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There are benefits to writing well besides increasing your audience. Paul Graham illustrates in his post, “Good Writing”.[1] “How does that help the writer? Because the writer is the first reader. ” This is also supported by Graham’s post
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Would it be less unethical to charge a $48 installation fee? Because as far as I know, there's nothing stopping you from installing the free version of Zorin OS and then installing Blender, Krita, Inkscape, etc.
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How would you rephrase the sentiment?
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Related discussion from yesterday: Private sector lost 33k jobs, badly missing expectations of 100k increase https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44443622
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I believe that poster is using "preference" in the economic sense: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preference_(economics) "In economics, and in other social sciences, preference refers to an order by whi
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https://journals.plos.org/climate/article?id=10.1371%2Fjourn... "...following a phaseout of livestock production would, through the end of the century, have the same cumulative effect on the warming potential of t
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Humans have historically done many things that we now find distasteful or unthinkable. It may be in the future that fishing joins that list. Abolition is the only alternative to immoral and unethical actions, but in terms of nutrition, ther
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Can you provide any sources on that? I've only been able to find articles that counter it[1][2][3][4], and nothing more rigorous than a Pew survey. It feels right, and I recall feeling similarly about certain items/events as a tee
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For some context: Every pinball manufacturer has wanted to make a Harry Potter machine for decades, but allegedly JK Rowling didn't like the idea because pinball machines go in bars. So finally, Jersey Jack Pinball secures the license
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Jersey Jack Pinball's Harry Potter and the AI Art Controversy(kineticist.com)
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I think there is a target market for this, and it might seem silly to anyone outside of that market, but it shouldn't. If you're a screen addict living in these cities, paying an entry fee could be reassuring because you know th
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We're literally commenting on a scholarly article that describes how the community benefits from Starbucks locations.
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It is a concern, clearly, the other commentor brought it up. Kicking people out of anywhere, regardless of their housing status, is a relatively extreme conflict, compared to the normal happenings at a diner, cafe, or bar. Panhandlers aren&
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They had been! But in 2024, Brian Niccols pitched the "Back to Starbucks" plan, with point 3 of his 4 point focus being, "Reestablishing Starbucks as the community coffeehouse."[1] He said, "Our stores will be invit
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When was it not culturally okay to use the term "Sir" in the United States?
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An additional concern: Even if you can require proof of humanity to enter an online space, how can you know that the human isn't communing with an AI and reposting whatever it says to? I agree that there's no way to guarantee that
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Another possible answer: It sucks to be a pedestrian around cars, so people decide to drive. As a pedestrian, cars take up space and block your vision when they're parked, they're dangerous, loud, and (can be) smelly when they&#x2
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My point was to illustrate that not all population growth is fungible, so comparing birth-driven growth from the '50s to migration-driven growth since the '80s will miss things. To your point about phase-shifting though, I think t
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Housing demand caused by births and immigration are different. A baby generally calls for an additional bedroom (easier away from the city), an adult migrant generally calls for their own residence near other migrants (easier in the city).
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This is organizing. We're inviting you to join the collective of people who don't eat fish. Our main activity is finding and encouraging others to not eat fish. If you'd like to organize more collective action, we will probab
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Sure, thank you for the links. I was hoping for the original poster to respond with what they thought being "hamstrung by unaffordable debt" would look like for the United States. Do you have a vision of that? The article on Japan
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Can you elaborate on how the country would be hamstrung with unaffordable debt? Like, what effects would that have on the country/citizens?
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The report has case studies and citations in the section "Individual Harms: Tracking Data used against Users": https://www.mctd.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/The-High-S... You can use those
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Third paragraph: "The report’s authors caution that cycle tracking app (CTA) data in the wrong hands could result in risks to job prospects, workplace monitoring, health insurance discrimination and cyberstalking – and limit access to
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The person you're responding to didn't mention "feeling". They made a moral statement. Feelings are something we deal with, morals are something we work to build. Confusing the two will lead to a very confusing life. Add
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Do you use an ad-blocker on desktop and mobile? With my ad-blocker enabled, I was able to replicate your results for the "expedited passport renewal" search. (state.gov right under the AI Overview) Then I disabled my ad-blocker, a
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Can you share some examples of obvious problems with how people use Google?
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It's logarithmic scaling. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logarithmic_scale It's helpful when dealing with investments because it shows percentage change more clearly than absolute: https://www.leekr
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Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44182275
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If you look at the time value of money[1], a $1,00,000 deduction this year is worth more than $200,000 deductions over the next 5 years. But more importantly, the article claims it was used as a tax shield to grow. "Basically, as long

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