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by smt88 3mo ago
Spotify popularity doesn’t bring in cash directly, but it leads to increased ticket sales for live shows. And Spotify will recommend you to new listeners in a way that piracy won’t. I have a personal example: Spotify recommended a band to m
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by smt88 3mo ago
The aviation pricing will be passed to consumers either way, as increased fares or in-flight fees.
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by smt88 3mo ago
Would Bezos have made Amazon if he hadn’t married Scott? The answer seems to be no. She was an instrumental early contributor, and she supported him while he lost enormous amounts of money for many years before Amazon became profitable.
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by smt88 3mo ago
She wasn’t a passive housewife who inherited money in a divorce. She was an early Amazon investor and helped build the first stage of the company. She’d be a billionaire even without the divorce.
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by smt88 3mo ago
Along these lines, I’d almost rather she’d bought major media outlets and newspapers and set them up under nonprofits with strict governance against taking corrupting donations.
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by smt88 3mo ago
I agree. There’s no chance Grok is better than Claude Code for this. And Claude is never so badly misaligned that it gives up and switches stacks.
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by smt88 3mo ago
I don’t know what person reads The Economist to learn about trans topics (whatever you mean by that)
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by smt88 3mo ago
Can’t think of a worse time to go into beef production anyway
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by smt88 3mo ago
Why is this an exciting time for aviation? Or more specifically, why should I (a person who never spends more than $2,000 on air travel) be excited?
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by smt88 3mo ago
I had no agency in being born and raised here. Are you saying that by staying in this country, I’m now responsible for stealing land 200 years ago? And my responsibility for stealing this land means I can’t be upset about supersonic jets?
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by smt88 3mo ago
My parents immigrated to the US in the 80s. They didn't steal anyone's land. Can I complain about rich people wasting fuel, polluting the air, and creating peace-shattering sounds? And about the stolen land, what should we do abou
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by smt88 3mo ago
> no one should have anything other than labor as their main income until they retire No one should start a business and pay salaries to their employees instead of themselves? What if I see that a biotech startup is working on mRNA can
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by smt88 3mo ago
> you need to talk to more people outside of your bubble My bubble of... not-ultra-wealthy people? Are you saying I need to talk to more ultra-wealthy people? This makes no sense.
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by smt88 4mo ago
This report is only about wages, so even if the ultra-wealthy reported their real sources of income, they wouldn’t shut up as “labor” the way this defines it.
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by smt88 4mo ago
It’s not. There are plenty of non-wealthy people who make money from things other than their labor. Small-time landlords are an example, as would be anyone who owns a small business and draws cash from profits rather than taking a salary.
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by smt88 4mo ago
Economies of scale are a fact of nature and aren’t going to be subverted in the future by even the most advanced local models
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by smt88 4mo ago
This isn’t true in my experience. AI will recommend new things, but it will caution you that it doesn’t have a big ecosystem. If you prompt thoroughly (listing your priorities, values, and your own taste), then you’ll get better recommendat
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by smt88 4mo ago
If you think LLMs can be audited, you don’t know literally the first thing about them. Gerontocrats can’t be audited, but they can be fined and jailed. Neural networks have no fear consequences.
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by smt88 4mo ago
So you want a black box controlled by billionaires to replace democracy?
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by smt88 4mo ago
I wonder if power actually corrupts, or if it’s really that attaining power requires pretending to be a good person, and the mask can fall off after the power is attained.
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by smt88 4mo ago
FDR is a very interesting case study. He had the country in the palm of his hand and could have cemented his (or his party’s) power permanently, but instead he left the republic intact.
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by smt88 4mo ago
This is a myth perpetuated by flat-earthers. Flagging because it’s absolutely untrue.
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by smt88 4mo ago
Assuming this is a sincere question from someone who doesn’t know US history: States in the US were modeled after sovereign nations, perhaps even more loosely connected than the EU is today. They didn’t even share a currency. Eventually the
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by smt88 4mo ago
For a long time, you couldn’t buy “strike anywhere” matches because they could be used in producing meth.
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by smt88 4mo ago
Maybe this is true if you’re only considering white people. Brown people can spend a lot of time outdoors and still be deficient, especially if their ancestry is from much a much sunnier region or lifestyle than the one they’re currently li
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by smt88 4mo ago
Print-based debugging is worse in every way and also the wrong tool for the job. You should absolutely be adding logging, including optional verbose logs, to code. It’s a form of self-documentation and a major convenience during maintenance
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by smt88 4mo ago
How else do you use it? Unless you’re talking about a browser debugger, which is the same UX that I’m talking about. I’m referring to server-side work when I say to use a debugger in the IDE, not something targeting the browser.
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by smt88 4mo ago
My point was not at all to accuse you of using the wrong tools, but rather to point out that your rebuilt IDE is missing something very valuable (combining the debugging and editing experience). I don't and have never understood why so
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by smt88 4mo ago
> Just wait for the moment you need to write code for an embedded platform that doesn't have a debugging mechanism. Very close to 0% of programmers on this site are doing this. The vast majority are writing JavaScript/TypeScr
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by smt88 4mo ago
This response is so strange and unrelated to what I wrote, it feels like you're not even responding to me in the first place. > OP is smart to adjust to change When did I tell OP not to change? My comment was about how my own work

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