Quoting Wikipedia: "the vocabulary derives primarily from the Romance languages, with a lesser contribution from Germanic languages and minor contributions from Slavic languages and Greek."
It is very much a romance based language.. That bias is likely one of the reasons why it never caught on. If you know Spanish, you have no use for Esperanto, and if you don't, you're better off learning Spanish.
Also, like Volapük before it, relying on letters that are not standard in any alphabets is a very big obstacle.
Lojban addresses that, as well as avoiding the ambiguity that many artificial languages (and perhaps especially Esperanto) suffers from, but it arrived too late - English has already become the de facto trade language, taking over from Spanish and Portuguese, and there's little need to learn Yet Another language.
While it's described as odorless, and that the odor in most cases is due to an additive to make it smell for safety reasons, methane gas has a faint smell because a small amount of it will create methyl inside your nostrils, which in turn reacts in the carbon and sulphur rich moist environment, turning into all sorts of fun compounds.
"A vitamin"? You mean a molecule? If you mean a pill, write a pill. And yeah, this horse pill would be a big pill to swallow, but it's actually a standard size for capsules.
What would be useful would be to detect who farted in an elevator. That ranks near the top of non-codified crimes along with leaving a single square of toilet paper, or leaving the pub before their round is up.
Inheritance is an abomination. Why should one person be entitled to millions and another entitled to nothing because of how lucky they were at drawing parents? Taxing gifts and inheritance is a way to try to, in a very small way, counteract this type of discrimination. But until these taxes are at 100%, it's still going to be unfair.
Tradesworkers are skilled meaning they work hard to learn their trades as apprentices, journeymen, and masters.
There are precious few guilds left, and the US does not have a protected profession for much if anything anymore. If you pick up a staple gun, nothing prevents you from calling yourself a carpenter.
And how often do people ask questions that can't be pre-empted by a well designed system?
"can" != "will"
There are few limits to what a machine can do, but you're looking at the law of diminishing returns. Spending a hundred man years on programming it to handle 99% of requests isn't going to be cost effective, and would still leave out the 1%.
Humans are adaptive, and will work with you to understand what you want, and whether they can provide that. Doing so helps ensure that you come back to spend more money, and won't recommend to others that you go elsewhere.
Special requests happen all the time - they're unlikely to happen for any one order, but the sheer volume of orders mean they do occur regularly. And you can't tell ahead what they will be. You adapt on the fly. Which machines cannot.
Oh, I know there are multiple cities and towns named London. But I am also aware that if just saying "London" without a qualifier, the London should be assumed.
If you look up again, I was talking about strings having been converted from Unicode. Unless understanding how strcpy works, a programmer may very well attempt to run strcpy on the result of a conversion from Unicode to an 8-bit character set, and expect it to work. Which it may, once, twice or a hundred times. But one day it will not, when the conversion decoding leaves a \0 inside the 8-bit result.
You ask that as though those are things automation is not capable of.
Automation is only capable of what a human has programmed it to do. If you ask a glorified vending machine to cut your burger in two because you don't have a knife in the car, or get a spoon instead of a straw for the milk shake, or serve the burger in a fish filet bun because you're allergic to sesame seeds, odds are it's not going to happen.
With automation you always get an 80/20 solution, because automation as it is right now cannot adapt on the fly, the way a human can.
A big mac is the same price in London as in Toronto
Not according to the Big Mac Index. In July 2017, in Britain, the average Big Mac price was USD 4.11, while in Canada, the average Big Mac price was USD 4.66.
Or to quote McDonalds itself: "As a franchisor McDonald's cannot prescribe pricing to franchisees who can set their own price structure as they see fit in their local market."
You are assuming, almost certainly incorrectly, that the replaced workers will not be able to find jobs elsewhere.
You seem to assume that they not only will, but will find jobs that pay at least as much as before.
My belief is that, after being laid off, these workers will, on average, not make as much or more money as before, because at least some of them will not get new jobs, and some of them will only get jobs with fewer hours. If it were easy finding jobs that paid better, most would already be off doing those jobs.
It can grill 25 burgers at a time all cooked to order.
No, it cannot. Unless "to order" only consists of pre-determined choices, in which case it's not to order, but just a bigger menu. If I ask for a Quarter Pounder with tartar sauce, or "please cut the burger in half", I get that from humans, even if it's an unusual choice.
