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by nluken 3y ago
Your view of bandcamp seems like a cartoonishly perfect representation of a consultant’s perspective with very little understanding of what the company actually does beyond the balance sheet. It’s the kind of no-skin-in-the-game perspective
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by nluken 3y ago
I have shared similar sentiments with friends, but I think that the answer isn't a chain like Alamo, it's the independent theater. Every repertory event I've been to at an indie in the last year has been packed to the brim. T
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by nluken 3y ago
So does H&M in the clothes world (at least, that’s what they’ll tell you). At the end of the day it’s still a sales tactic.
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by nluken 3y ago
"We are not sustainable, and we know that, but buy our products anyway" is still greenwashing...
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by nluken 3y ago
Airports work this way because they’re obscenely large. Train stations don't have this issue, especially in NYC where the rail yard is underground. Why would we move the primary intercity train station outside the city when its main ad
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by nluken 3y ago
Even so, the spider has 10 legs!
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by nluken 3y ago
Not sure if you’re being serious but that is indeed how it works at many places. I was straight up told that I could get a spot on some schools’ track teams over others who were faster than me because my test scores would increase the team
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by nluken 3y ago
I go back and forth on this. Athletics definitely have outsize influence on college admissions that should be diminished, but surely it should still count for something, right? Most people wouldn’t argue against considering artists’ portfol
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by nluken 3y ago
There’s no need for deflation, at least in the long term. Just home prices that don’t increase relative to inflation.
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by nluken 3y ago
Missed the catalog section, so makes a little more sense in the context of browsing the site from the start. Still, I shouldn’t have to add to cart to actually see the price as configured. I don’t want to get too far in the weeds here since
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by nluken 3y ago
All of those specs and not a single mention of how much this thing costs. How can any potential customer reasonably compare this to another laptop without knowing the base price?
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by nluken 3y ago
Minimalism is always in. Even in high fashion, Issey Miyake, whose association with Steve Jobs is called out in the article, remains beloved beyond his death. Perhaps it's not explicitly a uniform per se , but you could build a fashio
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by nluken 3y ago
I'm sure the output of this LLM could be improved with some hacking but why bother? Are we really at a point where we're nitpicking about the best way to automate away any kind of interpersonal communication?
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by nluken 3y ago
You're not going to get a sporty ride from a model Y. Or any SUV really, as much as Tesla, BMW, and every other luxury SUV maker would have you believe. These vehicles are simply too tall for that. It's a tradeoff for which you ge
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by nluken 3y ago
Not sure how this is clickbait? The article reads a bit like a PR post, but the headline isn't an exaggeration and there's no bait and switch. In fact, it's relatively dry.
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by nluken 3y ago
That isn't what I'm saying. I agree that this behavior needs to be fixed. I'm saying that "Tesla's self-driving algorithm makes an error at a single intersection in SF" doesn't meet my threshold for news a
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by nluken 3y ago
This is a non-story. It's pretty clear to me the car should have stopped (and I question the original tweeter's road judgement for suggesting otherwise) but plenty of bad drivers do the same thing in the city.
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by nluken 3y ago
Fair enough. Unverified LLM output as a comment feels spammy to me even if it’s correct (hence my knee jerk reaction), but I guess that sort of makes sense.
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by nluken 3y ago
If the poster wanted to ask GPT4, don’t you think they would’ve just asked GPT4?
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by nluken 3y ago
Yes, it went into all asset classes, even normally depreciating assets like cars. That said, the massive influx of cash into an asset with no underlying value seems like an especially egregious symptom of this trend.
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by nluken 3y ago
So what you're saying is that one piece of software with years of labor from a team of engineers can match another piece of software with years of labor from a team of engineers? You're incorrectly comparing the creation of the so
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by nluken 3y ago
I think it's a bit more nuanced than that. McMansions are defined by their attempts to outwardly demonstrate wealth, which makes deriding them easy but justifiable. Many of the kinds of homes the author discusses here are multimillion
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by nluken 3y ago
I was excited to see that Kate Wagner was contributing to this most recent issue of the Baffler. A related article from the same issue discusses the cheapness of the construction in modern housing: https://thebaffler.com/sal
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by nluken 3y ago
What is "winning" here? How do you "win" art? Human writers don't exist anymore? Seems like a really odd way of viewing writing.
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by nluken 3y ago
No, but there's a difference between selling a convertible Corvette alongside the hardtop and discontinuing the hardtop to sell the convertible.
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by nluken 3y ago
I think your perspective is pretty common among Americans but your argument undercuts itself when you point out that for as good a driver as you are, you've been involved in multiple accidents outside of your control. The insulating en
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by nluken 3y ago
A good public transit system hits all of these marks. Hell, even a shitshow like the NYC subway ticks most or all of the boxes, and it's faster than taking a car too. Admittedly, it's not perfect on point 1, but it's still wa
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by nluken 3y ago
Million, with an M? Might as well be a jaywalking ticket.
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by nluken 3y ago
... or it will homogenize that lower 80th percentile (which needs to do something out of the ordinary to stand out) and decrease interest in it even more.
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by nluken 3y ago
Genuinely confused how people think AI will "democratize" music by allowing people to "create without a gatekeeper". What exactly does this mean? Music has already been democratized. You don't need a label to rele

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