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by prewett 1y ago
You conflated two things. Availability to the world's information did not produce loneliness, etc., that was availability of social networks designed for engagement^Waddiction on that same device that did. You don't need to inst
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by prewett 1y ago
I don't think you've lived in one of the countries you're talking about. I lived in Beijing for a couple years, and early on I wanted visit Tian'anmen Square and tourist. I wanted to see what there was to do, how to get
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by prewett 1y ago
That’s because there are lots of maze-solving algorithms on the web, so it’s easy to spit one back at you. But since they don’t actually understand how solve a maze, or even apply an algorithm one step at a time, it doesn’t work well.
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by prewett 1y ago
Colleges don't accept privilege as a currency. Privilege is the contagion you get from going to one. If you're white, and especially male, you incur a lot of privilege-contagion. If you're from a historically underprivileged
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by prewett 1y ago
Xi is a return towards Communism, or at least Communist-style control. And things have slowly gotten worse over his tenure. I think zero-Covid and the Shanghai debacle lost a lot of trust, too. I don’t foresee the Party choosing someone m
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by prewett 1y ago
I don’t think the problem with the Soviets was doing everything themselves, which seems to be working okay for China. The problem is that centralized planning doesn’t work, and the system dehumanized people and destroyed incentives for peop
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by prewett 1y ago
Not all wars are about raiding, especially in the modern era. Putin isn’t interested in Ukraine’s wealth. Nor would a Chinese invasion of Taiwan be about money.
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by prewett 1y ago
Regarding storage, part of the advantage of their soldered storage is higher access speeds. Combined with the fact that, as you note, people rarely need to upgrade their storage, might as well use the faster storage. This is probably partic
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by prewett 1y ago
I was all for MagSafe, but after buying an M2, I realized that the USB-C charging was better. I found the cables came out almost as well as the MagSafe if I stepped on them, but you can plug them in to either side. I seem to always be on th
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by prewett 1y ago
If they are vulnerable to unskilled immigration, that would imply that they are unskilled themselves. I don't see how they will be able to take advantage "opportunity tech jobs provide"--a highly skilled set of jobs. I agree
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by prewett 1y ago
As a customer, nothing infurates me like an AI call center. If I have to call, it's because I have an account problem that requires me to speak with someone to resolve it. I moved states and Xfinity was billing me for the month after I
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by prewett 1y ago
Wasn’t HR a large part of the tech layoffs a couple years ago?
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by prewett 1y ago
But in Object Oriented Programming an interface is also a class with only pure virtual methods, which is the interpretation that came most naturally to my detail-oriented mind. In this case it’s not a translation boundary, but rather a way
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by prewett 1y ago
I'm going with envy. Athletics is a completely different skill from software, and one that is looked down on by posters here, judging by the frequent use of "sportsball". "Sportsball" players make huge salaries? Wha
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by prewett 1y ago
Why should housing be a human right? Human rights came from seeing all people as made in the image of God, but since God is out of fashion, what justification is there? And even if you argue "image of God", human rights have hithe
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by prewett 1y ago
Some years ago there was a HN link about people in ancient Mesopotamia (all the way up to about 1100 AD, iirc) that had a sophisticated network of canal tunnels, and they had people that would hold their breath and swim down and repair them
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by prewett 1y ago
There's been 65% inflation over the past 20 years, so to properly compare housing prices you need to multiply the 20 years ago price by 1.65. A house that doubled in price in twenty years only increased by 20% in terms of actual purcha
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by prewett 1y ago
Might not be the investors, might be squarely management's fault. A lot of investors are pretty passive.
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by prewett 1y ago
Perhaps you'd like the original story he's referencing: https://foldoc.org/The%20Story%20of%20Mel . (Actually, he's referencing the free verse version, but I don't like it as much, because it doesn't
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by prewett 1y ago
Centauri Dreams ( https://www.centauri-dreams.org/ ) has a nice summary (as well as regular fare of this sort).
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by prewett 1y ago
Cannon, not canon (the official texts, e.g. biblical canon, or Star Wars canon). They don't launch space probes out of cannons because they don't make it out of the atmosphere. According to [1], muzzle velocity of a cannon is abou
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by prewett 1y ago
I loved MagSafe, but after the USB C power, I don't love it. USB C power could go on either side of the laptop, and if I stepped on the cable it still easily disconnected, but MagSafe only goes on one side, which frequently means the c
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by prewett 1y ago
He's something like 96, and has been working on replacing himself for at least 10 years, maybe longer. He announced his retirement a few months ago. It would be irresponsible to not plan for his succession; training your replacement is
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by prewett 1y ago
In addition to anti-trust problems, why would Apple want a capital intensive, low-margin, commodity business? Verizon has a net profit margin of about 13%, Apple is currently about twice that. Furthermore, Apple makes computers (the iPhone
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by prewett 1y ago
I think you're conflating religious beliefs with ethics. You can't have a religion that is flexible on beliefs, otherwise it is not a religion, but the actual core religious beliefs are fairly limited. In Christianity, Jesus dying
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by prewett 1y ago
He retired at 94, which is exceptional on several accounts... If you date the "founding" of Berkshire Hathaway as when his fund bought the then textile manufacturer in 1965, he worked at the company he founded for 60 years! (If y
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by prewett 1y ago
You had laptops and spare parts?! At my first job we had to build ourselves a desk out of 1's from the bit bucket to put the card puncher on, and a sort of beanbag chair from the 0's. And the old-timers said we were lucky--the old
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by prewett 1y ago
This should be no surprise. They've been talking about "balanced budgets", but ever since Clinton actually balanced the budget, they yell about balanced budgets in Democratic presidencies (which reduce the deficits), and then
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by prewett 1y ago
Parent did not provide a link, but apparently there was a historical tax on actual windows: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_tax
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by prewett 1y ago
Depends on the situation... If the food source is on a nearby deserted island, connected by two small boats that can carry inconvenient numbers of people + food, and for some reason the boats must always be full and you must always take all

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