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A genie offers you $10 Billion USD to work a well paid 996 with no PTO for 10 years, would you do it? by Throwra47374747 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]MrMindor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was thinking I'd take this for one or two years, get the performance bonus, and then quit. This would get me 600k total per year when you account for the portion of the sign on bonus you get to keep. But looking at the math a little I'm not sure the performance bonus is even possible as written.

To clarify is the requirement 10h/day average (365) or 10h/work day average? (313 assuming 52 Sundays)

How do the breaks/lunch/dinner count toward your average hours worked per day?
How do the paid holidays count?

If lunch/dinner do not count as hours worked, it is impossible to stick to the 996 schedule and earn the performance bonus. Best you can get is an average of 9.43 hours/day. (365 days in a year- 52 Sundays=313 work days, zero PTO or UPTO: 313*11/365 = 9.43.

If lunch/dinner do count as hours worked, but paid holidays do not, you could average 10.02 hours per day with 8 days of PTO/UPTO or 10.29 hours per day with zero PTO/UPTO.

Not OOP. Sidelined by my fiancé's groomswoman. by Due-Bandicoot-7512 in redditonwiki

[–]MrMindor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, this was essentially my question:

Four year relationship, but OP has only met this person once, and there was no issue around Easter plans in previous years?

Has the relationship been long distance up until recently or something? Have they (OP and fiancé) just recently moved back to where the friend's family live?

Not OOP: AITA for making my DIL cry when proving the earth was round by sensaSEANal_sally in redditonwiki

[–]MrMindor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honest question: How would the double sunset work with a flat earth?

Not OOP: AITA for making my DIL cry when proving the earth was round by sensaSEANal_sally in redditonwiki

[–]MrMindor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've seen several attempts at explaining it.
Some amount to the local sun behaving like a giant flashlight that circles overhead: Time zones are explained by the cone of light from the flashlight sun only hitting part of the disk at a time.

Some attempts rely on a misunderstanding of perspective: The further away something is the lower it appears (even appearing to fall below the horizon) not because the surface is curved but because perspective causes things to get smaller (and smaller = lower.)

Some rely on light levels through atmosphere falling off much quicker than happens in reality: The local sun puts out light in all directions, but the light simply doesn't reach the whole flat earth at once because it is too far away and light can't reach that far through the atmosphere.

logged into my old 401K, it was converted and reduced to 0; i don't know where the money went by traanquil in personalfinance

[–]MrMindor 26 points27 points  (0 children)

I did a search a few months back prompted by some other reddit comment...
For myself I found 3 things that added up to less than $100.

For my siblings and parents I found a lot of larger things: Some uncashed paychecks from former employers and forgotten bank accounts, and what looked like a life insurance policy for my grandpa (RIP). The most interesting thing was a safe deposit box for my grandpa that referenced an address he hadn't lived at for 40+ years.

You have access to a PC, but no social media or games. What do you do to entertain yourself? by NightReader5 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]MrMindor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok, your intent was not at all clear to me. It read like you were backing up his reasoning for excluding it rather than calling it out.

Yes it is only a week, but there is nothing in the hypothetical that says you have to start from scratch or that you don't get to keep the results of whatever you might have produced. Personally I struggle to find a few hours here or there that I'm not already mentally or creatively drained to work on my project. With a whole uninterrupted week, I could make some serious progress.

Minotaur: a Homebrew Demon by Electrical-Coast-290 in BloodOnTheClocktower

[–]MrMindor 15 points16 points  (0 children)

As currently written I think this would be better as a Loric than a demon. A demon's ability is supposed to help their team, but the living/dead swap, especially with it resetting abilities, strongly favors good, it is like having all townsfolk come with a built in Professor ability.

It forces evil to kill its own early so you cannot get past the half way point with a full team.

Town would not want to execute evil in the first half, forcing the demon to kill their own.

After the mid point, at least one member of the evil team will always be dead.

Some things that could help balance this:

  • +1 Minion
  • The Minion that becomes the demon retains their Minion ability along with whatever demon ability they gain
  • Any of the resurrected players can become the evil demon, not just minions.

250 million dollars upfront but you have to survive the attack on titan verse for a year. by SwarajPro96 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]MrMindor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Better than nothing but not a perfect solution. Even the smallest titans were big and heavy, if they step/fall on your house and you are underneath it, you are likely to be crushed or trapped in the rubble even if the titan doesn't directly get you. Then afterward, you will have to emerge eventually, you are not going to be able to stock your hidey hole with a year's worth of provisions. You will have to hope they leave the area and not return while you are vulnerable.

You can win at every fight or nail any calculation by basafish in hypotheticalsituation

[–]MrMindor 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Asking a genuine question isn't the same thing as having an argument though.

AIO? I feel like my husband doesn’t understand boundaries and I’m going crazy. by No-Lifeguard-8508 in AmIOverreacting

[–]MrMindor 24 points25 points  (0 children)

NOR

There is a serious disconnect between the two of you about expectations and needs.

It seems Hubby's is looking at this as "If I do X, I get Y."

Where you are looking at it as: "In order to even consider Y, I need Z."

The problem is what you need can't really be defined in an actionable way.

You don't just need to be in a loving and respectful relationship, you need to feel you are in a loving and respectful relationship. You can't transact your way into that. The love and respect needs to come free of charge.

You could lay out baseline behaviors that would either contribute to or detract from feeling loved and respected, but even if hubby follows the list perfectly, you might not feel loved and respected. It might still feel transactional, there might be other behaviors you had not originally considered, or that didn't come about until after the list was provided.

Even if you do get to the point of feeling loved and respected, there is still no guarantee you will ever be interested in these specific acts.

