I mean if it didn't make the gambling organizations more money they wouldn't do it. Gambling industry has always been about how much wealth it can extract from the punters without being regulated for it.

Hopefully this research ends up being used to justify more gambling regulations, but governments are addicted to the gambling lobby donations so who knows what will happen.

I don't think we can know whether or not this is the case in our own lifetimes, because we are so immersed in popular culture that we can't be objective about it. Enough of our historical great composers weren't venerated until after their deaths, and to describe composers as "hiding" within the most popular media of our era is a great disservice to the many composers that don't have the fame, connections and reputation to be hired to write for these.

I would also point out that composing for a medium like a game or a movie places a great deal of constraints upon the composer, in terms of theme, cost of instrumentation, duration and most importantly: what is safe and palatable for an executive to approve of.

Do you think that composers of the past did not also face real-world constraints?

They didn't. The point is that they stop you from giving covid to other people.

It's a distinction without a difference. Masks served to reduce the herd from spreading covid. Including other people giving it to you.

The distinction is important! The mechanism by which surgical masks prevent you from getting COVID-19 is peer pressure: it's important for people to know this, so they know how to protect themselves. (And there are fitted masks that protect the wearer: there was just a shortage of them, because despite all the warnings we were not prepared for a pandemic.)

You do realise that surgeons don't wear those masks to stop them from catching something right?

> Some people thought that surgical masks wouldn’t stop you from getting Covid

You do realize that masks would help prevent you from getting covid if other people are wearing the masks, right?

The comment just talked about masks, not whether you are the one wearing the mask.

I predict that this will not exist, given the existence of lying.

Looking at their ASX release though, seems like they've made record profits again.

wonder why their share price is worth a fraction what it was a couple years back

For all we know 30 percent of users on that site are now bots.

What incentive does the Rapiddata website have to even use any humans? How would customers even know?

The Internet has became a big mafia game.

It probably depends on who likes it and why.

Some people can't tell if the note they're singing is the same as the note they just heard. This is also learnable but it's not as simple as just muscle control

Yeah all of that sounds way more convenient than your grandma irrecoverably losing her life savings because somebody kid fished her for her crypto authentication.

People still lose all their life savings. Look up pig butchering.

I bet you can. And I bet that raising the limit takes you a few minutes at most. Or you need a better bank.

> Or you need a better bank.

There are no good banks in Canada.