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2023 study: how EA uses double meanings for a milk-before-meat strategy by dashdsrdash in c/sneerclub@awful.systems

[-] dashdsrdash@awful.systems 3 points 6 months ago

You must prove yourself in the Outer Circle before being granted leave to study the Inner Mysteries. Or at least attend the right parties.

Inside Wytham Abbey, the £15 Million Castle Effective Altruism Must Sell - Effective Ventures is giving $26.8m in stolen money back to FTX creditors, so they gotta sell their not-a-castle by dashdsrdash in c/sneerclub@awful.systems

[-] dashdsrdash@awful.systems 3 points 1 year ago

What would effective accounting even look like?

I can only say: spot on, but not at all in the way you were thinking by dashdsrdash in c/sneerclub@awful.systems

[-] dashdsrdash@awful.systems 3 points 1 year ago

A bunch of youse is thinking irrationally.

It's them what go in front of the cannon.

not seeing any non negligible difference between 60 and 120 Hz, am I weird? by dashdsrdash in c/android@lemdro.id

[-] dashdsrdash@awful.systems -4 points 2 years ago

If you are in a 60 Hz electrical area (i.e. the Americas, mostly), and the power is rock-steady, and you have cheap fluorescent lighting -- then anything other than 60 Hz refresh rates might improve your screen, but much more so on old CRTs than on modern LCDs and OLEDs.

These days, like most smartphone 'features', it is mostly but not entirely about a checkmark to induce you to feel that you are missing out on something.