Apple ghosted me once. A family member worked there and submitted me for a job, so I came with references. HR called to set up a phone interview, but the day of I waited for about an hour, and they never called. After all that time I got online and realized they'd emailed me 3 minutes before the interview, postponing the call. I emailed back, asking when was good, but they didn't reply. I sent two more polite inquiries, after maybe 3 days and then 2 weeks, just trying to follow up, but never heard a thing. No idea what happened, or why I didn't get a bare minimum of "this position has been filled" or any other generic no thanks.
First guess is it's been so cheap they've never needed to. I'd imagine they could in a crisis, but the off-gas isn't going to be pure. By the time they fitted extra machinery into their line to capture and process the CO2 to make it usable, that's probably not quick or cheap. I would imagine it's still darn near as easy to just open a new factory and capture the stuff from the air as to target it at a fermentation vat, but I could be completely wrong about that one.
but why not use natural carbonation in the bottles?
Many people don't like yeast residue in their beer. It also means the bottle has to sit and age 2 weeks or so before it can be refrigerated and shipped, adding time and storage requirements to the process. It's much cheaper and faster to inject it mechanically and ship it immediately than to let it sit and ferment naturally.
Technically true, but that's not how the industrial process works.
During fermentation, CO2 is given off, but most of it escapes. If you do bottle fermentation (much homebrew, a few craft brands), you add a bit more sugar to the mix right before bottling. The issue is, there has to be live yeast still in the liquid, and as it ferments you'll get a residue of yeast at the bottom, which you have to be careful not to stir up unless you want the cloudiness, extra yeasty flavor, and don't mind some possible digestive issues. You then also have to leave the beer at fermentation temperature for another couple of weeks for it to fully carbonate. This means increased storage time and required space, and there's still a risk that the actual carbonation level is somewhat inconsistent.
Most commercial brewers let the beer fully ferment, and all CO2 gasses off. They also filter the beer, removing yeast and any other impurities, so that it's clear and shiny, but also organically dead and totally flat. During bottling they inject CO2 back into the brew mechanically to carbonate it with precision control. Then it can be shipped and/or refrigerated immediately, no extra storage or time required.
Which means that an online retailer will have to be able to prove he/she/it doesn't meet those minimums anytime the government of South Dakota requires them to.
Any online retailer that doesn't keep a log of every single transaction, including destination, is doomed to be a failed retailer PDQ. Sure, if they're being harassed for frequent reports it could become an onerous burden, but given it's an annual sales requirement, I think doing a per-state printout once per year isn't that crazy.
A simple answer would be that a state would just set a universal "online sales tax rate" and stick with it. Ideally one that's maybe slightly lower than their in-person sales tax, to make up for some things that would be exempted, such as food.
Beyond that, I think it's clear this is only for the state tax, and not town, county, district, municipality, etc. All of those would be ignored.
the story would have been much more interesting if he had been fired because of an AI evaluating his performance, or taking a disciplinary decision against him or something, as the clickbait headline wants you to think. That'll probably happen soon enough.
You banged on the vending machine too many times. We have a zero machine abuse policy here. You are terminated.
Self-esteem is a weird topic. I suspect half of the issue is semantics, because people often mean different things about esteem, as evidenced by the comments in this article.
Self-esteem might be one of those golden mean issues, where finding a balance is ideal, and too much or too little are both problematic.
Another way to look at it might be that it's a necessary thing to boost when it's too negative. Having burdensome issues with sense of self that get in the way of your ability to express thoughts or accomplish goals is unfortunate. From this view, the main purpose of self-esteem boosters might just be to get it out of the negative. Once it stops being an obstacle, you can essentially forget about it, pretend it doesn't even exist for all anyone cares, and just get on with life.
There's probably other angles, but even the difference between the two above can cause an endless loop of arguing if people don't realize they're talking different things.
I know your comment was a joke, but is poses an interesting question. How much does IQ correlate to job description, and does happiness correlate in any way with matching one's IQ to the job description's presumed IQ?
I think most people sort of assume this is true (everyone needs a challenge, smart people have to do smart jobs, some jobs require too many smarts for lower IQ people to do them) but I really have to wonder. Sure, there's some evidence in terms of mental aspects like flow, where becoming engaged in a slightly difficult task can be highly satisfying, but there's plenty of counter-evidence, too: even the "smartest" of jobs come generally come with quite a bit of brain-dead-boring moments, and sometimes smart people can find satisfaction in processes that are more physical/mechanical than mental.
