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by aerhardt 6mo ago
I've read a lot of people complain that it's buggy, here and in other forums.
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by aerhardt 7mo ago
I’ve had the idea of playing with our laws and trying to ask questions about their growing volume and complexity. This is timely and dope Enrique - mil gracias!
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by aerhardt 7mo ago
I've considered it as a Spanish resident, but don't you have to live six months there to be considered a fiscal resident? Are people regularly operating them from outside Estonia?
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by aerhardt 7mo ago
This has nothing to do with the question OP is asking.
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by aerhardt 7mo ago
I'm capturing videos of all the bugs I am seeing as of late. The folder is filling fast. I'll write a compilation post but I'm thinking a techno remix video could be fitting too. If there are any common apps which are unhinge
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by aerhardt 7mo ago
> Changing social class has always been very difficult It's been very difficult in part because 150+ years of Marxist tradition has not been able to define what a class is. Upwards social mobility by other metrics such as wealth and
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by aerhardt 7mo ago
This is very cool but hasn’t it been around for like a decade?
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by aerhardt 7mo ago
Because Penguin Random House is one of the "Big Five" publishers. I can bet the house that Amazon treats it as a key strategic account within their Books department. They have to deal with them face-to-face regularly. It would be
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by aerhardt 7mo ago
Some in the Left, including Marx - perhaps most of the well-read Left - do this. Then there is an entire category of people who throw his name around in the mud and call “Adam Smith liberal” anything they view as immoral or excessive.
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by aerhardt 7mo ago
Par for the course for many who mention Adam Smith. Another classic libel is bringing up his name in cases of gross misconduct by a business or a businessman, but he was very critical of the excesses of merchants. Smith was a moral philosop
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by aerhardt 7mo ago
Am I being obtuse, or is there no license? I'd like to use this on my website and also see if I can create variations for some of the major EU markets.
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by aerhardt 7mo ago
Author here, thanks for the comments. Let me address a few points in turn: > The fact that the quality is merely "subpar" Like I say in a comment somewhere in the thread, a friend who owns a real Martin Eden from Penguin and
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by aerhardt 7mo ago
I don't know, the HN mods changed it, but I stand by my original title. If we're being finicky, one could argue that it's the book buying experience that has been enshittified, but otherwise it's a textbook case (no pu
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by aerhardt 7mo ago
Hi author here. I've bought a probability textbook from Lulu and it was fine. I don't blame POD but rather misinformation and poor quality. Almost all the POD books I've received from Amazon are very distinguishable from real
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by aerhardt 7mo ago
I also buy used, nothing against it, but it’s not easy to find the books that one has in mind.
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by aerhardt 7mo ago
Many people are mentioning bookshop.org and I would be happy to try it out but I want to note that they don’t ship outside the US and UK.
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by aerhardt 7mo ago
But I don’t think Amazon could “pirate” a Penguin edition like that without their consent. Russell’s The Problems of Philosophy is like you say, but they stripped it out of all mentions of a publishing house. I didn’t mind that one in fac
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by aerhardt 7mo ago
Yes, as I mention in the article, that has happened to me to me a few times as well. There may be something about the products being custom-made that causes this. I’ve had it happen with one that had a noticeable print defect (On Writing We
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by aerhardt 7mo ago
I tend to buy hardcovers but sometimes it’s not possible. I agree it’s a sure-fire way to avoid print-on-demand. Like I say in the article, I don’t mind about print-on-demand as such - it’s the fact that these books are not particularly rar
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by aerhardt 7mo ago
I haven't found one, like I mention in the article; I'll edit it if someone proves me wrong. I'm starting to get a feel for a pattern - the books tend to be more expensive, and also take longer on average to deliver (a few we
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by aerhardt 7mo ago
I had a friend over and we talked about the subject. She owns a Penguin stock copy of Martin Eden and upon checking my print-on-demand copy her first reaction was: "Yea, this looks like crap, but above all, the type is making me dizz
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The emergence of print-on-demand Amazon paperback books(alexerhardt.com)
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by aerhardt 7mo ago
The irony of starting to claim that someone doesn’t engage with an “argument” (put forth by three quotes, and nothing else), and then ending up with this absolute word salad and an irrelevant metaphysical quip on the categories.
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by aerhardt 7mo ago
I feel that two things are true at the same time: 1) Something happened during 2025 that made the models (or crucially, the wrapping terminal-based apps like Claude Code or Codex) much better. I only type in the terminal anymore. 2) The qua
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by aerhardt 7mo ago
The original poster “expresses a shared sentiment” by posting three quotes, but the poster you replied to, who offers a fairly detailed account of the value LLMs bring to their daily work life, and how they feel about it, does not. OK.
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by aerhardt 7mo ago
Did you read the post yourself? It doesn’t sound like it. It is composed of the title and three mystical-sounding quotes. How is one supposed to engage with this? Doing literary critique? A counter point to the statement “I don’t use LLMs”
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by aerhardt 7mo ago
I build tech for Executive Search (headhunting) and I’ve recently written about this on my website. Luckily in my niche the pressure to do this is not so high. Execs often have enough leverage to not have to put up with this kind of thing.
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by aerhardt 7mo ago
I’ve been unfollowing people for a while and the issue is rarely from within my network anymore… the feed shows a lot of posts from AI foisters who I don’t even follow.
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by aerhardt 7mo ago
I have to use LinkedIn to sell. I only occasionally look at the feed but I am ruthlessly muting or blocking anyone who is blatantly foisting their AI drivel on other humans. I’ve had enough of this shit.
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by aerhardt 7mo ago
The LLM that wrote this simply couldn’t help itself.

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