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agilla18 karma

Decided to stop practicing medicine without a license?

agilla11 karma

You can price water so that the first x liters are very cheap, and those x liters are what is needed for basic life functions. As soon as consumption pushes past that limit, the price can increase dramatically.

agilla5 karma

So, what should I do with my eye doctor's advice to wear dailies for a week or so? I've got some allergies (I guess) that make it hard to deal with the buildup that results from wearing monthlies for a full month, so my doctor suggested and prescribed dailies, but with a weekly wearing schedule so that I can discard them as soon as they start to irritate my eyes.

Is he off his nut?

agilla2 karma

Do you see solar being adopted any time soon at the utility level? Are there economies of scale in solar installations that there are significant benefits in "going big" or is solar maximally efficient at the household level?

agilla1 karma

It's not marketing -- at least not just his marketing.. Mathematicians have been describing mathematics as a language since...well, I don't really know when. Here are some links: http://pages.uoregon.edu/moursund/Math/language.htm http://www.cut-the-knot.org/language/

Anyway, if you define language as a system by which ideas are communicated, you'd have a hard time excluding mathematics as a good example of one. I tell my economics students every semester that they'll have to understand my math just as well as they'll have to understand my english if they want to understand the ideas I communicate in my lectures.