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I think the other thing is the older generation are of the opinion that a steady paycheck is somehow safer than owning your own company, mostly because most of them never sat in th…

This is the business model for most of the large gaming companies at this point. Activision had three or four studios dedicated to Call of Duty leapfrogging each other to release o…

> How, then, do contrails stack up in terms of total warming? They contribute roughly 2% to the world’s effective radiative forcing; tackling them would reduce that by a similar am…

Perfect time to revisit the Futurama episode where Fry realizes he's rich. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JwkaLt9pf8

If we're only in the realm of video games, Nintendo has some of the highest prices for their games, and rarely drop below half price. This does factor in somewhat, since their game…

Small correction - Switch 2 MSRP is $449.99. 80/450 = 17.77% Also, the SNES and N64 both cost $200 on launch. SNES and N64 games cost $60 on launch. 60/200 = 30%.

In the last 3 lines on the right-side of the graphic. Fig. 2: Environmental architecture of mortality in the UKB. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-03483-9/figures/2

I'm pretty surprised they found *correlations between mortality and supplementation. I wonder how they can separate that from socioeconomic status. Also, I understand why they test…

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10346535/ Numerous studies have concluded that honey does have a better effect on health than the same amount of simple syrup, at least. > …

The article addresses this. > My first thought was to work remotely and use the 90 days permitted by the tourist visa. Yet working in Japan on this visa is a gray zone at best and …

In my experience, ONE thing will cause a game to trend towards toxicity - higher stakes. The more "important" the win or loss feels to the player, the more toxicity shows up. It's …

I have wondered if the act of passing personal accountability for retirement to individuals is part of the cause of the housing affordability crisis. I'm basing this on the assumpt…

A quick search led me to this review, which has a number of studies linked in references, including a few that studied humans. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9885170/…

I'm already getting personalized spam mail that's probably powered by AI ("use this API" type marketing in my work email.) I'm okay with this, even if I find it a little unsettling…

Other hormones don't get the same treatment. I'm not sure why only melatonin is treated as a dietary supplement when the other hormones are not. For example, you can't get testoste…

And those studies suggest that melatonin plays a critical part in your circadian rhythm, which kind of implies that adding it to your food would also screw with your circadian rhyt…

I'm not sure we should cover our food in melatonin. People would recoil at the thought of pretty much any other hormone being added to our food supply. It's strange to me how Melat…

I'm not convinced on this - with a large enough student base (e.g. most state schools), I think it's possible to find peers that would have excelled even at top 5 universities. Sim…

Games actively train a player's "skill". I define the player's skill as the player's ability to use the mechanics in the game to meet the challenge the game is presenting. The way …

I rarely use absolutes, but I don't think "tough love" is the solution to anything, if your goal is to truly help the person you are applying "tough love" to. As long as there's a …

This is pretty much my take on it as well. Once you hit adulthood, most able-bodied, able-minded people are expected to be "contributing members of society". But that definition is…

I might be reading into the previous poster's comment more than originally intended, but basically, most US textbooks, are basically written for use by US public schools. They are …

I recommend starting with reading The Body Keeps Score by Bessel van der Kolk. It gives a good "state of the field" with regards to therapy. See if any of the forms of therapy desc…

For me, the common usage of the terms "training" and "working" are not the same. In most jobs, we perform a lot of "working," or applying known patterns, and very little "training,…

They're a part of the affiliate program, and they are price tracking, so I would say they have implicit permission, or else they would have been long kicked off of the affiliate pr…