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Excellent book indeed. Was monumentally influential in changing my perspective on the world.

Well let me be a data point to the contrary for you.

How this is that different from inline CSS or e.g. Tailwind? How is writing CSS in the HTML a good thing?

Maybe if your site is 100% static.

We've opted for colloquial transference (e.g. I had breakfast at 7 => always AM, no matter what timezone) over a standardized measure.

It makes sense honestly, noon "feels like" noon no matter where you are in the world. But the ease of use of e.g. Unix time shows the cost of using timezoned times.

Absolutely blatant. Almost certainly nothing will happen.

Why can the people who make laws and are privy to some of the most private/sensitive information in the world trade on public markets?

Let's just ignore insider trading. At the very least... isn't it an inevitable conflict of interest?!

I had to disable autocomplete recently, neither autocomplete="false" or autocomplete="off" worked. MDN (source below) indicates using "new-password, but in my experience passing in any random string to the autocomplete attribute did work.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Securi...

You're not necessarily wrong but it just doesn't feel like the right context to share this perspective, given the subject matter of the OP.

This comes off as extremely insensitive and tone deaf to me.

Big government here meaning the intersection between Big Business, Big Lobby and Big "Government". The War on Drugs wouldn't have near the legs it does if it wasn't aggressively lobbied for by private prisons, alcohol distributors, and pharmaceutical companies.

Agreed, and that brings up a very interesting discussion of prejudice in modeling the world. Everyone views the world differently and it seems to me of vital importance that any attempts to model the real world for RL are as unbiased as possible. Or more realistically, incorporate as many different biases as possible.

Based on what I've read about working in the games industry, joy is fleeting between ridiculous crunches, which seem to be nearly ubiquitous.

I think for companies like Activision, EA, analytics drive a massive amount of their decision making.

I would even go so far as to posit that Blizzard (a master of psychological manipulation), most decisions are driven by analytics based optimization for engagement FIRST, then mechanics and creative design get to come play.

I have no evidence, nor am I an insider, just an observer and scholar of games.

See previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2562201

We had everyone on this at work. Have since switched to the Great Discarder. Not quite as good, but still gets the job done.

I think there's a tremendous irony in this response. Disregarding the "accuracy" of your claims or my own political viewpoints, it seems to me that you are demonstrating the same phenomenon that was discussed in the OP.

Ronald Reagan happened.