What? Why??

This wasn’t piracy, this was a leak of almost half of the whole season before even the first episode had aired. There’s no way that’s good for HBO. What if a whole season leaked? There would be a huge disincentive to watch the show on HBO as it would mean waiting 10 weeks.

Obviously they’re not trying to stop piracy, they were just understandably miffed about almost half of a whole season leaking at once, which is certainly not good for them.

Yeah, it must be really disappointing to finally achieve this.

I’d be surprised if they don’t go even further than the books. Unlike Martin, the show runners understand that it’s unacceptable to spend an entire season bigging up the Battle for Winterfell and then not have the Battle for Winterfell.

Actually what you wrote is neither physics nor logic.

It means the speed that can be generated by the engine, relative to the air.

You don’t know that it helps and hurts the same amount.

Yeah that’s right, and with a slight modification to the end you can prove the journey with wind is longer (not just different). But I wish you wouldn’t keep using the word “logical” as a synonym for “illogical”.

It’s not a trick question and it doesn’t say that anyway.

Saying “the time lost on the other leg must be equal” is just asserting “the times are the same” in more roundabout language, not justifying it. Why must the time lost be equal to the time gained?

Don’t really know what you’re talking about, the question specifies that the engine speed is the same for both legs of the journey. There’s no indication that the journey is in any way different on the return trip. That’s adding unmentioned details to the puzzle, and you’re clearly not supposed to because that would…

Probably the most elegant answer, nice. Here’s the actual algebra for anybody interested:

Why does anyone care?

‘Cos identifying the entire Information Age with a piece of digital bling is such an honest argument.

The article does identify the Information Age with “a gold watch”. Relating the Information Age in any way to a gold Apple watch, even as a metaphor or example in any capacity, is, indeed, stupid. Like, intentionally stupid. I don’t believe anybody could make that argument without knowing that it’s totally facile and…

Agreed; the idea that new information technologies causing societal changes will be somehow overwhelmed or superseded by new infrastructure technologies is just plain silly. Obviously both of these things will happen in tandem, and will both cause changes to civilisation in their own way. Although personally it seems…

Sorry, I think this is fairly incoherent. Conflating the information age with a “gold watch” is absurd. So is the idea that localised electricity will be at the centre of a revolution in human history. It’s one aspect technology, one single aspect of the modern age, which in no way overwhelms all of the other societal…

Well, fair enough. By and large Rowling’s a master plotter, but the basic plot of Goblet of Fire really just doesn’t make sense.

Yeah, as a reader it’s obvious, but we’re privy to all of the dodgy stuff he does in Harrenhal and elsewhere. Sending Jaime Lannister off to King’s Landing instead of back to Robb, for instance. That makes it obvious to us that he’s up to something, but Robb never learns anything about these actions and this side of…