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by danans 1y ago
> I think there is a certain sort of person who, if not "wants" this destabilization, doesn't really experience the alternative. I agree, but the ability/willingness to engage in that kind of destabilizing irony itsel
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by danans 1y ago
> It's the extraordinary lengths people will go to in order to protect the bullshit they acquired with far less scepticism That's the narrative bias at play. We all are subject to it, and for good reason. People need stories
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by danans 1y ago
It's interesting to consider the partial inverse of the aspiration behind the article: striving for the combination of non-usefulness and also high-valued. That's kind of what traditional (and probably contemporary) aristocrats
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by danans 1y ago
> Not software engineers being kicked out and some business person pressing a few buttons to have a fully functional app (as is playing out in a lot of fantasies on LinkedIn & X) The theory of enshittification says that "busines
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by danans 1y ago
> the burden of a shirking employee Who says they are shirking? Perhaps they are working really efficiently, and doing their job in 1/4 the time.
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by danans 1y ago
> I made acquaintance to a city worker who, to her non-professional friends, is very proud that she takes home a salary for about two hours of work per day following up with contractors, then heading to the gym and making social plans. I
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by danans 1y ago
> But that means you don’t get the latest iPhone, cook basic foods at home and rarely eat out, repair your own appliances, and so on. You can save quite a bit of money by living this way even in high CoL areas. That's how a lot of p
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by danans 1y ago
According to the article the original practice is medieval, not ancient. It's colloquial usage of "ancient" as in "my car is ancient" is a bit odd.
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by danans 1y ago
I still recommend hiring a licensed electrician to do the actual physical installation, because it's easy to mess up.
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by danans 1y ago
> This disabused me of the notion of doing it myself, lol. The author did a very custom setup. If you want to DIY with a pre-integrated setup, you can enroll in Enphase's self installer program, and complete their online coursewo
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by danans 1y ago
> Missing site diagram placard at MSP I got dinged for this on the first inspection of my own self-installed solar+battery system. A lot of signage companies don't know how to do the placard, but the company that I found that knows
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by danans 1y ago
By assets I mean things that are durable and can be held and used for long periods of time, some times spanning generations. Yes, land is the ultimate example. In a more general sense it can also be systems of law (and consistency of adher
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by danans 1y ago
> The real wealth is not dollars or pounds or whatever, the real wealth is goods and services. You missed one that is arguably more important: ownership of assets that provide security, shelter, and productivity.
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by danans 1y ago
What's interesting about Papua New Guinea's linguistic diversity is how it correlates with its topography. Sometimes steep mountain ranges have effectively separated peoples from each-other for thousands of years, to the point t
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by danans 1y ago
> I think you're just grossly misunderstanding what I'm saying. If I can plug my phone into a monitor + keyboard + mouse & the phone can run VSCode with all my extensions, the point of a laptop drastically disappears. In th
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by danans 1y ago
Casual carpool has been doing this in San Francisco for 30 years, no billion dollar corporation needed: https://sfcasualcarpool.com/
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by danans 1y ago
> So I guess the question is why isn't this available in many other places? Probably because voters and politicians in those places don't value public transportation.
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by danans 1y ago
> Do they? What I want is the power of the desktop available when I have access to it (SW & HW), but if the phone is powerful enough (maybe with a small accelerator box for dGPUs to handle gaming/AI), I’m not really seeing the v
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by danans 1y ago
Many of the comments here talking about how phone hardware is capable enough to run a desktop - thereby obviating the need for a separate desktop/laptop - are missing the fact that consumers actually want multiple devices. Also, no co
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by danans 1y ago
> I think we've seen this before. Back before phones were "smart" there was one (Nokia, maybe?) that you could put on a little dock into which you could plug a keyboard and monitor. Still in the "smart" era, but
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by danans 1y ago
> Ultimately, InventWood is planning to use wood chips to create structural beams of any dimension that won’t need finishing. “Imagine your I-beams look like this,” Lau said, holding up a sample of Superwood. I have several exposed PSL b
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by danans 1y ago
Probably not billionaires, but millionaires do. I know multi millionaires (6-7 figures) in the US who ride public transportation in places like SF and NYC.
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by danans 1y ago
> Anyways do you have any examples of "rich countries" that have solved this problem? Rich countries that have good public transit? Sure, that's easy. Denmark Singapore Japan Germany Switzerland France UK ... Here are
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by danans 1y ago
You are confusing a specific situation (a particular school shooting) for the general problem (the cultural and legal circumstances that give rose to school shootings).
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by danans 1y ago
> Some of the worst performing schools in my area have the most funding per pupil. > A bucket of money doesn't solve bad systems, bad administartors, bad teachers and bad parents. You are describing the situation often occuring i
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by danans 1y ago
For anyone from places in the US or abroad who can't understand why a society would subject children to this sort of situation, here are some of the attitudes that give rise to it: "I shouldn't have to pay to feed other peopl
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by danans 1y ago
> The “War on Terror” was never intended to spread democracy as far as I know; Regardless of intent, it was most definitely sold to the American public on that premise.
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by danans 1y ago
> This is about soft power, isn't it? Yeah, it is. > These days, it's K-pop that's super popular all over Asia and it's catching on throughout the rest of the world too. And K-pop owes its roots to American pop and
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by danans 1y ago
IIRC, you can communicate entire JSON objects between an iframe and it's host frame with PostMessage. The host can then act as a server for the iframe client, even updating it's state or DOM in response to a message from the ifram
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by danans 1y ago
> At least among musicians, it's my understanding that "Americana" is a relatively narrow category of indigenous American music. I've never heard of it referring to the music of indigenous Americans (American Indians)

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