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  • The answer to width is rolling resistance.

    Tires stick to road which is great for accelerating and breaking, but it makes maintaining your top speed harder. This doesn’t matter if you have a big engine, but it makes a difference if you’re cycling.

    For a road bike, you want to minimize the contact area of the tire with the road so you have very narrow tires and inflated a lot so that they don’t deform much under your weight.

    The type and width of tires changes depending on what you’re riding on. For off road you have wide knobbly tires that will catch in mud and push you forward. For riding on a beach you have very wide smooth tires for traveling over sand.

    The diameter is about stability. If you have small wheels turning fast it effectively lowers your center of gravity due to gyroscopic effects (this is a massive over simplification of the physics) big wheels turning more slowly results in a higher center of gravity, which is more stable.

    Cars have four wheels and don’t need to care about this.


  • Ok real talk here.

    Work to rule and malicious compliance only works when you have the backing of a strong union, or workers rights. In the US, for most jobs, they can fire you whenever they feel like it, and for no reason at all.

    If anyone senior decides you’re fucking with them, even if there’s no proof, and they’re completely running on vibes, they might just fire you anyway.

    My advice is copy the other porters. They know how much they can get away with, and find a decent hiding place for when you’re on a break.







  • So this is pretty good.

    https://measuredcollective.com/is-google-forms-gdpr-compliant/

    It’s a list of things you need to do in order to make the use of Google forms gdpr compliant.

    One thing they don’t touch on is the use of personal accounts to collect data. People tend to use Google forms because it’s easy to set up using their personal account, but that essentially removes any company oversight from the collection and data processing. This makes it much harder to satisfy the data controller requirements.

    Of course if it’s an external contractor gathering the data and processing it independently, your company is likely to dismiss all this as not their problem.

    If it’s real academic research it will have had to go through ethics approval, and this should include data handling, and gdpr compliance.




  • Yeah, there’s two problems with this.

    1. Congress is non-functional and can’t act as a check on the executive branch or the courts. In the past they’ve passed fuck you laws where they initially passed a law saying X, the supreme court interpreted it to say Y and then they passed a clearer version of X. This hasn’t happened in a long time.
    2. The supreme court likes to reinterpret the constitution. This means if you want to correct the supreme courts interpretation you have to pass a constitutional amendment. Even if Congress functioned properly this would be difficult.

    The idea we’re talking about wouldn’t work anyway. The problem is, many of the state supreme court judges are also batshit.

    The only way round this is to copy other countries that have functional judicial systems and stop making judges either political appointments or directly elected. They need to be professionals selected on merit, and firable, or at least replaceable after a term, if they’re incompetent.