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it's the exact opposite of an original story. It's so successful because it is so strongly based on viral and meme-able internet content that is immediately recognizable to any person who spends time on the internet, it has its
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>We can have actual conversations with our computers conversational interfaces we've had for decades. In fact this goes so far back that people thought ELIZA was sentient ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_eff
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>This is what "globalized supply chain" looks like up close. If that's the extent of it I'd say they're doing relatively fine. People have been taking these events like covid as some glaring warning of globalized
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I used to be a barber before I became a software developer, I figure I earned about as much as someone at a large retailer, this isn't patronizing, I'm speaking from experience. You can actually live a normal life on a regular sal
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>that you can retain a reasonable life style as home depot as your only source of income. that's pretty presumptuous I think. He says in the piece he is an Orthodox Christian who wants to build a offline community in Pennsylvania wh
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>If you write an entire blogpost making a moral judgement on personal choices as the article correctly points out the Labubu craze is not a personal choice. It's a social, commercial, public, media driven phenomenon. People didn&#x2
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It's something Roger Scruton writes about in Modern Culture . He pointed out that one of the distinguishing features of modern entertainment media is the collapse of persons into bodies, subjects into objects, fantasy rather than imag
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I'm a big fan of Departure Mono, very neat website design as well https://departuremono.com/
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the entire point of the argument is that they're the same people . Military bets appear to have significantly higher rates of insider trading than baseline[1], which implies two things, both catastrophic. One is that the markets leak
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>Current-best models are pretty fluent at major languages and cultures strong disagree on that one. As a German interacting with ChatGPT, even in German it gives me the feeling of talking to the Pluribus people, which reminds me of an an
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>but it is very easy to say when you are currently not in the trenches. the point of the entire Christian faith is that even God was in the trenches and died on the cross instead of picking up the sword. To the Christian the reality is
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>obvious thing I've heard this month not only this month, but it is the basic statement of the single most well known 50 year old book in software project management lol. At this point we need to wipe the slate clean and start over,
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>My question for people is whether their objection has to do with Omarchy itself or with the person or people behind it both because as I said there's no distinction with a project like this, and I'll give you a technical examp
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>then there has to be something sinister afoot. because most of the time there is. We live in a world that is dominated by obnoxious social media influencers and 'taste makers' who push people to the <newest thing> every
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>Clearly not for curious discourse. This isn't "curious discourse", whatyou're doing is JAQing off ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_asking_questions ) immigrants don't need to be 'tak
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>because we'll keep running out of other people's money. that doesn't make a whole lot of sense, for two reasons. For one, as even Paul points out in the piece, a wealth tax below what's practically a risk free return
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would that matter? If it was funded by the public the institution which would own it would likely be a public one, which may come with different and more permissive licensing conditions, but the justification for OPs complaint "I can&#
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I think that's always been a feature of contrarianism itself. It's so much more difficult to be contrarian and correct than simply contrarian that it applies most of the time, especially if someone uses that label explicitly.
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>But the shiny charmander card is where people draw the line? this isn't just about trendy commercial items. Michael Sandel in 'The Moral Limits of Markets' called this 'Skyboxification'. These mechanisms like sc
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they do since Substack was invented because it turns out a digital rehabilitation facility for whiny and overly wordy sore losers is a fantastic subscription business. Might want to think about selling that one to Disney as well and then wr
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>Chattel slavery was exceptionally profitable. it wasn't. Slave economies are exceptionally unprofitable and unproductive. To take the US as an example. Liquid wealth, i.e. capital, was vastly larger in the North than in the slave o
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he's not dumb or desperate compared to the average person, but it's very possible to be dumb and desperate compared to the delusional promises and outsized amounts of money in the industry. Manages to make smart people look extrem
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it isn't, not in his sense anyway. The moderate, central and northern European mainline Protestantism that fostered democracy, education, an egalitarian social contract and temperance you if at all find now only in small pockets. It&#x
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>think some good evidence for this is that Ken Olsen, by most accounts, was a saint and he owned DEC You're right that the money itself does not cause it but what mattered with people like Olsen was that he had a Scandinavian backgr
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> the tool is so fricken slow. of course an editor like Zed is faster than CLion but it makes little sense to compare the two. People use full blown IDEs like Jetbrains or Visual Studio for their heavier features like debugging and profi
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>but it feels like if this were an important question it would have halted OSS development decades ago no because the people who maintain the nuts and bolts of the open source world, like the often individual or handful contributors to p
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>Do I really have to put up with this happening faster and faster for the rest of capitalism? (I think so) no, if you relax the qualifier "without thinking" slightly and are okay with thinking for a few hours. There's so m
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> I'm writing this with technology I will never fully understand [...] I think we do a very good job at convincing ourselves that we are doing good things, working towards honest goals. [...] I used to want to do many things. Make g
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the fact that young people are moving has meant that money, attention and labor is missing, these days in rural sections of aging and developed countries the expertise and interest in forestry or wildlife management simply isn't there
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yes, I was never so happy to work in Germany. People used to joke about the proverbial fax machine still being a thing but I've never been so glad to work in a culture where this mania doesn't exist. Reading HN is like entering Al

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