I've found one surprisingly useful aspect of emojis. Emojis tend to be visual representations of actual things or feelings, whereas letters or glyphs are visual representations of a language. This means Emojis are actually one level removed from language, allowing them to be used easily across languages by people who could struggle communicating.
Texting or IMing someone who speaks another language and adding emojis actually makes it significantly easier to communicate. For example, a messaging conversation at work can go much smoother with someone from S.A. who has poor English if you add smileys every so often indicating your mood. It may seem unprofessional, but it can actually provide information someone couldn't process otherwise because of lack of familiarity in the language.
GP is so far off its unreal, you hit on most the marks. An additional one is that many games simply can't be played with controllers. I mean, Dota 2 and LoL combine for ~20m unique players a month by themselves? Top-down RTS/MOBA style games are hot garbage with a controller, as are most strategy games, most simulation/city builder games, and most MMO games.
He's pretty far off, 20% or so depending on the state. Assuming $100k, he's paying 15.3% in SS/MED, and ~21% max on Fed tax. State taxes at that income are usually around 4-6% at most, so 42% worst case scenario before income deductions.
A lot of people shift their key layout over now to allow more pinky keypress options rather than using modifiers. I can't adjust to do it, so I don't know the keys off the top of my head, but imagine your home row left hand where the index finger rests on H/J/K instead of F.
To add to the anecdotals, I have a 2010 Ford Fusion (US). My MPG has been consistently inside the range at which it was advertised. It was sold to me at 25/34. On road trips I'd get somewhere between 33-36 if I reset the meter, and on my commute driving over a month averaged it'd be between 25-27. Only time I got worse efficiency than advertised was when running max AC in midsummer during rush hour, and only worse efficiency if I leadfooted a bit.
My industry uses something akin to a "collective benefits association" that handles benefits for employees that would work for multiple locations in the same industry. The company pays that association $X/hr for the employee and the benefits are distributed centrally by that association to the employees for all the pay received from multiple companies. This is for people classified as employees, not contractors. The association has to be adequately staffed though because their benefits are pro-rated by employer by work share, and each employer must report those benefits (like vacation pay) to unemployment agencies for taxation. The pro-rating and reporting to employers by the association helps avoid double taxation of unemployment and FICA matching for the employers. Its a lot of work, but it gets the job done and is probably the best solution manageable for employees who are classified as employees and work at multiple locations for multiple employers.
I get 1200 square feet for $700/mo in a good area of the city, a city with a good cost of living. My kitchen and laundry room is probably bigger than your entire living space.
If they market these kind of living spaces in Manhattan, great. What I don't like is that they are trying to push them into cities like mine as the "in" thing to do. Truth is that they're trying to create mental gymnastics and trick people via marketing into smaller = better and more luxurious, when in fact they are just trying to bilk people out of more money for less product.
Eh, I wouldn't say that really. Skyrim scored phenomenally with users on Metacritic, just as an example, and its from the same publisher. Low metacritic scores are most common when there are serious bugs in the game (Arkham, AC Unity) or if the game promotions are overloaded with false promises and the purchase is a big bait and switch (Sim City).
I think the problem here is that the game has been marketed on its name, with little to no actual gameplay visibility and mechanics in the advertising. When you market the brand, you expect the brand. If they have changed the way the game is played substantially, then that would fall into the "bait and switch" simply because the bad advertising gave users a false expectation. That's on Bethesda's marketing department.
Finland and several other countries in Europe do have a bit of a problem with higher education. I'm talking about the 'perpetual students' who are students until their 30's because of the government assistance they gain when in this status.
Appears ts a Verizon only phone. You'd have to kidnap my family and hold them for ransom to get me to go back to Verizon. Motorola makes good phones, but I'll stick with the Moto X for my carrier freedom.
I have to give them some credit on Tomb Raider. The newer Tomb Raider was an absolutely fantastic game, and I wish the next one wasn't a XBox exclusive as i'd like to play it on the PC.
I don't mind franchise reboots or remakes, as long as its done in a tactful and entertaining way. One of the biggest and best franchises in video game history - the Zelda series - is littered with remakes. Its just that they were done in a way that makes a new game out of the same story.
I think that they felt they had to have an 'edge' over what a replacement show/staff could do. Their expertise was props and stunts, so they worked their expertise into the show to accomplish presentations that couldn't easily be matched and as an effort to make things more exciting. Honestly, the process of creating some of the things they built was pretty interesting in and of itself from that angle.
However, that 'edge' helped derail the show quite a bit as things moved on. The excessive use of Movie Myths is the prime example: A lot of them became efforts of recreating stunts rather than scientific endeavors. It also flattened the myth selection to the ones that got better ratings - the ones that were more theatrical and explosive.
