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> It is literally why the game was invented and how capitalism works.

literally - "You Keep Using That Word, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means"

1st sentence:

> Monopoly, the board game, is often held up as a demonstration of capitalism, teaching players how business works.

I don't think I need to read any further.

I wish they called it Economic Social Sciences, to distinguish it from, ehm, sciences.

One thing I would like to understand is how much is this related/cause by the 2008 financial crisis and the quantitative easing policies.

The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins changed my whole outlook when it revealed that cheating and stealing will inevitably happen in any complex system and is not a question of morality but a question of optimal allocation of resources.

This.

The UX is horrible because:

a) Engineering: Nobody will rewrite 20 year old views just to improve the UX. In many cases, nobody even dares to touch the 20 years old spaghetti code.

b) Sales: The buyer is not the user. The buyer (playing golf with a sales rep) doesn't give a damn about the actual productivity of what he is buying.

c) Management: There is a solid economical rationale in not giving a fcuk about UX. Over the years, SAP outcompeted and absorbed many competitors that were more interested in UX than golf. Golf won every single time. Nobody at the top understands or cares about UX because it does not bring more revenue, it is a cost.

Source: I am an ex SAP.

You just described the fallacy fallacy :)

I for one disagree with the article. Naming fallacies is shortcuts, useful in keeping the discussion focused on topic. If we had to explain why attacking the proponent instead of the argument is not disproving the argument every time someone uses ad-hominem any discussion would have to be so much longer.

In my experience, it is mostly the people who fall for logical fallacies that complain when the opponent is calling them out.

What is this "star" effect on som of the prominent stars? Why is it only on some of the light sources? What causes it in a lense in general and why is it not correct for in JWST?

Thanks!

Slightly related: Communists cut Jewish gravestones to cobbles and used it to pave Prague historic center. The stones were discovered during a revamp of the pavement and are now returned to Jewish cemetery.

https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-46845131

Maybe this is the right thread to ask for help:

I am looking for resources on the technical aspects of creative writing. Like this post. Or as mentioned below, on using semantic line breaks https://sembr.org/

I am trying to improve my creative writing style but most what I find on Google is about the creative aspect and not about the technical aspect.

You have my upvote.

Anybody else concerned about the ethics of scrubbing intestines, injecting gas into intestines, then suffocation the mammals to death?

Are animals in these procedures routinely anaesthetised?

That reminds of one of the "enhanced interrogation" technique used in Gitmo where suspects were "forced hydrated via rectum" to cause often urination and defecation.

I am surprised Munsell Color system was not mentioned: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munsell_color_system

It is basically for when you want colors of different hue (chroma) but similar saturation and luminosity.

Typo (old clipboard). Thanks for pointing it out.

After a quick google search I can see some very controversial comments by Thenmozhi Soundararajan.

Hopefully the world is changing and demonising ones race, even if that race is white or Hindu, will soon be neither celebrated nor even acceptable.

> exploit labor

How do you define this? And no, "fair wage" is a circular definition, not an answer.

> Workers tend to underestimate a couple of things: Their value, their ability to work out and improve a workplace situation, and often also the ability of their superiors to change perspective and collaborate on moving forward.

I have several first hand experiences where a core developer (or original inventor) would leave the company after being refused a raise or a promotion only to be replaced by two or three less efficient (but not cheaper) developers. And we are talking supposedly ration and egalitarian IT companies here.

Thanks. And what does the standard deviation 0.13 means? I just don't know how to interpret the result.

Excuse a question from a total statistics illiterate:

> Using a transformation of the h-index as our indicator of research output, we find male research output to be 0.35 standard deviations (p < 0.001) above female research output. However, the gap falls to 0.13 standard deviations (p < 0.001) when years publishing is controlled for.

What does this mean? What does "years publishing is controlled for" means?

Good analogy, except the Mona Lisa on the wall is not the original, just one of possibly infinitely many copies. NFT does not automatically (or usually) means that you own the copyright to the picture.

That is something slightly different, but thanks!

> The cartoon, part of collection of cat images called CryptoKitties, is a non-fungible token

But is it? I mean, is the cartoon itself a non-fungible token? Or is it that just a JPEG (one of many) of the cartoon is a non-fungible token? Or even more realistically, is it that only a URL pointing to a that JPEG of the cartoon is a non-fungible token? :D

Massive Chalice 2, essentially something where you build your dynasty and all the shortcomings of Massive Chalice 1 are fixed.

Serious question: Why electricity and not hydrogen?

I really wanted to buy an electric car as our main (and only) family car but the technology is not there yet. And it never may be, because the metals required for batteries will probably become the next oil - unevenly distributed around the world with huge ecological impact.

So, seriously, why not hydrogen?

> [...] chronic soil compaction [...] negatively impacts various soil functions (9, 26). These are manifested by a persistent decline in crop yields (13, 27, 28), limited water infiltration capacity (8, 10), and a decline in other soil ecosystem services (29, 30).

It is a pity the article calls these effects as "well known" and does not explain them deeper.

> Oh, and also, Miller is hiring if you’re interested in joining the team. I want to change my tire! Get off my back, and stop trying to make money off me for one second while I solve this tire crisis.

So, you want someone to help you and you are pissed when they don't want to do it for free?

One thing that baffles me in corporate IT is not just the snake pace of development but rather the fact that nobody seems to be bothered by the snake pace. There is zero effort to measure or speed things up. The only important thing is to be nice to everyone, any mention of productivity is considered hostile behaviour.

(For reference, I am talking about cases where a team of 5 devs takes 2-3 months to deliver a feature that would take a single independent developer maybe 2-3 days.)