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by musicale 1y ago
Good point - random or unpredictable rewards are known to be compelling/addictive for rats, and the same trick seems to work on most humans as well. Though as I understand it much of money in gambling is made from "whales" -
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by musicale 1y ago
Stakeholders such as customers, employees, and the general public are all affected by corporate actions, but they don't seem to have much of a voice in current corporate governance structures. Google's law says that "don&#x27
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by musicale 1y ago
I sometimes wonder what would have happened in an alternate reality if Trump had taken full credit for Operation Warp Speed and and named it the Trump Vaccine with an executive order to "Make Vaccines Great Again", etc.
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by musicale 1y ago
> we have entered the brief but enjoyable era where our research is greatly sped up by AI but AI still needs us Well that's comforting.
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by musicale 1y ago
The original Kim Kardashian was replaced years ago. This latest edition is just an AI-generated deepfake.
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by musicale 1y ago
Pokémon TCG seems to have turned into a contest among opportunistic resellers to see who can buy up all of the cards and sell them to ... collectors? Other resellers? Who knows? Which is a shame, since the game itself is actually fun. Or it
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by musicale 1y ago
Great, Apple is probably going to force more ads onto all of its platforms to drive service growth. In ancient times Apple prided itself on not polluting its platforms with intrusive advertisements, but the line has been crossed and going b
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Dragons are smart, and wary of human civilization. They still remember St. George and his ilk.
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by musicale 1y ago
When you lose (most people, most of the time), you don't have to pay tax on winnings because there aren't any. But gambling itself seems like sort of a regressive tax that preys upon those susceptible to gambling. Edit: at least w
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by musicale 1y ago
I can't go back to the low contrast and washed-out look of matte screens unfortunately. The nano texture isn't terrible but I'd only use it if I had to work with a bright window or other lighting source behind me. If you go t
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by musicale 1y ago
Stock prices have reached "what looks like a permanently high plateau."
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by musicale 1y ago
People (often young people and music fans) have been using sound to claim their own public space (while alienating and exiling others from it) since the days of boom boxes, of transistor radios, and probably earlier. But the sharp, piercing
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by musicale 1y ago
> Earlier this year, Irish Rail introduced new etiquette guidelines and a €100 fine for playing music or videos out loud on trains I am moving to Ireland immediately. Wait, are they also banning loud FaceTime calls? Please say yes.
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by musicale 1y ago
Hershey's standard milk chocolate bothers me (and many others) because of the spoiled milk/butyric acid smell, which is due to their original manufacturing process. However, some people in the US enjoy Hershey's, are not sens
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by musicale 1y ago
There is a DMCA exemption for jailbreaking smartphones. Not for tablets or game consoles though. The killer app for jailbreaking is usually running unlicensed games.
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by musicale 1y ago
Apple's contempt for compatibility makes for poor game platforms. It's also a drain on developers who have a continual maintenance burden just to keep things running with each year's new edition of iOS.
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by musicale 1y ago
> financially, subscriptions just make more sense sadly for the company, maybe
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by musicale 1y ago
This is amazing. Including 2-player couch co-op!!
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by musicale 1y ago
Maybe adjust it to "only bring the most professionally effective and contextually appropriate subset of your authentic self to work."
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I concur - the cost of this conformity is that creative outliers can be crushed, and their ideas (maybe important ideas that could save the organization from some dire outcome) can be lost.
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> Great, so you have to pretend 40 hours a week I think this is an important realization - you are in a sense being paid to play a role at work, and there is a script for that role that everyone expects you to follow. One of the benefits
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Bring your professional facade to work. Leave your weird, authentic, (and perhaps messy) self for the contexts where it will be genuinely appreciated.
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by musicale 1y ago
I guess you are on the "liability" side, possibly.
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by musicale 1y ago
Only advantage of dry skin seems to be less smell, even when you sweat. And feet being dry rather than sticky. But having more smell might be attractive due to pheromones.
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by musicale 1y ago
I thought the "work location" feature, where you set your work location to "office" or "remote", was pretty OK for letting people know if you are in the office. People do a similar thing with slack so you don&#
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by musicale 1y ago
The Secret seems to have moved from the "pseudoscience" (vol. 1 at position 45) category to the "spirituality" (vol. 3 at position 5) category.
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Comment notes it's outselling the iPhone 16 Plus: https://www.macrumors.com/2025/10/20/iphone-17-lineup-sales-...
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by musicale 1y ago
Intrusive, malware-like "security" software running on user devices introduces undesirable security and privacy risks. Moreover, universities should avoid the chilling effects of intrusive monitoring of faculty and student devices
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by musicale 1y ago
At many universities faculty and students ignore the locked-down IT network and use a guest network instead, or their smartphones. Unfortunately there may not be an easy way to access databases and other paid resources (e.g. via library log
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The disconnect between university IT departments and faculty experts - in security, reliability, privacy, law, etc. - at the same university (or within the same system such as UC) is embarrassing.

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