> In recent literature on the informal economy, System D is the growing share of the world's economy which makes up the underground economy...
This just seems like word salad to me. What am I missing?
System D
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#32Now I finally know what my Swiss mother-in-law says when the normal tablecloth is dirty and we need to improvise.
I thought “oh it’s like Plan B”, but never got why it’s D…. Now I get that D is a euphemism for “out of the shit” (démerde).
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#33> In recent literature on the informal economy, System D is the growing share of the world's economy which makes up the underground economy... This just seems like word salad to me. What am I missing?
All of the 'underground' things desperate people do to stay alive, i.e. prostitution
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#34About 10 years ago I applied for a software engineering job at a startup that had the title “System D Engineer.” I thought it was the perfect distillation of what it’s like being an engineer at an early stage startup. I got the offer and I probably should have taken it. It would have been interesting and the startup had a successful exit!
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#35Obscure topics like this often have bizarre wikipedia pages with only a few contributors. The articles are usually a few paragraphs, each touching on wildly different barely-related topics that connect to the main topic. Here's one from a few years back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17591942 This article is also one of them.
This is what all of Wikipedia used to be like, until the formalism made the trains run on time.
Not sure which version I like better, tbh.
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#36Brilliant. Apart from Freeling's "The Kitchen Book / The Cook Book" système D appears throughout French culture including the record "Système D" by Les Rita Mitsouko. It stands there encouraging those who get it to understand and overcome despite one's being knee-deep in sewage.
Ironically, the French Wikipedia page is even shorter: https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syst%C3%A8me_D
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#37Now I finally know what my Swiss mother-in-law says when the normal tablecloth is dirty and we need to improvise. I thought “oh it’s like Plan B”, but never got why it’s D…. Now I get that D is a euphemism for “out of the shit” (démerde).
Could be but my understanding is the D stands for débrouiller (se débrouiller = take oneself out of the fog). Kind of like the American "National Awareness Day" where people are encouraged to extract their heads and take note of the people in their surroundings.
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#38Brilliant. Apart from Freeling's "The Kitchen Book / The Cook Book" système D appears throughout French culture including the record "Système D" by Les Rita Mitsouko. It stands there encouraging those who get it to understand and overcome despite one's being knee-deep in sewage.
Ironically, the French Wikipedia page is even shorter: https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syst%C3%A8me_D
nothing remains to be said. Thanks.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
fun fact: Thermidor - after which Sauce Thermidor and derived dishes like Lobster Themidor are named, is a month in the French Republican Calendar, specifically: the second month of summer, going approx. from mid-July to mid-August.
Even more fun fact. "Thermidor" as well as the other months on the Republican Calendar don't have any root word. They were made up whole cloth and intended to sound like Greek or Latin.
Autumn:
Vendémiaire (from French vendange, derived from Latin vindemia, "vintage"), starting 22, 23, or 24 September
Brumaire (from French brume, "mist", from Latin brūma, "winter solstice; winter; winter cold"), starting 22, 23, or 24 October
Frimaire (from French frimas, "frost"), starting 21, 22, or 23 November
Winter:
Nivôse (from Latin nivosus, "snowy"), starting 21, 22, or 23 December
Pluviôse (from French pluvieux, derived from Latin pluvius, "rainy"), starting 20, 21, or 22 January
Ventôse (from French venteux, derived from Latin ventosus, "windy"), starting 19, 20, or 21 February
Spring:
Germinal (from French germination), starting 20 or 21 March
Floréal (from French fleur, derived from Latin flos, "flower"), starting 20 or 21 April
Prairial (from French prairie, "meadow"), starting 20 or 21 May
Summer:
Messidor (from Latin messis, "harvest"), starting 19 or 20 June
Thermidor (or Fervidor*) (from Greek thermon, "summer heat"), starting 19 or 20 July
Fructidor (from Latin fructus, "fruit"), starting 18 or 19 August