[RD] Daily Graphs and Charts

[Joecoolyo]

Any reason why the Latins decided to reverse the Etruscan script? Seems like half the letters are mirrored.

Unless the graph/chart is being disingenuous with its lineage, and it wasn't a simple evolution.

 

[MagisterCultuum]

Well, both the early Greeks and the Etruscans used Boustophedonic texts, where they would alternate which direction they were writing with each line. The letters themselves would thus be facing the opposite direction half of the time in the older alphebets.

 

[Mise]

Is there a non-gif version showing the intermediate steps? I had a hard time following all the changes, even after watching it a couple times. There's a lot going on!

 

[Cutlass]

 

[Borachio]

Ah. Waldo. Right.

In international editions, Wally has often been given a name in the local language:
Afrikaans: Willie
Arabic: Fodhouli (فضول&#1610
Bulgarian: Уоли (Uoli)
Catalan: Wally
Croatian: Jura
Czech: Valdík
Danish: Holger
Dutch: Wally
English (North American): Waldo
Estonian: Volli
Lithuanian: Jonas
Finnish: Vallu
French: Charlie
German: Walter
Greek: Γουόλι (Wally)
Hebrew: אפי (Efi)
Hindi: Hetti
Hungarian: Vili
Icelandic: Valli
Italian: Ubaldo, Wally
Japanese: ウォーリー (Wōr&#299
Korean: 월리 (Wolli)
Lithuanian: Jonas
Mandarin Chinese: 威利 (Wēilì)
Norwegian: Willy
Polish: Wally
Portuguese: Wally
Russian: Уолли (Uolli)
Serbian: Gile
Spanish: Wally
Swedish: Valle, Hugo
Turkish: Ali, Gezgin Veli
Vietnamese: Văn Lang
Welsh: Wali

So. Where the heck is he?

 

[Cutlass]

http://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmc...-used-in-the-entire-20th-century-infographic/

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Did that really need an infographic?

 

[Cutlass]

 

[Borachio]

I don't know either.

But it is a lot of concrete.

 

[gay_Aleks]

But who is to say whether their construction is, well, concrete?

 

[madviking]

Did that really need an infographic?

did that really need a stupid and poor infographic?

 

[Terxpahseyton]

I think it was on TV where someone said that Chinese buildings were designed to last about 30 years. Some guy on a report about the Chinese boom economy.

 

[Lillefix]

If density is 2.4 tonnes pr cubic metre, 6.6 Gt is 2.75 cubic kilometres. I'm not sure what I expected.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

It talks about games, but I feel it applies to nearly all things in life. Don't have too high expectations of trips/experiments/experiences/etc., because if they turn out to be bad, then you will feel very terrible and you have only yourself to blame.

 

[Borachio]

If density is 2.4 tonnes pr cubic metre, 6.6 Gt is 2.75 cubic kilometres. I'm not sure what I expected.

Actually, you put it like that, it doesn't seem so much. I can't fault your arithmetic though.

I imagine a solid block of concrete wouldn't be a lot of use. How much of a building is open space and how much concrete? 99:1?

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I think it was on TV where someone said that Chinese buildings were designed to last about 30 years. Some guy on a report about the Chinese boom economy.

Did they say anything about how long other people's buildings are designed to last? I don't know about anywhere else, but in southern California an area full of thirty year plus aged buildings is generally considered undesirable and targeted for redevelopment.

 

[Borachio]

Really? My house is very nearly 100 hundred years old and barely run in. You've got to let these things settle and mature a bit.

 

[Tahuti]

Really? My house is very nearly 100 hundred years old and barely run in. You've got to let these things settle and mature a bit.

I largely agree, though to a point.

I don't want Amsterdam Southeast to last for 100 years or more. It has already lasted too long.

 

[CavLancer]

We need to fill the concrete gap.

When I built the first house the cost per bag was 70something PHP. Now its 240somethingish.

I blame Red China...for a Great Many Things.

Now they're worried.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

The thing about China is that there is a lot of very cheap unskilled labor, which coupled with corruption, leads to rather shodddy work that has to be fixed later or just replaced after a couple of years. I would also assume that all the construction work is a means to keep the masses employed.