Well it’s either a joke or a personal attack, pick one
Well it’s either a joke or a personal attack, pick one
Wonder if there’s enough interest in this to create a comm for it. Or maybe a more generic ‘daily game’ thing


I agree it’s not optimal, but I fail to see how it’s a ‘backfire’. Would it be preferable to be dumping it all in landfills?
What’s not the same thing? The entire article is about this class of math problems. Did you bother reading it?


Well, common in certain circles. Definitely cryptic for everybody else, though.
Pretty disappointing that it doesn’t allow you to access old puzzles.


You seem be be operating under the assumption that laws themselves will always be just and equal.
Input from a published Berkeley professor: PEMDAS does NOT cover this, it’s ambiguous and there’s no ‘correct’ answer
https://math.berkeley.edu/~gbergman/misc/numbers/ord_ops.html
Addition / subtraction and multiplication / division are interchangeable, so that’s still functionally identical in all aspects.


It does sound like it could be more efficient, but that applies to a lot of things in our production and logistic chains.


Who cares who’s doing the recycling, as long as it’s not ending up in a landfill somewhere?
Either way, that will be an important lesson
That will be an important lesson


This reads like a schoolkid who just discovered semantics


It’s one thing for the US to lose an offensive war, it’s another thing entirely for anybody else to think of dicking with them on their home turf
Speaking for (not) myself, nope. Or so I hear