Yeah, makes sense.

You wouldn't happen to be a philosopher publishing in the area of social contract theory by any chance?

I doubt either party was actively looking to cheat on their existing partner. I think he and the lady in HR became attracted to each other. Psychologists say the top three factors for attraction are proximity, similarity, and familiarity. The attraction developed while they were working together and, quite foolishly, they acted upon it.

Another fun one from psychology is that men go through a midlife crisis, which tends to involve a lot of mate seeking behavior, when their wife enters menopause. Not hard to see how that trait evolved.

It's helpful to remember that we are animals and to expend the effort to engage our frontal lobes in these situations...

The music video for The Scientist is well done. I also like Viva La Vida.

Per TFA, someone reached out to dictionary.com support and received this response:

Sounds like a code rewrite. That's a great way to get an upgrade with fewer features than the original.

The developers ran out of story points.

These two sentences do not hang together, at least not over the long term. The people on the other side of your trades have more and better information, more resources (human, computing, capital, you name it), and better trade execution. It's possible to be lucky for a while.

Please track your performance net of fees and taxes against the same capital allocated to a low expense ratio index fund.

I read a finance forum, and someone posted there asking how to invest their $50 million of Bitcoin, that they were getting out. Apparently they did sell the bitcoin, reserved some of the proceeds for taxes (they hired a CPA), and used the rest to buy an S&P 500 index fund. The messages and followups seemed realistic. They were detailed enough and went on for long enough, that it seemed like more effort and played more straight than someone posting for laughs.

My brother's friend was really into crypto and sold essentially all of his holdings to buy a house outright. I think he kept a small position hoping it would go up even more.

I can't bring myself to invest in such a speculative asset, and it bothers me that the people who profited the most, at least in the first few big runups, were liberterian bros who believed the ideology behind "decentralized finance".

You get more than your daily recommended amount of sawdust in hot dogs anyway.

I bank at credit unions because I remember 2008. Fornicate the big banks.

I also find that a low fee treasury money market fund has better yield than most savings accounts or even CDs and is exempt from state income taxes.

I like their analog stuff: Control ICs for switchmode power supplies, load switches, gate drivers, linear regulators, opamps, comparators, digital logic on the rare occasion I need a gate or two. They have some nice isolator products. I'm not doing anything fancy though.

TI actually has competitive pricing on ICs. I do electrical engineering of commodity products at work, a lot of our customer base is in the US, and we use a fair amount of TI. They have nice control ICs for switchmode power supplies, for example. Also good for opamps, linear regulators, etc. These are all basic analog building block ICs. I guess they make fancier stuff too, but I never use it.

Is astrologer a euphemism? Seems odd to have two of them at the same company unless you're in a city where astrologers are popular or something.

This is a good observation. OpenAI is probably primarily staffed by tech bros who didn't take many humanities courses, are more or less blind to the human and societal impact of their decisions, believe their own bullshit about their product somehow improving the world, and are also out to make money.

Painting crassly and with a broad brush, but I'm basically agreeing with you here.

Oh god, you've come up with something worse than a third Trump term: AI Trump.

Just watched the Don't Be a Sucker film you linked. Would be great if the Army Signal Corps showed that in theaters again...

Love bombing is an older term that originated in the context of a cult, where existing members would intentionally show above ordinary affection toward prospective new members. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_bombing.