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“Which word begins with “y” and looks like an axe in this picture?”

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Re: “Which word begins with “y” and looks like an axe in this picture?”

#41

Tube of paint squeezing out some yellow sounds reasonable.

Except that neither the axe head nor the intersection between it and the yellow look anything at all like that.

Perhaps the concept artist drew poorly a tube of acrylic paint squeezing some yellow goop and the person responsible for the final product couldn't figure out what the heck they were looking at, but said "Well it looks like an axe to me" (in some language other than English) and changed it accordingly.

Re: “Which word begins with “y” and looks like an axe in this picture?”

#42

This was such a delightful read. A quote from the wonderful Okja recently released on Netflix: "Never mistranslate!"... unless you make balls for toddlers!

In fairness, there aren't a lot of good choices for Y. year yell yacht yellow yearling yeti yoga I'd probably go with yoga, myself.

Looking at posters online, I find the most common, in order, are Yo-Yo, Yacht, Yak, and Yellow.

Re: “Which word begins with “y” and looks like an axe in this picture?”

#43
post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a sign of a "cognitive surplus", because we have more educated people now than we have jobs for them to do. Also it's a sign of how these sites get people to work for them for free, and concentrate huge amounts of other people's work for their own benefit. This poster got nothing for all that work, but SE still gets advertising revenue driven by interest in the content.

another example that there is not enough work to go around is that if you go into any downtown anywhere in the world at 7 pm to 8 p.m. you will see people drinking beer in bars. These same people could still be working, since there is no reason they shouldn't be in an office, factory, etc, for a full 14-hour workday. Clearly there is just not enough work to go around, which manifests itself as people sitting around d…

I'm not arguing from first principles here. Workforce participation is down. This is just a symptom. I'm not against having free time, but against companies who ask you to work for them for free. If people had the ability to make money with their time and effort, that guy would be more likely to be paid for his post.

Re: “Which word begins with “y” and looks like an axe in this picture?”

#44
post #18

This is the kind of deep investigation of a super specific issue I always enjoy reading. This is what I thought the internet would be, 20 years ago.

The smaller stack exchanges are a really wonderful source of content I never thought I needed to know. I always check out the "hot network questions" side panel when I land on stack overflow and almost always find something interesting.

I always thought they were about "networking" as in IT so they'd really confuse me.

Re: “Which word begins with “y” and looks like an axe in this picture?”

#45
post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

another example that there is not enough work to go around is that if you go into any downtown anywhere in the world at 7 pm to 8 p.m. you will see people drinking beer in bars. These same people could still be working, since there is no reason they shouldn't be in an office, factory, etc, for a full 14-hour workday. Clearly there is just not enough work to go around, which manifests itself as people sitting around d…

I'm not arguing from first principles here. Workforce participation is down. This is just a symptom. I'm not against having free time, but against companies who ask you to work for them for free. If people had the ability to make money with their time and effort, that guy would be more likely to be paid for his post.

So if HN added advertising to support the site, you would totally stop posting here, right?

Re: “Which word begins with “y” and looks like an axe in this picture?”

#46
post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a sign of a "cognitive surplus", because we have more educated people now than we have jobs for them to do. Also it's a sign of how these sites get people to work for them for free, and concentrate huge amounts of other people's work for their own benefit. This poster got nothing for all that work, but SE still gets advertising revenue driven by interest in the content.

another example that there is not enough work to go around is that if you go into any downtown anywhere in the world at 7 pm to 8 p.m. you will see people drinking beer in bars. These same people could still be working, since there is no reason they shouldn't be in an office, factory, etc, for a full 14-hour workday. Clearly there is just not enough work to go around, which manifests itself as people sitting around d…

People write all sorts of nonsense for newspapers and get paid for it. Just because you personally don't value some labour doesn't mean it's not valuable labour.

Re: “Which word begins with “y” and looks like an axe in this picture?”

#48
post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

another example that there is not enough work to go around is that if you go into any downtown anywhere in the world at 7 pm to 8 p.m. you will see people drinking beer in bars. These same people could still be working, since there is no reason they shouldn't be in an office, factory, etc, for a full 14-hour workday. Clearly there is just not enough work to go around, which manifests itself as people sitting around d…

I'm not arguing from first principles here. Workforce participation is down. This is just a symptom. I'm not against having free time, but against companies who ask you to work for them for free. If people had the ability to make money with their time and effort, that guy would be more likely to be paid for his post.

SE provides a venue for these types of discussions, and in exchange does a small amount of advertising to make the venture profitable. How is that exploitative in any sense of the word? Do you have the same attitude towards social clubs that charge fees?

Re: “Which word begins with “y” and looks like an axe in this picture?”

#49
This reminds me of the scene in Silicon Valley where Peter Gregory notices the popularity of Burger King, the number of sesame seeds they use, and remembers that sesame seeds only grow in Myanmar, Brazil, and Indonesia - the former two of which have large Cicada populations that emerge at different times. After some research, he finds that this is about to occur simultaneously in both countries for the first time in a couple of centuries. Apparently Indonesia doesn't have cicadas, so he purchases some surprisingly cheap Indonesian sesame seed futures based on the expectation that the price will spike next year.

Whoever did the detective work in the top answer to this article should get into investing, if they aren't already.

Re: “Which word begins with “y” and looks like an axe in this picture?”

#50
post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In fairness, there aren't a lot of good choices for Y. year yell yacht yellow yearling yeti yoga I'd probably go with yoga, myself.

Looking at posters online, I find the most common, in order, are Yo-Yo, Yacht, Yak, and Yellow.

Why not a yatagan?
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