SE paid membership with payout to users who answer questions I use SE and SO a lot. I am so thankful for all the folks who volunteer their time to help me and answer my questions. While I want to, I rarely have time to give back by answering other folks' questions. I feel terribly guilty about this.  I got to thinking, I wouldn't mind paying a membership fee/dues for SE/SO if some of that fee/due went back to the folks who answer questions. Honestly, I wouldn't mind paying $50 USD a month.  I don't know how difficult/complex it would be to set up but I figure the logic would calculate payout based on how many answers you provide that are selected as answers and how many up-votes you get.  Or, if SE/SO tied with some money transfer service so we could quickly "thank" answers by sending them money (how much ever we pick).  I was looking back at all my questions, the answers, and how much time they saved me and I see almost $500 USD value in the collective answers. If there was a way to do it I would gladly pay folks who answered my questions $5 USD for each answer.
Would it better the community if we got compensated for posts? Even with minuscule alt coins? If we are effectively generating more traffic to Stack Exchange sites, would it become a better community if users were compensated somehow besides rep points? Even with minuscule alt coins?
What are the regional Pokémon? I have heard that there are some Pokémon that are region specific.  Could someone please clarify which Pokémon are region specific and in which regions that they can be found in? What causes a java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException and how do I prevent it? How can I prove that $xy\leq x^2+y^2$? How can I prove that $xy\leq x^2+y^2$ for all $x,y\in\mathbb{R}$ ? If $[G:H]=n$, then $g^{n!}\in H$ for all $g\in G$. How to restore the down arrow icon on the Downloads folder in the home directory? I removed the original Downloads folder in the home directory and created a new one with the same name, but the down arrow icon on the new Download folder now disappeared. Could someone please tell me how to restore that icon?   In addition, from the image above we see "Downloads" disappears also in "Places" category in the left panel. I think it should be there originally. If after restoring the down arrow icon, the "Downloads" is still not in "Places" category, I would also like to ask you to help me put "Downloads" back to "Places". Thank you.  PS: I am not using any theme. Is it ok to say 'sorry' where you otherwise would use 'excuse me'?  Example: "Sorry, but could you show me the way to the next train station?" Strange set notation (a set as a power of 2)? I am not very well versed on set theory or syntax, but I thought I knew the basics.  However, in a book about databases I am reading now, the author uses $2^x$ to signify "a set of $x$."  For example, $2^{\text{dogs}}$ is a set of $\text {dogs}$, etc.    The author never really explained this or why he does it, I just picked up the meaning from context.    I am not sure why the exponent operator is used, nor am I sure what the number $2$ has to do with it.  The sets being represented are NOT powers of $2$ (in size)... they come in all sizes.  Is this a valid notation?  I have not seen it anywhere before... Use of .apply() with 'new' operator. Is this possible? If $A + A^t = 2I$ then $\det(A) \geq 1$ How much time until an unused hard drive loses its data? Do you guys know how much time needs to pass until the data stored on a hard drive starts to degrade?   To keep the data intact for long periods of time, I heard you need to periodically rewrite it on the hard drive, like every 5 years or so. Is it true? How can I prove that $\mathbb{Q}[x,y]/\langle x^2+y^2-1 \rangle$ is an integral domain?  Also, I need to prove that its field of fractions is isomorphic to the field of rational functions $\mathbb{Q}(t)$?    (The question is taken from ) How can I use a variable in the replacement side of the Perl substitution operator? I would like to do the following: $find = &quot;start (.*) end&quot;; $replace = &quot;foo \1 bar&quot;;  $var = &quot;start middle end&quot;; $var =~ s/$find/$replace/;  I would expect $var to contain &quot;foo middle bar&quot;, but it does not work. Neither does: $replace = 'foo \1 bar';  Somehow I am missing something regarding the escaping. I think my device got a malware. A lock screen with ads sometimes appear, and I must swipe an area at the bottom of the screen to open the phone. I am in Eastern Europe, some ads are in Slavic languages, and they are seemingly related to travel.    Image resized. Click to view the full image  I have seen ads for Lot Air (Polish carrier). I recently went to their site.  Considering my recent surfing activity and the nature of the ads, I guess the malware is connected to airlines active in Eastern Europe.  The lock screen also promotes the app "DU Quick Charger" by claiming it has recharged the phone extra fast during screen off. (!?) It also shows battery level. I have never installed DU Quick Charger. I doubt DU Quick Charger is installed on the phone.  The problem started after installing Ryanair app. The problem is maybe, but not surely, related to this. Uninstalling Ryanair and restarting the phone doesn't remove the occasional appearance of this lock screen. After a while the situation has changed for the worse, now this lock screen appears after EVERY screen off.  I have always used Avast. I am not rooted and only install via Google Play.  What is this? And how do I remove it? Export File Dialog in Blender 2.80 How can I get bring up a popup file browser in Blender 2.80 invoked by a button click in my addon, to define the name and location of a file to be exported?  