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Say Goodbye to Spain's Three-Hour Lunch Break

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Re: Say Goodbye to Spain's Three-Hour Lunch Break

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Post by hueving »

pm90 wrote: post #90
hueving wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

With the invention of air conditioning and an abundance of solar power during the desert day, it's pretty stupid to let the weather dictate your behavior. People exist in Chicago despite the fact that it would be completely inhospitable without heating sources. The only difference is that air conditioning is a newer invention so people like you view it as some kind of opulent luxury rather than a technological tool l…

You're comparing 2 different things though. Heating/AC is required for people's survival whereas green lawns in the middle of an arid desert... not so much.

No I'm not. I'm literally comparing air conditioning to heating. Read my comment again.

Re: Say Goodbye to Spain's Three-Hour Lunch Break

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Post by hueving »

jylam wrote: post #91
hueving wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

With the invention of air conditioning and an abundance of solar power during the desert day, it's pretty stupid to let the weather dictate your behavior. People exist in Chicago despite the fact that it would be completely inhospitable without heating sources. The only difference is that air conditioning is a newer invention so people like you view it as some kind of opulent luxury rather than a technological tool l…

> With the invention of air conditioning and an abundance of solar power during the desert day, it's pretty stupid to let the weather dictate your behavior. Not everyone works in an office, though.

Same thing applies to the cold in the North.

Re: Say Goodbye to Spain's Three-Hour Lunch Break

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Post by hueving »

FullMtlAlcoholc wrote: post #110
hueving wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

With the invention of air conditioning and an abundance of solar power during the desert day, it's pretty stupid to let the weather dictate your behavior. People exist in Chicago despite the fact that it would be completely inhospitable without heating sources. The only difference is that air conditioning is a newer invention so people like you view it as some kind of opulent luxury rather than a technological tool l…

> With the invention of air conditioning and an abundance of solar power during the desert day, it's pretty stupid to let the weather dictate your behavior. You do have to go outside to get anywhere. We don't have completely domed cities yet.

Same thing applies to the cold in Chicago/New York.

Re: Say Goodbye to Spain's Three-Hour Lunch Break

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Post by hueving »

mrkrabo wrote: post #94
hueving wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

With the invention of air conditioning and an abundance of solar power during the desert day, it's pretty stupid to let the weather dictate your behavior. People exist in Chicago despite the fact that it would be completely inhospitable without heating sources. The only difference is that air conditioning is a newer invention so people like you view it as some kind of opulent luxury rather than a technological tool l…

Try to go out with 45 degrees, with direct sunlight, etc. Some people will even faint within minutes. Because remember you don't get teleported to the shop, you have to walk.

I have in the Phoenix and Death Valley deserts. I think you don't understand the difference between low humidity heat and high humidity heat. The latter is intolerable and causes the problems you described. The former just requires adequate hydration.

Re: Say Goodbye to Spain's Three-Hour Lunch Break

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Post by sokoloff »

hueving wrote: post #220
sokoloff wrote: post #196

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> To give you an idea of how much this matters, in a gentle breeze, 39.5 C at 20% humidity feels like 57.3 C at 90% humidity. That cannot possibly be correct.

Humidity has a massive multiplication effect on both cold and hot temperatures. I would take 110F dry over 80F humid any day. I would also take 10F dry over 30F humid.

The prior claim was that, in a gentle breeze, 135F and 90% RH was the same as 103F and 20% RH (that hotter AND more humid was the same as less hot and drier).

Re: Say Goodbye to Spain's Three-Hour Lunch Break

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Post by dang »

Oletros wrote: post #216
faragon wrote: post #172

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The lie is in the article: it is false that the three hours pause is generalized, but a exception, except for shops. Then, in my opinion, the purpose of that lie is separatist propaganda, as I exposed in my first comment. I don't want to continue the discussion with you, as this forum is not an appropriate place for political/nationalist flamewars. You have your opinion, I have mine. Free speech means to live with pe…

> The lie is in the article: it is false that the three hours pause is generalized, but a exception, except for shops. Then, in my opinion, the purpose of that lie is separatist propaganda, as I exposed in my first comment. The ORIGINAL Spanish article linked in that article TALKS about shops. NBut you're so obsessed with independientist propagand that you didn't even read it. Even when I have said top you that the o…

Would you please not be uncivil or use HN for political battle? I'm happy to see that you've (mostly) been abiding by the site guidelines for quite a while now, so obviously we don't want to ban you.

Re: Say Goodbye to Spain's Three-Hour Lunch Break

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Post by dang »

faragon wrote: post #128

That's separatist propaganda: Catalonia, a Spanish region where separatists are ruling and expect to do a referendum against the rule of law in October so the region can exit Spain and the European Union and be "free", is "better" than the "lazy Spain". Rationale: in Spain there is no such thing as generalized three-hour lunch break. In fact, most industries have short lunch pause (e.g. 7 to 15:30h), and most offices…

> separatist propaganda

This breaks the HN guideline against calling names in arguments as well as the injunction against flamebait and flamewars. Predictably, it started another internecine political flamewar. We warned you about this before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14473747. We don't want flamewars of any kind on HN, and will eventually have to ban you if you don't fix this.

Re: Say Goodbye to Spain's Three-Hour Lunch Break

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Post by dang »

faragon wrote: post #219
Oletros wrote: post #216

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The lie is in the article: it is false that the three hours pause is generalized, but a exception, except for shops. Then, in my opinion, the purpose of that lie is separatist propaganda, as I exposed in my first comment. The ORIGINAL Spanish article linked in that article TALKS about shops. NBut you're so obsessed with independientist propagand that you didn't even read it. Even when I have said top you that the o…

My opinion was about the linked article, not the original article. So don't blame me, blame the linked article author.

Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14825574 and don't conduct this sort of flamewar on HN again.

Re: Say Goodbye to Spain's Three-Hour Lunch Break

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Post by Oletros »

dang wrote: post #226
Oletros wrote: post #216

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The lie is in the article: it is false that the three hours pause is generalized, but a exception, except for shops. Then, in my opinion, the purpose of that lie is separatist propaganda, as I exposed in my first comment. The ORIGINAL Spanish article linked in that article TALKS about shops. NBut you're so obsessed with independientist propagand that you didn't even read it. Even when I have said top you that the o…

Would you please not be uncivil or use HN for political battle? I'm happy to see that you've (mostly) been abiding by the site guidelines for quite a while now, so obviously we don't want to ban you.

I'm sorry, I will only flag those flamewars and won't respond to them

Thanks, dang

Re: Say Goodbye to Spain's Three-Hour Lunch Break

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Post by treehau5 »

geezerjay wrote: post #179
treehau5 wrote: post #51

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Actually the free fall has seemed to have slowed, and bottomed out. It's just a different cultural value -- not every culture values the green dollar as much as America or the UK or likewise. Is it the best for your GDP? Probably not, but it's honorable. "Cash is King" is not something you hear many Greeks say about one another

> It's just a different cultural value -- not every culture values the green dollar as much as America or the UK or likewise. Past Greek governments sure looked like they loved other people's cash a lot for having borrowed so much of it. It's funny how that distaste for money and accompanying virtue signaling only managed to manifest itself once it was time to pay back all the borrowed cash.

> Past Greek governments

Therein lies the distinction. The government of course loves the money. That's why the people are fed up with the greedy politicians and bankers.

> It's funny how that distaste for money and accompanying virtue signaling only managed to manifest itself once it was time to pay back all the borrowed cash.

It's funny how this statement proves you have absolutely zero knowledge of the culture and are projecting your own pessimistic views on people and societies onto one you know very little about.

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