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The most memorable thing about this location was their Ms Pac-man cocktail table game.


Wouldn’t they make less grass then if it wasn’t used to feed cows as much?


With this clear example of separation between individual and identity, it calls into question the need for real celebrities. What difference does it make if you're watching/following someone real/digital?

https://www.thecut.com/2018/05/lil-miquela-digital-avatar-in...


Iirc Gorillaz and Vocaloids were massively successful experiments in this domain.

I think some of the critique in the former was lost (i.e. Weezer), but it definitely opened the gates for popular digital avatars.


There is a streamer who has a very expensive live tracking setup who actually streams entirely from inside (what is basically) a game emulating a stream room. The content itself isn't really my cup of tea, but the visuals are already beyond the uncanny valley.

https://www.ginx.tv/en/twitch/who-is-code-miko-the-virtual-s...


"Hololive" is another example. They're all real people, but using digital appearances and personas.


12 vs 115 million, according to the second paragraph of the article:

> In its letter, Slack warned Microsoft that “Slack is here to stay,” adding, “We’re just getting started.” But the 4 million users it had at the time would increase to just 12 million four years later, while Microsoft — which added Teams to its 365 bundle without increasing the price — took Teams from zero to 115 million users.


idk where they are getting those numbers though. I've had classes, jobs, etc. which all use Slack, I've never used Microsoft Teams even once. Both my undergrad and graduate colleges give me a free 365 subscription though, which means that me and every other college student could have been counted


As a counter-anecdata, I’ve gone three jobs using only Teams - in one case they had explicitly rejected Slack on the basis of price. My daughter also uses Teams for school.


Same anecdata here (EU) - Kids use Teams for distance learning, pretty much every larger company uses teams (and to some extend zoom) due to the Covid situation.

Hardly anyone even knows slack exists. Everyone knows and uses teams.


That's DAU's - M365 has 200M+ MAU's

Teams isn't a complete subset of M365 though since you can have guest users from outside the org which would count towards the DAU

What you're missing is that M365 is huge in enterprises. Last stat I saw is they've hit 90%+ of the Fortune 500.


Teams got autoinstalled onto my 8 year old Windows 8 desktop.


BS 2001 graduate here. When I was there, Negative Time Tommy's Run was still a thing (although they did build a Tommy's like 5 minutes away). Also, I wonder how much of the undergraduate culture was visible/apparent to the graduate students.


Negative Time must have been new jargon!

And true, the only interactions I had with grad students was with TAs.


Oh Negative Time Tommy's Run was done the night when Daylight saving time ended, so students could leave campus and come back before the time they left. :)


You just made me LOL. Thank you!


There’s further discussion about the game here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/h7yw17/til_a...



Also lucky his parents had money to pay for a lawyer:

> So he went to his parents’ home in St. Augustine, where, over dinner, he told them what was happening. They agreed to dip into their savings to pay for a lawyer.


This is WHY they didn't go after him anyway. If your goal is to turn resources into results the best roi is to punish anyone they can plausibly accuse and threaten into taking a plea.


I guess the silver lining here is that perhaps another person has finally learned about the value of privacy. And that "nothing to hide" is bullshit


> Fortunately, I attended a college (Caltech) that as institute policy did not take attendance and no part of the grade was based on attendance.

I attended Caltech (BS '01) and given that they allowed us to take exams home with us, it would have been surprising if a professor took attendance. This was part of the overall honor code (http://www.admissions.caltech.edu/explore/about-caltech/hono...) that looking back, I really appreciated as a student.


Currently attending Caltech (BS ‘22) and thankfully it is still the same way now. If nothing else, it helps a little to take the edge off of the rigor and difficulty (at least, in my opinion). Specifically, if my finals are going to be ~4 hours long each, at least I can choose when and where to do them :-)


Nice to see that Caltech still operates that way! The Honor System there had a very large and positive influence on my later career and interactions with others.


I believe that comes from a satirical Facebook page, but in an effort for a serious response, this page does a decent job categorizing the different sub-genres:

http://www.fourfa.com/styles/index.htm


Iterations of that copypasta have existed for like two decades.


Longer than that. Monty Python did something very similar in Life of Brian: https://youtu.be/a0BpfwazhUA


This is excellent satire of “narcissism of minor differences”


Power consumers won’t make the distinction between both scenarios; their power is off in both cases.


That doesn’t equate to “developing country” like living standards as the OP was suggesting. There is a distinction. As someone who actually was born and raised in India, this is not even remotely the same thing. It is like saying traffic jams in NYC are like Mumbai, therefore NYC is like a developing country


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