You don't want the bidders to know the minimum price you're willing to sell at...that gives them information that can only hurt the seller.

Suppose a bidder thinks it's worth $1000 to them, then they see the seller has set a minimum bid of $10. They're going to rethink whether their value estimate is correct. That's bad for the seller.

Knowing the other party's "willingess to pay" (minimum price they'd sell for/maximum price they'd pay) is HUGELY valuable. The entire point of price negotiations is to try to figure out this number for your opponent without disclosing your own. You don't give that information away lightly or without good reason...seller disclosing that to the bidders in an auction just hurts the seller.

Edit: had "buyer" & "seller" reversed, now fixed.

You don't need an ultracapacitor for that. You're describing a genset...ICE engine running at constant RPM powers a generator, generator powers the wheels. You adjust power by adjusting throttle, you don't need to change engine RPM. So, again, what is the ultracapacitor providing?

In that case, why wouldn't you just connect the ICE straight to the drive motor? What is the ultracapacitor helping you with?

If the ICE is putting out more power than the motors need the ultracapacitor will fill up very quickly. And if the ICE isn't putting out enough power then it'll discharge very quickly. You'll get a *slight* evening out of load on the ICE but it won't be very big, definitely not enough to provide meaningful range extension.

Ultracapacitors are terrible at storing large amounts of energy, compared to batteries.

They're very good at charging/discharging quickly, and going through lots of cycles, but at best they can only hold something like 1/300 to 1/1000 of the energy that an equal weight lithium battery can.

Range extension requires storing a lot of energy...batteries are reasonable for that. Hydrocarbons are extremely good. Capacitors are awful.

Do you mean if you open Photoshop then tell it to open a jfif file, it can't? I have no idea.

If you mean, "Why doesn't Photoshop open when I doubleclick the jfif file?" then that's nothign to do with Photoshop...that's your OS not knowing to open Photoshop when you try to open a jfif file.

The file extension just tells the OS what program to use to open the file. The program that tries to open it is going to actually look at the file to see what it is.

In virtually all cases, any program that can open webp or jfif also knows how to open gif or jpeg, so when they open the file they just go "Oh, this is a jfif" and keep doing their thing.

Yes, your understanding is correct. They're just free floating bits of DNA or RNA code that eventually bump into a cell and hijack it's machines to copy itself.

Anything that disrupts that code will "kill" it...render it inactive. Harsh chemicals can break the DNA/RNA. UV light can. Too hot or too cold can. Physically crushing them can. DNA/RNA isn't a particularly durable moledule.

A stroke is when a blood clot (scab) blocks some blood flow in your brain; it starves the blocked area of blood and you get local damage/death of cells, but it's not big enough to take out your whole brain (usually). The rest of the brain keeps working.

Coma is when you're unconscious and won't wake up. That may or may not involve brain death. You can still have brain activity while in a coma.

Brain death is when "all" the electrical activity of the brain quits. The parts of the brain that matter to think are dead.

0.33333... *is* a precise value. We just don't write all the 3's because we don't have infinite time but, mathmatically, that's *exactly* 1/3.

And we can easily plot that on a numberline. Take a line of length 1, bend it around until it forms an equilateral triangle (angles exactly 60 degrees), mark the corners, unfold it. Those marks are at *exactly* 1/3.

If you mean "can we do this in real life" the answer is "no" but that has nothing to do with the math, that has to do with our physical universe being discrete(ish) at very small scales. Number lines are purely theoretical constructs in the first place, the fact that we run out of good measuring tools with a physical number line doesn't change the math.

There are physical laws that dictate why a water droplet takes the shape it does; there is *nothing* in the universe that says "there should be capsaicin". If the capsaicin mutation hadn't happened the entire ecosystem would have been just fine without it. There are, for all practical purposes, infinitely more traits that have never and will never be expressed than ones that we've ever seen.

They dont know. They didn't plan any of it. It's just an accident.

That basically how evolution works...plants & animals keep randomly trying things (DNA mutations)...some of them work to make the critter more successful, most don't work at all and the critter dies.

Every once in a while, a mutation is useful enough that the critter gets to reproduce more, creating more critters with that mutation. Eventually, the traits that don't work die out and the ones that do work well (enough) spread.

Also, “yes” or “no” is ambiguous. “Yes, you’re pregnant” or “Yes! You’re not pregnant.” You want “pregnant” or “not pregnant”, but you don’t want to have to do it in every language.

You can eat almost anything raw as long as it doesn't have bad bacteria or some chemical that's toxic when uncooked in it. Raw beef is pretty common.

We generally don't do raw chicken because chicken is really likely to have bad bacteria (salmonella). We generally don't do raw pork because it *used* to have a parasite called Trichinella...most industrial farm pork doesn't have that anymore but people have been conditioned not to do undercooked pork.

Beef's nutritionally fine raw, but pretty tough so we often cook it for texture. There are very few tough sea foods so that doesn't matter as much.

A turbo doesn't change the air/fuel mixture, that should stay effectively constant. It increases the effective compression ratio (more air *and* more fuel in the cylinder).