I feel like there must be more to it that this. Wouldn't any physical structure that's not homogeneous and isotropic also break symmetry in the same way. Does the room I'm in break symmetry as there's a different likelihood of hitting a wall depending on the direction I travel?
The x in "distance x" (grandparent comment) is very small.
"Very small" in this context is less than the lattice spacings, which for a typical crystal can be on the order of the wavelength of an X-ray (i.e., there's ~ 0.1-100 ångströms between the crystal's diffracting planes, so "distance x" must be a fraction of that length).
A typical room is effectively a <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_in_a_box>. If the walls of your box are good X-ray detectors then an isotropically-radiating X-ray source somewhere near the middle of the room will evidence an essentially uniform energy loss at the detectors, and and weak reflection from air molecules back towards the source. However, if you substituted the air in the room with a crystal lattice, the energy loss would be much stronger at detectors in some directions, and there would be strong reflections back towards the source along some directions. See <https://physicsopenlab.org/2018/01/18/bragg-diffraction/> for some details.
Symmetry breaking is very important to the study of condensed matter physics, including solid matter, and arguably it’s the reason your room exists at all.
> Wouldn't any physical structure that's not homogeneous and isotropic also break symmetry in the same way. Does the room I'm in break symmetry as there's a different likelihood of hitting a wall depending on the direction I travel?
Another way to think of it is that the business owners decided not to take some profit out of the business in order to improve the culture of the workplace.
I disagree with this but it may just be a style thing. Reading "Hey, how are you?" in the middle of the content put me on guard, I feel like I might be being manipulated somehow.
He's certainly playing up a character to a degree, but it's not too far off-base for a lot of folks I know who play up this kind of character when they're having a bit of fun anyway.
For the cooking show this guy's doing it's actually informative, gives good advice, and keeps it pretty easy to follow.
Very useful for folks who genuinely find it scary to cook anything that didn't come out of a packet or had more than four steps.
As a seasoned bogan, I reckon he's a bit over the top. I think if he cranked it down about 20% he'd sound more natural. There's a few 'fuck's in his videos that don't naturally fit into the sentence.
My favourite was the "mm! Get fucked." when the curry tasted good at the end. Don't know if people say that, but I knew what he meant.
Although it's not too far removed from (the very non-Australian) Stephen Fry saying "Fuck off!" responding to a Derren Brown card trick at about 1:50. Both are impressed by something.
You might be thinking of Groupon, from memory their origin story involves emulating software functionality with spreadsheets/email lists/much manual grunt work.
Groupon began as a collective action site called ThePoint - think love child of Kickstarter and Change.org. It was built out and functional but not getting traction. They shifted to using that platform to market deals at local businesses and it took off from there. It was code from the start. However, as it grew there were thousands of sales and editorial employees turning customer contacts into sales campaigns, but that's not really something that code could replace.
Pointing out the type of argument doesn't negate that argument. While I don't think it's ok to simply commit fraud because I think the company is committing general fraud in most areas... If someone runs up and steals my phone but drops their own, I'll be keeping their phone until they make things right.
The same goes especially for multi-billion dollar corporations.
You cheat me out of something, I will first attempt to right that wrong through the proper channels. If I am unsuccessful, I will right that wrong through unofficial channels. Within reason, of course.
Words work because we agree what they mean in advance. You can't redefine "shelter" to suit your argument. Just make it with the standard definitions of words.
