They won’t do it so it’s not even worth thinking about.

They just happen to publish a new System of National Accounts (SNA) every time this happens. Last time it was to put more emphasis on R&D.

Ah, definitely not assuming that. It’s a tongue in cheek about someones physical attributes is correlatively to a behavior. In this case they assume that their name influences their behavior to look more name-like, and i said that their name makes them write this type of study. Same fallacy. There’s definitely some politics in there but that was unknown to me when i wrote the comment.

I really thought this was so obviously a phrenology study and it lacks any rigor that I didn’t have to say that.

They really busted out the AI calipers on this one. It’s literally looking at skull shapes. I only read the paper and didn’t watch the video, but people get the same result when figuring out if face shape is associated with criminal behavior.

I feel like it’s the only response when someone does a phrenology study.

This looks like a study someone named Yonat, Moses, Noa, Jacob, and Ruth would write.

I’ve woken up twice under anesthesia. When I wake up, I’m sort of frantic and they just zap me with more drugs and I pass back out. I honestly don’t think it’s a big deal and sort of cool I remember a little bit of the process. I’m not like in pain or anything, just awake.

It’s more likely they just released the rough percentages and someone natively did the reverse calculation.

I worked in government contracting as my first job out of college and the guy who sat I next to in the cubical worked on curating reports for various gov agencies. They would often come back to him and tell him that they number weren’t right and it should be more like ‘X’. He would then just change the numbers and send it back because he didn’t give a fuck.

Depends on the mouse I guess, which of course they’ll try to make as complicated as possible to seem like they’re doing something hard. There’s really no difference between a mouse and a keyboard from a HID perspective. The DPI setting generally only change how the mouse movements are interpreted inside the mouse, rather than fundamentally change how it’s reported over the wire.

I thought if we made workers poorer then it’d force a more competitive environment! How did this basic core macro-economic principle of neo-liberal economics fail us?!

I can bring two magnets close to each other and feel their fields interact so I know fields are real. Why not more fields, idk. What holds atoms together? Fuck if I should know, probably more magic fields. In the point of view of a photon, it travels instantaneously to its destination? That seems fake.

Any blockers. Yes many.

We’re not at war with China. China is our largest trading partner. Realistically we could never be at war with China because our lives would be terribly hard without them. Stop wanting to be at war with China. Do they realize what that means???

Yeah, it’s a major consideration when determining if a merger should happen, e.g. Krogers. Just because its more efficient doesn’t mean you get consumer benefit because you should expect them to profit maximize with monopoly rents. I mean definitely +1 on nationalize them rather than let capitalism go unfettered, but I’m making a general observation that large companies can only be large because they can extract monopoly rents, rather than just a barrier to entry to match efficiencies of scale thing.

I hope they know they’ll become old one day and will need your help, I hope you remind them of how shitty they treated you and you get closure.

Large companies can only exist if they receive monopoly rents. Otherwise incumbents would be outcompeted by challengers and we’d see a convergence of many small firms with low profit margins. So yeah, its the responsibility of the government to regulate monopolization and they aren’t doing it.

Glad they’ll overflow so I can still go rat spotting.

Meat glue (Transglutaminase) is a heavily used food additive in the US and is GRAS (generally recognized as saf). Manufacturers don’t need to report in their ingredients because supposedly the enzyme deactivates when it heats up. I was playing around with it in bread making to increase the amount of gluten in bagels. I stopped when I read some research papers that the health effects were not clearly understood and some people have raised some alarm bells that it might not be.

Huh, I always thought you were Ed from division 5. They keep things so tight lipped around here it’s always hard to tell. Our weekly entrapment quota has turned into drinks at the bar with coworkers so frequently they revoked our slush fund and we have to bring six packs.