marcos

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[–] marcos 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Capitalism was the one main force pushing for the end of slavery at the Contemporaneous Age. It's basically the reason most of the world doesn't have it anymore.

(And yeah, I mean modern Capitalism, that appeared after the Industrial Revolution.)

[–] marcos 1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Oh, careful there or you'll have to deal with The Bishop!

[–] marcos 46 points 1 week ago

Just to add, alkaline substances turn fats into soap, making them not only dissolve in water, but also help dissolving the surrounding fat.

Acids are much more harmful to metals, and wouldn't have this effect.

[–] marcos 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just to note, backslash or forward slash refers to the side the slash falls to.

[–] marcos 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes, as long as you accept that the lower-priority tasks get dumped when needed.

This is a common way to deal with it. But the number of managers that know how to decide a task is low-priority is exceedingly small. Most only have top-priority tasks to distribute to people.

[–] marcos 6 points 1 week ago (6 children)

If you have somebody doing work that can appear at random (like somebody calling and saying they have a problem), that person will either be free for a fraction of time that seem high to naive people, or will have a line and take ages to help anybody approaching them.

That seemingly high fraction of time is usually around 50% for the line to stay under control. That's a well known result from mathematics.

[–] marcos 9 points 1 week ago

You'd have what, 10? 15 nickels?

What isn't a lot, I know, but...

[–] marcos 1 points 1 week ago

Hum... And fiscal responsibility goes out through the window...

[–] marcos 5 points 1 week ago

It's not. This is schools failing worldwide to teach math in an adequate form.

[–] marcos -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No, the same vulnerability does not exist here.

There are different vulnerabilities here, but this one isn't there.

[–] marcos 4 points 1 week ago

they simply earn more by selling little electricity at high prices than by selling more electricity at lower prices

So, they have the perfect incentive system for a reserve provider?

[–] marcos 21 points 1 week ago

stating workers voluntarily handed over passports

And they voluntarily handed over their salaries too?

Also, that one law they are responding to ("slavery-like conditions") would be broken without they arresting people in place and refusing to pay them. That "like" is there for a reason. It's not clear if they'll get charged for actual slavery (and thus go to jail), China may take over that one claim.

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