aklemm

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by aklemm 2y ago
You think Dems will win elections and get seated if Trump has another term?
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by aklemm 2y ago
From either side, relying on the judiciary over active, well-functioning legislature is bad.
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by aklemm 2y ago
Phone might have a power button which would help you meet your goal.
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by aklemm 2y ago
On the contrary, understanding what can be gleaned from radio waves makes amateur radio astronomy alluring. I've been obsessed since nearly 30 years.
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by aklemm 2y ago
She sounds like a hoot!
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by aklemm 2y ago
I’ve long thought maybe I wanted something like this, but also quickly rejected every time. It’s fascinating that the idea is having a moment now.
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by aklemm 2y ago
Not much appetite to discuss up in here?
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by aklemm 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification In this context (the idea of making this unethical), a brand is built on investor money (not profits) and then later profits are achieved by cashing out the brand value. B
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by aklemm 2y ago
That's an excellent idea. I posted in the thread another angle I'd love to see get traction: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40238807
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by aklemm 2y ago
There's a solution, I posted it in the thread. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40238807
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by aklemm 2y ago
I'd like to see business schools codify "brand value extraction" or "enshittification" as explicitly unethical. Any activity that degrades a brand for short-term cashflow--and is reasonably know to decrease future b
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by aklemm 2y ago
“Ringo Next” after George Harrison died.
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by aklemm 2y ago
In the midst of searching for what my particular contribution might be in the synthesis of Fediverse / IndieWeb / $other_such_efforts. Personal web page with some experiments is surely first, but if anyone else is like-minded, I&#
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by aklemm 3y ago
I've been curious about this as well. For me I smoke maybe 2/month...one cigar a week at the very most. My guess is it's negligible compared to all the other toxic clouds we walk through in a given week. But hard data would b
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by aklemm 3y ago
This doesn't sound right. Got a source for what kind of ovens they had?
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by aklemm 3y ago
Downvotes for sharing an actual industry insight...nice.
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by aklemm 3y ago
A couple years ago I happened to be sitting around a group of energy investors and academics when nuclear energy came up. Their unanimous understanding was that building nuclear plants had become simply too expensive to do either safely or
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by aklemm 3y ago
I think for buying reliable cars, new is the way to go. They cost way too much used and the first person got all the best miles out of it. Unreliable/niche cars, used all day.
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by aklemm 3y ago
It’s not a contradiction. No one is compelled to participate in private business, but we all are subject to government rule, which is necessarily messy, slow, and inefficient as the democratic government must reckon with many voices.
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by aklemm 3y ago
Absolutely; parenting young kids is awful. Luckily, I didn't really expect it to be very fun, even though I felt obligated to do a good job at it. The upshot is that parenting made me more fully mature than I would ever have become oth
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by aklemm 3y ago
Mister Rogers exhibits the most radical interpersonal philosophy I've ever witnessed: he mastered taking everyone for who they are. It's the most profound kindness I've ever seen practiced as a way of being. So, yeah, it&#x27
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by aklemm 3y ago
It comes up frequently in several fields and on the East Coast. There’s an entire layer of our economy and government that all but requires the right college to be on your resume.
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by aklemm 3y ago
Go there and look at how they live; that takes inspiration. The benefits of their social welfare are apparent in their lifestyle compared to US daily life. And the flip: Shouldn't Scandinavia be overrun with drug-addled do-nothings if
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by aklemm 3y ago
Considering the speed at which search results have been turned to trash, I'm not surprised they generated a lot revenue off that feat.
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by aklemm 3y ago
41,282 suckas
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by aklemm 3y ago
Sure she does
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by aklemm 3y ago
This has to be reckoned with. Downvotes expose some kind of twisted biased I’d be curious to learn more about.
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by aklemm 3y ago
And then there’s me who finds chess.com kind of cartoonish and ugly
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by aklemm 4y ago
Everybody needs a certain base of math to a certain age so that we can find the students that want to go on with math and so that they are able to. Society needs that. Along the way, everybody has a chance to get a feel for math in the worl
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by aklemm 4y ago
Why is that a “more balanced take?”

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