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by pembrook 1y ago
Originally yes, but now this is a complaint forum for pessimistic big tech worker bees to vent their frustrations while never actually having to invest time, money or effort on actually doing anything. Generally though, consumers have alrea
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by pembrook 1y ago
In both situations you have zero recourse. In fact the US Government is less responsive to protest than US businesses are. US healthcare is one of the most complicated systems of adverse incentives and tangled byzantine public/private
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by pembrook 1y ago
The fact that rich engineers on hacker news would be flirting with bolshevism as their ideology is just endlessly funny to me. I know it’s just people parroting the emotional “vibe” of their political tribe on any given day, but it’s so iro
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by pembrook 1y ago
Sorry to be so blunt, but it’s extremely unlikely both your sisters would have a rare chronic condition related to Lyme that wouldn’t respond to the standard course of antibiotics. The hysteria around Lyme on the internet is ridiculous. Unf
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by pembrook 1y ago
Yep, you own your domain, you own your mailbox and can take it with you anywhere once a service gets bad or dies. The real problem comes when your email address is owned by someone else (eg. @gmail.com). That’s the definition of lock-in.
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by pembrook 1y ago
You bring up the example of an extinction-level asteroid hurling toward earth. Gee, I wonder if this superintelligence you’re deathly afraid of could help with that? This extreme risk aversion and focus on negative outcomes is just the res
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by pembrook 1y ago
Amazing how nobody can imagine a world before the internet and satellite television. Following American baseball news from Germany in detail would be virtually impossible in the 1940s.
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by pembrook 1y ago
That's not remotely true. You forget the default state of humanity is fighting off starvation running naked in the dirt. The average net profit rate of all business in the US is 7%. To think you’re not a primary beneficiary in such a s
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by pembrook 1y ago
Because at its core a “job” is just doing something useful for other people, validated by the incurrence of a large societal cost (your salary). Humans like to feel useful AND validated. If you remove either we generally become more unhappy
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by pembrook 2y ago
Of course they do. The hilarity of the US’s uniquely draconian global taxation system collides with its incomprehensible schizophrenic immigration system. Complexity is the root of all evil.
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by pembrook 2y ago
Great stuff, looking forward to your next blog post in 1 year: “How I rebuilt my blog on…” A fun hobby of mine is Googling “how I built this blog with [next.js/Gatsby/etc etc]” and going to page 10 of the Google results. It’s just
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by pembrook 2y ago
The person you’re responding to is an autistic wheelchair-bound lesbian woman living in Ghana. What now? Personally, I’d prefer internet commenters argue in good faith instead of emotionally parroting 2010s social justice identity jargon. Y
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by pembrook 2y ago
Great idea! The trick is to zoom into peoples clothing, and then the associated event becomes quite obvious. Eg. Photo of Disco, no crazy lapels, obviously towards the end of disco, which puts you within a year or two. Might have gotten luc
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by pembrook 2y ago
Thank god we don’t usually let engineers name stuff in the west. While this is entirely logical in theory this is how you get LG style naming like “THE ALL NEW LG-CFT563-X2” I mean, it makes total sense, it tells you exactly the model, regi
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by pembrook 2y ago
Twitter/X doesn’t have a problem with corporate accounts. They murdered reach on brand accounts in the algorithm loooong ago (mid 2010s), you basically will never see company tweets in the feed even if you follow them. I think it’s mor
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by pembrook 2y ago
Nothing is wrong with Apple. Reaching most valuable company in history of earth status and then starting to pay out an increasing amount of profits back to investors to be redistributed by the market to other ventures and areas of society
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by pembrook 2y ago
For a laugh, Google the phrase "how I built this blog on Gatsby" or "why I rebuilt this blog on next.js" and then go to page 10 of the google results and realize humans are all the same.
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by pembrook 2y ago
Yes, all governments are honest, non-corrupt, and never abuse power.
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by pembrook 2y ago
I would say your post has the logical flaws, not confronting any of the core criticism and instead misdirecting to other topics. Creating efficient payment rails for its own currency is one of the most obvious roles for government imo. If t
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by pembrook 2y ago
Not at the early stages.
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by pembrook 2y ago
SAP predates the personal computer and the rise of the VC model in the 80s. Its a bad sign if you have to go back over 50 years.
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by pembrook 2y ago
> but I also think hiring someone for [government paperwork] would be the wise choice in most places anyway. I’m not sure if you’ve ever tried founding a business or fundraising in any other non-Germany country, but this is an insane t
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by pembrook 2y ago
You've taken small snippets of my text and stood them up as lone straw-men to argue against, instead of arguing against my actual premise. No, murder is not comparable to advertising. And no, not once did I ever say the phrase "se
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by pembrook 2y ago
Plutonium is scarce, but demand for it is even more scarce. Hence why most of the plutonium that exists is untapped. It’s not even a functioning market because of this, it requires governments to prop up its production. Plutonium is one of
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by pembrook 2y ago
Out of all of HN’s biases, the violent hatred of advertising is by far one of the most misguided. Human attention is scarce. Demand for that attention is endless. Scarcity + demand creates a natural market by default, meaning you must use
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by pembrook 2y ago
“Diversity” is a nice positive spin on what is an extremely fragmented/disjointed/nonexistent energy policy, military strategy, technological cooperation, consumer markets, etc. Like I said, the average European cannot converse wi
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by pembrook 2y ago
I would argue everything else sits downstream from those things. It would be quite an understatement to say they are...somewhat important...in the continued existence of a country. So objectively, there is a correct way to prioritize those
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by pembrook 2y ago
Doesn't matter how intelligent or educated or homogenous culturally the Finns are...if Russia were to decide to invade. Domestic political antifragility means nothing if you're not anti-fragile in terms of the outside world. It&#x
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by pembrook 2y ago
Yep, and if you respect the tariff, you don't get fined. How hard is it? "THE LAW IS THE LAW" is not an logical argument. Tariffs are also imposed via legislation (laws). Just as EU companies have to abide by EU privacy regs,
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by pembrook 2y ago
Yes, both Europe and the US fine companies. But specifically when it comes to tech (which is overwhelmingly US companies), there is a massive imbalance. Tariffs are one mechanism by which that imbalance can be tilted. "EU privacy regs

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