Restaurants that have drive through windows typically get 50-70% of their business from people sitting in their cars and shouting into a microphone.
People do not go to fast food joints for "human interaction".
That shouting into a microphone is human interaction. It allows you to order your coffee with extra sugar, get that hamburger without onions, ask whether there's eggs in the tartar sauce and ask for mayo for your fries. And when you drive up, they offer your doggie a biscuit too.
With a drive-through vending machine, all that human interaction is gone. It becomes take it or leave it. And many will, indeed, leave it.
I can count on zero fingers the number of times I went to a fast food restaurant to interact with the folks working there. And that even counts when I had family working at one.
You've never said "hold the pickle", "heavy tomato" or "Coke, no ice"?
There will be less people selling more = more productive
They will be paid more (minimum wage increase).
Now multiply A with B. Unless the remaining workers are paid more than the sum of workers were paid before, it's a net loss for the working class. (And if they are paid more, automating is bad business.)
It was one hundred percent entirely predictable, and predicted to happen when the math made sense. Better we start dealing with some of this sooner rather thank sticking our heads in the sand.
We've dealt with this since the 1950s. Vending machines is nothing new, even ones that heat your food for you. People don't go to vending machines for dinner - they want the human touch, and are willing to pay for it.
Food prices are *set* by the corporate office, not the franchisee.
This does not appear to be true. Whenever McDonald's has an advertising campaign for a dollar menu or lower prices, it is always followed up with "at participating restaurants". You won't find prices at mcdonalds.com, because they vary.
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Quoting Wikipedia:
"the vocabulary derives primarily from the Romance languages, with a lesser contribution from Germanic languages and minor contributions from Slavic languages and Greek."
It is very much a romance based language.. That bias is likely one of the reasons why it never caught on. If you know Spanish, you have no use for Esperanto, and if you don't, you're better off learning Spanish.
Also, like Volapük before it, relying on letters that are not standard in any alphabets is a very big obstacle.
Lojban addresses that, as well as avoiding the ambiguity that many artificial languages (and perhaps especially Esperanto) suffers from, but it arrived too late - English has already become the de facto trade language, taking over from Spanish and Portuguese, and there's little need to learn Yet Another language.
methane itself is odorless.
While it's described as odorless, and that the odor in most cases is due to an additive to make it smell for safety reasons, methane gas has a faint smell because a small amount of it will create methyl inside your nostrils, which in turn reacts in the carbon and sulphur rich moist environment, turning into all sorts of fun compounds.
Last time I used the word fart was in the 3rd grade.
What do you say now, two years later?
Or have you become so repressed that you pretend it does not happen and that there's never a reason to talk about it?
"A vitamin"? You mean a molecule?
If you mean a pill, write a pill. And yeah, this horse pill would be a big pill to swallow, but it's actually a standard size for capsules.
What would be useful would be to detect who farted in an elevator. That ranks near the top of non-codified crimes along with leaving a single square of toilet paper, or leaving the pub before their round is up.
The "death tax" is an abomination.
Inheritance is an abomination. Why should one person be entitled to millions and another entitled to nothing because of how lucky they were at drawing parents?
Taxing gifts and inheritance is a way to try to, in a very small way, counteract this type of discrimination. But until these taxes are at 100%, it's still going to be unfair.
Tradesworkers are skilled meaning they work hard to learn their trades as apprentices, journeymen, and masters.
There are precious few guilds left, and the US does not have a protected profession for much if anything anymore. If you pick up a staple gun, nothing prevents you from calling yourself a carpenter.
And how often do people ask questions that can't be pre-empted by a well designed system?
"can" != "will"
There are few limits to what a machine can do, but you're looking at the law of diminishing returns. Spending a hundred man years on programming it to handle 99% of requests isn't going to be cost effective, and would still leave out the 1%.
Humans are adaptive, and will work with you to understand what you want, and whether they can provide that. Doing so helps ensure that you come back to spend more money, and won't recommend to others that you go elsewhere.
Special requests happen all the time - they're unlikely to happen for any one order, but the sheer volume of orders mean they do occur regularly. And you can't tell ahead what they will be. You adapt on the fly. Which machines cannot.
Oh, I know there are multiple cities and towns named London. But I am also aware that if just saying "London" without a qualifier, the London should be assumed.