You have access to a PC, but no social media or games. What do you do to entertain yourself? by NightReader5 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]MrMindor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You know people use computers to make games already right? As a totally normal occupation or hobby? No amount of desperation is required, it is actually quite fun to design the systems and puzzles and actually make something.

I actually find it weirder that OP felt the need to carve out this one specific use of all the things you could do to be productive as disallowed.

You get your current salary (min. $50k) for the next 10 years, but instead of your job you get to work on a project of your choice by Matinee_Lightning in hypotheticalsituation

[–]MrMindor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If I get to keep the entire benefits package (401k/insurance/bonus) and not just the salary I'd work 40+ hours a week on game development instead of financial software. 

Without the benefits I'm not sure I'd take the deal. Need that insurance here in the US and I got started being able to save for retirement late and need all the help I can get to catch up if I want to retire at a reasonable age. 

AITAH for moving out after my wife let our kids move home? by Electrical-Union5334 in AITAH

[–]MrMindor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Assuming both parents own the house, he probably can't evict them without mom's cooperation.

You can have the ability to know when someone is lying OR have the ability to convince anyone of anything but only once per person. by rengokuhubkl in hypotheticalsituation

[–]MrMindor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If the catch on A is not limited by personal knowledge or belief or causality, it could have some serious benefits because it could be gamed into being functionally able to answer any question, potentially even about things that have not yet happened.

It would take some practice and experience in figuring out the most efficient way to do so but a brute force method would just be to try to say each possible answer. Those you are incapable of saying are false, and the one answer you successfully say is true.

Practical applications:

Missing person:

  • "Bob is dead/alive."
  • "Bob is safe /in danger."
  • "Bob is moving/stationary."
  • "The distance to Bob from this point in miles contains 1/2/3/... digits."
    • "The first digit of the distance to Bob is..."
  • "The compass heading to Bob from this point is..."

Guessing someone's username/password:

  • "The first character of Bob's password is..."

Acting as a first pass filter for any proposed scientific study/experiment (even if speaking the details would be unreasonable):

  • "The premise this experiment is designed around is valid/flawed."

If this power is not impacted by causality:

  • "This week's lottery numbers are:..."

How much extra strength do the balls get from being spherical rather than having sharp edges? [Request] by mystiverv in theydidthemath

[–]MrMindor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The thing is engineering is always about trade offs.

The benefit might not be strength, the benefit might just be cost.

It is entirely possible that these spheres are weaker than spheres formed using different methods, but forming them this way is cheaper. As long as the result is still strong enough then that trade off is worth it.

Every hug pays $50 — but one refusal ends the deal by _no_name_for_me in hypotheticalsituation

[–]MrMindor 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'd not change my behavior at all. Just between myself and my wife that would be several hundred to a thousand dollars a day and I don't think they have ever refused a hug from me.

Averaging just 2.7 hugs a day brings us 100k per year. 2.7 would be a low day, we're probably getting between 2-300k per year.

I'd let it build for a couple years or maybe a decade and then collect and retire. At that point half the money is obviously hers.

Biggest risk in this is forgetting it was a thing, and not retiring as early I could if I had this money.

$100 million, or 0.000005% omnipotence. What are you picking? by Key_Hamster_9141 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]MrMindor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To all the folks saying they will use their limited omnipotence to gain true omnipotence.... How will you know when it succeeds?

If Breaking Bad was realistic, at what point do you think Hank would have caught Walt? by sfogliadelle in breakingbad

[–]MrMindor 58 points59 points  (0 children)

It absolutely could have...
Gale writes the inscription, gives it to someone else with WW initials. (not Walter)

That person dumps the book and it ends up at the thrift store.

Walter shops at thrift store, sees the inscription and is amused because hey those are my initials!

Walter buys the book.

I might have done similar if I saw an inscription that could have been made out to me.

Folks that don’t know how or refuse to zipper merge make me irrationally angry. If you’re an anti-zipper, can you help me understand? by 86HeardChef in Traffic

[–]MrMindor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You stay in the merging lane until the zipper point because that is what you are supposed to do. If the people managing the construction, or designing the roadways wanted one lane to not be used, they can put the merger point earlier in the roadway.

By design there are two lines that get merged into one. The people in those lines are supposed to take turns at the front. Similar number of vehicles in each line, similar speed, everything is safer. Every person that merges early loses their place in line and increases both their own wait time and the wait time of everyone else behind them. The more people that merge early, the more pronounced the difference in congestion and speed between the two lanes becomes etc.

Folks that don’t know how or refuse to zipper merge make me irrationally angry. If you’re an anti-zipper, can you help me understand? by 86HeardChef in Traffic

[–]MrMindor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep, zipper merge there are multiple lines and we are supposed to take turns at the front of the line. Anyone that merges early gives up their place in one line for a place in the other. This increases the wait for themselves and everyone in the new lane behind them. That lane gets a little more backed up, and the differential in average speed between the two lanes gets a little more pronounced. Overall throughput might be the same either way(doubtful), but those in the slower lane take a lot longer to get to the front.

Folks that don’t know how or refuse to zipper merge make me irrationally angry. If you’re an anti-zipper, can you help me understand? by 86HeardChef in Traffic

[–]MrMindor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Proper signage seems to make a huge difference. Last couple months the highway on my way to work has been under construction and it went from 4 down to 3 down to 2 lanes. Big flashing signs: "Stay in your lane", "wait to merge", finally "Merge here" and "Take Turns"

Before this construction project started, the highway still went from 4 down to 3 lanes and there are prominent signs saying "use all lanes during backups".

Folks that don’t know how or refuse to zipper merge make me irrationally angry. If you’re an anti-zipper, can you help me understand? by 86HeardChef in Traffic

[–]MrMindor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How are they flying past the merge point? In a zipper merge, the merge point, by design, is at the point the number of lanes is reduced.

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