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Programming trade schools were (are they still?) quite popular for a long time - see lambda school et al. They weren’t a panacea either.

Universities never kept up with current practices and to be honest I don’t really think it’s their job to. Universities aren’t vocational schools. An undergraduate education can, a…

> Everything else you listed was a drastic change in the way an existing service (taxis, home media, backups) was delivered or priced, to the point where they feel like either an e…

It's incredibly common in retail/food service/hopsitality/etc. Usually about covering shifts.

I'm not sure what your point is, to be blunt. It seems like you wanted to make some weird argument about the semantics of the word "abuse", and are now implying one of: 1) Beastial…

I'll be blunt: I don't really feel the need to argue about that point. It's sexual abuse.

> yes it was illegal to sexually abuse animals No, it wasn't. The laws are quite explicit about what "abuse" means, and if you take a gander at most laws (including Washington stat…

> There was a very famous case back in Washington state back in the early 2000s where a group of men were sexually abusing horses. It was uncovered because one of them died, and th…

> in cases where the animals aren’t harmed What an odd thing to say about the sexual abuse of an animal. I don’t think the semantics are very important here, I think it was clear I…

> The only counterpoint here is, I think, that the severity of such punishments seems to be vastly underestimated. I suppose I disagree: Modern forms of this ("cancelling") are wel…

Those seem like two different scenarios though, right? The point of beastiality laws are to give society some recourse to punish people who abuse animals. There was a very famous c…

> how does one get not punishing opinions—even those that would put the listener in danger if implemented—broadly accepted as a value? Taking you literally, I don't think that's po…

They can and it often comes up: One of Mamdani's tax proposals was to raise property taxes, though he backtracked on it. Still, NYC's municipal budget is already the largest in the…

Eh, I agree with the general point that rental housing has to be financially viable over the long run. I just don’t think NYC politics lets this particular problem turn quickly int…

I can and do put some blame on Adams here, but I don’t think the story is ineptitude or corruption, at least on this issue. I think his administration mostly chose to prioritize th…

> The uptick in rental delinquency isn’t new. It started six years ago It has nothing to do with Mamdani, for those of who don't want to bother to read. Most of this occurred under…

Actually, I think the old references are relevant. Sometimes those bug fixes and workarounds no longer matter. Windows 95 and Internet Explorer are long gone, we don’t need to arch…

I think you're over-estimating how much some people care. I have had coworkers say "Oh I don't know, Claude added that" in response to questions like that without even a hint of sh…

I feel you're correct, and it's why it's a losing battle. It's a spectrum of consequences. The worst outcomes are serious but rare. For most people the most severe outcome they'll …

> Previously an individual new to web development might have genuinely needed to develop an understanding of web protocols, HTML, and other stuff in that domain That hasn't really …

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Specialization is very much a thing in US sports as well, even without relegation and even with profit sharing/etc. The payoff to being elite at a valuable skill is enormous. Teams…

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A handful of Black Mirror episodes land on a more optimistic (or at least not entirely bleak) note, though "happy" might be overstating it for any of them. Bittersweet, maybe. Eulo…

“Heads I win, tails you lose” as a business concept has been written about quite a bit. “The Gervais Principle” is an oft-cited one.