I left "1+1 math problems at the same time" pretty vague on purpose. Math in my analogy isn't referring to processor arithmetic, it refers to "stuff" a processor can do. They don't all have to be on the same task. Some can handle vertices while others handle pixels.

>they work on the exact same kind of problems the CPU does.

They can do arithmetic the same way, sure, but you wouldn't exactly expect to be able to communicate with a mouse & keyboard using one of the cores in a GPU.

The instruction set for a GPU (based around arithmetic) is definitely nothing like the instruction set of a CPU lol. That's what I meant by 2nd grader vs mathematician.

Well here in germany theres this in between thing where you still have a cashier but they dont directly do the change, they just sit there. Pull the items over the band and you put the money in a coin sorter.

In many cases an employee is still present they just have an eye on the self checkout aisle so no one does anything stupid.. like the way ikea does it is smart...really only works in large af stores such as ikea though. They Have like 8 cashless registers for smaller purchase numbers.. and one or two sometimes 3 employees are around to guide people and manage, you have 8 cashless registers (sometimes 4) and still 2-3 employees.. because they handle furniture and such, having all these cash registers filled is almost too inefficient because you still get long lines... ikea just turned 2 cash registers into like...8 and still has employees staffing it all...heck they seem to have more people thanks to this. I usually see 3 people on the self checkout aisles, when the area that thing takes up is usually just one or two cash registers normally...but again this only works in huge Huge stores like ikea where it is also worth to Have a ton of employers just because they do pick up and delivery too. So even at calm hours no employee is useless there

Cashiers are sadly a dying job because it is quite stressful. Underpaid and all in all a job that requires quite a bunch of skill and resiliency....so you often times don't get many skilled enough cashiers that can handle the load.. which is why these coin machines exist... to mske cashier employment easier

Like with or without self checkout aisles, the whole retail sector is getting smaller and smaller and employees often times no longer need to be there for cashier roles but stocking shelves etc...this direction is happening anyway

Im your average aldi you have 4 or 5 cash registers usually just one or two are staffed... the store can be run by like 3 people...in most stores having a dedicated person for every cash register is not needed.. most grocery stores in their very design run with few people in the actual store.. self checkout aisle or not.

A self checkout aisle just makes the shop run more fluidly usually... it tends to be one of those things which is bad but it's more thr symphtom of a trend that has already been going on steadily, if anything it increases life quality for the handful employees still there.. as theres less workload.

It is sadly one of those many jobs which requires suprising amounts of skill. Is too underpaid to find plenty of employees.. and can be automated....also in a more and more cashless society you don't need as many cashiers that can handle coins really well...if anything the prevelancy of credit and debit cards is the thing killing the cashier job.

If it werent for the self checkout you just have 3 overworked cashiers at 7 cash registers...just because theres 7 cash registers doesnt mesn they hire 7 people.

The problem is that the two options here doesn't fully grasp the situation. Let's say you're the leader of a poor country, and a lot of your country doesn't have access to water. You don't have constriction equipment to make the water supply yourself, but you have SOME money. A private company comes and offers to supply the water to everyone, but they're going to charge for it to cover their cost and make some money. Now everyone has water but it's a private commodity. To complicate things "clean" drinking water, like we have in the rich world. Is really hard and expensive to make.

You also suffer from a "tragedy of the commons" if you just make water free for everyone all the time. At some point you have to charge for it, or I could just use it for all the stupid stuff I want, or a big company could use it to turn a generator then send it back so it's much more expensive. The advantage to privatizing it is that a company will control the price so that they can make improvements and upgrades to the system, a public system will need money from outside the supply to maintain itself.

I've made the case for the private commodity here, there are MANY problems with it.

>In the US, any private entity can end its relationship with you for any reason,

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>No, they absolutely can, except for a few protected reasons

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I bolded a few words because u/ScienceIsSexy420 seemed to miss the point.

Are you asking about everything Plato ever did or are you referring to platonic forms?

