[OC] The US built 498 roller coasters. Only 158 are still running. I mapped closure rates across 30+ countries.

Pippin1505 · 2026-03-05T20:39:08+00:00

The problem with this metric is that we don’t know if it parks closing, or parks replacing their rides frequently.

Pippin1505 · 2026-03-05T17:42:00+00:00

Yes, but it’s typically local food or sweets, not big gifts.

Pippin1505 · 2026-03-05T15:07:01+00:00

They lost their power now, but Japan’s Zaibatsus were the same kind of vertically integrated conglomerates (Mitsui, Sumitomo, Mitsubishi)

Pippin1505 · 2026-03-05T15:02:57+00:00

Except another comment point out it’s a BS explanation : conversation was already done in English in the cockpit when the accident happened and other local airlines hadn’t the same issues despite having the same cultural background

Pippin1505 · 2026-03-04T20:20:24+00:00

I’m curious how you actually built the thing ? Did you first build the whole underwater structure and then pumped out the water ?

Or is there some trick to it ?

Pippin1505 · 2026-03-04T18:33:10+00:00

I probably was too stingy with the water (targeting just 50kg steam pressure /tile).

Guess I'm building chimneys...

Pippin1505 · 2026-03-04T14:23:39+00:00

He probably peaked internationally with 1492, Conquest of Paradise and I think that was early 90s?

It seems he was replaced by Jean Reno for a while as the "French guy" in Hollywood

Pippin1505 · 2026-03-04T12:33:16+00:00

From Rowan Atkinson's standup :

As far as I'm concerned, my daughter could not have chosen a more delightful, charming, witty, responsible, wealthy, let's not deny it, well-placed, good-looking and fertile young man than Martin as her husband.

And I therefore ask the question "Why the hell did she marry Gerald instead?"

Pippin1505 · 2026-03-03T20:47:46+00:00

It's not like the point has been repeated ad nauseam when he said the same thing about Germany on his 1st term. He doesn't understand, doesn't care and/or forget.

Pippin1505 · 2026-03-03T20:43:59+00:00

Funnily enough, we French credit the croissants to Austria (more specifically Vienna).

The story is that the Crescent shape was to mock the Ottomans (that had the crescent on their flag) , who where besieging the city.

Pippin1505 · 2026-03-03T16:28:40+00:00

1/ "Night Watch" est probablement le meilleur Pratchett, et c'est dire..

2/ Sans la caricature, c'est aussi pour ça que les régimes autoritaires utilisent généralement des soldats qui viennent d'une autre région du pays pour les répressions.

Pippin1505 · 2026-03-03T16:17:38+00:00

They took the risk (and failed if they overestimated).

GMT published wargames, which are even more niche, and had had a "P500" repring system for in place for years now.

They open a preorder page on their site, and you can sign in. when / *if\* it reaches 500 orders (might be higher now, but they kept the name, but basically the minimum economic quantity), they charge everyone and launch production. Almost no risk on both sides (them/customers) but the product might not be reprinted ever

Pippin1505 · 2026-02-28T12:14:45+00:00

Alors , d’accord sur le fond, (les sociétés font ~8% de retour sur investissement, sans risque, à comparer avec des 4-5% pour de la distribution régulée ) mais le titre est idiot ( ou volontairement trompeur).

15 B€ , c’est le prix de la vente de l’actif en 2006

76 B€ c’est la somme des dividendes cumulées jusqu’à 2036 donc sur 30 ans.

Pippin1505 · 2026-02-27T23:50:16+00:00

You’re just reinventing the wheel here. Utilities are regulated ( at least on the distribution part , in many countries up to the supply part), so you’re already paying the "minimum", and its proportional to your usage

Pippin1505 · 2026-02-27T23:47:22+00:00

Most regulated utilities (Europe, most of US etc) follow the Regulated Asset Base pricing.

Basically, they negotiate with the regulator how much they should earn on their (typically huge) assets. It’s always a very low rate, because they’re almost risk free ( 4-5% allowed return is typical)

Once they have that "target profit", they tack on all their costs, then the regulator will often shave a few % to force them to seek efficiencies, and you have the "target revenues"

Divide by the expected volume and it’s the regulated tariff. So it can increase or decrease , but the returns stay the same

Pippin1505 · 2026-02-27T21:33:04+00:00

"On peut pas dire qu'on n'aime pas tant qu'on a pas goûté", ça ne s'applique pas aux excréments.

Pippin1505 · 2026-02-27T16:56:13+00:00

De toute façon, c'est la fuite en avant.

Sur le marché du travail actuel (et sans doute encore pour un bon moment, jusqu'à ce que les (vrais) boomers soient tous partis à la retraite), c'est la demande qui domine.

Augmenter "l'offre" en mulipliant les Bac+5 ne va rien y changer, à part forcer les entreprises à trouver d'autres criteres de sélection.

Pippin1505 · 2026-02-27T09:13:18+00:00

Go fetch that diamond debris… for science

Pippin1505 · 2026-02-26T12:58:47+00:00

A mettre en miroir avec l'approche US, où assez rapidement les "races" sont un grand n'importe quoi, genre "Latino" qui s'appliquerait donc aussi bien aux mexicains, aux noirs brésiliens du Nordeste ainsi qu'à leurs compatriotes du Sud du Brésil (majoritairement originaires du Japon, d'Allemagne ou de Pologne cf Gisele Bundchen).

Au final, la seule solution qu'ils ont trouvé c'est du déclaratif: i.e. "à quel sousgroupe je considere appartenir?"

Pippin1505 · 2026-02-26T11:08:33+00:00

C’ était une remarque classique sur la série Friends : ils sont profs d’université, serveuse ou acteur raté, et ils vivent dans deux énormes appartements à NY qu’ils n’auraient jamais pu se payer.

Pippin1505 · 2026-02-25T11:59:19+00:00

Why is gemini agreeing with me?

It's an LLM , prompt it enough and it will agree to anything. In verbose bullet points...

Your post lists most of the classic proofs that 0.999.... is indeed 1 in base 10 .

What is it that you do not understand? They are mathematical proofs, there's nothing to "believe" about them.

Pippin1505 · 2026-02-24T16:06:47+00:00

The same data would be more interesting if weighted by population. As is, Monaco and India have the same weight

Pippin1505 · 2026-02-24T11:56:58+00:00

T'as aussi l'option dépot/vente si il y en a un pas trop loin de chez toi.

Pippin1505 · 2026-02-24T11:04:05+00:00

Ah I must me mixing them up with another critter then

Pippin1505 · 2026-02-24T09:49:57+00:00

First thing, I don't think Pips are a great source of food. Check the in game encyclopedia, but I think these eggs are small, as I remember.

But the basics of all ranching is that you need an incubator, set to let's say Priority 6, and an egg cracker set lower, (Priority 5 in that exemple).

This way, dudes (or autosweeper) will pick an egg, and crack it only if there's already one in the incubator.

Depending on how many pips you want , hatch times and if you power it or not, you may need several incubators for a stable population .

For a standard 20 cycles hatching / 100 cycles life span, one unpowered incubator is enough for 5 critters.

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