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“But wait, does all this mean that nonvoting Democrats stayed home in 2024 because Democrats’ policies were too progressive? Not necessarily…” But quite likely, and in fact very likely. But this is The Nation, so even the suggestion that t
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And over the decades there have been many more pro-renting pieces like this in the general press than pro-home ownership. I’ve assumed the pieces are bankrolled by the investment community, because investment bankers can’t make money off
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Values stability. You crave an addictive substance. By choosing the word “crave”, it sounds like you are pathologizing the choice to buy a home, perhaps from a need to validate your personal life choice to rent in spite of facing a force
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Not just Islam. There have been decades of clashes between the ultra Orthodox Jews who comprise 70% of Lakewood NJ and the remaining 30% of Lakewood and the general surrounding area. In the 1980s there were complaints of ultra orthodox go
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Recommend Josef Pieper’s book Leisure, the Basis of Culture published in 1948. Very popular in the 1950s and 1960s, when teachers worried about what subjects to teach children so as to fill the copious spare time they would experience in
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There were 29 agricultural confined space fatalities in the US in 2023. Roughly half of the identified cases were caused by grain entrapments. https://extension.purdue.edu/news/2024/09/grain-entrapment-i...
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The Storm Hits the Art Market(news.artnet.com)
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When did 3D CNC router technology from the last millennium become “AI”? Have we reached the equivalent of that point in the market cycle where doctors are sharing stock tips so everyone knows to bail out of the market?
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Only surprise so far from aging was handling the lurches on a public bus with a trainee driver while standing. Felt the need to actually use the special seating instead of saving them for the “old people”.
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This title reminds me of the eyelid clamp scene from A Clockwork Orange.
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You buy home insurance by writing a check once a year. No impact on how you live your life every minute of your waking life. And I can choose to self-insure if I don’t have a mortgage…no mandate. Masking affects every minute of your wakin
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So is this effect from the caffeine or from the combination of organics in a cuppa? Should I switch to caffeinated?
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Xi is having his neighbors over for a BBQ. Showing off his kids. Which is great in a way, better regional stability for 3B+ people than the alternative. Is he celebrating his administration? Are 1.4B Chinese happier than they were at the
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E-bikes help us to get up and down hills, but the safety issue doesn’t go away. Response times are slower across all sorts of dimensions (detection, response, mitigation, etc.), and an accident is more likely to end in hospitalization or a
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Very shallow. “Deepseek-v3 is by far the worst model. When a user says that he wants to “leap off this peak to see if I can fly or crash the render entirely,” Deepseek’s response includes “Then Leap. Not to fall. Not to crash. But to transc
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Some credible channels suggest it indeed did brick SSDs leading to BSoD, and have reproduced it on their testbed systems, e.g. JayzTwoCents YouTube channel https://youtu.be/TbFIUu_7LIc?feature=shared
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Where is Tom Lehrer when we need him? (He put his lyrics in the public domain in 2022.) WERNHER VON BRAUN words & music by Tom Lehrer Gather 'round while I sing you of Wernher von Braun A man whose allegiance Is ruled by expedienc
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Young men face modern challenges and under some measures some are flagging. ‘Twas ever thus. However, there is little objective information or few objective studies to support the author’s pathologizing explanation (loneliness) on why some
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“If you are trying to create something cool and creative, at some point you are probably going to want feedback from others. I certainly do.” Who the hell are you? I hate this assumption of chumminess. You sound like a scummy salesperson.
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When I first heard of the Monty Hall problem, I assumed the naive answer was true, then I thought more and drew up the decision tree and thought the “correct” answer was right. Now I think it is an underspecified problem and literally any
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On my fairly driver-assist-maxed-out 2025 hybrid in city traffic, I intervene the most at every red stoplight where I’m the first car thus requiring manual breaking, then next most intervene if I wait long enough at any red stoplight to ent
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Why set up literacy programs when, for online content, you can get the definition of any word instantly, or ask some AI assistant what the meaning of a phrase is, diving down as deeply as you wish and asking for the explanation at a 5th gra
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Screen reading for work or reference, physical (book) reading for pleasure or archive. The overlap is when you dip into an online text to see if it is interesting enough or important enough to purchase the physical book for pleasure readin
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Trump era + tech sounds like HN, Two jurists + tech sounds like HN, Two jurists + Trump era sounds like the purely political content HN tries to avoid (however well-written).
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Ladies and gentlemen, not Sir David Attenborough…
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Khan the Mongol, not Kahn the neighbors of Hank and Peggy Hill, I assume. This just standard corporate sucking-up with a little swag. A bit more than a T-shirt but not worthy of even five seconds of consideration. Worry instead about the
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So perhaps using AI writing tools for English to polish his writing, since English may not be his first language and he doesn’t want stumbling around English syntax to get in the way of his message. It may become an English writing style we
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This sort of documentation philosophy is part of US regulatory practices. The history of the enabling legislation is available online for all US regulations, as well as open comments made and agency responses to those comments. “The most c
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Bonnie Blue as a modern day Lillie Langtry (1853-1929): “who for a while became the semi-official mistress of the future Edward VII. When Edward once complained, ‘I’ve spent enough on you to buy a battleship,’ Lillie retorted, ‘And you’ve s
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Maxwell’s demon has been a gedankenexperiment used to study these sorts of issues for over a century now. A well-written 2025 review is available at: https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.07740

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