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rapidaneurismon Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness

You might still puke, as the phone is correcting for the car motion, not for your eyes failing to move as commanded, or your ear accelerometer giving faulty readings.

You might still die, so don't eat poison berries please.

rapidaneurismon FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs

I do not understand the outrage, law abiting users have nothing to fear (TM) and criminally minded users (or undocumented) can always pay a homeless person, a few bucks to register their burner.

rapidaneurismon Algorithmic Monocultures in Hiring

Consider characters that look the same but have different unicode?

rapidaneurismon Algorithmic Monocultures in Hiring

Apparently the key 'hack' is to present white or hispanic.

rapidaneurismon Roughly a quarter of American professionals hit a wall in their careers

I'm a bit cynical :) there are other reasons to stay in a job, but the definition of market value is how much you can successfully interview for. So yes staying in a job signals that nobody wants to give you more money.

rapidaneurismon Roughly a quarter of American professionals hit a wall in their careers

Internal people are people paid more than their market value (otherwise they would have left).

rapidaneurismon Roughly a quarter of American professionals hit a wall in their careers

And if they do rise to the occasion you keep paying them the lower salary.

rapidaneurismon The UK Government's Low Value Purchase System Is a Waste of Time

Aren't local profits taxed?

rapidaneurismon SF startup is testing robots in Airbnbs, and trashing them, lawsuit claims

But that like costs money and/or time.

rapidaneurismon Can we have the day off?

France had revolution and guillotines, but the UK had a strong police force and good suppression.

rapidaneurismon What Were Ancient Greco-Roman Curse Tablets?

https://archive.ph/Kqh0h

It seems to redirect based on location, and the article cannot be accessed

rapidaneurismon Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent

Or started a company, and eventually ended up being convicted for lying to the investors? Who am I kidding? She is probably giving ted talks.

rapidaneurismon Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler

Especially if the device in question is linked to an enemy of the state and the people.

rapidaneurismon New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag

And how is blindly following a flag differ between a national flag and an ideology flag?

rapidaneurismon Do_not_track

It is a bit sad that in privacy enthusiastic consent is understood as failing to shout 'NO' in the right way.

rapidaneurismon How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt]

It is quite different, as an employee you can be convicted for what you were ordered to do by your employer.

If you do an illegal thing while following government orders you can only be convicted if your country loses a war.

rapidaneurismon Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants

Watt contains time already so watt per hour does not make sense. You might mean MWhr/hr which is the same as MW

rapidaneurismon US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid

You mean any non crypto payment system? :)

rapidaneurismon Habitual coffee intake shapes the microbiome, modifies physiology and cognition

It does not sound like an outcome that big coffee paid for it to be so:

Behaviourally, coffee drinkers exhibited greater impulsivity and emotional reactivity, whereas non-coffee drinkers demonstrated better memory performance.

rapidaneurismon Chimpanzees in Uganda locked in eight-year 'civil war', say researchers

Don't think of it as individuals, but as individual genes. A group of 10 with the same genes, that can eliminate a group of 10 with different genes by losing one individual (because they were fighting to the death, while their opponents did not) is 9 copies up.

An alternative view is that in groups with alphas that father most offspring, and status is based on the individual's ability to risk death. Genes in an individual of low status are already 'dead' so manufacturing instincts and hormonal responses that increase violence does not have a downside.

rapidaneurismon Chimpanzees in Uganda locked in eight-year 'civil war', say researchers

I think that 'hom' in homicide stands for homo so killing of (hu)man. I read your comment as lions committing homicide on hyenas which I'm sure you don't mean.

rapidaneurismon FTC action against Match and OkCupid for deceiving users, sharing personal data

In the clubs I used to go as a young man, it was both men and women that jumped the queue, and it tended to be how you looked and who you knew. Although it tended to be good looking women and rich/connected men.

rapidaneurismon FTC action against Match and OkCupid for deceiving users, sharing personal data

Interesting observation. Perhaps the business model is to push to you people 'good enough' to date but not 'good enough' to leave the site with?

rapidaneurismon FTC action against Match and OkCupid for deceiving users, sharing personal data

How do you know they are not commenting on old content? FB could be pushing old content like 'remember X from 18 years ago' and then someone comments about remembering their friend under an old photo.

rapidaneurismon Alzheimer's disease mortality among taxi and ambulance drivers (2024)

People with excess brain capacity are able to easily acquire spatial reasoning, and can (more) easily work/qualify for ambo and taxi jobs. Their excess brain capacity makes progressive brain damage more difficult to impact them before other causes of death.

rapidaneurismon Android developer verification: Balancing openness and choice with safety

If they add a switch people might use the switch. You are confusing the excuse with the reason.

rapidaneurismon The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal

An Irish man tries to enter the bar but is denied entry.

rapidaneurismon Employers, please use postmarked letters for job applications (2025)

Doesn't that open the door to discrimination? At least now you have to guess the sex and ethnicity from the name.

rapidaneurismon Employers, please use postmarked letters for job applications (2025)

I think it is an anecdote about a trading firm. Something about throwing the CVs to their desk from a few feet away. Only the ones who made it to the desk were considered. After all who wants to hire unlucky traders?

rapidaneurismon ASML staffing changes could result in a net reduction of around 1700 positions

Dividends and capital gains have different treatment in a number of tax codes. In the UK for example when you have high income the dividend marginal tax is 39.35% but CGT only 24% with a higher tax free allowance (500 for dividends 3000 for cgt)