When 从 in Classical Chinese means "to follow", literally as in "John followed Peter to the park," does the subject (the follower) necessarily refer to someone who is lower in rank than whoever the object (the followed) refers to? Do you know of any examples where this use of 从 does not require a ...

Are all social security offices around the country (USA) closed? I can't find a clear answer. Also, if yes, why? In many states things are really up and running again.

My son just started a job with a franchisee of a well known delivery company. The franchisee is located in Virginia, and some of the items in the employee handbook sound fishy to me. He was given a sheet that listed several offenses along with the associated monetary fine. Three which stood out ...

Let $M$ be the total space of an oriented $S^1$ fiber bundle over $T^2$. Can we show the fundamental group of $M$ is nilpotent? More generally, how can we calculate the fundamental group of $M$ explicitly?

To explain the problem I have run into: I have created some tracking markers in the Movie Clip Editor and tracked several points in the clip, and I have added an offset to the movie clip so that it syncs up with where that clip ends up in the Video Sequence Editor, however, now I have moved the c...

Basically, we have this object: Animal. And Animal has a few fields, Number_Of_Legs, Warm_Or_Cold_Blooded, etc and I basically want to automatically map the names and corresponding values into a map. That way, as we added more fields, we wouldn't have to update the code. Currently, we have: Map

I'm studying Deutsch–Jozsa algorithm and I don't understand this passage about Hadamard gate result: Why this equivalence is true? In particular, what is "z"?

In Curse of Strahd, the players can encounter an NPC with a special ability. Is the NPC's use of this ability supposed to be an example of "specific beats general", where their ability as written within the context of the module overrides the PHB limitation that You either have inspiration or y...

How many right triangles are there with the following conditions: the sides $a$, $b$, and $c$ have an integer length (Pythagorean triplets) the amounts of area and perimeter are the same for each triangle.

I'm reading about the Hull-White model, I understand the math behind it and logic but what I am struggling to understand is how it's actually used in practice ? How can we combine it with technics like Monte-Carlo for IRD options pricing ? Can someone simplify this from a practitioner point of vi...

Not the cylinder that hangs onto the cable itself; the actual box at the end that you grab onto in order to pull it out or push it in. They often have the USB logo on them. Is it some sort of circuitry to handle serialization or timing? Or just to make the cord easier to plug/unplug? They're pro...

The exercise is as follows: Player A will write list \$ a \$ consisting of \$ n \$ numbers. Player B will take a look at the paper. After that the A player will ask player B \$q\$ questions. Each question will be of the following form: If I give you two \$ R \$ and \$ L \$ in \$ a \$ such that (...

As some of you already know, I'm putting together a bike. Actually, I put it together yesterday, works pretty great. Frame might've been a bit smaller, but it is quite comfortable. My friend, who assembled like a hundred bikes so far, says handlebar is a bit too long for me. h=he seen me ride it ...

My understanding is that the max individual contribution for 2020 is $19,500. If employer match is 100%, that gets us to a total of $39,000. How does one max out the combined employer/employee contribution to $57,000? Where is that extra $18,000 potentially coming from? Source: https://www.invest...

(disclaimer, I am a gentile and don't know how to type in square script) My question applies to the whole Tanakh, but I'm specifically curious about Genesis. Translating strictly literally (ie, etymologically), Genesis 1-3 seem to indicate some sort of polytheism. The Hebrew etymologically transl...

King James Bible Romans 1:14 I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise. In https://biblehub.com/romans/1-14.htm, 19 out of 27 versions translate Βαρβάροις as Barbarians. It sounds derogatory to me. Is there better translation that would satisfy m...

I've been trying for a while to get the angle working, but it's not displaying correctly. I get this instead: The angle is not correctly labeled. I get the following error messages (all on that line): Missing \endcsname inserted. Package xcolor Error: Undefined color "$\theta $"'. Missing \endc...

I'm stuck on his problem: "Consider an isosceles triangle $ABC$, such that $AC=BC$. Let the height from point $C$ be $h$ and the radius of a circle inscribed in the triangle be $r$. Express the length of the base and length of the legs using $h$ and $r$." I'm probably missing some obscure propert...

This short story is set entirely on the emperor's personal flagship/palace, which is a monumental ship full of courtiers and all the panoply of the ruler of the solar system. He keeps a single member of a subject people as something of a court jester; this is apparently a sad representative of th...

Some background: I'm working on a big project, modelling a car, and I'm currently creating the cockpit The car is a race-car, and the instruments and switches on the dashboard are all labeled blue and white embossed labels, a picture for reference: What I need Help With I need help finding a ...

I am playing a monk. I wanted to use the Mobile feat, specifically the third option that prevents opportunity attacks, to do the following: hit creature 1 with my attack, then move away from creature 1 then use Flurry of Blows on creature 2, then move away then make an unarmed strike on creature...

The Storm Sorcerer gains the Storm Guide feature at 6th level (XGtE, p. 52; emphasis added): At 6th level, you gain the ability to subtly control the weather around you. If it is raining, you can use an action to cause the rain to stop falling in a 20-foot-radius sphere centered on you. You can ...