So you're saying North Korea, Japan and Australia are engaged in a leftist plot to take a privileged position in the world?

All we need is some TikTok, YouTube shorts and some gullible right wingers, and I think we've got ourselves a product!

No you can't, because these are orders of magnitude. Try it with "27 levels of tallness" and see what you get.

No, excessive salt causes high blood pressure. It is definitely a problem. Limit your intake to 6g a day or less. That's plenty for flavour.

Source: https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/eat-well/food-types/salt-in-you...

Yikes. It's so disappointing to see public health agencies pushing medical misinformation but that's nothing new for the NHS, I guess. In reality if you look at this from an evidence-based medicine perspective what really matters is not the quantity but rather the osmolality. And the optimal level depends on multiple factors including genetics and activity level.

https://doi.org/10.1111/jch.13374

An "f" never replaced a "t".

You probably mean the "long s" that looks like an "f".

How would it work? If any of the management knew the bankruptcy was pending and were still allowing bookings, they are personally responsible for the costs.

If they can't afford it, they face prison time.

I bet that would fix the issue damn quickly.

There are soooo many issues that would be fixed by holding the C-Suite (and maybe even the Board and/or shareholders) personally responsible.

Won't happen in this timeline, though.

LLC were designed precisely to avoid that responsibility.

The idea being probably that not risking your entire personal wealth just to lead company would lead to more entrepreneurship, but it clearly ended up with small businesses (without legal or clear reason to make it LLC) not doing that cos of bureucracy, and everyone above abusing that construct wherever they can.

CEOs ballooning compensation would even be understandable in conditions where their biggest fuck up could get their private stuff seized but...

CEO compensation above some annual threshold shoukd be escrowed for 10 to 20 years. That would fix most of this pump and dump stuff by the executive class.

That would kind of destroy the whole rationale for corporations to exist.

> That would kind of destroy the whole rationale for corporations to exist

For management? Not at all. It's almost just customary that employment agreements don't make employees, including senior managers, personally liable for their mistakes.

You'd just have to pay Board members and executives boatloads more. (Or, more accurately, they'd be able to justify more pay for the risk. And then go and purchase insurance to offload it anyway.)

Might have to be shank insurance, if they get real jail time.

I’m all for paying folks that legitimately have real power and responsibility, very well, but I would also hold them to rigorous standards.

For example, police. A cop having a bad day, can ruin your whole life. Pay the cop well, but also, ruin their life, if they abuse their power.

Again, we’re in the Dark Timeline, so that won’t happen.

> Might have to be shank insurance, if they get real jail

You’d have a difficult time proving intent, nevertheless. The only practical solution is reducing the standard of proof, which is historically a straight line to hard oligarchy.

> A cop having a bad day, can ruin your whole life. Pay the cop well, but also, ruin their life, if they abuse their power

Cops deal in violence, which is far more black and white than e.g. being a hotelier.

That said, starting with cops is a good idea. Culture of responsibility and all that.

Sounds good? I mean, we tried the whole corporation without responsibility for quite a while. It doesn't seem to work very well and especially on HN there's at least one post reminding us of that every day.

Isn't that just because the successes are invisible?

Successes are still visible... But maybe we'd be ok with fewer successes and fewer failures?

Prison doesn't fix every issue. It fixes very few of them actually, except the public's demand for punishment.

Personal financial liability would probably be more effective.

There's no reason you can't have 400 degrees in a circle and therefore 100 for a right angle.

It's a degree scale: you can choose any number you want.

Indeed, gradiens are a scale where a circle is divided into 400 equal parts. Really fucked me up a few times when I got a new calculator and wasn’t paying attention to what the little “grad” meant.

But I can't subdivide 400 in to as many ways as 360. Think about the pie industry. They could be put out of business!!

I usually want to cut pies into 14 pieces. Some might want 11 or 13. (17 is just too many.) I demand that we implement a system where a circle is 2 * 3 * 4 * 5 * 7 * 3 * 11 * 13 = 360360 degrees, so that we can cut pies evenly at anywhere from 2 to 15 slices. If my baker cuts a slice at 25739 degrees, I want a refund! (I'll keep the pie, because the pie is obviously useless.)

(720720 might be OK too so we can cut 16 pieces, but honestly, if you're cutting 16 pieces, you're not going to measure. You're just going to divide pieces in half until you have 16. 360360 is the future.)

Of course that's true, that doesn't mean you should.

I think this is the opening to a Korean horror movie...

> Why should I take this critique as being any more accurate than Bryson

Because you have access to various dictionaries and can easily verify it for yourself?

Assuming the quotes from the book are accurate, that's really poor.