Random thoughts 1: Just Sayin'

[Arakhor]

Because they were newspaper vendors, according to Wikipedia. You can do your own research, you know.

 

[Snerk]

Research is for suckers, outsource it all to the-very-many-questions-thread!

 

[Hrothbern]

Research is for suckers, outsource it all to the-very-many-questions-thread!

There are no stupid questions

I cannot find it back on google, but during my study, with side courses on science philosophy I learned that one of the reasons for the remarkable boost of natural sciences in Germany in the 19th century was that they forced professors that did their work in the isolation of their labs and libraries, to actual teach first year students, and thereby exposing them to stupid questions.

Looking further in the history of trains, I saw to my surprise that trains existed already from 1760 onward in books, well before the first steam train build.
I used Ngram Viewer for that:
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=horse,train,car,steam,+subway&year_start=1700&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1;,horse;,c0;.t1;,train;,c0;.t1;,car;,c0;.t1;,steam;,c0;.t1;,subway;,c0

 

[Takhisis]

There are no stupid questions

Really?

 

[Snerk]

Just stupid answers.

 

[Takhisis]

 

[Samson]

There are no stupid questions

 

[Hrothbern]

haha

 

[Snerk]

So where do the zeroes and ones go?

 

[Michkov]

Nowhere, you(the computer) just forget where you put. In time you'll overwrite them.

 

[Cutlass]

So where do the zeroes and ones go?

They get recycled into different order of 1s and 0s.

 

[Traitorfish]

"They don't go anywhere. They just die."

 

[Takhisis]

Automatic bonus points go to Samson for posting a Dilbert comic.

 

[Samson]

Is there a definitive guide about when to tip in the USA?

 

[Synobun]

Is there a definitive guide about when to tip in the USA?

Tip when you take a taxi/Uber, tip when you eat at a restaurant (where you get served, fast food not included), tip if something gets delivered to you (not mail, but food). Tip the hairdresser. Tip the bartender.

Ranges depend on where you are. 15% is usually a safe bet everywhere across the board.

 

[Samson]

Tip when you take a taxi/Uber, tip when you eat at a restaurant (where you get served, fast food not included), tip if something gets delivered to you (not mail, but food). Tip the hairdresser. Tip the bartender.

Ranges depend on where you are. 15% is usually a safe bet everywhere across the board.

It seems to me that that list is not complete, for example I know you have to tip someone who carries your bags. Examples where I wondered (but was informed you do not) include people who gut fish and baggers in the supermarket, in an at&t store where he sat me down and talked about the plans, and mechanics.

 

[Synobun]

It seems to me that that list is not complete, for example I know you have to tip someone who carries your bags.

I don't doubt it. That's a bit above my pay grade. I've never been somewhere posh enough for someone to carry my things for me.

 

[Samson]

I don't doubt it. That's a bit above my pay grade. I've never been somewhere posh enough for someone to carry my things for me.

I guess this is my point. When confronted by a situation where you do not know whether a tip is required, is there a resource to go to to find out, or any general principles you can apply?

 

[Synobun]

The NDP is reversing the Liberals' decision to make remedial adult education cost money. I think that's good because it doesn't make sense that once you're no longer a teenager you also no longer have access to basic education. Making someone pay tuition to upgrade their highschool GPA or finish some credits just to get into community college is dumb, especially when most loans can't be applied to it.

I'm considering taking advantage of this but I don't really know if I can or have the courage to. I dropped out of high school midway through in a rural curriculum so I never did anything beyond basic algebra and vague science courses. I'm someone who participated in math competitions from the University of Waterloo when I was 12. These days I can't do basic math problems that only entail some dividing and multiplication. My understanding of basic scientific concepts is also lacking because I never had biology, chemistry, or any other related science course. My health put a serious damper on my intelligence and as time goes by I can feel it continue to slip away, and at this point I am somewhat desperate to stop it or recover some of it. No doubt the loss of knowledge is also tied to memory loss and isolation. Maybe going back to school would help. I don't know. I'm not excited about the idea of needing to start from the beginning, but I'm also not excited about avoiding simple problems because I know that my mind will stall and fail.

Putting this here because it is both a rave and a rant, combining into more of just a thought.

 

[Takhisis]

The only way to retain your cognitive capabilities is to use them.