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It's also compatible with what I know about the business side of things. Google Brain/Research probably spent a lot of time and money in the neural network direction and still didn't have a clear way to productize it, so they cut them off just before they got there. Other companies were able to start where they left off since the research was public and make something with less time - making the investment in that direction look more attractive to higher ups.

Particularly in finance, I think a lot of these people convince themselves of an overly cynical view of the world: "They all do this - I'm just playing the game like everybody else."

When risk is involved, there's also often some hubris in the assessment. These crypto orgs obviously never intended to go broke. They probably honestly thought they'd likely have so much money that they'd cover their customer commitments without any issue. And if they did, they frankly probably wouldn't have ended up exposed and in legal trouble.

Which comes back to the first point: people cynically thinking all the orgs who made it big also did all this shady stuff but got away with it.

Yeah. Like... monitoring network activity on the VPN for security is one of the areas I would be surprised if the employer IT wasn't doing. I don't know why that would surprise anybody.

The 42S was also mostly backward compatible with programs written for the 41C, intending to be its modern replacement. It did have an IR connection for some expandability (this was pre-USB era).

I'll also note that, with regards to using an HP42S today, most of their LCD screens have not aged super well and have faded a lot. Other models like the HP15 and HP32S(ii) have LCD screens that seem to age a bit better for whatever reason (potentially the support for the menu and limited graphing behavior of the 42S required some slightly different LCD parts). I have all these models, but wouldn't recommend an original 42S to anyone but a collector due to screen visibility issues - my HP15C and HP32S are plenty usable still though.

I also highly recommend the Swiss Micro replicas if you like RPN calcs. Very solid attempts at reproducing and modernizing some timeless calculators.

Stardew Valley subreddit poll (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScdywbXfs07mL6OARU_...) had almost as many women as men.

Dragon Age: Inquisition demographics (https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/NickYee/20170120/289534/Beyo...) also boasts 48% female which is very high compared to genre averages.

There is likely a lot of untapped market in the RPG and simulation genres if games want to cater more to women. Probably less so in stuff like FPS.