A lot of the most dangerous and time-sensitive search and rescue missions are for people outside tower range, hence his argument. Think national parks, hiking in the rockies and alaska, and so on.
I think you're missing the point. The "space race" was more similar to a game of HORSE than a race. While being first in something was an accomplishment, it was more about being able to match your competition, or a "1-up game" if you will. Russia builds a satellite, the US follows up and builds one. US puts a man on the moon, Russia...says screw that its too hard. That's why the US "won" the space race: they accomplished something that couldn't be matched by the other competitor.
You really can only see what's right in front of your face. These safety nets reduce crime, reduce poverty, and improve the general well-being of the populace, which benefits everyone including the rich. If you go look at a bit of history, these programs were generally created because of serious problems with homelessness, crime, and poverty effecting everyone heavily, even those who were doing everything right, and becoming a bit of a crisis.
Not everyone has a family safety net, and as a rule of thumb half of society is below average. If you allow people to corner themselves, even if its just 1%, you now have 3 million destitute people who will do anything to survive including taking from you or me by force if necessary. The libertarian dream is simply that: an unobtainable ideal that doesn't work in the real world, just like pure capitalism or communism.
My brother bought my dad a kindle for a present a while ago, and I was worried it wasn't going to get used. After about a month or so of getting used to it, he uses the sucker all the time now. I'm glad he was able to transition, he seems to like it a lot.
These ships tend to use cleaner fuel within x miles of the coast, as you stated. While the fuel used in international waters is dirtier, the extra particulates are of the 'heavy' nature - meaning they don't stay airborne and sink into the ocean instead. The cost of cleaning this fuel in power, dollars, and carbon footprint, is likely higher than the averse effects it has when diluted in the oceans.
Honestly, I think y'all are taking Dyson's stance way out of context. What I think his comments show is that he's optimistic about human ingenuity and invention. Several thousand years ago, building an object like one of the pyramids in Egypt took tens of thousands of humans decades to accomplish. Today, it could be completed in one hundredth the time with one hundredth the manpower. Even looking back 100 years, you're talking factors of ten in increased production, efficiency, and man-hour effectiveness.
Also, people look at a point in time prognosticated 100-200 years in the future with climate change and compare it to today and calculate the damages from change, without dividing those damages and change into the number of years between the two points. So, a big scary figure of $20Trillion in 100 years, turns into $200bn/year...and is not nearly as scary anymore. Not an instant apocalypse, but a manageable problem.
Population is also a factor. Crimes warranting extradition probably occur at a rate of 1 per x million citizens. The US has 5 times as many people as the UK, and surprise, almost exactly 5 times as many extraditions.
Honestly, if you want to understand why imperial is around, I think the best example is the AU. 1 AU = distance from earth to the sun, a completely arbitrary number that doesn't fit exactly on any base-10 or base-12 unit scale but serves as a frame of reference while measuring things of similar nature. Measuring something in AU in space does nothing different than measuring it in km or m would, but seeing something represented in AU allows us to approximate references much easier.
What I'm getting at is that imperial has inertia as many people have been using it as their reference, or language of measurement, for everyday life. When someone tells them something in meters, like a second language, they translate it mentally to feet or km to miles to get mental perspective. This is easy for a lot of people on this site, but not so for the common mathematically challenged. The people who need standard measurements still have the option to use them and are typically the more intelligent of the bunch, so there's little benefit to forcing everyone else to change.
In the end, measurement systems are just a language. Forcing imperial out would be like forcing English as the only language in Europe. When you frame it that way, its easier to understand why there's so much resistance.
False dichotomy. If I had a one hour commute, I'd quit. I drive 20 minutes each way and would probably start looking for a new job if it was above 40 minutes each way.
If you can't put your phone in your front pocket where you won't ever butt dial and instead put it in your back pocket, news flash, you're already wearing a "murse." Its just in the form of ball-crushing tight pants with no space.
Free the dangly appendages, wear more comfortable pants!
If you're in a state job, yes. Truth is, many pensions are underfunded and many pension fund managers take dangerous investment risks to try to make up for those underfundings. Yes, pensions bet on markets the same way you would in your 401k to produce gains, its not just a cash slush savings where a set amount is paid in and out per employee.
Now, for the scary part: underfunded pensions go into emergency mode and seek additional contributions from the companies involved. Problem is, retirement and pension funds are a 50-80 year endeavor for most employees and industries do not last as long as they used to. Industries can dry up in a decade and all their companies vanish. You're left with an underfunded pensions and no one to foot the bill, and get screwed when pension benefits get reduced to prevent fund insolvency.
Pensions work well for the govt, at least until you pull a Greece. Pensions for the private sector can be more dangerous than 401k options because of the speed of our technological advances and economy.
