I think you're spot on. But it's more than just that.

Large companies are often quick to shed underperforming employees, and if you're taking more time off than the person next to you, you're probably going to be underperforming against them. So, employees under this scheme will feel immense pressure to take even less time off than they would when management insisted on taking all of their accrued PTO.

Alongside that, because no leave is accrued (may depend on local laws), an employee that takes no time off won't even get that paid out of they leave.

If she was cheating, it's likely that she had a device available to her that either gave a "you're ahead", or "you're behind". On the river this indicates that she'd win the hand by calling, and on all prior streets it would indicate that she was mathematically ahead or whatever the person assisting her wanted to indicate. You joke about anal beads, but something insertable and vibrating is most likely the type of device used. It's not going be discovered on a pat-down or wardrobe malfunction or accidentally left behind at the table.

All poker players have "heater" now and then, when the right cards for you keep coming out over many hands in a short period of time, an hour or three. I haven't personally looked at her past hands from the days prior, so cannot comment. Heaters could definitely explain her wins from prior days, but a single bad call like the one in question would erase all of that and more.

Nothing is impossible, which is why no reasonable person has said "she cheated", but it sure looks that way, and very convincingly.

Lew's history is uncertain. Prior to the day of the hand in question, she'd played 3 days on the Hustler stream, not sure for how many hours, but likely around 20-30. She was ahead at the end of each of those days. A bad player doesn't have consistency like this. And a good player would never make a call like this. This is the crux of why this is such a hot topic in the poker world. Nobody would make this call, because it literally doesn't make sense. If that hand was replayed where Garrett had each of the other possible hands he could have, she would lose millions. Good players know this. Bad players don't make calls like she did and then are also up after 3 days of playing the same way. Cash games are all about the odds, and the maths doesn't add up here. It's not just a dubious call, it's not just a bad call, it's literally the worst call I've ever seen in 20 years of playing poker, and it's happened in a high-stakes game?

Hendon Mob's database of her prior tournament wins was apparently scrubbed after this hand. Doug Polk is a pro high-stakes poker player and has a number of youtube videos where he discusses all the events surrounding this. I trust his careful reasoning and analysis.

As a poker player, this is definitely a scandal. I think the thing non-poker players forget when watching hands like this is that the players cannot see each other's cards like we can. So from Lew's perspective, her hand is astoundingly weak. It doesn't matter if you think your opponent is also weak. You would have to know that you're beating them in order to call their river all-in, which was substantial. The board shows TT93A, with Garret holding 87 and Lew holding J4. The number of hands that Lew is beating when she calls the river is small (15, not counting for combinations with different suits). The number of hands that Garret is likely to have that she is also beating is essentially just 2 hands (87 of clubs and 87 of hearts), as all other hands would likely have folded pre-flop, or folded to her raise on the turn. Garrett could play this hand identically with AA, Ax of clubs, Ax of hearts, TT, T9, T3, 99, 33, AT, JQ of clubs, J8 of clubs, JQ of hearts, J8 of hearts, which I count as 29 hands, not including offsuit combos that made a full house or quads. Lew would know, not necessarily to the exact number, but that there were a lot of hands she's losing to, even a bunch that Garret might bluff with here.

Well, we'll see what their telemetry says in Metro - I'm guessing people will flock back to the Start button. Oh wait....

I want to hear about the patients who have been training 8 hours a day for 6 weeks. Do they have something better to do?

I'm in Australia, and was taught metric at school, but we only converted in 1966 (I think) when decimal currency was introduced to replace the British pound and pence we had. So my parents were all taught imperial, and growing up my dad referred to everything as miles, feet and inches. So, when asked to estimate the length of something, I'll use either imperial or metric depending on whichever will give me the closest to a whole. eg. I'll estimate a foot, or half a metre, or an inch, or a centimetre, whichever is most appropriate. If America "converted" to metric, you'd all have an extra method of referring to the measurements of everything. It's not going to stop everyone from thinking imperial. At least not for a couple of generations.

They wow you with eye candy and showing how easy it is to move windows around, and draw random lines, and zoom in on photographs. Who is spending all their time doing these tasks? Show me the same interface with someone doing real work, like coding/writing documents, or touching up artwork, or working with spreadsheets - the stuff we spend 99.9% of our time doing. Methinks the new GUI would show many many weaknesses.

It'll only be good if the audience is armed.

Nope - it only shows that you overvalued the item in the first place.

DRM promised to do all this to you and more. And yet, you purchased DRM-protected content? Hardly a nightmare, more of a told-you-so. Please, everyone, when content is only available DRM-protected, pirate it instead. This is the only way to discourage these companies from abusing us.