GreyEyedGhost
@GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Apple Explains Why 256GB Storage Is Better 17 hours ago:
There was a recent Lemmy post saying Apple had just raised their minimum RAM specs to 16 GB. I think I came across this in the last couple weeks. I didn’t do more than skim the comments since I don’t have any products from them.
- Comment on Anon doesn't tip 1 week ago:
Hey, that’s fair, and I obviously didn’t get the play on meaning.
And as for the rest, I was flabbergasted when Amazon only had losses of $400 million one year and their stocks went up. Amazon went on to produce some value, and profits, and then screw over a number of businesses and employees with their market dominance in the online store business before completely abandoning any standards for the sake of profits. So the only thing I’m certain of in the stock market or industry values in general is that I’m woefully unqualified to determine what’s valuable or not.
- Comment on Anon doesn't tip 1 week ago:
Now you’re raising two different issues. The first is a truly abysmal minimum wage. The second is a lack of effort on the part of both the staff and the employer to negotiate an acceptable minimum wage, whether it includes tips or not, enabled by the reliance on tipping to provide an acceptable wage.
- Comment on Anon doesn't tip 1 week ago:
You undervalue good service. Good service, like good cooks, keep people with allergies from dying. Who exactly do you think passes on the allergy information? In a more general manner, good service makes sure that your order is presented the the kitchen staff correctly and matches expectations when they say it’s ready. It’s not just about whether or not they have a pleasant demeanor.
- Comment on Anon doesn't tip 1 week ago:
It boggles the mind how someone can dismiss the legislation that enables the exact scenario the person they replied to described. Yes, the best solution is to have a reasonable minimum wage that isn’t modified by tips. Then you don’t have to leave your job, because they have to follow the law.
…or did you not bother reading past the first sentence?
- Comment on Anon doesn't tip 1 week ago:
Since a lot of places require the employees be paid at least minimum wage including tips, it would impact the owner directly and immediately…if everyone stopped tipping.
- Comment on Anon doesn't tip 1 week ago:
It must be hard not knowing even the most basic math. How is this CEO getting more money than I pay for the meal?
- Comment on ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 4 weeks ago:
It worked for chickens…
- Comment on ouch 5 weeks ago:
For the archives!
- Comment on Life saving hurricane info locked behind a paywall 5 weeks ago:
Breezy on F-Droid, maybe Google Play, is pretty nice.
- Comment on Megaflopolis 1 month ago:
Keep on farming. Content has to come from somewhere!
- Comment on Anon finds the culprit 1 month ago:
“We.” Are you referring to people, or is that the bacteria self-identifying as plural?
- Comment on What a prompt 1 month ago:
Fred Kwan in Galaxy Quest.
- Comment on Threw a wrestling watch party, made special food, and was very disappointed in the outcome. 1 month ago:
I don’t get it either. I also don’t get why people would want to watch a bunch of guys scramble around a field after an oblong ball and give each other TBIs, but, hey, people can enjoy whatever they want. I don’t need to criticize them for it. So, why do you feel that need?
- Comment on That explains it. 1 month ago:
The algorithm is working as intended!
- Comment on Anon entertains himself at work 2 months ago:
- Comment on Ballaholic I'm guessing 2 months ago:
This is probably the most charitable interpretation of this scenario. Good for you.
I figured his wife put him on a diet and he was having none (or three times) of it.
- Comment on Against all odds, an asteroid mining company [AstroForge] appears to be making headway 2 months ago:
O7
- Comment on Hail our true supreme leader 2 months ago:
Nah, I can’t see Teump getting on his knees. Not because of pride but because he probably wouldn’t be able to get back up without help.
- Comment on 8 Minutes 3 months ago:
Infrared light is absorbed quite easily, producing heat, and the sun emits a lot of it. Of course, all photons that are absorbed and not reflected will produce thermal energy, and infrared radiation is commonly referred to as radiant heat. The other two heat transfer methods are conduction and convection, which requires a medium to transfer through.
- Comment on The problem with sleeper ships 3 months ago:
First, there have always been people who have thought, “I’m fine with the chance of dying to do this thing.” Free climbers, for instance. If the odds of survival are zero, and your personal effort isn’t going to change it, that number goes down by a lot.
Second, unless we find a FTL solution, surviving in space indefinitely is the first step in interstellar travel, because 3000 years is functionally equivalent to indefinitely. If you’re response to that is sleeper ships, you only survive if the ship survives, and we’re back to the same point. The reason this is important is because if the planet at the destination isn’t required for your survival, you have a lot more flexibility for how you colonize that planet, which vastly improves the odds of success.
As for the Fermi paradox, it doesn’t require that everyone wants to colonize a different star, build a Dyson shell, or whatever, it requires that everyone who doesn’t want to do that be willing to do whatever it takes to stop anyone else from doing it (and can make it count). It’s a slightly different proposition, and one that I think is less likely than other solutions.
- Comment on The problem with sleeper ships 3 months ago:
A generation ship and a sleeper ship are two different things (that we can’t yet do). In one, you live on a ship so your kids can go to a new place. In the other, you don’t really live on a ship so you can go to a new place.
- Comment on Anon saves their vacation days 3 months ago:
Yeah, it’s legal to not require people to take vacation time here, but you still are paid for that vacation time, albeit in a way that makes it very easy for you to not have any money during your time off, especially if you’re already struggling financially. Our work culture is much closer to American than European, and I’m personally not a fan of a lot of it. But you will either receive paid time off or money in lieu with the option of having unpaid time off.
- Comment on Anon saves their vacation days 3 months ago:
You will have all your accrued vacation paid out when you leave. It will also be paid out if you don’t use it soon enough. At my current employer, you have a little over a year. It is also possible to have it paid out on every paycheck and you have to set it aside for when you want to go on vacation, since you won’t be paid then. Here’s what it’s like in Manitoba, I suspect it isn’t very different elsewhere in Canada.
- Comment on Anon saves their vacation days 3 months ago:
In Canada, it’s illegal to not have vacation days or have your vacation time paid out. I’ve never heard of it happening here because it’s so easy to prove or disprove that only idiots would do it. Don’t worry, many employers will screw you over in ways that are harder to track.
- Comment on How do Texas residents afford electricity? 4 months ago:
If you want to talk about taxes, include cost of your healthcare. Because that’s included in our taxes.
Fun fact, America pays as much per capita for healthcare through taxes as Canadians, but that only gets you Medicare and Medicaid. Americans sure get angry about a lot of things, but I never see them get angry about that.
- Comment on How do Texas residents afford electricity? 4 months ago:
Now do the exchange rate.
- Comment on How do Texas residents afford electricity? 4 months ago:
Seems like a pretty sane way to handle market pressures, rather than, “I hope nothing terrible happens and my bill is suddenly thousands of dollars.”
- Comment on Exit poll: Labour to win landslide in general election 4 months ago:
Slight correction. The 170 refers to how many more seats they have compared to everyone else.
410 - (650 - 410) = 170
So 84 of their members could vote against a bill and it would still pass, which is significant. I think? I’m not sure how contentious votes are within party in the UK.
- Comment on Anon is a test subject 4 months ago:
Yeah, I suffer from chronic pain, too, though not to the degree that you appear to. It’s kind of funny because I know I’m really tired or mentally exhausted when I start noticing all the pain I normally have, but just haven’t even noticed for hours before.
It’s impressive what the mind can tolerate.