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by rland 7y ago
Yes, I believe the clinical term is Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
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The planning of housing stock is a seesaw. On one end, you have industrial capital, and on the other you have financial capital. Industrial capital will always lobby for lowing the cost of housing, as cheap housing will make it possible to
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by rland 7y ago
Had a family member like this. She would lie in the most outrageous fashion, right to your face ("I slept with JFK! We flew to Bermuda for a week 1st class together, just the two of us!" that sort). If you called her out on it, sh
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by rland 7y ago
Nobody will be able to buy a house (in a place where you can make a living) unless they have inherited wealth. It is absolutely a possible outcome -- the default situation for most for hundreds of years.
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by rland 7y ago
If you make too many returns, they shut down your account.
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by rland 7y ago
Shipwrecks, by Akira Yoshimura. It's short, cold, meditative, and harsh. The author has won several awards in Japan but isn't widely known otherwise. I read all his other books (those that were translated) after it.
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by rland 7y ago
>Ant colonies are great examples of complex systems with emergent large-scale behavior. Indeed the same could be said about networks of neurons. The same can be said of human organizations, too. Organizations have distinct behaviors (&qu
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by rland 7y ago
The answer to just about damn near anything is Miata, of course. But I formerly drove a Miata, and now drive an American Medium Size (that's a rest-of-the-world extra large) SUV. Same mileage for both, about ~23mpg.
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by rland 7y ago
I get the sense that a lot of auto marketers are chasing after a causal "you buy the car" -> "you become [x]." It doesn't work on most, but it definitely works on some. Look at any forum for a particular car and
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by rland 7y ago
I have the same feeling you do, but I really wonder: is it the same as it's ever been and I am growing older, or are we really more selfish than we used to be? It sure seems like everyone is out to make a buck, morality be damned. I
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by rland 7y ago
My long list of predictions! Writing this was fun, I'm going to have to remember to look at this comment in 10 years! Politics: US political situation will be significantly less stable/more autocratic than today. People will los
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There are many counter-examples though. BP, Volkswagen, Wells Fargo, Equifax, etc. All doing just fine.
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> a) The amount of money spent there is actually quite low, considering the wealth of the people involved, and the presumptive benefits. The amount of money spent is not limited to legal campaign contributions. There are also PACs, media
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by rland 7y ago
The wealthy are also pouring money into lobbying and PACs to hold onto their power and influence. Is that productive use of capital? Well, it is for them! I don't care that they invest, I don't care that they buy stock. Regular pe
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by rland 7y ago
mmmh, I don't think this really holds up. They do it with Netflix/Steam because they have to, because if they did not those services would choke bandwidth for everyone. With your Netflix example, there are maybe a dozen players wi
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The level of control employers exert on society essentially equivocates the two.
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Ah, that makes sense. I probably shouldnt've even raised that point.
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by rland 7y ago
Imagine if Cox or Comcast came up with AMP. Same technology, same idea. If websites use the Comcast AMP framework, Comcast will cache their sites and make them faster for users. See, it's about the users! Because the Comcast AMP framew
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by rland 7y ago
Are you in the US? Not to discount your situation, but you'd need to be murdered for it to be a capital offense here.
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by rland 7y ago
You can actually do much worse than a public defender. Calling e.g. a lawyer who works for a "mill" (like those guys who advertise on TV, in my hometown it's Kerry Steigerwalt -- who makes a living pleading out DUI's wit
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by rland 7y ago
He did, if I remember right, but it was a mighty struggle. The school fought it at every turn, because it was bad for their metrics.
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by rland 7y ago
Most people spend their whole time in school learning things that they will never, ever use. Pardon my linking to twitter, but this thread really sums it up: https://twitter.com/3liza/status/1190843201315147776 It
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by rland 7y ago
A world where algorithms trash your CV if it doesn't have the phrase "B.A." or "B.S,", and where the cost of that keyword is an irrevocable tithe on 10% of your human output. My lord, people, this might be a bad i
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by rland 7y ago
Big sensor, more photons per mm^2. There will not ever be a computational substitute for a quadrillion additional photons. The camera industry is totally backwards, though. That is true.
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I suspect that they're paying a dear price for it. The growth that would have contributed to a HK-like metropolis has been displaced to everywhere else: Seattle, Austin, Boulder, LA/NYC, etc.
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by rland 7y ago
This is an excellent point. I can foresee a world where ML becomes a sort of "bias laundering." "Nobody knows why the machine learning module denied black people a mortgage 43% more frequently than whites, but it's &#x27
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That's my first thought. It seems that the US did things like that a long time ago in an era that has passed us by, replaced by gridlock and petty politics. Or it might just be that most of our growth isn't in things we build, and
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It's really nice of them to send rejection emails.
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I could see this being extremely useful in the health space, since you could interact without touching anything and transmitting bad bugs.
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I think this is actually kind of a dangerous equivocation to make, and I see it frequently and increasingly. It's very easy to be cynical and say everyone is just out to screw everyone but I refuse to believe that. To that extent,

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