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> #MeToo

maybe best to avoid that https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_Too_movement

To be fair, a lot of the criticism is constructive in nature (not all of it, of course). Personally, I'd prefer that to pats-on-the-back.

They could support reproducible builds, then any third party could verify the binary they distribute hasn't been monkeyed with.

Maybe 1k for the index and 2k for a reasonably high-end desktop, so 3k or 10x the price of a quest. Obviously that's not really a fair comparison for various reasons, though.

Exactly, all-cause mortality studies always seem so prone to confounding factors. The abstract of the linked paper doesn't mention if they tried to control for anything. Granted they do acknowledge this - "He cautioned that the biological connection between phthalates and early deaths has not been established, so the study does not prove phthalates were the direct cause of these early deaths."

You can do 3D modeling directly in Unreal, but it's very limited compared to something like Blender.

But if a cheater really is subtle enough to be indistinguishable from a highly skilled player, is it really a problem? I mean, I guess it's "unfair" to genuinely skilled players but come on, it's just a game.

The Technocracy movement had a somewhat similar ethos, and gained a decent following in the '30s, but obviously nothing really came of it https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy_movement

Plugging a peripheral directly into the expansion bay would be awkward, you'd need to sort of reach under the chassis. $9 for the "pass-through" USB modules doesn't seem too outrageous, though.

This is the premise for a pretty funny Spongebob Squarepants episode (The Great Snail Race).

Gah, I'm beginning to think the git CLI is trying to be confusing on purpose.

They were able to completely shut down entire sectors of the economy pretty quickly quickly.

Bidets also sold out pretty quickly, along with exercise equipment, hair clippers, and so on.

If I was offered a job with great pay, benefits, and company culture, but all of my programming would need to be done in brainfuck, I'd probably turn it down.

Unless the miners themselves benefit from the work, there would still be an opportunity cost to them, no? If it happens to be useful to someone else that shouldn't matter, right?

Reminds me of how a rhinovirus infection can supposedly prevent sars-cov2 from taking hold https://www.bbc.com/news/health-56483445

Any idea why? I've heard Windows OpenGL drivers are less performant, especially AMD's, could that be part of the reason?

And then it removes any challenge in the end-game when you can just drip-feed yourself from the huge pool of potions you've been hoarding.

because management usually has no better way to determine how much you're actually contributing than how many hours you put in

Julia Evans pointed this out as a common problem in explanatory writing https://jvns.ca/blog/confusing-explanations/#pattern-2-havin...

It seems increasingly likely that if FB keeps ignoring these concerns they're going to get hit with some sort of government regulation. So I still think it's in their long-term self-interest to try and avoid that happening, even if we assume profit is really all they care about.

Is it common for companies to check the credit history of job candidates? Why would they care? they're the ones paying you.

it costs $27,000 to fire this weapon... for 12 seconds.

I remember reading a children's book about getting an orange for Christmas https://www.amazon.ca/Christmas-Orange-Don-Gilmor/dp/1550050...

Wow, quite a few, and this isn't even an exhaustive list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinct_in_the_wild

this ;)

> although your reference leaves much to be desired

Is NPR not considered a trustworthy source? I thought they were generally fairly well regarded in that sense.

European contact with the new world was pretty disruptive indeed.

Or you could be like Stephen Wolfram and walk around with a laptop harness https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2019/02/seeking-the-prod...

Could this be a reason why space happens to be 3 dimensional? Like, I don't know, maybe knots are somehow important to the structure of the universe and it couldn't exist with some other dimensionality? Whenever these "magic numbers" appear in math it always makes me curious.