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What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions - Kindle Edition 99p @ Amazon
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Cracking book, totally recommend reading it. Full of interesting details explains about day to day things.
GoodRead rating of over 4.2 from over 100k ratings.
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
From the creator of the wildly popular xkcd.com, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask.
Millions visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. Fans ask him a lot of strange questions: How fast can you hit a speed bump, driving, and live? When (if ever) did the sun go down on the British Empire? When will Facebook contain more profiles of dead people than living? How many humans would a T Rex rampaging through New York need to eat a day?
In pursuit of answers, Munroe runs computer simulations, pores over stacks of declassified military research memos, solves differential equations and consults nuclear reactor operators. His responses are masterpieces of clarity and hilarity, complemented by comics. They often predict the complete annihilation of humankind, or at least a really big explosion.
Hope it helps someone.
GoodRead rating of over 4.2 from over 100k ratings.
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
From the creator of the wildly popular xkcd.com, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask.
Millions visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. Fans ask him a lot of strange questions: How fast can you hit a speed bump, driving, and live? When (if ever) did the sun go down on the British Empire? When will Facebook contain more profiles of dead people than living? How many humans would a T Rex rampaging through New York need to eat a day?
In pursuit of answers, Munroe runs computer simulations, pores over stacks of declassified military research memos, solves differential equations and consults nuclear reactor operators. His responses are masterpieces of clarity and hilarity, complemented by comics. They often predict the complete annihilation of humankind, or at least a really big explosion.
Hope it helps someone.
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what-if.xkcd.com/arc…ve/
what-if.xkcd.com/
My personal xkcd favourite
I get all of this. The real problem I'm having now is I'm thinking hold on a second, they've got all my data, they're tracking me, they're listening to me. What the hell have we got ourselves in to. So I literally look for open source versions of everything. Convenience is becoming a very bad thing. Google, Microsoft, Apple et al have ruined convenience, they've corporatised it beyond anything known before, it's as if we're in this massive social experiment whereby we totally give leave of our senses because we want convenience over common sense. It doesn't wash saying "I have nothing to hide", it's not about what you're doing wrong or not, it's all about what they're doing wrong. "Give me convenience or give me death". I'm not looking to be popular and I won't be with opinions like this, but the reality is Orwellian.
Anyway if none of the above bothers you I still wouldn't get a Kindle because I wouldn't tie myself in to Amazon's book ecosystem, feck em I say.
I'll make sure I read it this time!
Actually I think that's a disadvantage. One of the benefits of a Kindle is that it's dedicated - there are no distractions with social media or email notifications popping up, and if you feel the need to look at a map of Ancient Greece to follow the story you have to use a separate device, so you're less likely to get sucked into a an endless Wikipedia link-following session.
And you can't compare the screen on *any* tablet or phone to a Kindle. The Kindle is gently front-lit, so it doesn't harm sleep function like back-lit displays, and is also visible in very bright sunshine. The brighter the sun, the crisper it gets.
The disadvantage of a Kindle is that it's not great on embedded illustrations. Obviously it can't do colour, and the black and white images can be a bit iffy. I wouldn't use a Kindle for a reference book with lots of pictures.
Just bought a new Paperwhite 4 to replace my original Paperwhite. That'll be my fourth Kindle, I think. I read loads of books, but just can't do paper ones any more.
Much deserved heat.
Thanks for the reply. If I do go for one it would be a Kindle, I've tried a few of the Fire tabs and wasn't I fan. The main driver for me is the screen seems to be readable in brighter conditions than my phone.
Personally I love my Kindle - I’ll occasionally read on my phone if necessary but as a pure reading device I can burn hours on my Paperwhite. I moved to it when my K3 died (which had physical page turn buttons) - I was a bit concerned that moving to the touchscreen when it died would be a problem but turned out to be fine for me.
Nice one mate, many thanks for sharing the image
Anytime buddy
Kindle is a good investment - some of the Amazon Fire Tabs come for good price from time to time too - and they provide a lil more heft then your standard kindles and well worth the price as they are android devices, so you can put some additional stuff on it too.
I use uk.ereaderiq.com/
What if? was 6.99 before
The Wife says its the best thing i ever bought her, and she is one pampered little bee hatch.
I'll have another go reading it just in case I'm missing something.
You can load .mobi onto the kindle from your computer. You don't need to be tied J to anything. My paperwhite was a great investment, easy to read screen, plenty of text options, browser for reading the news etc. Just buy books elsewhere and load it on
Heat added.
Fair point - the only reason I suggested a tab was because you can do more on it than just the kindle, but yes at the price point and for your requirements, kindle is a good buy, go for it
How much is it usually? Camels don't keep track of Kindle prices
Its hard to say about kindle prices, as you rightly said, no one seems to track them - but the paperback is 9.99 usually if that helps in anyways.
love mine. being books only, i dont slip online by accident and end up having done nothing. a 4th gen one from ebay for about 20 quid is better than cuttent touch screen ones as it has page turning buttons
Sorry to hear that. The overwhelming majority think otherwise but yes it’s a matter of personal choices.
I have a paperwhite kindle and absolutely love it
Same for me: "You purchased this item on 01 January 2016"
No idea I had it...(the date maybe gives an idea why)
What are they doing wrong?
Self regulation on data governance.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wik…nce
theverge.com/201…ant
theverge.com/201…ing
The media does have a bias to create sensationalist headlines, but the crux of the matter is your data is fair game to these companies.
Open up Google Maps and go to Timeline. Think what implications there are of every journey you make being recorded and monitored both good and bad. Think in terms of what a 3rd party can do with that data if it was breeched for example.
You were in charge of your own privacy, but now you're not, unless you take charge. The way everything is designed now is that taking charge of your privacy means you pay a penalty. There's no open source traffic data for example so if you don't want to use Waze/Google Maps or another corporations Sat Nav then you can't have that.
There's a worrying trend with data privacy. As I say it's not what me and you are doing wrong. It's what they're doing with your data and how they protect your data and who they sell it on to.