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by savanaly 11mo ago
Hey, as long as the deep fried mushrooms are replacing the deep fried chicken wings as an appetizer, that's the sort of progress I'm talking about. It's better the vibes change such that 50% of people start ordering plant bas
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by savanaly 11mo ago
If there's one social transformation I long to see in my life time which seems actually achievable and believable it would be for plant-based eating to become hip and cool, sort of like how smoking or being anti-gay became uncool, amon
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by savanaly 11mo ago
I feel like the goalposts have been shifted massively in this conversation. The original sentiment was "there's no way to responsibly gamble online", and that's all I was ever responding to.
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by savanaly 11mo ago
I can readily believe that to be true, but my point still stands, the person I'm replying to made a really sweeping and incorrect statement.
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by savanaly 11mo ago
> the only “responsible” choice is not to gamble online I don't gamble at all in any form, but I still firmly disagree. Some people enjoy gambling in a way that never hurts them-- I've known countless friends and coworkers who
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by savanaly 1y ago
I work at Dropbox so definitely drinking the Koolaid on Dash to some extent, but I find myself using it a decent amount to find stuff internally. Cmd + e has become a habitual hotkey when i need to go find something in one of countless inte
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by savanaly 1y ago
"The patrolling officer on his beat is the one true dictatorship in America, we can lock a guy up on the humble, lock him up for real, or say fuck it and drink ourselves to death under the expressway and our side partners will cover us
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by savanaly 1y ago
I'm with you at heart, but experience says government owned transit works just fine and even great in other countries. What's their secret sauce?
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by savanaly 1y ago
The democracy one (fifth point) is a big ol' stretch, and the healthcare one is debateable, but the other points are well-taken. I have struggled to make the case to my friends and family after visiting China that in a very meaningful
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by savanaly 1y ago
>demand is hard to forecast for an individual, almost completely inelastic and often extremely time sensitive These don't preclude a free market working well. For instance, they're all apt descriptors of me when I find myself n
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by savanaly 1y ago
As an outsider...his games just look and feel different. They feel like bones-deep art, in a way that even the best of the best games (say, Hades) don't. Since Blow's games are puzzle games they're not even my favorite games!
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The Myths of Chinese Exceptionalism(scottsumner.substack.com)
11 points by savanaly 1y ago|1 comments
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by savanaly 1y ago
> Why bother tracking down thieves when you can just keep jacking up premiums? It's not like customers have a choice. Insurance companies compete viciously with each other on price. Have you not seen their ads? If one could offer si
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by savanaly 1y ago
The fact that he left the NYT because it wasn't letting him be partisan enough cracked me up so hard.
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by savanaly 1y ago
I mean this out of genuine curiosity, not as criticism: did she consider telling claude code to look for any duplicate functionality and remove it? Or even edit CLAUDE.md to tell it to check for duplicates after major refactors and remove t
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by savanaly 1y ago
This is a great article; not the first time Asterisk has published an article that has important implications for the growth of poorer countries, the other one I recall being the provocatively titled "Want Growth? Kill Small Businesses
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by savanaly 1y ago
Counterpoint: that the kind of exercise most people engage in with a goal of weight loss isn't going to work, but the kind of dieting would do might work, is perfectly reasonably expressed with the phrase "You can't outrun a
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by savanaly 1y ago
I built apps for a long, long time without Tailwind, just using CSS, sometimes Sass. And I still do at work because our build system doesn't support Tailwind compiler. But for all my side projects, of which there's a few, I use Ta
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by savanaly 1y ago
>Doesn't this miss the point with Tailwind and why we have Tailwind in the first place? Not for me. Say I have a new app and I want it to have a left nav. I could write my own styles with tailwind or...I could just put a .menu on th
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by savanaly 1y ago
Did he say Pascal drew that conclusion and remove it with an edit or something? As it's written now it seems like you're correcting him for something he didn't post.
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by savanaly 1y ago
Also, they paint the whole room for $2.41! When you add that critical detail the analogy comes into focus. People aren't excited about AI coding because it's so much better than human coders. They're excited because it's
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by savanaly 1y ago
I see Georgism and LVT brought up on HN fairly frequently, at least a few times a year. It's a niche economic outlook and set of policy recommendations that many in HN seem to be intrigued by. As someone else pointed out, that definiti
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by savanaly 1y ago
Isn't this a case of the market modeling it very well though? It's very undesirable to live somewhere, so wages offered are elevated. The posts aren't filled though, because the wages aren't elevated enough. Occasionally
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by savanaly 1y ago
I would agree, but that's beside the point I was making.
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by savanaly 1y ago
You might be right, but it's certainly not a "duh". Consumer surplus exists in addition to producer surplus.
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by savanaly 1y ago
But the designs literally go from bad to good once people know how to use them. Unlike war, which is bad whether people are used to it or not. If you're insisting the hamburger design is bad for some other reason rather than people not
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by savanaly 1y ago
>I don't think open models will come to the rescue either. Mass market will want to use the best models with the least friction. The moment you have to do more than go to a website and start prompting, 90% of mass market is out. I i
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Crossing the Cringe Minefield(usefulfictions.substack.com)
2 points by savanaly 1y ago|0 comments
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Testosterone gave me my life back(usefulfictions.substack.com)
7 points by savanaly 1y ago|2 comments
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by savanaly 1y ago
I think they might be getting a lot of traffic due to this post. It was loading for me right before I submitted this, but it's not now. Full text in case it goes down again: We are joining a lawsuit will challenge the President&#

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