It's almost exactly 1 light-second away from Earth. I assume this simplifies some of the calculations for the doomsday laser weapon that resides there.

But the television keeps telling me that this is the golden age of television?!?

Guy who manages investments for a living has fever dream of people doing nothing but investing. Hmmm.

Today's games are cheap. Today's consoles are cheap. But console prices are not dropping the way they used to. There's a good graph in the middle of the article (after the bad graphs at the top). Consoles are sold at a loss (even at $500 or $600 dollars) so the pricing floor is different than it used to be and price drops after several years are more shallow.

Sure, if you're using chimps. But what about Capuchins? Can someone rerun this important study with Capuchin monkeys? How about it "mathematicians"?

"The port location... renders the mouse unusable while charging."
They don't want folks to use it while it's charging. It's a wireless mouse so they designed it to be non-functional while it's plugged in.

Users might have to adapt a little bit. Reasonable people can disagree with the decision. But people who write about technological design should not be entirely confounded by this 10 years after the launch.

If you took all the world's economists and lined them up head-to-toe, you wouldn't reach a conclusion.

It's easy to add because it does nothing.

Apple, Amazon, Meta all hemorrhaged millions of dollar when the office space market tanked. This has nothing to do with productivity. This is about recouping losses on office space. As others have said, there's no data to show that there is more productivity an office. There isn't. It's different. Some good things, some bad. But the reason compelling Amazon here is their enormous loss in real estate value.

In 2010 Armando Galarraga threw a perfect game, but the last out was lost due to a missed call. Umpire Jim Joyce knew immediately that he made a mistake and regretted it intensely, tearfully. The call was bad for the pitcher, the umpire, the fans, and the players. The incident hurt the sport, which responded by adding instant replay reviews. Today, most MLB broadcasts put a box on the screen around the strike zone and tell everyone at home whether it was a ball or a strike. The only guy who doesn't know what the call should be, is the guy that's got to make the call. You have to see how stupid this is. If you're excited by the anguish that the Galarraga call can cause, you should be watching wrestling, not baseball. There is plenty of drama on the field from the 18 guys sweating and bleeding to win. Call assists and reviews support the umpires who are making hard calls with a season on the line. If you don't want to use technology like that, you'll have to do more than putter on about dynamic and interesting subjectivity. You'll have to explain how baseball can survive another Armando Galarraga call. Truth is, it can't.

N=80. Nothing good ever came from N=80. Also, evolution doesn't work on these timescales. This article seems to say that people with the extra tissue are reproducing and surviving preferentially over those without. And at a staggering rate! None of this is true. The only way this could happen over a couple hundred years is A) a shadowy organization is systematically hunting down and murdering people who don't have the artery or B) aliens have injected dna altering technology into the water supply and it is slowly and methodically changing us into organisms that they can more easily use for food. ... And this is why I only drink filtered water.

The ticker tape shook and jutted as it was birthed from the super computer. Scientists and mathematicians encircled the machine in anticipation of the secrets it would reveal about muscle fiber and optimal mass increase. Everyone leaned in while the janitor, for some reason, read out the results of hundreds of thousands of computing hours. And the machine spaketh,"DON'T SKIP LEG DAY!!!".

Endorphins are chemicals your body produces that can make you feel more energetic and happier. The flyer is saying if you keep moving and converse with others you'll feel better on a challenging day. Maybe Amazon sometimes pushes their employees too hard. But if you gripe about every bit of copy they write, especially if you don't understand the words they use, then you're undermining actual arguments against corporate America.

Students are paying more and more for an education that is less and less marketable. Playing video games for credit doesn't swindle the university. It swindles the person paying for that "education".

A profitable mistake is never fixed