maybe if I think of a wave as a ghost that displaces a medium perpendicularly to its motion (for transverse waves) every so often then yes it makes sense that the inertial property should slow the ghost down
but I don't know if I should do that :D so instead I think of a wave as a series of collisions that run through a medium in such a repeating fashion that we refer to them as waves.
@Danu If there are more than 10 nominees, then there's a primary phase where people can vote on the nomination posts themselves and the top X nominees then proceed to the election
@Slereah Rarely, because it is very difficult to get the permission to open on Sundays. Usually, only gas stations and some basic shops in main train stations are open
@ACuriousMind We have an intern who did her PhD in Vienna. She was recently telling me about the Friday evening panic that would set in as she thought of stuff she had to buy before the city shut down for the weekend.
But in the Netherlands that's solved with a big bump in pay for working on Sundays---most students I know were constantly trying to get a Sunday shift.
I don't understand that social argument. If I own a shop, why can't I employ somone to work Monday-Friday, and then pay a kid to work Sunday for extra cash?
@DanielSank It's partly religiously motivated tradition and partly a strong cultural preference to have a day "off". Not working on Sundays comes close to a human right in most people's perceptions.
"Current Utah law sets a limit of 3.2 percent alcohol by weight (4 percent by volume) in beer sold at grocery and convenience stores and at establishments operating under a "beer only" type license, such as taverns, beer bars and some restaurants."
@DanielSank You can, but that's not how it works if you don't force that. Nobody would raise the wages, just put more pressure on workers to work for the same wage on Sundays
Is it because it's more convenient to buy groceries on the weekend, so then I do my shopping on Sunday and therefore have nothing to buy from the little store during the work week?
@DanielSank The argument is supposed to go as follows: If you allow shops to open on Sunday, then people will work on Sunday because they feel it is economically necessary. This conflicts with both the idea that no one should be forced to work on Sunday (and yes, in this context, the forces of the "free market" are commonly perceived as coercion) and that it should be a quiet day for relaxation.
. And yes, this is, in turn, coercing those who "want" to work on Sundays. But this is considered acceptable, since the mainstream German view of capitalism is not that it should be a free market, but a social market
@DanielSank b/c ppl are going to be forced by economic considerations to start working there and it will become normal - Sunday should be for the family for as many people as possible
@Sanya Why are they forced to work more? If I'm happy with my income I don't have to work extra days. If my employer tells me I have work more than 40 hours per week, then he gets in trouble (ideally).
@DanielSank But especially in the kind of stores that'd be open on Sundays (grocery stores etc) the people working there can be significantly pressured by their bosses. They're typically young people, etc.
Basically, every place that might contribute to the enjoyment of your free Sunday will be open. Most of them will be closed some other day of the week, though - many restaurants have one weekday where they are closed, or open shorter than usual
This is unbelievable. You guys all just argued (perhaps not your personal views) that for economic and social reasons, people should not work on Sunday. Yet in the end, the law singles out only a small set of business which cannot open on Sunday, so people are still working in restaurants, ice cream shops, cultural locations, etc.
but some of the weirder aspects of German culture really are unbreakable rocks. You can bash your brain against them all you want and the only one that will come out the worse for wear will be your brain
The Dutch have a 100% traders mentality. This shows up in many places, e.g. how we do politics (the famous "poldermodel" based on compromises), but also in always trying to show how we got "the best deal" :) Hence we'll say things like "look we tried the same idea but better than you" :D
@Danu No, it's not. It's a thing to say once you remember that blindly arguing in favor of workers all the time at the total expense of everyone else is foolish.
@Danu I think not, given that every single argument posed by everyone buy me so far has been about why not working on Sunday is better for the guy in the [business which closes on Sunday].
@ACuriousMind I'm very confused. Today in analysis the prof gave a function $f:\Bbb R^2\to \Bbb R$ s.t. $\partial_x f|_{(0,0)}$ and $\partial_yf|_{(0,0)}$ existed, but the function was not even continuous there! So the existence of partial derivatives does not imply Frechet differentiability, which implies continuity. But why do we define $C^k$ with partials?
@Sanya You know that based on an experiment you did with several different countries, and where you measured happiness etc. while controlling for other factors?
@Sanya I know that, which is why I think it's a bit funky to make statements that one thing or another is better for everyone, especially in the middle of a conversation where not everyone agrees, which should be evidence that you can't make blanket statements about what's best.
Similarly, parents always say they're happiest when spending time with their children. It turns out that if you ask them while they're with their children, they're actually grumpy, annoyed, etc
I wonder if it's appropriate to ask here: in case multiple edits are made on a question as the one who asked it makes progress, should the edits be collected in the final answer for a more coherent Q&A or should it be left as is?