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Platonic concepts are those which are discussed in the works of Plato, the pre-Christian Greek philosopher. These writings are usually framed as records of philosophical exchanges between various Greek citizens and Socrates, Plato's mentor.

Concepts or ideas attributable to Plato are Platonic, whereas those which are attributable to Socrates are Socratic.

I was on Instagram and saw this dude staying in a hole in a frozen lake for 30 minutes, and nothing really happened to him, but people in the comment section were telling him that he could've gotten hypothermia. I find it very fascinating how the human body can adapt to these situations, thinking if it was me, i would've froze to death...

Imho the given examples are far from reason tho.

In the United States religious institutions get an exemption from certain employment laws. If the religion says no sex before marriage and a man comes to work at such a place and says "my girdfriend is pregnant!" he can get fired.

> Private ones have less of an incentive to provide stable, low prices and service.

Looking at you, PG&E

Kiwi and mango? My mouth tastes fuzzy after eating it. Are they part of the pineapple family or nah?

For a lot of the "Religious" schools, it's just another money grab and keeping the student body indoctrination intact.

Really depends on where you’re at. Everywhere I’ve lived in the US, water was a public utility run and managed by the city or municipality. It may be the case that where you live, for a host of reasons, the city may have privatized the water system. Or it might actually be a public/private partnership and the public facing side of it might be the private corp.

But there’s no objective answer to your question.

Interesting, thanks. Hadn't noticed the tone difference before.

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Also worth noting a slight variation on this theory that is the currently held belief.

Unlike most modern reptiles, dinosaurs were actually warm blooded. Opposite of what they used to believe this actually played against them.

It used to be taught that because they were cold blooded they couldn't handle the cold and that's why mammals dominated afterwards. But this as it turns out is not true, they were mostly warm blooded like modern birds.

Being warm blooded means you have a MUCH higher and more demanding metabolism. Snakes for example only need to eat once a month or so to be completely healthy and they can go much longer if needed. Most warm blooded creatures need to eat pretty much daily in order to remain healthy.

When the meteor hit and the ice age started food became much more scarce. Gigantic warm blooded animals simply couldn't eat enough food to survive. Meanwhile some larger reptiles like crocodiles survived precisely because they don't need to eat much, and can go into what is almost a hibernation like state in extreme cold where they can go a really long time without eating. They just stick their noses out of the water and breathe really slowly and can survive even when the water is frozen for several months.

I did a community emergency response training with a retired firefighter in the cook county suburbs.

He told us about when he was dealing with something involving effluent into a waterway and the director of the water reclamation district (who he had not met) showed up and started giving orders he asked one of his colleagues who she was and they just said, "she's god. You do what she says."

The city's water district is atypically powerful and just kind of weird in general.

The only things our lungs are rated for, is pure Earth air. A mixture of nirogen and oxygen and etc. That's it. Add smoke or vapor, and performance and quality goes down. Is it inherently BAD for you, yeah probably. Is it dangerous? Might be, who knows. All we know for sure is that it isn't good for you. How not good it might be, is still subjective at this point until long term case studies can be made.

While you're eating the pineapple, it's busy trying to eat you.

There's an enzyme in pineapple that dissolves protein. You're made of protein.

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Utilities in the US are generally considered natural monopolies. That is, it's unreasonable for a competitor to build duplicate infrastructure to compete. The costs are too high. Only one firm can really provide the service to a market.

As such, they're highly regulated. Prices, staffing, availability, quality, etc. are all highly prescribed by the local or state government.

So why not make them government owned? Well, it's a trade off. Public utilities tend to be less innovative and have less of an incentive to invest in improvements. Private ones have less of an incentive to provide stable, low prices and service.

Facts!

Colonel sanders secret recipe is down there.

They don't measure every package, and it isn't exact. But the packages are all pretty much the same, so as long as their quality control on how much goes into each package is reasonably accurate, they're all close enough.