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by sharkweek 2y ago
Neal.fun keeping weird internet alive, one micro game at a time. Other favorites: * Absurd Trolley Problem: https://neal.fun/absurd-trolley-problems/ * Password game: https://neal.fun/password-game&#x2F
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by sharkweek 2y ago
This is correct. While there are certainly dark patterns and pain in the ass retention process hoops the company might try and make you jump through, putting in email that you want to cancel, calling and escalating until you talk to someone
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by sharkweek 2y ago
As an apple connoisseur myself I’ve switched from honeycrisp to cosmic crisp over the last three years and I’m never going back. I’m fully aligned I eat apples for the texture above all else, with flavor being important but nothing close to
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by sharkweek 2y ago
When I owned a small business every letter from the IRS, no matter how benign, was nightmare inducing. Never got anything serious from them as most were “we’ve update some random piece of info on your profile” notifications, but still made
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by sharkweek 2y ago
I remember in college (early 00s when music piracy was huge) someone set up a site where you could enter an email and it’d send them a fake letter from the RIAA about the downloading they were doing. Sent one to my college roommate and sat
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by sharkweek 2y ago
Amazing idea. I’m sure the person on the line is… not used to this. I remember one time having a super helpful person at Home Depot walk me through a home project I needed some advice on so I asked to talk to their manager to compliment&#x2
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by sharkweek 2y ago
Looks at resume Well for starters I was in grocery right out of college as a junior buyer for a major chain that I enjoyed enough but after a bit… Was curious about digital marketing so I got a small company to take a chance on me where I
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Why Is Everyone 'Sober-Ish' All of a Sudden?(wsj.com)
2 points by sharkweek 2y ago|0 comments
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Cash reconciliation: Aligning transaction activity with Federal Reserve data(increase.com)
8 points by sharkweek 2y ago|0 comments
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Black Plastic Kitchen Tools Might Expose You to Toxic Chemicals(nytimes.com)
31 points by sharkweek 2y ago|4 comments
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by sharkweek 2y ago
Thank you for sharing your story. It’s something I think about a lot as my parents/in-laws age (I’m 40 and parents all in their 70s in decent health but feels like a matter of time… already a few cancer scares). I’m curious if you work
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by sharkweek 2y ago
I drive a 2000 4Runner. You know what I love? Physical controls for heat/radio/shifting etc. It feels precise and tactile. My wife refuses to drive it, she much prefers the modern luxuries in cars, but there is something so satisf
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by sharkweek 2y ago
With any form of investor expecting a return I dunno how possible this is, but I’ve worked for one family owned business (non-tech industry but had a small tech team) and it was super relaxed like you mention. No investors, no board of dire
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Shoplifters Gone Wild(theatlantic.com)
10 points by sharkweek 2y ago|2 comments
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by sharkweek 2y ago
Yeah I’m pretty sure it is. If I had the guts (no way) I’d ask “is this a planned forced attrition to get people to quit to avoid having to conduct layoffs?” But I’m at a point in my career where I kinda just keep my head down.
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by sharkweek 2y ago
Company I work for implemented more RTO recently and when someone asked in an all hands for data showing that the first RTO decision was leading to an improvement in productivity or some other key metric and the CTO responded saying (paraph
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by sharkweek 2y ago
Nick Clegg (public affairs guy at FB) is currently lobbying to get VR headsets on schoolchildren. I can't think of anything I want less than my kids wearing those things while in class all day. https://nickclegg.medium.com&#
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by sharkweek 2y ago
Like a private plane to commute from California to Seattle every week to work in office! https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/starbucks-ceo-commute-priva...
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Gen Z Strikes Back(businessinsider.com)
4 points by sharkweek 2y ago|1 comments
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Tour de France time trial helmets, ranked by how little I'd like to be in them(escapecollective.com)
23 points by sharkweek 2y ago|3 comments
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by sharkweek 2y ago
My young son is really getting into tennis and I grew up playing as well so I’m excited. It’s hard not to let my imagination run wild about him walking out center court at Wimbledon (okay fine I’d take the French Open too), with me in the s
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by sharkweek 2y ago
Agreed - I've almost never called [Insert Service Provider Here] and had one of their automated responses be helpful in any meaningful way. I'm calling because I have what seems like an exception to deal with. I learned pretty qui
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by sharkweek 2y ago
Agreed, I'm convinced there are two forces at work here (a little tinfoil hatty maybe, I'll admit): - Local (city/state) governments who want to bring people into downtown areas to spend money are threatening to revoke tax br
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by sharkweek 2y ago
>every album available in high quality lossless FLAC. In college I ate up an entire hard drive downloading the bootleg discography of Pearl Jam live shows in the hugest quality I could find. Not sure why I needed 50+ live versions of the
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by sharkweek 2y ago
Drastically missed this point when I thought I’d be able to make a huge impact at a small startup. Relative, maybe true. But now I work at a pretty big company after multiple startups, and if I improve any key metric by like 1% it’s a massi
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Melinda French Gates Leaving the Gates Foundation(gatesfoundation.org)
2 points by sharkweek 2y ago|2 comments
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by sharkweek 2y ago
Sidebar: Helldivers II is not a genre I’d normally enjoy but I have absolutely fallen in love with the very rewarding gameplay loop and grind. I have never enjoyed spreading democracy more with my friends than dropping a perfectly targeted
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the US has more startups than VCs can support(pitchbook.com)
2 points by sharkweek 2y ago|0 comments
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by sharkweek 2y ago
“Do you care to know why I’m in this chair… why I earn the big bucks? I'm here for one reason and one reason alone. I'm here to guess what the music might do a week, a month, a year from now, that’s it, nothing more.” John Tuld, M
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by sharkweek 2y ago
“CIA Realizes It's Been Using Black Highlighters All These Years” https://www.theonion.com/cia-realizes-its-been-using-black-h... They also had one that they didn’t run making a joke right after 9/11 to the effect

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