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by sleight42 8mo ago
Often seems like there's no defeat that Benioff can't steal from the jaws of Victory.
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by sleight42 8mo ago
I'm vegan and very overweight. Yet my worst LDL was 108 in 2021 and was 88 last year. And I don't eat rabbit food. I still have pasta and pizza and other stuff. And I do like oatmeal but don't eat it too often.
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by sleight42 8mo ago
Try NSAIDs. Depression is a set of emotions. Emotions affect the body. I thought to try NSAIDs to deal with the physical discomfort. That partially shutdown the feedback loop of mood -> body discomfort -> reinforcing mood. There are s
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by sleight42 9mo ago
Our own "founding fathers" knew that no system could stop someone determined enough to destroy it from inside. "The dignity and stability of government in all its branches, the morals of the people, and every blessing of soci
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by sleight42 9mo ago
Regardless of judicial rulings of any sort, who will enforce them? Seemingly all of the enforcement apparatus in the US has been co-opted. The individual state governments aren't meaningfully resisting. Their law enforcement isn't
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by sleight42 9mo ago
You're not like us. "Angel investor" == "f u money". That is not most of us.
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by sleight42 9mo ago
It's the Fourth Reich. Venezuela has been invaded. Meanwhile Trump is threatening several other nations with similar. He has demonstrated that he will act on seemingly unhinged threats. He seems intent on taking over the Western hemisp
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by sleight42 9mo ago
Why are comments allowed on these posts? What is the point? What is ever gained? Conservatives question and deny. Liberals point out the multiple laws broken. People from the rest of the world tell those of in the USA that we have our head
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by sleight42 10mo ago
I guess you're being downvoted because either: 1) Too many conservative tech bros here or 2) independent voters may not be aligned with this crap yet many voted for him anyway. Probably both.
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by sleight42 10mo ago
Your point was most of my read on the article. Yet the root problem seems structural: the misplaced incentives of the quarterly earnings-driven stock market. Short term gains most often win over long term innovation.
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by sleight42 10mo ago
Yet they were about far more than just vacuums! In the 2000s, no one was doing what they were doing.
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by sleight42 10mo ago
Missing the point. iRobot was far more than vacuums until they weren't. Read the article. The author spells it out. I lived it. I read about them and bought a Roomba back when they first sold them. They had so much in the pipeline, con
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by sleight42 10mo ago
The top comment completely misses the point. iRobot was remarkably innovative until they were enshittified decades before the term was coined.
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by sleight42 10mo ago
and perhaps this new initiative for ads in the App Store is an attempt to replace the money lost by Europe and Japan allowing alternate app stores
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by sleight42 11mo ago
In the US? They're currently treated like animals. I reassert: voting with your feet is a privilege.
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by sleight42 11mo ago
And there's also moderator control? Yup. Accountable.
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by sleight42 11mo ago
"Vote with your feet" is a privileged assertion
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by sleight42 11mo ago
I know this is a shitpost but someone has to say it: Yo dawg I hear you like downdetector so...
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by sleight42 11mo ago
There have been ads in Apple News for years now. There were not, at its outset. And I hate them. Yes. Steve would take a giant dump all over this nonsense. Apple is increasingly at risk of similar enshittification as Google.
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by sleight42 11mo ago
Imagine wealth as a virus. If inheritance isn't there to prune out variants, the virus mutates and propagates. People who start off wealthy go on to accumulate and centralize even more wealth.
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by sleight42 11mo ago
Indeed. It seems like splitting hairs. It says that their upper level management made a lot of bad calls about headcount growth. And, as always, it's the people below the decision makers who pay the price.
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by sleight42 11mo ago
Because at some point the Executive Branch has no more budget left to spend because Congress can't approve a budget?
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by sleight42 11mo ago
Hedging their bets against a potential sudden downturn in consumption of their product, e.g., an AI bubble exploding? If they invest heavily in production capacity only to find that there is not commensurate consumption, then they'll h
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by sleight42 1y ago
Why is this flagged? This is super relevant to HN!
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by sleight42 1y ago
I am VERY glad to hear this. And thank you for your work.
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by sleight42 1y ago
Thank you. Very kind.
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by sleight42 1y ago
Of course this gets downvoted. HN is after all first about capital. Startups.
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by sleight42 1y ago
Watch Babylon 5. Vorlons. Or Lord of the Rings and Elves. Immortality likely breeds ossification. Stasis.
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by sleight42 1y ago
The scale of it, in the US, is new. Social media has enabled this scale. Before that, we had... mailing lists? Web forums? Before that? BBSs and in-person meetings. Cheap and easy world-scale communication has fucked us at the same time it
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by sleight42 1y ago
It North America, it was better overall; we didn't immediately assume the other person was inhuman because they voted for the other guy. In the US, we are just so fucked. The rest of the world, at that time? Probably not so great.

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