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I've found one surprisingly useful aspect of emojis. Emojis tend to be visual representations of actual things or feelings, whereas letters or glyphs are visual representations of a language. This means Emojis are actually one level removed from language, allowing them to be used easily across languages by people who could struggle communicating.
Texting or IMing someone who speaks another language and adding emojis actually makes it significantly easier to communicate. For example, a messaging conversation at work can go much smoother with someone from S.A. who has poor English if you add smileys every so often indicating your mood. It may seem unprofessional, but it can actually provide information someone couldn't process otherwise because of lack of familiarity in the language.
GP is so far off its unreal, you hit on most the marks. An additional one is that many games simply can't be played with controllers. I mean, Dota 2 and LoL combine for ~20m unique players a month by themselves? Top-down RTS/MOBA style games are hot garbage with a controller, as are most strategy games, most simulation/city builder games, and most MMO games.
He's pretty far off, 20% or so depending on the state. Assuming $100k, he's paying 15.3% in SS/MED, and ~21% max on Fed tax. State taxes at that income are usually around 4-6% at most, so 42% worst case scenario before income deductions.
A lot of people shift their key layout over now to allow more pinky keypress options rather than using modifiers. I can't adjust to do it, so I don't know the keys off the top of my head, but imagine your home row left hand where the index finger rests on H/J/K instead of F.
To add to the anecdotals, I have a 2010 Ford Fusion (US). My MPG has been consistently inside the range at which it was advertised. It was sold to me at 25/34. On road trips I'd get somewhere between 33-36 if I reset the meter, and on my commute driving over a month averaged it'd be between 25-27. Only time I got worse efficiency than advertised was when running max AC in midsummer during rush hour, and only worse efficiency if I leadfooted a bit.
My industry uses something akin to a "collective benefits association" that handles benefits for employees that would work for multiple locations in the same industry. The company pays that association $X/hr for the employee and the benefits are distributed centrally by that association to the employees for all the pay received from multiple companies. This is for people classified as employees, not contractors. The association has to be adequately staffed though because their benefits are pro-rated by employer by work share, and each employer must report those benefits (like vacation pay) to unemployment agencies for taxation. The pro-rating and reporting to employers by the association helps avoid double taxation of unemployment and FICA matching for the employers. Its a lot of work, but it gets the job done and is probably the best solution manageable for employees who are classified as employees and work at multiple locations for multiple employers.
I get 1200 square feet for $700/mo in a good area of the city, a city with a good cost of living. My kitchen and laundry room is probably bigger than your entire living space.
If they market these kind of living spaces in Manhattan, great. What I don't like is that they are trying to push them into cities like mine as the "in" thing to do. Truth is that they're trying to create mental gymnastics and trick people via marketing into smaller = better and more luxurious, when in fact they are just trying to bilk people out of more money for less product.
Eh, I wouldn't say that really. Skyrim scored phenomenally with users on Metacritic, just as an example, and its from the same publisher. Low metacritic scores are most common when there are serious bugs in the game (Arkham, AC Unity) or if the game promotions are overloaded with false promises and the purchase is a big bait and switch (Sim City).
I think the problem here is that the game has been marketed on its name, with little to no actual gameplay visibility and mechanics in the advertising. When you market the brand, you expect the brand. If they have changed the way the game is played substantially, then that would fall into the "bait and switch" simply because the bad advertising gave users a false expectation. That's on Bethesda's marketing department.
Finland and several other countries in Europe do have a bit of a problem with higher education. I'm talking about the 'perpetual students' who are students until their 30's because of the government assistance they gain when in this status.
Appears ts a Verizon only phone. You'd have to kidnap my family and hold them for ransom to get me to go back to Verizon. Motorola makes good phones, but I'll stick with the Moto X for my carrier freedom.
It kinda does? It says on the bottle in the directions not to use for prolonged periods of more than a week or two.
I have to give them some credit on Tomb Raider. The newer Tomb Raider was an absolutely fantastic game, and I wish the next one wasn't a XBox exclusive as i'd like to play it on the PC.
I don't mind franchise reboots or remakes, as long as its done in a tactful and entertaining way. One of the biggest and best franchises in video game history - the Zelda series - is littered with remakes. Its just that they were done in a way that makes a new game out of the same story.
I think that they felt they had to have an 'edge' over what a replacement show/staff could do. Their expertise was props and stunts, so they worked their expertise into the show to accomplish presentations that couldn't easily be matched and as an effort to make things more exciting. Honestly, the process of creating some of the things they built was pretty interesting in and of itself from that angle.
However, that 'edge' helped derail the show quite a bit as things moved on. The excessive use of Movie Myths is the prime example: A lot of them became efforts of recreating stunts rather than scientific endeavors. It also flattened the myth selection to the ones that got better ratings - the ones that were more theatrical and explosive.
