Of course they exist, but they’re likely not factored in to the cost of the good you’re purchasing. The worker isn’t going to make any more money if you buy a product. (Unless there’s a commission, I suppose)
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When you buy something from a big corporation, unless you’re tipping (and frequently even if you are tipping) usually $0 goes to the workers. It all goes to the company.
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I haven’t done it in a bit, but you should be able to do Windows startup repair from a USB (possibly a Windows install USB), which I believe can restore the bootloader. I’d recommend disconnecting all drives other than the Windows one when doing the repair.
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Ah, gotcha. Sorry about the confusion.
OpenRCT2 ditched assembly tho. They wrote it entirely in C++.
visor841@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•How is the calories meter on exercise bikes accurate1·7 months agodeleted by creator
visor841@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•How is the calories meter on exercise bikes accurate51·7 months agoOn a theoretical level, food calories represent a specific amount of energy that can be extracted from food. So some kind of calculation could probably be made as to how much work is required to operate the exercise bike, which probably depends on your height and weight. That work uses a certain amount of energy, which is probably equated into calories.
All that said, I have no idea how accurate that would be. And in the end IIRC there’s a bunch of other factors that affect how humans burn calories and gain or lose weight, so in the end the calorie burning stats only really need to be comparable to other calorie burning stats. So I think the bigger question is: Do different exercise equipment types put out comparable numbers?
That’s fair, but by that accounting it’s probably better to say that when you buy something for $10, $1 goes to the worker, $1 goes to the company, and $8 goes to other companies who then pay their workers, etc.