There are Money Market and similar accounts which act like checking accounts but have interest rates like high yield savings accounts. They typically have a minimum balance of like $5k or more so if you have a large sum of money flowing through the account each month you can still get the yields but an unexpected pileup of bills out of order doesn’t cause declined transactions

I won $40 on a slot machine and also wondered why people thought it’s fun

Edit to add a fun story: I went to a concert at a casino. It was a known metal band performing 70s and 80s rock music that inspired them, and most of the folks were there for the big name metal band. You have to walk through the casino to get to the space where the performance is so basically all of the concert goes just walked right past the slot machines and card tables and straight into the concert around 9ish, and then straight out around midnight.

Lemme tell you the old ladies getting off the retirement home bus at midnight to spend the early morning with the one-armed-bandit and the other old ladies sitting at the slot machines gave us concert goers the dirtiest most judgemental looks imaginable. I was a young adult and it took me a bit to realize how rediculous it was for the ones being miserable while gambling away their life savings in the middle of the night thought us concert goers who spent $50 to go spend a few hours seeing some awesome live music and walking out with shit eating grins on our faces were the ones making poor life choices

pay stupid prices to go watch

As a non-sports fan, my very first football game was in box seats that we won tickets to. The whole experience was brilliant. It was just a constant party the entire day, and it helps that this stadium is basically in the middle of a residential neighborhood 10/10 would absolutely drive for hours in game day traffic and sit in the open air stadium in January when it’s below zero out for that vibe again

Was it ever actually confirmed that Bezos was a prominent investor in that startup?

On some vehicles that’s the same speaker which makes the turn signal clicks and any kind of beeps or dings the car might make to alert that something’s wrong. I had that speaker go out on my vehicle not too long ago and it was actually harder to drive without being able to hear the turn signals and not getting the alert if i forgot to disengage the parking break (it seems to electronically disengage when you put it in drive so there’s no change in driving characteristics with this car when you drive with the parking break on)

I fckn hate these laws that force so much tech into new cars under the guise of safety.

Well you see, if we force car companies to invent magical safety technology to paper over bad road design and too many cars on the road, then we can avoid addressing the bad road design and too many cars on the road!

I think the problem is less that cars have gotten more expensive but that wages have consistently not kept up with inflation for decades now. I seriously wonder when the tipping point is where wages are so outpaced by costs that entire industries start falling over because there’s no demand

By memory pixel dungeon is also distributed through Steam

Ehhh depends on the exercise and your goals. If you biked 5 miles to get the ice cream and now are biking 5 miles home you definitely have enough calorie deficit for the day that the ice cream is inconsequential. But if your goal is to lose weight, filling your calorie deficits from excercise with treats isn’t very productive at all

For me it was estimation that unlocked the magic of mathematics. What’s the fastest way you can get close enough to the correct answer that the innaccuracy doesn’t matter?

For example, in salary negotions if you need to convert between hourly and annual salary take the annual value, drop 3 zeros and divide in two and you have the hourly. Or in reverse, take the hourly, multiply by 2 and add 3 zeros for the annual. It gets you close enough that you can know you’re talking about for salary negotiations, budgeting, etc. and you can let the computer calculate out the exact conversion for payroll and tax withholding purposes

It is really incredible how once you start reducing your sugar intake so much of the super-sugary overly-sweet everything everywhere just stops mattering because you just can’t stand to eat more than a bite or two of it

It’s amazing how much good just going “if it looks/tastes like it’s mostly sugar and unidentifiable calories it almost definitely is very unhealthy for you” is. My wife’s a big soda drinker and my kids are starting to hit the age where many people pick up soda addictions. I push hard for them to mostly drink water and make sure to tell them how bad soft drinks are, and when they get upset about seeing the difference between what I say and what my wife does I tell them “you can make that decision for yourself when you’re a grown-up”

Idk some people use their toasters multiple times a day, and at that point it can make sense to spend more on a better toaster

It’s a mix of things! Many racists don’t think of themselves as racist and primarily worry about actions to empower minorities because of the zero sum thinking, not so much because it’s helping “the wrong people”

Posting pragmatic advice of “don’t burn bridges” on a post advocating for committing career-ending crimes against your former employer is somehow anti-union? Da fuq?

I got laid off almost 2 years ago. I now work for the same company again working fewer hours at much higher pay. Layoffs aren’t necessarily the end, and they can very much be the start of renegotiating your position

You’re very right! There’s a lot of reasons to believe I might be an AI, such as:

• overusing bulleted lists and other common basic formatting features to improve readability
• uncommon grammatical symbols primarily used by autistic people in writing appearing overly-frequently
• overly bubbly, wordy and pleasant writing style that continues to respond even to terminating phrases and instructions to my own detriment

The verdict? I may in fact be an AI

So the researcher has posted on their blog over the past few months some rants about Microsoft “destroying their life” and vowing to continue to post zero days in retaliation, and has been posting proof of concept code for these zero days to their GitHub.

From their rants (there’s a couple of fresh ones including indication that tomorrow will be “one of the hardest days of their life” and that they’ll post a big zero day on July 14th) it sounds like Microsoft deleted their account, revoked their access to the responsible disclosure portal and they’ve had some back and forth discussions in private that they’re now making more public

Normally what happens is researchers report vulnerabilities via Microsoft’s purpose-built bug bounty portal, and Microsoft can patch these vulnerabilities before they can be actively exploited, and researchers can pocket enough income to make a living entirely off of bug bounties. Obviously this all broke down in the case of this particular researcher so here we are

Short answer is that a token equates to a unit of work. I strongly suspect that the definition has been becoming less and less tangible as the bubble has inflated though

The synthetic fabric on the back of their canopies is often used as a moving billboard, though usually not for prestigious advertising. Others on Delhi roads this week featured ads for cut-rate fertility clinics and ayurvedic remedies to relieve hemorrhoids.

That’s honestly hilarious