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@quartata It prevents small parties (such as a socialist party) from having any representation in government.

so true

I think winner takes all sucks. It is why we are stuck with a two party system.

^

I upvoted it

yeah

@THELONEWOLF.: I will add more to mine if you want. Do you think that my theory is wrong, or that it could use more explanation?

kk, thanks

kk

There is a reason that biology is not described solely using the laws of physics

True, but also most people who will search up the same question will have around the same level of background knowledge.

No idea if this has been asked yet, though

Especially if the OP will not understand the details

@orthocresol, I will write up a question in a little bit. Another possible question for the meta: should we be going into these details on questions where a double bond gives a simpler explanation?

Thanks for the help!

@Zhe Does that happen in sulfate? If so, is there a meaningful difference between that and a double bond?

Thanks! I actually have class to go to rn, but I will look into this.

Orbitals always transverse the entire molecule? I know that is true for conjugated systems, but is that true for all orbitals?

Isn't the separation of charges unstable, though?

kk, that makes more sense

@Jan How do the oxygens carry -.5 charge? Are the 2 extra electrons in a super position between the four oxygens, or is this just an average calculation?

@Jan

I had previously learned that sulphuric acid was so acidic because the negative charge produced by losing a proton could resonate with the two double bonds. If sulfate does not have double bonds, are the negative charges only stabilized by Oxygen's high electronegativity?

@Jan I think that makes sense. What would sulfate look like then? Would it be four single bonds (sp3 hybridized)

since such a bond would be very weak

@Jan I want to make this clear: are you effectively saying that d orbitals don't actually form double bonds?

lol

Sounds cool, I will look into it

hyle.org/journal/issues/19-1/balaban.pdf

lol, I am a CS/Chem major, so it sounds really interesting

Do you all know if chemical graph theory holds any merits? It sounds like an interesting concept (especially for representing compounds in computers), but I don't know if I should spend the time to look into it, as it has limited functionality (no stereo chem for example).

Yeah. I would do something if I could, but two of them are physics problems, one is homework/computational, and the last one can be google searched in five seconds.

Although, all the questions do deserve negative scores

I find this a little bit bothering

@Jan thanks! That is good to know.

@Jan Is my answer wrong? I am pretty sure that TsCl contains S=O bonds... chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/61981/…

@ringo are you a UT student? I remember talking to an active member of the community who goes to UT last year.

@getafix, good luck with that! You can do it!

Do you know if that question was taken down? I was trying to find it a couple of days ago.

It reminds me of the burning duck feet question a while ago

this question... chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/60904/…

thanks

kk, that is fine. Thanks for the help.

sorry, I thought it might be a good idea to take this off the main chat. Did not mean to open a chem one though.

@Glen_b I think my actual question (as it is now worded) makes sense. Do you disagree with this? If not, where is it confusing/ambiguous?

Sorry for the late response

@Glen_b I added more information. Does this look better? I am basically trying to determine if giving a random writer (Markov chain) more context (a higher order) results in its output more closely matching the tone of its input.

Hi! Just curious, is my question okay for this site? Either way, could you all point me in the correct direction for finding an appropriate statistical test to use? stats.stackexchange.com/questions/241828/….

@ChemExchange, True. I will look into implementing these features regardless of what happens with the election.