Then there's the issue that many of us are working for the paycheck, regardless of job satisfaction. Someone with IQ of 125 might be just as happy getting paid from plumbing as doing radiology, if they're just in it for the money.
All of these people who are "poor" have no problem finding plenty of money for...
Jeez. If you'd said "some" instead of "all" there *might* be a point worth debating - how to separate those who could use help from those who are determined to be a complete drain on society, say, but you've clearly already made up your mind that this is a moral issue, and that everyone who is poor deserves it because of their failures. That's not only obnoxious, but provably false.
Sorry. I was going for an ironic "use a meme to celebrate the death of memes" as a joke. Though honestly I think most of them have to do with something like a social currency/grease than as particularly valuable. It's kind of like the hi, how are you, fine you, also fine -- just a bit of "oh yeah, I know that too, I guess I can sit in the same room with you or share a beer or whatever" than anything permanent or telling.
Seems unlikely at this point. For the great filter to be ahead of us, they'd need evidence of complex civilizations that outstripped our current one and then collapsed. From all indications, we greatly surpassed Mars. Any new threats are of our own making, or come from the beyond.
I disagree. Copyright is a temporary exception to the default, which is the public domain. I'm all for people being able to make money on their creations. I'm not particularly happy with the current version that sets terms much longer than historical ones. I think there's a gigantic gaping hole in the concept when it comes to abandonware and other similar issues.
When copyright was 12-24 years and applied to physical media, odds were good anything interesting could be still around after it expired to be reissued or reproduced if there was demand. Working from the current 95-year system, it is extremely easy for even interesting things to be lost to the ages by the time copyright expires. Nowhere is this issue more apparent than in computing, where the pace of technology is such that products generally become stale within the span of years, and often nonfunctional in less than a decade. Copyright is making it somewhere between difficult and impossible to preserve some of these efforts, and if there's going to be a chance of my grandchildren experiencing part of the computer world that I lived through, the only way that can happen is through illegal means. Remember that illegal is not necessarily unethical, and in the case of archivists, I'd say my sympathies lie with them, and against the law.
In 2000, when I was still getting used to saying Gigahertz instead of Megahertz, and they'd bounded up from triple digits to quadruple digits in the span of just a couple of years, it seemed like 3, 4, and 5, GHz processors ought to be just around the corner. I can remember being mystified and disappointed as the path to 2 GHz became increasingly asymptotic. That had been the key metric for so long, watching computer manufacturers re-spin their marketing to talk about other features, or start plugging dual processors instead, was a big shift.
Atari's fandom probably goes down to the low 40's, or even late 30's, for the kids that grew up with one in the house or picked up one for cheap as the market collapsed.
But yes, there's rarely more than few minutes of staying power to any game from that era. I suppose you could milk some two-player games for a bit, if you're both drunk and/or evenly matched.
Yep, same here. I find with Atari games, I probably only play each individual game once, and I'm done. On a nostalgic binge I might play a few dozen, for an hour or two total, but beyond that there's no joy in it.
NES games--well, actually, it's about the same. They're longer, but after playing through once, I'm not going to want to do it again for another year or two. Save states are a nice perk, making it a bit easier to work your way all the way through the game without the running out of lives nonsense.
I supported a number of people who used the client. Many, maybe even most, insisted on calling it eNdora instead of eUdora. Never understood why that was so common or persistent.
Well, a basic knowledge of physics would tell you that 1) black holes only form with ridiculous amounts of mass, which is a different unit than temperature, and 2) the normal effect of removing temperature from a thing and then stopping the experiment is that the temperature just comes back to average.
If you can register a domain and point it to a host, I don't see why there couldn't also be a way to register your phone number and indicate that Google Voice is managing it for you.
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Apple ghosted me once. A family member worked there and submitted me for a job, so I came with references. HR called to set up a phone interview, but the day of I waited for about an hour, and they never called. After all that time I got online and realized they'd emailed me 3 minutes before the interview, postponing the call. I emailed back, asking when was good, but they didn't reply. I sent two more polite inquiries, after maybe 3 days and then 2 weeks, just trying to follow up, but never heard a thing. No idea what happened, or why I didn't get a bare minimum of "this position has been filled" or any other generic no thanks.
