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For you, the day my Hawaiian shirt graced our workplace was the most important day of your life. For me, it was Friday.

(I wear mine on Tuesdays.)

Personally, for me, it dipped pretty far into uncanny valley from its execution. I'll concede the notion is pretty funny though, having experienced the same from my stint in IT.

From what I can gather, it appears that a large amount of industry in Japan relies (or did at some time) on the long flowering cycle causing continual growth of the bamboo stalks, only further complicated by the cloning process that likely cuts from the same plants.

It's just like power in any other form; legitimate power comes from the ability to influence others, but exercising that power to coerce others is a trade. If Google wants that power back, they need to earn it.

There was one episode where Sheldon spends a considerable amount of time ranting about Windows 8 with no relevance to the plot at hand, laugh tracks abound. I haven't watched since.

It genuinely made me uncomfortable; not because I like Windows 8, mind you. It was just so uncanny and out of place.

I'm still an oddity among my friends for playing Nethack, Dwarf Fortress, and various MUDs over the current graphical offerings. Something about those games and the level of detail afforded to being purely in text, without the graphical overhead, makes them endlessly entertaining and full of depth to me.

Not to say there aren't some great games out there today that manage both, like Rimworld for example.

I'd imagine the fee would need to be at least a bit more rewarding than the current punishment is punishing.

Ah, I see. You mean to say that the governing body concerned with money laundering would pay the financial institution. I was under the impression the finder's fee would be attributed to the employee, by the financial institution (a silly thought on my end).

Of course, it all wraps back around; the bank would need to have some sort of incentive to lobby for this, and given that they are potentially making money hand over fist not to, and given the current allegations against the governing body...

Why would lobbyists work towards rewarding those who flag money laundering transactions when, presumably as presented by the parent comment, they make money off of these transactions? If anything, they would be lobbying against a finder's fee.

If we take the parent comment to be true, the fees levied against the institution for being caught (provided they can't worm their way out of it in the first place) are merely a slap on the wrist.

I'd also add it will probably put some pressure on the United States to legitimize them again as well

Volunteering is what got me into this business in the first place. As a youth that really didn't know where I was going, I volunteered at a community garden to stay busy, and the person running it was a software engineer. Volunteering is great if even just to expose one to new points of view, as it attracts all types.

Interesting. I guess I was fooled then when I took a cursory look at the specs (months ago), and only really noticed the first part. Definitely won't be buying into the trend myself.

Any ethical alternatives out there?

Thanks, somehow never noticed this article. For the record, my parent comment isn't rhetorical or sarcastic, I've just entirely avoided the trend and am not the target market.

It does appear that a lot of employers are dependent on younger employees interning before hiring them.

A few of my peers are working for the same company; the ones that interned have quickly advanced in pay and position, and the ones that did not have felt stifled and have not had a position change. The only difference between them is a few years of age.

As someone who is looking around at the same companies, I can say it's affected my decision to apply and accept offers.

Is there evidence that the big name home devices like Google Home and Amazon Echo actually collect your speech? I was under the impression it was just a small ARM board that uses recognition to execute commands. My mom has a Dot, but I am clueless.

It's not really a matter of scrolling and seeing their content so much as that there are people I'd just rather not be associated with. I've been contacted numerous times about people committing crimes or getting involved with radical political spectrums, and I'd rather just disassociate myself from a lot of the people I used to see or used to have relationships with but do no longer (these number in the hundreds, from a lot of other social platforms).

I also don't really scroll the feed anymore, so I'd rather just keep it to people I want to keep tabs on (close family, professional contacts)

My experience is that I have hundreds of people to snooze, and would rather just have a fresh start and let those people trickle back in if they want to. Maybe I should just make a new account.

My distinction is that, for many, being poor isn't starting from the bottom, but rather being in the hole. While they both have nothing to lose, someone starting from the bottom has a lot more to gain given they aren't paying into the trap of debt, and debt is very prolific given that student loan debt has been on the rise.

At this point, while I carry a Medium account, I refuse to log into it out of principle.

Agreed. Currently, the only way seems to be to go to each page and click the button.

At least in my sphere of influence, the word "poor" has changed from "has nothing to lose" to "is in a position in which they have already lost quite a bit".

For example, I and many of my colleagues are battling large amounts of student loan debt; if we were truly starting from 0 and had absolutely nothing, pursuing entrepreneurship would be at worst 0 gain and wasted time, but at best a successful endeavor.

Realistically, however, many of the young and poor are starting from a disadvantaged state where in reality, taking a large risk is dissuaded by the risk of defaulting on student loan payments or shredded credit scores.

What I'm getting at is, many people would love to be truly poor rather than in the pit, and being in the pit brings a lot more risk to the average person (who otherwise might have the drive or skills to really make something worthwhile)

Does anyone know if there is an equivalent to delete Facebook friends or unlike pages/leave groups? I really want to clean out my Facebook since I've had it for a very long time and much of it doesn't appeal to me anymore, but I don't necessarily want to lose the tiny social ecosystem I've created with my family.

However, I would like to remove the hundreds of friends and pages that I don't talk to/don't represent me/are mining my data even more than the platform is.

Well, Uber uses the Internet to communicate. I know which one would be more useful overall to me.

I think not using a few websites who use scummy ad practices (of which there are sometimes ethically reasonable alternatives, like this site) is a lot easier than never driving again, though.

Ugh, Medium is the only site I've had to consistently break out the "Block Element" button with. I don't even mind ads and I'm happy to leave them on sites that I want to support, but Medium is an ugly beast with all of the headers and footers.

I still frequent it for work, there's lots of great stories, but it's almost insufferable.

Not sure I quite understand the mechanics behind it as well, but I've been through a similar training program and it appears to be effective.

I can confirm that I want this to be true, at the least.

Even if it doesn't (and it does, see in same chain), it almost certainly is the progenitor of the prevailing culture found on 4chan. Maybe not the current trend as of recent, but definitely at it's peak.

This is especially striking and a huge step in the right direction, in my opinion. Oftentimes these days I've turned to emulation to older games due to the resolution on, say, PSX games being very low, but often easily scalable through an emulator.

I do hope the industry trends towards this.

Anecdotal, but I have never found SD cards to be a resilient form of storage. I frequently back up any important data from SD cards, which is a nightmare considering the sluggish read and write speeds, because I have encountered many instances of corrupted data.

My use case is generally portable gaming and older digital cameras, YMMV. Main brand I used was SanDisk, however.

SA truly had a massive effect on Internet culture as a whole, something I rarely see attributed to them. Spent quite a lot of time on that site as an adolescent.