A lot of the most dangerous and time-sensitive search and rescue missions are for people outside tower range, hence his argument. Think national parks, hiking in the rockies and alaska, and so on.
I think you're missing the point. The "space race" was more similar to a game of HORSE than a race. While being first in something was an accomplishment, it was more about being able to match your competition, or a "1-up game" if you will. Russia builds a satellite, the US follows up and builds one. US puts a man on the moon, Russia...says screw that its too hard. That's why the US "won" the space race: they accomplished something that couldn't be matched by the other competitor.
You really can only see what's right in front of your face. These safety nets reduce crime, reduce poverty, and improve the general well-being of the populace, which benefits everyone including the rich. If you go look at a bit of history, these programs were generally created because of serious problems with homelessness, crime, and poverty effecting everyone heavily, even those who were doing everything right, and becoming a bit of a crisis.
Not everyone has a family safety net, and as a rule of thumb half of society is below average. If you allow people to corner themselves, even if its just 1%, you now have 3 million destitute people who will do anything to survive including taking from you or me by force if necessary. The libertarian dream is simply that: an unobtainable ideal that doesn't work in the real world, just like pure capitalism or communism.
My brother bought my dad a kindle for a present a while ago, and I was worried it wasn't going to get used. After about a month or so of getting used to it, he uses the sucker all the time now. I'm glad he was able to transition, he seems to like it a lot.
These ships tend to use cleaner fuel within x miles of the coast, as you stated. While the fuel used in international waters is dirtier, the extra particulates are of the 'heavy' nature - meaning they don't stay airborne and sink into the ocean instead. The cost of cleaning this fuel in power, dollars, and carbon footprint, is likely higher than the averse effects it has when diluted in the oceans.
Honestly, I think y'all are taking Dyson's stance way out of context. What I think his comments show is that he's optimistic about human ingenuity and invention. Several thousand years ago, building an object like one of the pyramids in Egypt took tens of thousands of humans decades to accomplish. Today, it could be completed in one hundredth the time with one hundredth the manpower. Even looking back 100 years, you're talking factors of ten in increased production, efficiency, and man-hour effectiveness.
Also, people look at a point in time prognosticated 100-200 years in the future with climate change and compare it to today and calculate the damages from change, without dividing those damages and change into the number of years between the two points. So, a big scary figure of $20Trillion in 100 years, turns into $200bn/year...and is not nearly as scary anymore. Not an instant apocalypse, but a manageable problem.
Welp, that's embarrassing. And I work with numbers for a living...
Population is also a factor. Crimes warranting extradition probably occur at a rate of 1 per x million citizens. The US has 5 times as many people as the UK, and surprise, almost exactly 5 times as many extraditions.
Honestly, if you want to understand why imperial is around, I think the best example is the AU. 1 AU = distance from earth to the sun, a completely arbitrary number that doesn't fit exactly on any base-10 or base-12 unit scale but serves as a frame of reference while measuring things of similar nature. Measuring something in AU in space does nothing different than measuring it in km or m would, but seeing something represented in AU allows us to approximate references much easier.
What I'm getting at is that imperial has inertia as many people have been using it as their reference, or language of measurement, for everyday life. When someone tells them something in meters, like a second language, they translate it mentally to feet or km to miles to get mental perspective. This is easy for a lot of people on this site, but not so for the common mathematically challenged. The people who need standard measurements still have the option to use them and are typically the more intelligent of the bunch, so there's little benefit to forcing everyone else to change.
In the end, measurement systems are just a language. Forcing imperial out would be like forcing English as the only language in Europe. When you frame it that way, its easier to understand why there's so much resistance.
False dichotomy. If I had a one hour commute, I'd quit. I drive 20 minutes each way and would probably start looking for a new job if it was above 40 minutes each way.
If you can't put your phone in your front pocket where you won't ever butt dial and instead put it in your back pocket, news flash, you're already wearing a "murse." Its just in the form of ball-crushing tight pants with no space.
Free the dangly appendages, wear more comfortable pants!
If you're in a state job, yes. Truth is, many pensions are underfunded and many pension fund managers take dangerous investment risks to try to make up for those underfundings. Yes, pensions bet on markets the same way you would in your 401k to produce gains, its not just a cash slush savings where a set amount is paid in and out per employee.
Now, for the scary part: underfunded pensions go into emergency mode and seek additional contributions from the companies involved. Problem is, retirement and pension funds are a 50-80 year endeavor for most employees and industries do not last as long as they used to. Industries can dry up in a decade and all their companies vanish. You're left with an underfunded pensions and no one to foot the bill, and get screwed when pension benefits get reduced to prevent fund insolvency.
Pensions work well for the govt, at least until you pull a Greece. Pensions for the private sector can be more dangerous than 401k options because of the speed of our technological advances and economy.