Reading comprehensibility, yours; lacking, it is.
If you look up again, I was talking about strings having been converted from Unicode. Unless understanding how strcpy works, a programmer may very well attempt to run strcpy on the result of a conversion from Unicode to an 8-bit character set, and expect it to work. Which it may, once, twice or a hundred times. But one day it will not, when the conversion decoding leaves a \0 inside the 8-bit result.
You ask that as though those are things automation is not capable of.
Automation is only capable of what a human has programmed it to do. If you ask a glorified vending machine to cut your burger in two because you don't have a knife in the car, or get a spoon instead of a straw for the milk shake, or serve the burger in a fish filet bun because you're allergic to sesame seeds, odds are it's not going to happen.
With automation you always get an 80/20 solution, because automation as it is right now cannot adapt on the fly, the way a human can.
If they're getting laid off do to increased minimum wage, they will either be unemployed or make more.
They won't be able to find a job making less.
Your presumption is incorrect. If going from a 40 hr/week to a 25 hr/week, that would indeed mean making less.
A big mac is the same price in London as in Toronto
Not according to the Big Mac Index.
In July 2017, in Britain, the average Big Mac price was USD 4.11, while in Canada, the average Big Mac price was USD 4.66.
Or to quote McDonalds itself: "As a franchisor McDonald's cannot prescribe pricing to franchisees who can set their own price structure as they see fit in their local market."
You are assuming, almost certainly incorrectly, that the replaced workers will not be able to find jobs elsewhere.
You seem to assume that they not only will, but will find jobs that pay at least as much as before.
My belief is that, after being laid off, these workers will, on average, not make as much or more money as before, because at least some of them will not get new jobs, and some of them will only get jobs with fewer hours.
If it were easy finding jobs that paid better, most would already be off doing those jobs.
It can grill 25 burgers at a time all cooked to order.
No, it cannot. Unless "to order" only consists of pre-determined choices, in which case it's not to order, but just a bigger menu.
If I ask for a Quarter Pounder with tartar sauce, or "please cut the burger in half", I get that from humans, even if it's an unusual choice.
Restaurants that have drive through windows typically get 50-70% of their business from people sitting in their cars and shouting into a microphone.
People do not go to fast food joints for "human interaction".
That shouting into a microphone is human interaction. It allows you to order your coffee with extra sugar, get that hamburger without onions, ask whether there's eggs in the tartar sauce and ask for mayo for your fries. And when you drive up, they offer your doggie a biscuit too.
With a drive-through vending machine, all that human interaction is gone. It becomes take it or leave it. And many will, indeed, leave it.
I can count on zero fingers the number of times I went to a fast food restaurant to interact with the folks working there. And that even counts when I had family working at one.
You've never said "hold the pickle", "heavy tomato" or "Coke, no ice"?
There will be less people selling more = more productive
They will be paid more (minimum wage increase).
Now multiply A with B. Unless the remaining workers are paid more than the sum of workers were paid before, it's a net loss for the working class. (And if they are paid more, automating is bad business.)
The robotic cashiers and burger flippers are pretty cool but try telling them to mop the floor and take out the trash!
They and their families also don't eat at burger places, so the overall number of paying customers will go down too.
It was one hundred percent entirely predictable, and predicted to happen when the math made sense. Better we start dealing with some of this sooner rather thank sticking our heads in the sand.
We've dealt with this since the 1950s. Vending machines is nothing new, even ones that heat your food for you.
People don't go to vending machines for dinner - they want the human touch, and are willing to pay for it.
Food prices are *set* by the corporate office, not the franchisee.
This does not appear to be true. Whenever McDonald's has an advertising campaign for a dollar menu or lower prices, it is always followed up with "at participating restaurants". You won't find prices at mcdonalds.com, because they vary.
Expect to see most cashiers and order takers disappear from fast food joints, as they are replaced by kiosks.
Expect more people to nuke fast food at home or work.
If there's no value added to going to a "restaurant", like human service, why go?
Yeah I might believe that if the other creator of SecureDrop had not also "taken his own life".
He did not take his own life. It was already his. You can only take the life of someone else, not your own.
This euphemism for suicide needs to die. It's disrespectful, implying the person perpetrated a crime or sin. Saying "ended his life" is better.
It doesn't have to be murder, but there should be a special hell for those who drive others to suicide hiding behind the letter of the law.