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by saulpw 9mo ago
For us individually. For us collectively it was a horrible thing. We lost the means and incentive to produce anything durable, including a healthy, educated, sustainable society.
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Show HN: Mag World – develop an intuitive sense of scale
3 points by saulpw 9mo ago|0 comments
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by saulpw 9mo ago
That's fine, and I know that, but I have never heard of anyone doing that to publish something 'more human' on their blog. Not to say that it's never happened, but when I see some pretty basic typos in a blog post that
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by saulpw 9mo ago
It doesn't mean "liberal" in the political sense. It has a well-defined meaning (from wikipedia): > Liberal democracy emphasizes the separation of powers, an independent judiciary, and a system of checks and balances betw
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by saulpw 9mo ago
on the one hand, why didn't they just pump it through the "Ghost" and have it fix all the problems for them? on the other hand, I appreciated knowing that it was actually written by a frustrated human, and not sanitized by th
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by saulpw 9mo ago
Yeah, it's more like an accountant throwing away this "double-entry" system in favor of a single-entry spreadsheet that any Jimbob or Maryanne can use.
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by saulpw 9mo ago
There are two kinds of work being conflated here. In The Prophet (1923), Kahlil Gibran writes On Work: "Work is love made visible." This is the kind of work you're talking about. However, the OP question is "would you s
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A Galaxy You Can Dig: When Human-Scale Intuition Breaks(medium.com)
2 points by saulpw 9mo ago|1 comments
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by saulpw 10mo ago
Right, so a sensible society would tax capital gains more than labor, but since we didn't do that, the lion's share went to the already wealthy. For no reason other than being wealthy.
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by saulpw 10mo ago
Sounds like you had a sweet gig for awhile. Quickest way at this point is probably to build a time machine. Sorry :/
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by saulpw 10mo ago
One of the things about "math" is how theorems need to be proven to work for all numbers. I remember reading a thought experiment decades ago about an alien mathematics which didn't prove a theorem formally but would consid
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by saulpw 10mo ago
I don't hate billionaires. They just shouldn't have that much money. NO ONE should have that much money. In fact, back in the 80s, virtually no one did. Remember when Bill Gates was the richest person in the world in 1995? An
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by saulpw 10mo ago
I don't know how you can't see it, but people who have gobs of wealth absolutely have more options (and more powerful options) than people who don't. For just one small example, they can purchase equity in non-public compani
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by saulpw 10mo ago
Yeah but you also have to replace all (2*tau/2) with tau, and 4*(tau/2)^2 with tau^2, etc etc...
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by saulpw 10mo ago
> They have to queue up at the Post Office, grocery store, etc just like everyone else Don't be obtuse. The people we're talking about don't go to the Post office, or the grocery store, and they certainly don't queue
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by saulpw 10mo ago
It's more about the concentrated power that billionaires (shouldn't) have. I didn't care that Elon Musk had $100b+ until he started using it to buy social media platforms and influence national politics.
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by saulpw 10mo ago
There are only 2500 billionaires on the planet. Wealth taxes only apply to a vanishingly small number of people.
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by saulpw 10mo ago
Good riddance, I say. All these selfish pricks can take their "wealth" to Mars where they can be completely self-reliant and don't have to help anyone like they were helped.
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by saulpw 10mo ago
The cost of health insurance (in USD) just went way up.
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by saulpw 10mo ago
It makes him (presumed) 20% more effective than his coworker makes him . Overall effectiveness of the team is not being considered, but that's why his manager isn't asking him :)
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by saulpw 10mo ago
That's only how it works since 1992/1998. Prior to 1992, you had to renew your copyright explicitly after 28 years (for another term of 47 years). 1992 made that renewal automatic. (1998 extended it by 20 years).
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by saulpw 10mo ago
Say what you want about the design of Mountain Lion, at least it's an ethos.
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by saulpw 10mo ago
This is specious advice. Never hold 100% anything. Especially cash. Maybe/likely the US Fed will pump trillions of new dollars into the economy in random places and cause massive inflation. So let's say we hold 25% cash, or even
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by saulpw 10mo ago
Who cares? The roaring 20s will be great!
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by saulpw 10mo ago
I keep hearing "it's the slowest and worst it'll ever be" as though software ability and performance only ever increase and yet mass produced software is slower and enshittier than it was 10-15 years ago and we're a
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by saulpw 10mo ago
The things that make social media net-negative--advertising, infinite scroll, global scale--aren't part of HN. Facebook wasn't net-negative when it was just a website that a few million people used to post semi-publicly with thei
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by saulpw 10mo ago
I think it will be 'ads'.
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by saulpw 10mo ago
Metal detection and bag checking requires a human at the entrance. With a camera you can automate the human away (at some cost to reliability and reasonability).
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by saulpw 10mo ago
If everyone on the planet is a gamer (8.26 billion people), your "99.9999%" figure would mean that only 8260 gamers--in the entire world--care. I'm one of those gamers. I'm pretty sure we can find more than 8259 others.
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by saulpw 10mo ago
Type checking, even that as trivial as C's, is a boon to productivity, especially on large teams but also when coding solo if you have anything else in your brain.

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