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Should be labelled (2013). Would be nice if I didn't have to say that; in so many ways the bloom is off the rose of my (admittedly high paying) corporate job. I even recently reuni…

I mostly agree with this sentiment, but I think it goes too far. > command economies have occasionally produced innovations by throwing enormous resources at particular problems, b…

For what it's worth, I (mostly) disagree with your detractors in the other comments and agree with your sentiment (I think). Markets care about "aggregate demand". Rich people can …

One interesting thing about WordPad (at least from the Windows XP / 7 era) was that it supported the complete OLE2 / ActiveX stack. This let you do all kinds of things like embed o…

The article mentions that you can track the Temperature of surfaces with an "inexpensive infrared thermometer". Then you could calculate the "operative temperature" as the average …

Hmm - TIL that Power of Attorney is not automatic for spouses (although I imagine it is set up practically by default for most people who get married, and the laws differ by state)…

Hmm, this is a bit of an exaggeration. The Gamecube was considerably more powerful than the PS2, (and Microsoft took a huge dive on the original XBOX hardware in order to compete -…

Depends on the location, many of the best arcades in Japan are multiple floors, and each floor usually has a theme, so like the ground floor is crane games, and then a floor for sh…

Some indies still make arcade games - Killer Queens comes to mind, and I'm pretty sure Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Shredder's Revenge got a full on coinop release. Of course, Japa…

Huh. I'm a huge fan of instrumental music. I encountered Plini and Nick Johnston and through them discovered my favorite guitarist, Guthrie Govan. Then through him discovered his b…

Hmm, I like the thrust of your point, here, and I do think that when people think critically about the news, they aren't "stupid and credulous". But Gell-Mann amnesia is a real thi…

So, given the title and how stressful the last couple of weeks have been, I was sadly disappointed when this wasn't about drawing cute black and white bears. I mean, data analysis …

Stadia devs released a bit of a going-away gift. It's surprisingly fully featured for an advanced version of "Snake," and free to play (for at least the last week Stadia is up as a…

Hmm - I'm not sure if it supports or opposes your point, but Walker was also supported and interviewed by Andrew Huberman. https://hubermanlab.com/dr-matthew-walker-the-science-and…

> The more desserts they get more likely they are to use a thermonuclear weapon in Ukraine. I'm still confused when people assert there's any chance Putin will use a nuke in Ukrain…

This was nice - I woke up in the middle of the night with some anxiety and insomnia and this was just what I needed; a dark background theme would have helped with the bright recta…

Ugh. I'm actually nervous about the fact that real wages rose along with this bump. > There also was some good news for workers in the August report, as real average hourly earning…

To be fair, it could still be argued that this is "worse for labor", because there would be more competition among laborers for those job openings. They'd have less negotiating pow…

I can think of two major things which make me feel good about the future - 1) Medicine continues to do amazing things. I'm kinda amazed at how quickly everyone forgot about how awe…

Veterinarian? I mean, yes, a lot of "low status" jobs are dominated by women, and this is an unfortunate pattern, but I don't think the gender is driving the status, or the attriti…