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What was Alex Roman's lie? I'm having a hard time figuring that out.

You can start with fried items from McDonald's:

    https://querysprout.com/what-oil-does-mcdonalds-use/#:~:text=For%20some%20people%2C%20it%20may,of%20its%20main%20cooking%20oils.

As a man, is there anything I can do or avoid doing in the workplace to make it easier for coworkers like you? Let's assume I don't know and don't suspect anything specific about my coworkers. I just want to know if there's anything that would be pretty easy to implement, that would make a difference.

This wouldn't be Hacker News if someone didn't comment that ACTUALLY a random walk of n steps will get you sqrt(n) in some direction, which is much better than log(n). I guess my special skill is being pedantic.

This yields the same result:

  when did neil armstrong set foot on poop

There's a good chance Netflix is behaving rationally.

Shows are like startups. The payoff is a very skewed distribution, i.e. median and mean are vastly different. After one season, I'd argue you have a pretty good estimate of the earning potential for a show. Maybe you're even off by a factor of two or three, but since the goal is to find a show with 10x or 100x the viewership, you're better off canceling a show with median success.

Actually it's probably a lot easier to predict the payoff for a show after one year, than for a startup. Startups can take multiple years to find product-market fit; shows rarely pivot dramatically.

[Update: I got the facts wrong with the following example, as someone nicely pointed out below! I think the general principle still stands.] Tuca & Bertie, for example, was canceled after one season, but the same people went on to make Bojack Horseman, which was a much bigger hit. Bojack would not have happened if Tuca were renewed, and Tuca would never have gotten as popular as Bojack.

Yes, just click in the nasal cavity above 'lip' and 'hard palate', respectively, to get [m] and [n].

You're right. It sounds to me like [s] with lip rounding, where the teeth don't contribute as much acoustically, but it does indeed sound like an [s].

This is amazing. I can get it to make almost any speech sound, but one I can't get is [s], because the model lacks teeth!

Toilets work the same way! When water in the bowl rises to above the highest point in the drain, everything (hopefully) siphons out.