren't any alternatives?"
Possible as well but ironic since its creating a space for an alternative.
I like this sites design. Clean, simple, and nothing superfluous. Seems to understand people are here for the user shared content and not the site itself so it stays out of the users way.
First and foremost it's unnecessary and is not fixing anything.
Second, it forces learning a new layout and system. I don't understand instead of gradual changes in UI to improve experience they went with whole new thing.
Third, it's slow, bloated, and really hard to navigate through. Old version can display more pertinent information per screen resolution.
In a nutshell, hinders user experience without any noticeable improvement.
Finish product is bad design because initial idea was bad design to begin with (i.e. the idea to fix nothing and break everything).
Memorizing multiplication tables is over rated. Seeing connections between those early multiples up to 12 is more interesting. Can be helpful I suppose in factorization.
Maybe I just don't trust my memory (as in how am I sure that 7*8 is 56) and why I despise rote memorization and rather retain memory from use and practice.
Regardless a good example of something to remember in math is the quadratic formula
Still enjoyable to derive and 'see' why it works but also just used so much. That said, I wouldn't encourage memorizing it without first understanding it.
Honestly I think you make a good point and implicitly they could have used those resources instead to improve the user experience (for example, improve the sites efficiency and load times)
IF a consciousness was housed in a black box (a brain, but we're ignoring it's internals) AND that black box had inputs connected to a computer that can send signals to the black box that it WOULD interpret as signals of sight, sound, touch, hunger, intoxication, etc.
THEN how is one suppose to conclude that they are not just a consciousness in a box because they 'feel' drunk after they 'feel' they've ingested alcohol.
There's no need to monitor alcohol levels because the alcohol hasn't been proven to exist!