Brendinooo

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by Brendinooo 2mo ago
Yeah, I had to spell it out to get it to click for me > mary is 24 > 8 years apart: ann is 16 now, when ann was 12 mary was 20 > 6 years apart: ann is 18 now, when ann was 12 mary was 18 > 4 years apart: ann is 20 now, when ann
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by Brendinooo 2mo ago
Broadly speaking, anything that's been done once is doable again; anything that hasn't been done before might not be possible. Concretely: if the author's perception that a capitalist/calvinist fusion robbed us of/d
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by Brendinooo 3mo ago
I just wanna throw in that Tangle News[0] strikes a pretty good balance here. Their core offering is detailed breakdowns of what is generally regarded as the top four stories of the week, one a day from Monday through Thursday, which is usu
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by Brendinooo 3mo ago
Restoring something that was lost is very, very different than creating something that hasn't been done before.
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by Brendinooo 3mo ago
> which...sure! We shouldn't accept the status quo. But that's a different argument.
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by Brendinooo 3mo ago
>the ones most countries implement don't work very well I guess this is the basis of my critique: the author seems to be writing as though capitalism is robbing him of some ideal that would otherwise exist: invoking the so-called &q
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by Brendinooo 3mo ago
How does Portugal compare to the US and France? (I actually don't know, though a quick search indicates it's more like France than the US.) The author of this post apparently lives in Porto.
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by Brendinooo 3mo ago
The author lays most of this at the feet of capitalism, and I agree that the system has excesses that have contributed to the atomization of society, which can cause people to slip through the cracks, but...has any other system been obvious
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by Brendinooo 3mo ago
I mean...don't overcomplicate it, the President is the one who is speaking. Is he influenced by people in the room? Sure. But to say that with the intent of it being a rebuttal to what I offered completely misses the point.
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by Brendinooo 3mo ago
This tweet thread was pretty formative to me: makes one remember that textual criticism of the sort that’s linked here is by no means the final word on these matters. https://x.com/omnologos/status/1870847422454280
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by Brendinooo 3mo ago
The local "castle" on the map is Fort Duquesne, which is listed as "ruins" but in fact has no ruins to visit. It says "The site of both forts is now occupied by Point State Park, where the outlines of the two forts
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by Brendinooo 3mo ago
There's an episode called "Digital Estate Planning" where his dad mocks him for his lack of business acumen: "In 1980, you said that video games, not moist towelettes, were the business of the future. Today, moist towele
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by Brendinooo 3mo ago
Pierce Hawthorne, is that you?!? (Given that he audited classes for years, this very much strikes me as a class project based on his interests...)
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by Brendinooo 3mo ago
Armchair historian AT BEST but...a lot of grassroots social institutions formed in the period between the Industrial Revolution (mass migration to the cities) and the invention of the radio. There were all of a sudden a LOT of people close
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by Brendinooo 3mo ago
The person you replied to did not mention a specific leader's policy.
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by Brendinooo 3mo ago
Having been around enough houses (in the US) to have a balanced opinion - I personally prefer older houses but - older houses tend to be a lot more inefficient in their use of square footage - the rooms inside tend to be a lot less open, an
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by Brendinooo 3mo ago
okay, so like...7x that $433 figure? $3000 a month? If a mortgage + escrow payment on a 400k house is around $2500/month, a comparable rent is $5500 a month? Where do you live, if I may ask? I live in a reasonably sane market which mig
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by Brendinooo 3mo ago
Yeah, I can't explain it but the headings feel very AI. And there are a bunch of things in the text that remind me of chats I have with Claude during the day job >and it is worth being clear about why >The emotional mechanism the
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by Brendinooo 3mo ago
Not sure what the intent behind this reply is but - I guess it's strictly true and I think we're agreeing in some sense, but to be clear I think it is totally fine to say that scalpers are doing things I don't like with money
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by Brendinooo 3mo ago
I mean, you saying that landlords don't do much is the exactly what I meant when I said "arguing about what 'adding economic value' means" >typical rent is many, many times the value of someone looking after the
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by Brendinooo 3mo ago
I think that if you poke at the term "rent-seeking" with the definition of "middle men who add no economic value yet inject themselves into transactions", you'll just end up arguing about what "adding economic
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by Brendinooo 3mo ago
This makes sense, but I'd contend it's all the more reason for outrage: not only are scalpers doing what they're doing anyways, but they're destroying the (totally legitimate and sympathetic!) reason for "artificial
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by Brendinooo 3mo ago
> Unfalsifiable claims are not truth My favorite color is orange.
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by Brendinooo 3mo ago
>Is a retailer that buys things and sells them with a markup a scalper? If you bought all of the food then offered the food at 10x the prices, we'd be outraged with you, yes. Stakes are lower because it's a luxury good, not foo
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by Brendinooo 3mo ago
>If you have no documentation for it or supporting evidence then you've got nothing to work with Sure, but I think 1) a lot of objections in this thread come because people seem to conflate "nothing to work with" and &quot
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by Brendinooo 3mo ago
>there's no reason to believe that one particular story is more likely than others Sure there is. I could tell you that I am a mostly-anon web developer; I could also tell you I am President of the United States, or a founder of a p
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by Brendinooo 3mo ago
My epistemology admits that "the Universe sprang into existence last Thursday" could be true even if we might have no way of proving it; to me this is obviously far more correct than saying that it must not be true because we ca
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by Brendinooo 3mo ago
>So this is, at best, an argument that scientific models are incomplete (which no one would disagree with) but not that scientific models are invalid, or that the supernatural is real. One could imagine God parting a sea with scientific
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by Brendinooo 3mo ago
This is articulating some of my thoughts in a far more cogent way than I could do on my own. Thank you.
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by Brendinooo 3mo ago
> for those of us who don't presuppose divine authorship. There's a lot I could say in response to your comment (most notably, I think we literates underrate the ability of oral cultures to transmit information) but I just want

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