throwaway_75369

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by throwaway_75369 3y ago
Should be labelled (2013). Would be nice if I didn't have to say that; in so many ways the bloom is off the rose of my (admittedly high paying) corporate job. I even recently reunited with some old friends who chose a more independent
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by throwaway_75369 3y ago
I mostly agree with this sentiment, but I think it goes too far. > command economies have occasionally produced innovations by throwing enormous resources at particular problems, but for the most part they are stuck with copying innovati
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by throwaway_75369 3y ago
For what it's worth, I (mostly) disagree with your detractors in the other comments and agree with your sentiment (I think). Markets care about "aggregate demand". Rich people can be lucrative individual customers because t
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by throwaway_75369 3y ago
One interesting thing about WordPad (at least from the Windows XP / 7 era) was that it supported the complete OLE2 / ActiveX stack. This let you do all kinds of things like embed other types of controls (like canvases or images fr
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by throwaway_75369 3y ago
The article mentions that you can track the Temperature of surfaces with an "inexpensive infrared thermometer". Then you could calculate the "operative temperature" as the average of Mean radiant and the air temperature
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by throwaway_75369 3y ago
Hmm - TIL that Power of Attorney is not automatic for spouses (although I imagine it is set up practically by default for most people who get married, and the laws differ by state). ( https://www.google.com/amp/s/e
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by throwaway_75369 3y ago
Hmm, this is a bit of an exaggeration. The Gamecube was considerably more powerful than the PS2, (and Microsoft took a huge dive on the original XBOX hardware in order to compete - although it was indeed more capable than the GC). The Wii w
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by throwaway_75369 3y ago
Depends on the location, many of the best arcades in Japan are multiple floors, and each floor usually has a theme, so like the ground floor is crane games, and then a floor for shooters/shmups, then a floor or two for fighting games,
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by throwaway_75369 3y ago
Some indies still make arcade games - Killer Queens comes to mind, and I'm pretty sure Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Shredder's Revenge got a full on coinop release. Of course, Japan still puts out all manner of new machines with
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by throwaway_75369 3y ago
Huh. I'm a huge fan of instrumental music. I encountered Plini and Nick Johnston and through them discovered my favorite guitarist, Guthrie Govan. Then through him discovered his band The Aristocrats, with Bryan Beller (who's awes
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Environmental Activists Are Coming After Vanguard. Here's Why(barrons.com)
1 points by throwaway_75369 3y ago|0 comments
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by throwaway_75369 4y ago
Hmm, I like the thrust of your point, here, and I do think that when people think critically about the news, they aren't "stupid and credulous". But Gell-Mann amnesia is a real thing that educated, informed readers readily fa
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by throwaway_75369 4y ago
So, given the title and how stressful the last couple of weeks have been, I was sadly disappointed when this wasn't about drawing cute black and white bears. I mean, data analysis is useful and all, but not what the heart wanted at the
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Stadia releases internal testing game (Worm Game) for free(stadia.google.com)
4 points by throwaway_75369 4y ago|1 comments
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by throwaway_75369 4y ago
Stadia devs released a bit of a going-away gift. It's surprisingly fully featured for an advanced version of "Snake," and free to play (for at least the last week Stadia is up as a service).
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by throwaway_75369 4y ago
Hmm - I'm not sure if it supports or opposes your point, but Walker was also supported and interviewed by Andrew Huberman. https://hubermanlab.com/dr-matthew-walker-the-science-and-pr... Huberman has always been kind o
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by throwaway_75369 4y ago
> The more desserts they get more likely they are to use a thermonuclear weapon in Ukraine. I'm still confused when people assert there's any chance Putin will use a nuke in Ukraine. I'm far from an expert on Russian polit
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by throwaway_75369 4y ago
This was nice - I woke up in the middle of the night with some anxiety and insomnia and this was just what I needed; a dark background theme would have helped with the bright rectangle in my hand :)
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by throwaway_75369 4y ago
Ugh. I'm actually nervous about the fact that real wages rose along with this bump. > There also was some good news for workers in the August report, as real average hourly earnings rose a seasonally adjusted 0.2% for the month. How
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by throwaway_75369 4y ago
To be fair, it could still be argued that this is "worse for labor", because there would be more competition among laborers for those job openings. They'd have less negotiating power since more of them would be available to
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by throwaway_75369 4y ago
I can think of two major things which make me feel good about the future - 1) Medicine continues to do amazing things. I'm kinda amazed at how quickly everyone forgot about how awesome the mRNA vaccines are. Even if they didn't co
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by throwaway_75369 4y ago
Veterinarian? I mean, yes, a lot of "low status" jobs are dominated by women, and this is an unfortunate pattern, but I don't think the gender is driving the status, or the attrition problems?