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by prewett 8mo ago
Do you have any idea what it is that makes her so effective, especially with kid who otherwise wouldn't care?
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by prewett 8mo ago
You're not describing capitalism, you're describing managerialism with a manager-evaluation function of profit. Managers do not need to be evaluated by EPS, but when you are a public company with diffuse shareholders (who are the
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by prewett 8mo ago
When he starts vibe coding his rocket control software, I might find what he says credible. It's easy to say words, but quite another thing to bet your expensive rockets on it.
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by prewett 8mo ago
Going around to municipalities that you are not a resident of and saying "we will sue you into obeying state law" is basically being a tattletale. Nobody likes that. I'm sympathetic to more housing, and I think state laws sho
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by prewett 8mo ago
What bothers me is that the Left is quick to shout "fascism!" but cannot see their own soft, creeping totalitarianism. Don't think gender operations are a healthy thing? That's not an option, it's either "celeb
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by prewett 8mo ago
I really wish posts like this explained what sort of development they are doing. Is this for an internal CRUD server? Internal React app? Scala server with three instances? Golang server with complex AWS configuration? 10k lines? 100k lines
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by prewett 9mo ago
I wonder if 3D printing is a good analogy. The promise was "you can print anything you want!" From my observation, the reality is that you can 3D print cheap plastic crap that looks like voxel rendering made manifest. This turns o
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by prewett 9mo ago
But new media also lets creativity blossom. The printing press eventually enabled novels through cost reduction. Prussian blue pigment is a large part of ukyio-e's attraction; it got used a lot because it was new and was a better blue.
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by prewett 9mo ago
Since the world has finite goods and everyone wants more, I'm not sure what kind of economy besides "scarcity-based" you expect to find.
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by prewett 9mo ago
#1 is inevitable; the Pareto distribution is everywhere. I read a paper on how it naturally shows up when people can act on preferences, but can't remember the paper (and it was in the context of why cities show a Pareto distribution)
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by prewett 9mo ago
Perhaps it is worth noting that Brett Devreaux skewered this guy (regarding a different topic) in his latest acoup.blog. I'm actually sympathetic with his perspective, and I was frustrated by Mary Beard's "SQPR" when she
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by prewett 9mo ago
You're not comparing the price of the Intel chip that way, though, which is what GP did.
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by prewett 9mo ago
A 36% tax?! Nobody's going to invest in that environment, since the taxes will really sap your effective compounding rate. That's a great way to push all your finance people out of the country.
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by prewett 9mo ago
Do you have to pay tax on unrealized gains with realized money? A classic problem with exercising employee stock options and holding the stock is that you have a tax event on the unrealized gain, but if the stock drops substantially, you st
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by prewett 9mo ago
UBI didn't work for the Communists, can't see how it's going to happen in a fractious democracy. I think a the biggest "global democratic mandate" ever seen is functionally a dictatorship... And apart from the Commu
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by prewett 9mo ago
At least it wasn't "learns", like "we had five learns from the project". Like, say, "ad spend". There's already a noun form of a verb, it's called a gerund: "ad spending".
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by prewett 9mo ago
The individual dynasties, however, lasted about 250 years each, like the others listed. China also got taken over by the Mongols in the mid-1200s, (retaken by Han Chinese a century later), and then by the Manchurians in the mid-1600s. Chine
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by prewett 9mo ago
I didn't encounter the Dao de Jing until later in life, but the opening bit has always seemed straightforward to me. I first saw it as "the way that can be described is not the Way", but also "the way that can be travele
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by prewett 9mo ago
The problem is that comparing two stock prices is meaningless; it's comparing apples to oranges. People are commenting that your conclusion (Ubisoft's stock price is less than our stock price, which dropped 75%, so Ubisoft has a p
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by prewett 9mo ago
Western ideas of liberty and agency came out of 1500 years of Christian. Christians put limits on liberty and agency, but that's very different than despising it. Even from an atheistic standpoint, current levels of liberty and agency
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by prewett 9mo ago
It's been discussed a number of times on HN. The Wall Street Journal even had an article about counterfeits on Amazon a few years ago. There's one at [1] (paywall, naturally). I'm not sure if it is fraud, but it definitely ai
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by prewett 9mo ago
I read fantasy set a thousand years in the past, and yet the women are all individualistic and liberated, no women ever spend any time spinning thread, and the monks don't really believe in Christ. Ken Follett really tried with the mon
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by prewett 9mo ago
"Why?" That's generally what motivates me to learn. Information is merely the raw material for Understanding.
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by prewett 9mo ago
“I’ve got zero beef with my local Humane Society”: this is wonderful! It’s got irony but the irony of the irony is that it’s literally correct.
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by prewett 9mo ago
You can't outsource expertise. You don't get domain knowledge without spending the time to understand the breadth of the domain.
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by prewett 9mo ago
My problem isn't lack of determinism, it's that it's solution frequently has basic errors that prevent it from working. I asked ChatGPT for a program to remove the background of an image. The resulting image was blue. When I
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by prewett 9mo ago
I don't generally have to entrust myself to humans doing crazy things, though. An actual person driving a taxi is familiar enough with the roads that they are unlikely to do something like that. Probably also Uber/Lyft drivers. An
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by prewett 9mo ago
Musk used to be seen as an engineer. He co-founded a payments company that merged with PayPal (not sure if he did engineering, though). I believe he is widely seen as being a knowledgeable rocketry engineer. I also think that he contributed
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by prewett 9mo ago
I think Jimmy John's does a good job making excellent bread. I'm not sure that it is bakery quality, but it is definitely noticeable. I've bought their day-old bread instead of grocery store baked bread. I think Subway's
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by prewett 9mo ago
Now that women can work, ratcheting effects of dual-income households being able to spend more mean that generally two incomes are required to keep up the same standard of living, so now women must work. This does not seem like an impro

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