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by corrral 4y ago
> And you mentioned democracy? Tell me where that place exists? I don’t see any country where majority of its population can decide laws, restrictions and other decisions? At least in English, this kind of performative misunderstanding o
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> It's surprising that even in 2022 we haven't fixed that. If anything, it's much worse now than in the early 20th century. There were tons of working-class writers making a living at fiction writing, then. Tons as a propo
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Graeber asserts in Bullshit Jobs that when this happens—lots of people wanting these kind of creative high-prestige, high-gratification jobs—the upper echelons of the career tend to be captured by, bluntly, trust fund kids, because they&#
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> (but they wrote like, six books in a year. You need to churn them out quick to make that much money, usually in series of books, not one-offs). It helps that romance novels tend to be way on the short side. Self-published can be even
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> Some simple advice would be to read some Neal Stephenson, Paul Auster, and China Mieville for starters, not Michael Crichton. I'd love for fiction writing to be better, generally, but if you're looking to make a career of wri
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It used to be possible to make a living doing nothing but writing for "pulps". This hasn't been a realistic goal since... IDK, the 50s? 60s?
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Wait until you see the lit-fic market.
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Just install sl. They'll see it soon enough.
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> I’m not sure there’s much value continuing to read the article, it’s already so incoherent. It goes on to address exactly the problems you noticed, at length (I'm not finished with the whole thing yet, but I'm far enough to b
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> By focusing on deplorables and Russians, they allowed themselves freedom from addressing substantive problems of working class and rural neglect. Which gave Trump an opening he otherwise would not have had. Amusingly, Clinton's in
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Is there any kind of documentation of how modern religions are experienced by normal practitioners? A book [edit: or, more realistically, a book series] would be great, but some kind of film documentary series seems to me like an even bette
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> Except Buddhism is also a philosophy of action, and a set of guides for correct action. Acting rightly entails seeing rightly, and so Buddhism includes an appreciation for and guide towards empirical inquiry. This was always terrifying
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That's part of why I think the benefits of the US moving to some kind of single-payer or similar healthcare system would be much larger than they look based on a naïve cost calculation—our healthcare system consumes a ton of largely
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Oh, I meant at regular border control, I'm not rich enough to spend money on VIP services and not feel terrible (that is, like I really should have done something else with that money) about doing so.
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> In the pre Facebook era people thought social networking would be distributed over thousands and millions of blogs with the help of RSS but that didn't happen because it turned out that centralized commercial services are better t
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You posit the alternative, that no-one would figure out how to make money off this market? I find that implausible. If we take that objection aside, the question looks a lot like "how does a business possibly start?" which... well
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> the border force girl Is this phenomenon a psychology trick? Most folks doing bad stuff are guys, so have a hot young woman ask the questions to throw them off and make it harder to lie? I've wondered whether it's a deliberat
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I've known lots of tech workers who went as much as years without realizing how badly they were being underpaid, even by the standards of their weak local market. It can take a surprising amount of pushing to get someone who thinks t
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I know (believe me, I know) that bandwidth is expensive, but I'm also pretty sure YouTube's margins leave plenty of room for competitors to come in with less-effective monetization schemes and still turn a profit. There's no
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> I really like the podcast model, but compared to the scale of YouTube, I'm not sure it can hold up. It's not just hosting, but search as well, for 500 hours of video per minute. If only there were some company dedicated to pr
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> OG Simpson It's OJ, but thanks for giving me the perfect stage name for my 90s-pop-culture-themed hip-hop act.
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Yup. My back-of-envelope from past looks at this is that 5-10% of US GDP is purely drag from excess healthcare costs, i.e. we'd collectively be better off and our economy (entrepreneurship, especially) healthier if that amount of our
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Tangential, but IMO the super-power rich people have at achieving personal goals (this principle also applies to business goals, but let's set that aside) is largely due to being able to pay (to them) pocket change to make others do th
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Well—that's exactly the case, and that's why you see different usage guides and dictionaries for American English and British English. "Correct" usage, for values of correct that favor clarity for a given audience, does
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Right, hence the "very comfortably". That wasn't min specs, that was a very happy Win95 system. > Also a fresh install took up a whooping 50mb I do wonder WTF modern Windows is doing with tens of GB of disk space, not ev
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But then they turn around and burn 100x (or more) the cycles-at-idle of 90s operating systems and constantly hit disk for no clear reason despite all this supposed performance-enhancing caching (try using Vista or newer on spinning rust—it&
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I've considered just getting them one but that's another new interface for them to learn. Though one that's much more stable across years.
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> STOP CHANGING THINGS! Even if the new UI is better (debatable), some people just like or rely on a particular layout to operate the device or app. Don't rearrange without giving a ~permanent setting to use the old layout. The fact
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> I know it's greedy and irrational, but I want everything centralized into one service so I don't have to think about where to go to watch a thing. I want a monopoly, but without the problems that come with a monopoly, and I s
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> I wish these creators with other social media presence would use their platforms to move their audience to something besides youtube (they can even keep their youtube presence). Coupling discovery and hosting means you're either k

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