Late states of some progressive diseases eventually affect eye movement too (ALS, for example) - so there are some use cases where EEG recordings could be important.
I'd take a significant pay cut just to never fucking deal with a health insurance company ever again. I've literally made decisions on jobs based on their health insurance plan and it's so fucking stupid.
Gambling addiction and various mega-jackpot ticket-purchasing fervors are an indication that many people can't really comprehend the odds. A human can easily visualize 1 (the number of jackpot winners), but less so the scale of the 292,201,337 chances you have to lose (Powerball odds)
If you had a contest where you asked someone to pay $5 to correctly choose a single grain of rice out of 10,000lbs of rice... I doubt you'd get many takers because you're confronted with the physical reality of the odds.
It would be harder than picking a random year between now and when the first dinosaurs existed.
>Is this so much more stupid than throwing your money away on useless consumer junk?
"Junk" in the form of physical goods still holds some level of value. If you bought $1,000 of random physical goods in a year you'd more likely than not have something >$0
>the fact that there are horrendous ambiguities (like between I and l) renders these fonts completely inappropriate for computational tasks like copying passwords or secret keys
I wonder if this is something that can be "evolved" out of by relying more on AI? We're breeding human biases into our systems, but at some point they'll need to grow beyond our shortcomings, right?
The court system should be able filter (and if that's a problem they should solve it on their end), we shouldn't just throw out an entire avenue because some people abuse it
Instead of talking about collecting anonymized data, these companies should lead with talking about how they can effectively anonymize it. I have yet to be convinced.
I have the opposite experience, without clear tasks and goals nothing gets done because people spend too much time bickering about what should be done. When something goes wrong, there's bickering an finger pointing internally instead of a call to arms and testing out solutions quickly, together.
My manager has also required that literally everything I do gets seen and approved by him before being entered into a sprint (I do UX a sprint ahead of development) and also before it gets pushed live at the end of a sprint.
His review queue is so long that it can take over a week to even get something looked at. This generally can put me 2-3 sprints behind the development team... which is awful because I really like our team and they feel like UX just slows the entire process down (I'm getting the work done, it's just the review process slowing it down).
I'm now dealing with two ends: pushing the VP-level to restructure teams to gain autonomy and the ability set their own goals (with input from the business, of course).
But on the other hand my manager thinks I'm trying to undermine his authority (technically I am, but he's completely unable to relinquish absolute control).
As I type this out I realize I should just look for a new job... but I do actually like the business, which is a bit of a bummer.
If you're getting frequent mentions that are "on-call" style "why isn't X working" or "when will X be done" or "let's meet immediately"... then your process as an organization is broken and Slack may not be the cause, just the facilitation of the problem.
I grew up in Springfield, MA — and I was seeing similar red flags reading his post about Cleveland. Springfield also has a very clean heart of downtown, but it's a total ghost town after 5pm and really only has one significantly sized employer (there are also museums and good places to eat in Springfield). "Clean" means nothing for a downtown area.
Real estate is also very cheap because no one wants to live there (few jobs, violence) and people struggle to upkeep the very large houses from the times when Springfield was actually prosperous.