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by wwweston 2y ago
This doesn’t contradict theories of rising prices; it contradicts some theories of price acceleration. Adding supply is important but it’s also not enough.
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by wwweston 2y ago
Delete your payment methods. That will remove the biggest incentive to do something that’s a risk to you with the account. From there you can write over personal data and maybe even change to a lower importance email address.
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by wwweston 2y ago
> "I verify this is me" button even if they are on the other side of earth, so one fumble with your phone and you grant some random person access to your account, and if these people send you 10 messages a day This isn't
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by wwweston 2y ago
Possible: https://theotakubox.com/blogs/articles/chuunibyou-eighth-gra... I'm reading it as developing a level of capability which may (or may not) be genuinely accomplished but lacks requisite perspective an
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by wwweston 2y ago
This is the expected outcome of a system that is optimizing for legible costs with little feedback as to the wear on labor and outcomes.
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by wwweston 2y ago
The formality of programming is unnatural to many (though the impulse to formality and robustness as displayed in logic & math clearly is millenia old, however niche), but a fair bit of it is as natural as language itself, or magic.
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by wwweston 2y ago
Wasn’t there also a passage advising getting 10 hours of sleep per night?
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by wwweston 2y ago
well, should make galactic real estate cheaper
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by wwweston 2y ago
Can you recommend some of the better ways to understand and learn it properly? (Worked with it extensively 2009-2011, including authoring/modifying plugins, but never felt like I really understood it, only vaguely understood/app
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by wwweston 2y ago
With AI — and sufficiently malicious or thoughtless copyright approaches – all output is training your replacement.
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by wwweston 2y ago
The system already has been a superorganism/AI for a long time: http://omniorthogonal.blogspot.com/2013/02/hostile-ai-youre-...
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by wwweston 2y ago
> Kids these days don’t know basic assembly, they have no idea what an or/and/nor/xor gate is, they’ve never built a computer from components (no, not cpu/mb/ram/etc, I’m talking transistors and soldering).
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by wwweston 3y ago
At some level, every business has incentives to minimize what they provide you vs what you provide them. But even low margin businesses where you’re the customer are more likely to have incentives and structures built around paying attentio
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by wwweston 3y ago
> There are now "affinity groups" Wait until you learn about Meetup.com. Or the importance of carefully policed gender-segregated bathrooms! > graduation "celebrations" that totally aren't illegal ceremonies,
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by wwweston 3y ago
It's the usual map / territory or model / reality difference. If you've ever heard or said the Box-ism "All models are wrong, but some are useful" you've been introduced. Some practice with it may even be
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by wwweston 3y ago
"Middle of the road" used to be "separate but equal" aka segregationist. Guess that's part of a "slide left" too?
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by wwweston 3y ago
> Just here in HN is progressive to ultra progressive. Any mention of the other side is a sure way to get downvoted to oblivion. The idea that a forum that's a discussion and PR arm for a venture capital firm is progressive at hea
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by wwweston 3y ago
Yep. But I wonder if some of the people who are characterizing NPR as partisan/ideological can't distinguish between NPR programming and public radio stations carrying, say, Pacifica content.
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by wwweston 3y ago
Who said I agreed with whatever I'm hearing from NPR? Not me. See the phrase "sometimes annoyingly so", the general lack of any particular praise. NPR is... fine, more or less, both helped and hobbled by its efforts at jour
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by wwweston 3y ago
As usually invoked the Melter Liden Bipbop Sandal is less a story people are actually interested in than a conceptual container for non-specific aspersions (hence it may as well be referred to as I just did). The most instructive thing abo
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by wwweston 3y ago
This. There is a reason why I included the phrase "sometimes annoyingly so" and didn't particularly praise it. It's... fine, more or less, both helped and hobbled by its efforts at journalistic triangulation while doing
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by wwweston 3y ago
Recently I bought a car from the early 2000s, no aux jack or BT and I've been having an interesting time just listening to the radio rather than dropping my phone ecosystem into the car. So I'm listening to a lot more NPR than I h
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by wwweston 3y ago
"it seems that unless he is also suspended or sought & received approval there is in fact selective enforcement."
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by wwweston 3y ago
> the government sponsored press. I guess "the nominally-funded by public grants in amounts about two orders of magnitude down from total funding" doesn't have the same rhetorical sizzle. And it's not "ignoring&q
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Hence traits.
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by wwweston 3y ago
Come on yourself. > Just look at everyone in this thread opting for letting their kids cave in to peer pressure and dodging responsibility for their upbringing It’s entirely reasonable to read this as implying that a key issue is parenta
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by wwweston 3y ago
Median household income in 1990 was probably in the 25k range, mortgaged that’d be a 10-20 year payoff, so not too far off.
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by wwweston 3y ago
Huh. Every few years when I pick it up, the writing just pulls me straight through. Not saying there's anything wrong with your experience (certainly it's taken me active effort to read some highly recommended books, and sometimes
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Rents go down under pretty much one circumstance: demand drops. People leave an area, or local economics suffer so people double up in housing, or people die. If there are any examples of times/places where rents have fallen in nominal
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by wwweston 3y ago
I'd heard the solution involves getting Jonny Lee Miller and Angelina Jolie to help you hack the Gibson, but it's been a while and maybe that's out of date.

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