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by creer 3y ago
You are not at any risk of running into Earthsea every day, that's for sure. Potter is a goofy lightning speed read. Much of it doesn't even make sense (see Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality for a take on that.) Some peo
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by creer 3y ago
That ruling doesn't say that AI driven art is not copyrightable
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by creer 3y ago
I was surprised during a ride in a friends' Tesla. We needed a few more miles. They let their phone guide them to a convenient pile of superchargers. Plugged in. We checked messages and chatted for a few minutes. Then continued. Remark
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by creer 3y ago
Woohoo! (just kidding. not a competition. thank you and good reading :-)
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by creer 3y ago
Yes! That used to be essays and it's never been easier to publish an essay or letter.
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by creer 3y ago
And that's just one book . That one book did find its audience, that's for sure! No contest there! That makes it tempting to judge her entire work through that lens. And that one book is as prominent as The Moon Is a Harsh Mistres
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by creer 3y ago
It's very atypical for her - and I think she recognized that. Yes, an ambitious work of anthropology through fiction, illustrating how "tribal" works?
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by creer 3y ago
And perhaps social media doesn't exactly encourage long thought. And cooperating on deeper thought political ideas. Debate and sports education push winning quick by crushing the opponent - not by building a gorgeous final conversation
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by creer 3y ago
Seems to me sci-fi is still as full of political creativity as it always was? Perhaps it's now more diluted. Single books stood out for that. And perhaps it's harder for single SF books to stand out anymore? For sheer quantity? I
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by creer 3y ago
The article gives a reading of Ursula Le Guin that falls from one merely political way to see the world (conquest) into another (global warming and human hubris) - plus a heavy dose of corresponding judgementality. To me Ursula Le Guin&#x27
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by creer 3y ago
> there are discontinuities in the marginal tax rate, not the effective tax rate This is often claimed. And the whole point of the article and much of this discussion is that no, there are often major steps / discontinuities in the
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by creer 3y ago
How can it be blamed to negligence? It's not like these disincentives and dangerous gotchas are not obvious when these rules are written?
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by creer 3y ago
That won't change until there is wide enough demand to change it. Broad recognition will come long before the changes.
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by creer 3y ago
ACA subsidy eligibility is not annual. "Income changed" is a qualifying event.
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by creer 3y ago
There was a semi-arbitrary building height adopted during the Haussmannian reorganization in Paris. My feeling is people noticed it led to perfectly liveable blocks. (Most places go a bit higher than this by now but Paris is strongly attach
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by creer 3y ago
> "NOISY FROM WHAT?" More of this, it's fun - when you don't live there: trams running on insanely poorly designed, or maintained tracks, trams running on extremely squeally wheels (see design, maintenance), sirens (r
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by creer 3y ago
Going back to live with your parents has become a meme - which was not the case a few years ago. Most people who say that don't exactly see it as a plus ("Oh good, I'm sharing in my parents' win!")
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by creer 3y ago
In this case at least, the Fed et al look at far more numbers than just "headline inflation". - Which does not avoid the greater problem that a lot of such (greater) numbers still tend to necessarily have politically and policy-in
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by creer 3y ago
Links to rebuttals: https://www.vox.com/2016/5/9/11502464/gilens-page-oligarchy-... (Rebuttals don't mean the study is necessarily garbage - but often make for more interesting reading than the orig
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by creer 3y ago
It's clickbait in a way that doesn't even make sense, really :-) - From a point of view of attracting... which clicks?
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by creer 3y ago
There is a range of useless, misleading, and time wasting. In this case, the title is fun and deliberately misleading (in a fun way, sure) and a waste of time. And is really but really not likely to lead the right audience to the right arti
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by creer 3y ago
Could we do better? With "respecting" stupid article titles? @dang Perhaps even prompting for two titles at submission. One "unedited" and one "descriptive"? And allowing our HN settings to choose "descrip
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by creer 3y ago
I was mentioning in another thread, seeing good furniture made with engineered finger-jointed wood - which looked perfectly nice after finishing and felt super solid. A middle ground probably: not hardwood but very consistent, inexpensive a
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by creer 3y ago
Oh I had heard of it, of course. And heard that it was being replaced / phased out - quite a while back. For a few years now. And still haven't had to deal with it once (for contacts, for filings other than tax returns, for fee an
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by creer 3y ago
Are they though (that much plugged in)? I have done quite a few iterations of IRS contacts, checking on returns, paying fees online, paying taxes online, etc over the past few years. Without yet having to deal with ID.me. Enough that at thi
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by creer 3y ago
It's part of the real world, and the problem still exists. A solution is still needed. But sure, in day to day life most people better focus on something else! Currently in California, there is some push at the state level to try and m
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by creer 3y ago
The article points out a range of tradeoffs for mass timber (and I'm not arguing that mass timber should by itself solve the construction cost issue - it's more interesting as one more very different direction). More directions wi
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by creer 3y ago
Much of the conversation here derails the original post: we desperately need less expensive construction processes (overall, including permitting etc). Even when the local community makes it not-worthwhile to build affordable housing.
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by creer 3y ago
Claiming "DEMOCRACY!" doesn't prevent people from having rights. Rights are not about majority rule but about the kind of place "people" (sometimes a minority) think "people" (often a minority) deserve to
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by creer 3y ago
Which government? Your block? street? school district? Transit district? region? state? country? Even then, a country that needs immigrants to operate? Even then in a town here, most of the electrorate is renters, but most people who actual

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