I am surprised the IGF jurors are having arguments about anything, I just assumed all these awards things were rigged for marketing.
I'm too stupid to drive stick. I wish I could blame it on being Gen Z but I'm too old for that!
Millennial optimism is back? I must have missed when we had it before.
On PC they complete near-instantly so they don't bother me, but my phone is old and they sometimes take a minute or more, which is very annoying.
First of all, I think this is a bit.
But (and this is my understanding, although I've never tried it) on Kalshi you buy a contract that says "if X happens, this contract can be redeemed for Y money" and then you can, in turn, sell that contract to someone else before it expires/pays out. So you can actually make money by trading the contracts regardless of whether they pay out or not—you buy at some price, and then if the contract price goes up (either because the event seems more likely, or because many people were buying it in the hopes of selling later) you can sell it to someone else at a profit. This is the sense in which it's like a stock market.
So there's like two layers to the joke here, one is intentionally misunderstanding the way Kalshi is like stocks (it's actually more like options, which do expire and become worthless) and the other is that sometimes stocks really do go to zero.
Remember that the people at the top don't have a perfect view of the organization. Nobody can really see up or down more than a level or two unless they go out of their way to do so,* and most people don't have a personal incentive to pursue that kind of visibility. I think there's a strong chance that your job exists because at some point creating it benefited someone above you, by helping to expand or hold on to their influence within the organization. It doesn't matter if you don't actually produce anything, the important part is that they were able to convince their superiors to give them a budget for this department, and the more budget they have the more important they seem, and also the more of it they can get away with siphoning for their personal projects.
You might say, but doesn't the balance sheet show we lose money? It seems like an obvious cut. But there's someone whose job it is to justify your department's existence, and they have a strong incentive to keep doing that because if they fail they'll lose their job too, so the people who make those kinds of decisions are being told this is a necessary expense. Someday one of them, perhaps due to receiving some incentive for finding cuts, may show up and start asking hard questions about what it is you do here, but until then the farce will continue.
*I mean obviously they can look at the org chart and the budget, but unless they're fairly close to your operations they don't know that you spend most of your time having meetings about whether to have more meetings; they're going to assume you do something related to the department's nominal purpose.
Do people remember the Gorbachev Pizza Hut commercial, in which the guy who hates Gorbachev for failing to hold the Soviet Union together is convinced that actually Gorbachev is okay because the fall of the Soviet Union allowed Pizza Hut to enter Russia? "Pizza is soft power" was basically the thesis.
(And yes, Gorbachev played himself in this ad, which didn't air in Russia.)
Wait weren't they "accusing" him of being vegan? Where do they think cheese and eggs come from?
All the time. Four-guys-in-a-line is one of my favorite genres. Final Fantasy 6 might be my favorite one.
More recently I quite liked Dungeon Antiqua 1 and 2, which are indie games. 1 is like "What if Final Fantasy 1 was slightly more like Wizardry (and also just one big dungeon)?" and 2 is like "What if Final Fantasy 3 was all dungeons?"
When I went to Japan a lot of people spoke English. I don't think we had any trouble. Everyone was very helpful. At one point my granddad and I were looking at a map trying to figure out how far we were from our hotel, and a guy came up and asked us in English if we needed help, and when we told him where we were staying he walked with us like 2.5km to make sure we got there! (This was in ye olde days before smartphones, so we were using paper maps.)
I think I was uncomfortable enough in the class we got, if they tried to explain pleasure and lust and romance I might have died of embarrassment right there at my desk.
Doesn't clicking the dislike button move the video up in the algo anyway? It's "engagement." If you don't like a video the best thing to do is "not interested" it on your recommendation page.
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