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by pembrook 6mo ago
I don't disagree with the idea that violence is fundamentally morally questionable. But humans haven't evolved to the point where we can function collaboratively without the threat of it from somewhere. We're animals. The pro
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by pembrook 6mo ago
I see you've addressed none of my points and instead were triggered by my suggestion your team may have some bad people on it. Yes, in recent times in the US right wing violence has been more prevalent. But HN is not a right wing place
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by pembrook 6mo ago
Sure, you can't monopolize violence under the state (and enforce laws) without the state demonstrating its willingness to use said violence (ie. forcibly put people who violate in prison or use actual violence against them if they resi
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by pembrook 6mo ago
> "Political Violence is Never The Answer". But our country (and a lot of them) were literally founded on political violence. How do people square those 2 ideas? The is just survivorship bias. Violence sits at the root of ALL
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by pembrook 6mo ago
Is there anything running on Blacksky other than Bluesky with more than say, 100 active users? AOL never even got to that level of dominance in the internet 1.0 era. The point is it's not a distributed network if one node is 99.9% of a
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by pembrook 6mo ago
Distributed social media goes down? hrmmm. Email and the internet don't have "downtime." Certain key infra providers do of course. ISPs can go down. DNS providers can go down. But the internet and email itself can't go d
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by pembrook 6mo ago
This, plus the fact if they don't overcommunicate and send you 10 transactional emails (eg. "your order is still on its way!") they'll have people filing credit card disputes and BBB complaints, blasting support screamin
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by pembrook 6mo ago
No, if the US had no military the majority of veterans benefits and services money would still need to be spent (its mostly healthcare) it would just be bucketed under SS and Medicare/Medicaid then. Also, without a military the US woul
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by pembrook 7mo ago
This comment strikes me as weirdly incoherent. It seems to be an assemblage of random political ranting (derived from mainstream US politics) instead of addressing anything about the Technocracy movement of the 1930s.
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by pembrook 7mo ago
How ironic that you were downvoted. HN is full of left-populists these days and any slightly negative mention of socialism or central planning (their equivalent utopian vision) triggers them. I think this suggests it's more than just h
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by pembrook 7mo ago
OpenAI is the most well-capitalized startup in history, and simultaneously in the center of the most hated cycle in tech (AI) since the mechanized loom. Isn't the arbitrage these guys ran using their VC connections pretty obvious? TBPN
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by pembrook 7mo ago
Sir, I'm sorry to be the one to tell you this. But you've been in a coma since 2022 after a severe car accident. It's now the year 2026. That dead horse has already been beaten.
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by pembrook 7mo ago
> The clitoris was in Gray's Anatomy until 1947, when it was removed by the editor Charles Gross for the 25th edition. This is also false [1]. One guy didn't wake up one day in 1947 and decide to remove all references to the
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by pembrook 7mo ago
> a screenshot and no context, imho HN can do better than this There's been an influx of low-quality bluesky links being posted lately, HN either needs to be better enforcing existing rules or we need a new one banning editorializ
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by pembrook 7mo ago
Mostly fluff/hype. Not a value-add over just using raw MJML (which has nice VScode plugins for live previews), and in fact a long term risk to add to a codebase since react-email is just a marketing play by Resend (a startup) and will
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by pembrook 7mo ago
Plain text? Pffft. Human language is an unnecessary abstraction, just like images. I wish everyone would communicate in pure Binary.
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by pembrook 7mo ago
I like how you aren't hiding the fact this is MJML under the hood and don't layer complex abstractions over MJML spec like similar projects ( cough react email cough ). The devs maintaining MJML deserve so much credit for dealin
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by pembrook 7mo ago
You've accurately described what could happen with right-wing authoritarians in power. You've not described what could happen with left-wing authoritarians in power. Don't be fooled that your team doesn't have people wit
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by pembrook 7mo ago
That would be a solution if the people pushing this actually cared about "protecting kids." But let's be honest, governments want a dragnet they can use to monitor/control all internet communication. The people running w
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by pembrook 7mo ago
> The print editions of the very same publications — The New York Times, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The New Yorker — don’t do anything like this. Yes because they don't give the print editions away for fr
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by pembrook 7mo ago
Yet the overwhelming factor in modeling the movement of those satellites is still distance = speed * time. The existence of nuance and external factors don't negate the original principle. The equivalent to arguments made by 'econ
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by pembrook 7mo ago
France has similar issues as the US housing projects from the 70s (creating ghettos), these are not places that people choose to live. And yes, all governments put up halo projects that you see in the press that do not represent the average
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by pembrook 7mo ago
Because "cheap" government housing has never been "high quality" in the history of the world. Those two properties are antithetical. Humans don't have a ton of preferences for the electricity they consume or the wat
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by pembrook 7mo ago
Construction costs don't scale linearly with rent prices, it's a different market altogether that depends on regulation/worker supply/material costs/equipment/etc. As long as construction costs remain below the
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by pembrook 7mo ago
Your scenario is simply describing a massive under-supply problem, and mis-attributing causality for price increases. If the older buildings are able to raise prices 20% with no increase in vacancies after the new build, the new build not c
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by pembrook 7mo ago
Ah yes, that 150 year old meme reflexively copy-pasta'd by internet commenters since the days of usenet to refute basic concepts like supply and demand. "Lol economists are dumb they think humans are robots!" No they don&#x27
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by pembrook 7mo ago
Apparently you aren't aware of the EU's deep regulatory protectionism and subsidies at both EU and country level. A small portion is legitimately about protecting consumers, but ultimately this stuff is all designed by and for EU
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by pembrook 7mo ago
> my experiences don’t look like the Instagram shots, my body doesn’t look like theirs, etc Zero difference from the reality TV/tabloid era. "Influencer" is just a rebranding of "celebrity," and instead of seei
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by pembrook 7mo ago
Meta is definitely helping to push this, but they aren't having to push very hard because its already in the zeitgeist. It's a classic moral panic. Millennials are raising kids and turning into their boomer parents. Millennials ha
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by pembrook 7mo ago
> But what actual real-world problem will it solve? I know most Americans don't travel, but are you aware that timezones exist and there's an entire world outside the US that also invests in US companies? Why do you think glo

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