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by trgn 2y ago
People really underestimate the power of ideology, and especially in the blazing hot furnace that was the west after WW1. Loos formulation was still the best. Modernism was an attack against a bourgeois ethos, and a promise to deliver high
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by trgn 2y ago
This is it. People could write the code with a lean footprint the first time around.
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by trgn 2y ago
Electric cars, space rockets, brain implants, super speed tunnels, ... They're all united by his infatuation for capital T technology, for its own sake. He's been succesful in carving out markets for their application. If SpaceX l
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by trgn 2y ago
You don't. You know it when you see it. Requires high trust, broad distribution of prosocial behaviors.
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by trgn 2y ago
libraries are really popular for this, but you don't get to enjoy the drink. wondering if libraries instead should start to serve drinks.
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by trgn 2y ago
not kidding. Starbucks 25 years ago was pretty much like the friends one.
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by trgn 2y ago
The most bizar thing in Europe to me is that many countries are straight up tax havens, no capital gains taxes, but then tax labor so highly. It's a wonder to me, and I feel like many europeans don't even realize. In US, the commo
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by trgn 2y ago
Wage growth has been really strong lately, 4-5% for a number of years now. Capital gains on the contrary have been very choppy last few years. Broad correction after 2021, and some sectors have still not recovered. Housing is now dropping a
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by trgn 2y ago
Fire here will completely demolish a block of these 5-over-1s.
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by trgn 2y ago
makes sense, thx!
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by trgn 2y ago
Yeah, it's called gardening, a different, curated expression of life. Wilderness can exist elsewhere. But leafblowers are mainly just antisocial technology.
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by trgn 2y ago
It's also more dignified.
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by trgn 2y ago
> I use it all the time for things I didn't think I would The very existence of a power tool, even when inert, laying (nay, waiting!, biding!) on the shelf, it shapes your mind, aspirations, disposition. Truly supernatural, a fetish
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by trgn 2y ago
People letting an engine run, just because, they have such a weird quirk of the mind. It's bizarrely common. It's not just out of spite, although for some for sure it may be part of it. It seems out of a weird affection for things
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by trgn 2y ago
> Those jobs haven't really been more productive But their services aren't commodities. You're not paying a plumber to lay pipe. You pay a plumber to be in a dry house that doesn't smell like excrement. That value of
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by trgn 2y ago
Thank you. > It's surprising because intuitively you'd think those things would be devalued. I guess this is where my intuition totally fails. In an economy that grows more productive, commodities _fall_ in value, as they cost
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by trgn 2y ago
Commercial adoption has only started to ramp up. We are going to see a floodwave of LLM-powered bots/UX-wizards. Even if academic progress stalls, we're going to be inundated for at least another few years.
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by trgn 2y ago
Slightly tangential. Somebody needs to eli5 why baumol effect is supposed to be so paradoxical or special. Of course services will tend to cost more over time as other industries generate wealth increases. The value of an orchestra performa
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by trgn 2y ago
Only if you have that capital that generates the rent in the first place.
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by trgn 2y ago
I mow and weed wack. Looks tidy, but lawn is mix of weeds and grass.
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by trgn 2y ago
My neighbor on one side maintains their virginal lawn with copious amounts of roundup, the neighbor on the other has a facsimile in astroturf. We will wallow, willingly, in trash, breathing fumes, particle dust, just because of an imitative
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by trgn 2y ago
Driving is great for the one-offs and other people aren't doing it. It's awful anytime else.
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by trgn 2y ago
It is definitely and/and. Cars are best for the stuff they show on the commercials; driving to the weekend cabin, hauling a thing, impressing a date, going on the family trip. So yeah, keep the driving, but for the one-off things where
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by trgn 2y ago
This is both a very encouraging and very discouraging news story about AI.
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by trgn 2y ago
Startup time of an SPA is meaningless when it's for the sort of app you open once in the morning and then use during the rest of the day. It's a single startup-hit, and the user suffers it in between closing the tabs from the prev
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by trgn 2y ago
Perfect illustration of the tragedy of the commons. Until there is top down intervention, people choose to be either part of the problem, or choose to be part of the solution.
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by trgn 2y ago
Testing if somebody groks recursion or pointers is the easiest litmus test to see if somebody "groks" programming. They're not "easy" concepts, and usually people have had to break through a wall for it to be comfor
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by trgn 2y ago
As a counterpoint, Ligotti in Conspiracy against the human race: “One cringes to hear scientists cooing over the universe or any part thereof like schoolgirls over-heated by their first crush. [...] it would be nice if just one of these gus
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by trgn 2y ago
Yeah, for sure, buildings in nice materials with nice details, would be nice! But I dont think that's what brutality buildings generally are. But the streaks, oh no, that's just foul lol. Weathering is nice on a buildings, but not
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by trgn 2y ago
Cars are noisy polluting trash and should ideally be put underground, like we do with excrement, not in the sky.

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