Comments by "Jason Dashney" (@jasondashney) on "Vysvětlení "pobřežního" paradoxu" video.

  1. He means you can just measure down to the subatomic particle. I'm not saying I agree, I'm just saying what people are cranky about (even though particles are constantly moving so the coastline changes constantly).
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  2. David, let it go. It's not worth it to argue with the pedantic brigade. Yes, it's a paradox. You have an area with a boundary, but you can't "measure" that boundary. That's what a paradox is. You can't measure the subatomic particles either unless you establish arbitrary guidelines because, you know, they fucking move and who's to say exactly what does and doesn't count as the coastline? Ipso facto, you can't measure it because you have to make up rules, yet the island is surrounded by water so obviously its area does have limits. If these guys want to get that pedantic, remind them that there literally is no such thing as a "fact", so nothing can technically be contradictory in the first place.
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  3. daan I would love to walk around Norway with a tape measure. Sure beats the Canadian Prairies where there's no big body of water for thousands of km in every direction.
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  4. Ruben: Good Lord. One, North America has more than just Can/USA/Mexico *palmface*. Two,....what are you cranky about again? Come to Canada ("an extension of the USA) and get a proper education. FYI, it's "the US 'of' A", not "the USA".
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  5. Where do you place that string? At the water's edge (which changes)? At dirt verticals (which can erode in a single rainfall)?
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  6. Does this grain of sand count as being inside or outside the boundary? What about that one?
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