In school I was taught to only use my colon at the commode.
"I find myself doing it, too."
Well, stop, right fucking now.
First guess is it's been so cheap they've never needed to. I'd imagine they could in a crisis, but the off-gas isn't going to be pure. By the time they fitted extra machinery into their line to capture and process the CO2 to make it usable, that's probably not quick or cheap. I would imagine it's still darn near as easy to just open a new factory and capture the stuff from the air as to target it at a fermentation vat, but I could be completely wrong about that one.
but why not use natural carbonation in the bottles?
Many people don't like yeast residue in their beer. It also means the bottle has to sit and age 2 weeks or so before it can be refrigerated and shipped, adding time and storage requirements to the process. It's much cheaper and faster to inject it mechanically and ship it immediately than to let it sit and ferment naturally.
Technically true, but that's not how the industrial process works.
During fermentation, CO2 is given off, but most of it escapes. If you do bottle fermentation (much homebrew, a few craft brands), you add a bit more sugar to the mix right before bottling. The issue is, there has to be live yeast still in the liquid, and as it ferments you'll get a residue of yeast at the bottom, which you have to be careful not to stir up unless you want the cloudiness, extra yeasty flavor, and don't mind some possible digestive issues. You then also have to leave the beer at fermentation temperature for another couple of weeks for it to fully carbonate. This means increased storage time and required space, and there's still a risk that the actual carbonation level is somewhat inconsistent.
Most commercial brewers let the beer fully ferment, and all CO2 gasses off. They also filter the beer, removing yeast and any other impurities, so that it's clear and shiny, but also organically dead and totally flat. During bottling they inject CO2 back into the brew mechanically to carbonate it with precision control. Then it can be shipped and/or refrigerated immediately, no extra storage or time required.
Which means that an online retailer will have to be able to prove he/she/it doesn't meet those minimums anytime the government of South Dakota requires them to.
Any online retailer that doesn't keep a log of every single transaction, including destination, is doomed to be a failed retailer PDQ. Sure, if they're being harassed for frequent reports it could become an onerous burden, but given it's an annual sales requirement, I think doing a per-state printout once per year isn't that crazy.
A simple answer would be that a state would just set a universal "online sales tax rate" and stick with it. Ideally one that's maybe slightly lower than their in-person sales tax, to make up for some things that would be exempted, such as food.
Beyond that, I think it's clear this is only for the state tax, and not town, county, district, municipality, etc. All of those would be ignored.
the story would have been much more interesting if he had been fired because of an AI evaluating his performance, or taking a disciplinary decision against him or something, as the clickbait headline wants you to think. That'll probably happen soon enough.
You banged on the vending machine too many times. We have a zero machine abuse policy here. You are terminated.
Self-esteem is a weird topic. I suspect half of the issue is semantics, because people often mean different things about esteem, as evidenced by the comments in this article.
Self-esteem might be one of those golden mean issues, where finding a balance is ideal, and too much or too little are both problematic.
Another way to look at it might be that it's a necessary thing to boost when it's too negative. Having burdensome issues with sense of self that get in the way of your ability to express thoughts or accomplish goals is unfortunate. From this view, the main purpose of self-esteem boosters might just be to get it out of the negative. Once it stops being an obstacle, you can essentially forget about it, pretend it doesn't even exist for all anyone cares, and just get on with life.
There's probably other angles, but even the difference between the two above can cause an endless loop of arguing if people don't realize they're talking different things.
I know your comment was a joke, but is poses an interesting question. How much does IQ correlate to job description, and does happiness correlate in any way with matching one's IQ to the job description's presumed IQ?
I think most people sort of assume this is true (everyone needs a challenge, smart people have to do smart jobs, some jobs require too many smarts for lower IQ people to do them) but I really have to wonder. Sure, there's some evidence in terms of mental aspects like flow, where becoming engaged in a slightly difficult task can be highly satisfying, but there's plenty of counter-evidence, too: even the "smartest" of jobs come generally come with quite a bit of brain-dead-boring moments, and sometimes smart people can find satisfaction in processes that are more physical/mechanical than mental.
