Why “amount” is being discussed
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I'm still not sure why not possible. A tankless waterheater is just a regular water header with a tiny tank (pipes count as a tank...). I know electric tankless water heaters ex…
by bluGill · Sep 11, 2026
This is the exact same thing that we have been seeing in open source software. The amount of OSS is exploding, but the community part of it is not
by maddiaa0 · Sep 11, 2026
Might have to do with a lot of thought leaders and influencers pushing this. In my own life/career I have seen that over a long enough horizon that lower shame seems to gen…
by Tsarp · Sep 11, 2026
That's fresh water in general. Most of it is frozen. The amount you can actually use is a sliver.
by joenada · Sep 11, 2026
Equivocating children bypassing social media age gates to child rape is disingenuous and asinine. The point being made is that these age gates are often easily defeated and is i…
by IslandRebel · Sep 11, 2026
Why? AI is enriching my life and letting me focus on solving hard problems. I don't believe in the sentience crap and am just using it at face value for what it is, a useful pro…
by borzi · Sep 11, 2026
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Quantity or amount is a property that includes numbers and quantifiable phenomena such as mass, time, distance, heat, angle, and information. Quantities can commonly be compared in terms of "more", "less", or "equal", or by assigning a numerical value multiple of a unit of measurement. Quantity is among the basic classes of things along with quality, substance, change, and relation. Some quantities are such by their inner nature, while others function as states of things such as heavy and light, long and short, broad and narrow, small and great, or much and little. Read more on Wikipedia