Fun activity: whenever anybody posts a quote on a stock photo background, mentally replace the quoted person by “Adolf Hitler.” https://thumb9.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/1244710/225959662/stock-photo-life-quote-inspirational-quote-on-sunset-background-motivational-typography-225959662.jpg […]
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Refreshing the Brintey Tour club web-site as if it were a particularly delicious Skinner box… […]
I have to consume a web-service called “GetBSLegalEntity.” One guess, how do you think I mentally auto-complete that? […]
We need to complete the duality of “fight or flight” but for stairs. I wonder what a “fight of stairs” would be? A fat person having to get to the second floor but the lift is broken? […]
I’m the Platonian dream of an epitome of self-restraint. Whenever I go to Facebook, it asks me what’s on my mind, yet you don’t see your feed filled with one-word updates randomly alternating between “Britney” and “cake.” BRB, GISing “britney cake” […]
What Can Uber Teach Us About the Gender Pay Gap? – Freakonomics
Uber hates women! But really, this is super-interesting research: some researchers compared the earnings of men and women in an environment with an objective and gender-neutral reward algorithm. They ruled out standard explanations like systematic bias and working time flexibility and yet still found a pay-gap of around 7%. The gap was explained by: 30% […]
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