chatoyance

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by chatoyance 5y ago
What I dislike about shopping is self checkout. It feels like scabbing and stealing jobs from workers while making customers do their work for free. It seems like customers will eventually have to stock the shelves should it become any more
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by chatoyance 5y ago
China isn't taking Taiwan risking nuclear war. Xi may say it's a goal, but it is likely merely promised vaporware to rally the Party.
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by chatoyance 5y ago
Grainy photographs and elaborate tales are very important.
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by chatoyance 5y ago
X Is Better than Being Y? X:Y - Apples:oranges, Creativity:rational, etc. "Smart" is a point-in-time inference by a perceiver as an impression of a performant interaction. The reality is messy: multidimensional, inconsistent, and
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by chatoyance 5y ago
Happy birthday, Dave! She's from meee.
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by chatoyance 5y ago
Managers need to be no nonsense and direct in order to be respected. PS: I think voting needs to be disambiguated orthogonal to agreeing/disagreeing (because it vital to community health rather than quietly-silenced) but split into dim
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by chatoyance 5y ago
Career development/advancement and a raise.
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by chatoyance 5y ago
Dark Helmet: I am your CNLabelContactRelationFathersBrothersNephewsCousinsFormerRoommate. Lone Star: So what does that make us? Dark Helmet: Absolutely nothing.
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by chatoyance 5y ago
tldr: No more fully-functional 3rd-party screen replacements for now. These practices should be deem illegal and anticompetitive.
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by chatoyance 5y ago
Lots of excuses and dodges reminiscent of antimasking. And more effort put into justifications than a solution to be done with it. Privacy, integrity (bit flips), and JS injection risks are just some of the reasons to deliver all sites by H
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by chatoyance 5y ago
Starbucks effect
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by chatoyance 5y ago
Wouldn't an innovative solution be to facilitate peaceful innovation wherever it is found rather than demonizing an ascending superpower?
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by chatoyance 5y ago
Economic warfare. It sucks but it's a thing.
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by chatoyance 5y ago
Superstitions around the world are interesting because they often seem so completely arbitrary. IMHO, superstitions are ritual tribal beliefs, false knowledge, overactive risk aversion, and false modesty.
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by chatoyance 5y ago
I was prescribed fish oil (EPA omega-3) for ADHD. 3g/day. It seems like the dietary ratio of omega-3:6:9 is the most important. IIRC, canola is often used because it's cheap. Personally, I use small amounts of avocado oil or butte