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marcos ,

Yeah, coming from Portuguese, I know by hearth all of the refined vocabulary to be found in English.

But the mundane is a whole other world.

marcos ,

Those first two are incredibly fit for some niche that is so small that nobody even remembers it exists.

The last one is still more practical than hot air balloons.

marcos ,

He knows.

marcos ,

I'm not sure the goal of an article like this is to be read. Looks like something that was written for the headline only.

But yeah, the article backpedals and blames management for employees not taking PTO.

(And 11 to 15 days of PTO an year is the good example? WTF, US?)

marcos ,

I started with some articles on string theory

Yeah, that's a mistake.

Unless you understand the working theories out there, you gain nothing by going deep into speculative ideas.

marcos ,

AFAIK, every single idea from string theory that could be tested was rejected. And the theory was made more complex, less predictive so that it could still work without the testable idea.

marcos ,

Yes. The future serial killer is clearly the person that designed this shit. The one waving is just a useful idiot.

marcos ,

It doesn't work when nobody lives around either.

The only way this can work is if both all cars are from the 30s, only able to move at 50 km/h, and nobody lives around.

marcos ,

Imagine a roundabout where most of the traffic flows straight on only one of the streets. Things would improve a lot of you gave that street the right of way and cut a shortcut on the middle of the roundabout, wouldn't them?

(/s by the way, but a lot of transit engineers to really believe in this. Unironically.)

marcos ,

I was not joking when I said a lot of transit engineers believe on it.

That one is one of the least bad I've seen. Try imagine it on the cross of two roads (actual high-speed roads, country-side). I've seen many of those.

marcos ,

That second picture of yours is just a normal roundabout. Try making one of the roads pass directly through it. And don't change the signaling.

I've noticed that the tram line cuts the traffic in 3 points. What is the speed of that street? Anyway, the tram line is clearly signed in a way that can be noticed on the photo. And every car there is making a weird curve, nobody is speeding anyway.

marcos ,

This makes sense, and as far as explanations go it's better than most running around on the internet.

Yet, it was a very abrupt change. Did the US population have that abrupt change to reflect there? On society it's common that a very steep change leads to spread-down consequences; the reverse almost never happens.

marcos ,

All your reasoning supports is asking for the city the person lives in.

Also, why is it your business if the candidate has a physical address or not? Making an effort to discover that looks very unethical to me.

marcos ,

Yep. It’s almost like different words with different meanings are useful to express different thoughts on different contexts.

marcos ,

Computing resource usage of your OS should be indistinguishable from $0 almost everywhere.

marcos ,

The “minimum” in “minimum wage” literally means that nobody can pay you less.

It has no etymological relation to the cost of living.

marcos ,

In a jungle (that supposed to be a jungle, isn’t it? it does look like a movie jungle), it’s not easy at all.

marcos ,

The funny thing is… what are the operational requirements of an R&D organization?

As far as I can see, it’s nothing, by definition.

Anyway, does the rich person there not understand that? Also, what is the value of an R&D organization where people are demotivated?

marcos ,

But then, an R&D organization doesn’t have short term profits.

marcos ,

Nature has quite a special place for the basis of the natural logarithm.

marcos ,

That’s why you should only go to those larger merry-go-rounds where everything rotates in one direction and your immediate region rotates on the other.

marcos ,

Yes, we would affect the Earth’s rotation. It’s just by a ridiculously small amount that nobody would ever be able to measure.

marcos ,

How “eliminating employee vacation” is even a thing?

marcos ,

I meant to ask if it isn’t illegal or something like that?

Around here one could get a nice pay out of it by suing. So much that company even thinks about it.

marcos ,

Vacation leave is not paid

Wait, what?! You are just little-fired for a month?

marcos ,

From the wikipedia:

TCB ticks faster than clocks on the surface of the Earth by 1.550505 × 10−8 (about 490 milliseconds per year)

It’s amazing that this level of detail is relevant to anything.

marcos ,

The comic filled the fuel tanks with seats.

marcos ,

Kinda. I imagine the GP meant predators that live on the border of night specializing in devouring anything that makes a wrong errand and ends-up there. Like the ones we have at the bottom of the ocean.

On a second thought, I don’t think they would be very scary. Probably mostly scavengers.

marcos ,

Grand parent; the comment you were replying to.

marcos ,

Well, that explains why creatures living underground and deep in the sea had better odds of surviving.

marcos ,

To be fair to everybody, “fungible as shit” has a very odd spin. I just don’t know how come “evanescent” gets those results.

marcos ,

Hum… Have you checked what site it’s on?

marcos ,

Money existed before the government started using it.

The idea that taxes remove money form the economy and government spending prints new money is an abstraction created for macroeconomics to simplify its models. But it’s a lossy abstraction, so don’t go thinking this is exactly what happens on the real world.

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    marcos ,

    If you use the full revenue for the entire economy in one side, you should compare it to the full taxes paid for any kind of government on the other.

    It’s much more likely to be above 30% of revenue than under 10%.

    marcos ,

    I have watched it twice.

    I still have no idea if that timeline is close to correct or completely wrong. I still don’t get exactly what the end of the movie means. I highly suspect the movie’s story doesn’t end at the end of the movie, but I have no way to be certain. I still don’t know if a couple of people actually died.

    Or, in other words, I only watched it twice. I have no idea what the story is.

    marcos ,

    For one thing, it’s not linear.

    marcos ,

    But were they all over the world already? Is the machine under construction or running for thousands of iterations?

    marcos ,

    Ok, what I learn from that is that people are defying the RTO policy at Amazon.

    Outside of that, there seems to be no information at all. They could just replce the entire article with the title.

    marcos ,

    I would really add some parachutist to competently derail the discussion.

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