chatoyance

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 "self-service."

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.

Grainy photographs and elaborate tales are very important.

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 relative.

"Curiosity" alone has no value without intelligence to navigate ambiguities, reconcile new data, and propose new inductions and deductions.

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 dimensions of insight, on-/off-topic, and seriousness-hilarity-or-pointless for sorting based on personal preferences (hide humor, hide off-topic).

Career development/advancement and a raise.

Dark Helmet: I am your CNLabelContactRelationFathersBrothersNephewsCousinsFormerRoommate.

Lone Star: So what does that make us?

Dark Helmet: Absolutely nothing.

tldr: No more fully-functional 3rd-party screen replacements for now.

These practices should be deem illegal and anticompetitive.

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 HTTPS. I hope HTTP is deprecated at some point.

Starbucks effect

Wouldn't an innovative solution be to facilitate peaceful innovation wherever it is found rather than demonizing an ascending superpower?

Economic warfare. It sucks but it's a thing.

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.

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 butter in high temp cooking and olive oil for refrigerated or room temperature foods.