RingGiver
RingGiver t1_je4x1mz wrote
Reply to comment by AngelSucked in TIL that after a flood killed thousands and devastated the economy, California legislators and State employees worked unpaid for a year and a half. by WhatsAMisanthrope
At any time, they can quit and get real jobs.
RingGiver t1_je3pxjm wrote
Reply to TIL that after a flood killed thousands and devastated the economy, California legislators and State employees worked unpaid for a year and a half. by WhatsAMisanthrope
That should be the norm for any sort of government job.
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Reply to comment by citizenjones in TIL about Jim Gordon, a drummer that worked with George Harrison, and shared a songwriting credit for "Layla", with Eric Clapton, but suffered from various mental health issues and spent 40 years in jail for the murder of his mother. by jdward01
I only found out about M.O.D. because of S.O.D.
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Reply to Heinz to give new boat to man who survived on ketchup while lost at sea by AlephNaughtPlusOne
If I was lost at sea, I would be looking to spend some time in the desert. Maybe he wants an RV instead.
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Reply to Americans are ready to test embryos for future college chances, survey shows by sunset_canopy
In other words, eugenics.
RingGiver t1_j9vavdm wrote
Reply to ELI5: Why do we only use 1 and 0 for binary? Could we create a trinary system introducing an extra '2'? by No-Mammoth-1638
That's how additional bases work. You can go above 10 (most commonly base-16) by finding additional symbols too.
If you want to have it be anything more than a mathematical curiosity, you would have to find a practical application for it.
Binary's largest practical application is in digital systems, where every signal can ultimately be broken down into series discrete "on" or "off" switches on a circuit board.
Consider a byte of data. Instead of thinking of it as a number between 0 and 255 (inclusive), think of it as an electrical circuit with eight switches. Each bit desugnates one of those switches as on or off. 00000000 might mean that they are all in the off position, while 11111111 would likewise mean that they are in the on position.
If you were working with a system with three-position switches, a trinary number system like you describe would fit it well, but I don't know of any systems with "off," "on," and "more" as the switch positions.
RingGiver t1_j9v83c6 wrote
Reply to comment by xopranaut in ELI5: Why do we only use 1 and 0 for binary? Could we create a trinary system introducing an extra '2'? by No-Mammoth-1638
I didn't know about this. Interesting.
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Reply to comment by MetricVeil in Herts police officer escapes sack after 'extreme porn' shared on WhatsApp by nimobo
They even shared his badge number.
RingGiver t1_j6fjbri wrote
It's not like anyone with a brain honestly thinks that the intent of restrictions is to make people safer.
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Reply to AP Stylebook includes 'The French' in list of 'general and often dehumanizing 'the' labels. by wewhomustnotbenamed
If you called me French, I would be offended.
RingGiver t1_j295lu4 wrote
Reply to ELI5: If ballet dancers need to mutilate their pointe shoes before they can be danced in, why are they still manufactured the way they are? by BurritoBum90
A dancer's shoes will likely not last more than a few weeks. The dancer's feet will change over time, and each new pair of shoes will need to be a perfect fit.
Getting new shoes custom-measured and custom-made would be insanely expensive (especially considering how many dancers would have to have shoes), so mass-production of shoes which get modified by the end user is the most viable way of doing it.
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Reply to comment by StaleTheBread in Whoever first observed the red-eyes camera flash effect must have thought the subject of the photo was possessed or something. by StaleTheBread
1890s was when it became available outside of experimental stuff.
The optical stuff behind red eyes was understood before film capable of storing color was invented.
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Reply to comment by StaleTheBread in Whoever first observed the red-eyes camera flash effect must have thought the subject of the photo was possessed or something. by StaleTheBread
>(especially considering this was like mid-1900s?)
Somehow, it's both a century before you think and a lot more recent than you think.
RingGiver t1_j1zo42r wrote
Reply to Whoever first observed the red-eyes camera flash effect must have thought the subject of the photo was possessed or something. by StaleTheBread
People in the past weren't stupid. They were smarter than the kind of person who thinks that simply being of an earlier time makes you stupid.
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Reply to Las Vegas police: Woman who stole, hid Rolex inside genitals was in town for court on similar theft charge by vt9876
>“She stated that we were going to find it anyways at jail and she did not want to go through the hassle,” officers wrote in the arrest report.
Sounds like she's been arrested before.
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Reply to TIL that Richard Feynman, one of the greatest theoretical physicists ever, was rejected admission to Columbia University because of his Jewish ancestry and instead went to MIT. by icbm67
If you think that this sort of thing is only a feature of the past, you should remember that there are a lot of people involved in higher education administration who claim that it is racist to NOT discriminate against applicants of Asian descent.
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Reply to comment by themagicbong in TIL that, during the Cold War, every infantry and armor battalion in the U.S Army had one officer trained to deploy the Special Atomic Demolition Munition (SADM), commonly known as the backpack nuke by nomad_556
How did he manage to make it disappear? They're pretty strict about keeping track of those.