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  1. So did they take out the M&M's or not? Don't leave us hanging.

  2. Whine, whine, whine. Sure, Lion King was theirs, but a lot of their animations were from public domain stories. If you really wanted Cinderella, you could make your own. And it would be better! With blackjack! And ... uh ...

  3. Re:Progressively worse rules; change packaging on Encouragement Without Education Backfires On Recycling Efforts (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Adapting mechanical washing processes to new yet standardized varieties of low-value packaging ? Sounds like a romantic evening for a robot.

  4. Re:Maybe you should have thought of that... on Paris Street To 'Shut Out Instagrammers' · · Score: 2

    Now let the (color-) coordinated photobombing begin!

  5. Re:Closing gender gaps selectively on A 60 Minutes Story on Gender Equality Accidentally Proved the Persistence of Patriarchy (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Then that's definitely a bad sign.

  6. Re:A whole lot of money... on Amazon's Joint Health-Care Venture Finally Has a Name: Haven (cnbc.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't know why anyone would even need to 'fix' it, considering there are multiple developed nations with (well-functioning?) healthcare systems that could probably just be dropped in as templates. At least one of them should have gotten it mostly right by now.

  7. Irregardless ... on Amazon's Joint Health-Care Venture Finally Has a Name: Haven (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    At least check out Atul Gawande's books, and in particular the summary about the use of checklists in medical care. I recall one of the main SQLite developers saying he bought a copy of "The Checklist Manifesto" for all of his subordinates.

  8. And how were you planning to verify the DNA?

  9. it's based on false assumptions. ... Skin color, not an issue.

    So *that*'s what it is! I knew something was missing from this exercise.

  10. Re:Fun "fact" on Why 'ji32k7au4a83' is a Remarkably Common Password (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    I've got the perfect password choice though -- 'yiersansiwu'.

  11. Re:Magic free money on France Considers Raising Taxes on Internet Giants (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    You can only "just raise prices" to whatever you want if you have a monopoly on a necessity.

    If the digital giants have no competition for their respective products, it may not be a necessity, but it's pretty much a monopoly.

  12. Get your adct together on Tech Critics Create Powerful Video Responding To IBM's 'Dear Tech' Ad (slate.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    With all the surveillance you're capable of, can you work on either getting this stuff right, or staying away from it entirely?

  13. Re:What this is about what you believe on Tech Critics Create Powerful Video Responding To IBM's 'Dear Tech' Ad (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm going with number [sic] C:

    C: Society influences technology influences society ...

    You know, sort of an active ecosystem, a circle of life kind of thing.

  14. Provocative quotes on Tech Critics Create Powerful Video Responding To IBM's 'Dear Tech' Ad (slate.com) · · Score: 2

    "that treat people as more than data subjects for surveillance capitalism."

    Considering the source of the original advertisement, *that* quote didn't make the list?

  15. Re:Improper Analogy on Ask Slashdot: How Is It Even Legal For Websites To Gather And Sell Users' Data? · · Score: 1

    And that they can be expecting even before he expects it.

  16. Re:Probably more to do with the worsening economy on Workplace Theft Is On the Rise (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you have a link to these or something comparable? I'm trying to get a sense of how nice these really are relative to the kinds you can order in bulk for hotels.

  17. Re:If you want to be taken seriously... on Workplace Theft Is On the Rise (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    The first one's a thief. The second is a "very enterprising young man".

  18. Re:fill out 5 forums just to get a pen? on Workplace Theft Is On the Rise (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Um, with what?

  19. So is workplace waste on Workplace Theft Is On the Rise (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    During an office 'cubicle densification' -- another form of workplace fraud, where companies steal square footage from their workers :-P -- in the absence of guidance, many people boxed up the stuff they wanted to keep and dumped out their office drawers into boxes, which probably went back out onto one of those pallets and likely straight into the trash.

    I expect this problem to go away within our lifetimes, anyway, with continuous progress towards ubiquitous electronic documents and data interchange in a paperless office. Pencils? Erasers? I'm surprised they're still even stocked in these cabinets. At least when they're stolen, they're being *used* in the schools where they end up.

  20. I'll make you a deal on Canada Allows US Extradition of Huawei CFO To Proceed (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    "So here's a deal, Chiiiiyyyyna -- you deliver us Assange , and we'll drop the extradition request on your CFO person. I'm a dealmaker, I'm the best dealmaker, so you know this is a great deal, for both of us, on both of our sides (appropriate hand gesture)."

  21. Cooperation is a New York value on Prominent New Yorkers Are Trying To Get Amazon To Bring Back HQ2 (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Yup, if there's one thing you can count on from them, it's compromise.

  22. Re:"Struggling" on Reddit Tests Tipping Users (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I can send you a bag of avocados and a loaf of bread, how's that?

  23. Would it possibly be better to bury these medications (away from a river)? How about mixing them up with something first to decompose/denature them, or disposing of them in used cooking oil, used paint, or other household products that are discarded in bulk containers? It just seems that anything that makes it more difficult to get rid of these medications is prone to making them victim to absent-minded cleanup down the drain.

  24. You're doing it wrong on NYT Reporter 'Ditched My Phone and Unbroke My Brain' (msn.com) · · Score: 1

    I even use an app to pretend to meditate. If I was going to repair my brain, I needed to practice doing nothing.

    Practicing doing nothing is, well, a part of actually meditating. So:

    • an app is available that *simulates* something you were actually supposed to be doing
    • you used it as a *substitute* for that thing, and couldn't figure out that it wasn't helping
    • ...
    • and you report for the New York Times?
  25. Right, the engineers on NYT Reporter 'Ditched My Phone and Unbroke My Brain' (msn.com) · · Score: 1

    at the engineers in Silicon Valley who spend their days profitably exploiting our cognitive weaknesses

    If they were that good at that, I bet the 'socially awkward nerd' stereotype would have reversed itself a decade ago. It's not the engineers you have to worry about.