Then there's the issue that many of us are working for the paycheck, regardless of job satisfaction. Someone with IQ of 125 might be just as happy getting paid from plumbing as doing radiology, if they're just in it for the money.
All of these people who are "poor" have no problem finding plenty of money for ...
Jeez. If you'd said "some" instead of "all" there *might* be a point worth debating - how to separate those who could use help from those who are determined to be a complete drain on society, say, but you've clearly already made up your mind that this is a moral issue, and that everyone who is poor deserves it because of their failures. That's not only obnoxious, but provably false.
Sorry. I was going for an ironic "use a meme to celebrate the death of memes" as a joke. Though honestly I think most of them have to do with something like a social currency/grease than as particularly valuable. It's kind of like the hi, how are you, fine you, also fine -- just a bit of "oh yeah, I know that too, I guess I can sit in the same room with you or share a beer or whatever" than anything permanent or telling.
Can we begin with: "And nothing of value was lost"?
Seems unlikely at this point. For the great filter to be ahead of us, they'd need evidence of complex civilizations that outstripped our current one and then collapsed. From all indications, we greatly surpassed Mars. Any new threats are of our own making, or come from the beyond.
I disagree. Copyright is a temporary exception to the default, which is the public domain. I'm all for people being able to make money on their creations. I'm not particularly happy with the current version that sets terms much longer than historical ones. I think there's a gigantic gaping hole in the concept when it comes to abandonware and other similar issues.
When copyright was 12-24 years and applied to physical media, odds were good anything interesting could be still around after it expired to be reissued or reproduced if there was demand. Working from the current 95-year system, it is extremely easy for even interesting things to be lost to the ages by the time copyright expires. Nowhere is this issue more apparent than in computing, where the pace of technology is such that products generally become stale within the span of years, and often nonfunctional in less than a decade. Copyright is making it somewhere between difficult and impossible to preserve some of these efforts, and if there's going to be a chance of my grandchildren experiencing part of the computer world that I lived through, the only way that can happen is through illegal means. Remember that illegal is not necessarily unethical, and in the case of archivists, I'd say my sympathies lie with them, and against the law.
In 2000, when I was still getting used to saying Gigahertz instead of Megahertz, and they'd bounded up from triple digits to quadruple digits in the span of just a couple of years, it seemed like 3, 4, and 5, GHz processors ought to be just around the corner. I can remember being mystified and disappointed as the path to 2 GHz became increasingly asymptotic. That had been the key metric for so long, watching computer manufacturers re-spin their marketing to talk about other features, or start plugging dual processors instead, was a big shift.
Atari's fandom probably goes down to the low 40's, or even late 30's, for the kids that grew up with one in the house or picked up one for cheap as the market collapsed.
But yes, there's rarely more than few minutes of staying power to any game from that era. I suppose you could milk some two-player games for a bit, if you're both drunk and/or evenly matched.
Yep, same here. I find with Atari games, I probably only play each individual game once, and I'm done. On a nostalgic binge I might play a few dozen, for an hour or two total, but beyond that there's no joy in it.
NES games--well, actually, it's about the same. They're longer, but after playing through once, I'm not going to want to do it again for another year or two. Save states are a nice perk, making it a bit easier to work your way all the way through the game without the running out of lives nonsense.
82? Wow. We didn't get our first microwave until sometime around '87 or '88. Didn't realize I was so behind the times.
I supported a number of people who used the client. Many, maybe even most, insisted on calling it eNdora instead of eUdora. Never understood why that was so common or persistent.
affluent
That's a pretty rich joke, but I think you meant effluent.
Well, a basic knowledge of physics would tell you that 1) black holes only form with ridiculous amounts of mass, which is a different unit than temperature, and 2) the normal effect of removing temperature from a thing and then stopping the experiment is that the temperature just comes back to average.
W is definitely a consonant. There is an occasional very weird thing where some people mistakenly think there's a rule about W, but it's not so.
My two best guesses for this are:
1) extending the sometimes-Y rule to W
2) mis-remembering that W can be a vowel in Welsh and applying it to English
If you can register a domain and point it to a host, I don't see why there couldn't also be a way to register your phone number and indicate that Google Voice is managing it for you.