In Blender 2.7x, I did this via the context window manager in the invoke function, but it is very possible that this hasn't been the preferred method for years, as I'm not finding useful documentation when I search for how to update this.  class MYTOOL_OT_write_data(bpy.types.Operator):     bl_idname = "mytool.write_data"     bl_label = "Write data file"      directory: bpy.props.StringProperty(subtype="FILE_PATH")     filename: bpy.props.StringProperty(subtype="FILE_NAME")      def invoke(self, context, event):  # 2.7x method         WindowManager = context.window_manager         context.window_manager.FILEBROWSERect_add(self)  # &lt;-- error here         return{"RUNNING_MODAL"}      def execute(self, context):         directory = self.directory         filename = self.filename         # Write csv data file using normal python functionality         return{'FINISHED'}   In Blender 2.80, I am getting the error "AttributeError: 'WindowManager' object has no attribute 'FILEBROWSERect_add'".  Thanks for your help.    UPDATED SOLUTION based on brockmann's solution below.  The trick is to use the ExportHelper util (which existed long before Blender 2.80):  from bpy_extras.io_utils import ExportHelper  class MYTOOL_OT_write_data(bpy.types.Operator, ExportHelper):     bl_idname = "mytool.write_data"     bl_label = "Write data file"      filename_ext = ".csv"  # ExportHelper mixin class uses this     def execute(self, context):         filepath = self.filepath         # f = open(filepath, 'w')         # f.write(stuff)         # f.close()         return{'FINISHED'} Would someone give a thorough explanation of 1.14 Minecraft's /data modify? Okay, so I've been searching all over the internet for an explanation of data modify ever since I heard Sethbling passively mention it in one of his videos. The only  thing I could find on it was the wiki and the update log for the 1.14 snapshot. So, I checked these, and they hardly explained it at all. I can get /data modify block 123 20 123... and that's as far as I get.  Minecraft wiki does not at all define clearly what  is (the thing meant to go after coords), nor does it specify what each operation does to what. Operations include (without explanation, and excluding set (which it does explain)): append, insert, merge, and prepend. Then, it has from|value as the next option, which aren't explained either. After this, it just has block/entity and coords/id. So, I know the format (mostly), but I haven't the slightest idea what any of it means. And nothing I've seen on the internet even mentions the command save for Minecraft wiki itself.  Please explain if you know what data modify is. Thanks! Is a capacitor in an open circuit charged? Say I have a circuit consisting of a battery, a wire, an open switch, and a capacitor. The circuit is open since the switch is open.  My book says that the capacitor will only be charged when the switch is closed, but I don't see why this is true. 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The numeric issue number "3" is missing (Ref. 1 in the given example). The issue number label "no." is displayed although NO input entry was being given (Ref. 2 in the given example).   If it helps, this behavior was noticed after the recent update of Miktex on March 11, 2017, including  package (ver. 1.2a 2017-03-02). As before which, everything was going fine!  So is this issue noticed by someone else? Is there any idea about the reason of such strange act by biblatex?  \documentclass{article} \usepackage{filecontents} \begin{filecontents}{reference.bib}     @article{author1,         author  = "George Green",         title   = "Basic latex",         year    = "2000",         journal = "Sharelatex Journal",         volume  = "10",         number  = "3",         pages   = "100--101"     }     @article{author2,         author  = "Carol White",         title   = "Basic studio",         year    = "2010",         journal = "Club Journal",         volume  = "20",         pages   = "200--201"     } \end{filecontents} \usepackage[backend=bibtex, style=ieee]{biblatex}  \addbibresource{reference.bib} \begin{document}     Hi there! \\     Ref 1 Green \cite{author1}. \\     Ref 2 White \cite{author2}.     \printbibliography  \end{document}   The output is as follows: Two similar limit problems I have two limit problems which are quite similar, so I've put them both into this post.   $((4^{10}+2^{n})^{\frac{1}{n}})$ $((3n^{2}+n)^{\frac{1}{n}})$   Attempt:  For 1, I'm not sure if this is permissible. I know that $\lim_{n \to \infty}(x^{n}+y^{n})^{\frac{1}{n}} = \max\{x,y\}$. Obviously $4^{10}$ is a constant so it's not quite in the same form, but I believe it is still okay to use this result, and so the limit is $2$.  For 2, I've got $((3n^{2}+n)^{\frac{1}{n}}) = (n(3n+1)^{\frac{1}{n}})$, but then I'm not too sure how to proceed.   I also thought of taking the log and proceeding that way, however in the notes I'm learning from they haven't covered l'hopital yet, so I'm trying to not use it.  Thanks. Can I secretly kill every guard in a town? Is it possible to kill all of the guards in a town?  Ideally, I'd like to do this secretly so the entire town doesn't see my deeds and put a bounty on my head.  Edit: I was questing in Markarth and was told by a guard to back off and stop being nosy. I didn't and when I went to the Shrine of Talos I was set upon by a bunch of guards.  Now I have a huge bounty and I had to sneak/kill my way out of the city.  Every time I killed a group of guards the bounty was reduced by $1000, but I still have a $30,000 bounty.  I haven't even been through 1/3 of the city yet and know there has to be a lot of quests, so what do I do?  The only solution seems to kill every single guard (and inhabitant). Is the collapse of the wave function inherently time asymmetric?