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Hmm, I think you're projecting something different onto me. When I was typing my post I thought about billboards for divorce attorneys: I am happily married so those billboards are…

"Killing SF" is overly dramatic, and others have noted that the phenomenon observed here is not unique to AI, or SF. But there is something a little...alienating about advertising …

From the article: >Covenant Aviation Security was another early winner, getting $19 million for unspecified airport security services in 2005. Since then, it’s gotten an ever-incre…

Yeah, I had to spell it out to get it to click for me > mary is 24 > 8 years apart: ann is 16 now, when ann was 12 mary was 20 > 6 years apart: ann is 18 now, when ann was 12 mary …

Broadly speaking, anything that's been done once is doable again; anything that hasn't been done before might not be possible. Concretely: if the author's perception that a capital…

I just wanna throw in that Tangle News[0] strikes a pretty good balance here. Their core offering is detailed breakdowns of what is generally regarded as the top four stories of th…

Restoring something that was lost is very, very different than creating something that hasn't been done before.

> which...sure! We shouldn't accept the status quo. But that's a different argument.

>the ones most countries implement don't work very well I guess this is the basis of my critique: the author seems to be writing as though capitalism is robbing him of some ideal t…

How does Portugal compare to the US and France? (I actually don't know, though a quick search indicates it's more like France than the US.) The author of this post apparently lives…

The author lays most of this at the feet of capitalism, and I agree that the system has excesses that have contributed to the atomization of society, which can cause people to slip…

I mean...don't overcomplicate it, the President is the one who is speaking. Is he influenced by people in the room? Sure. But to say that with the intent of it being a rebuttal to …

This tweet thread was pretty formative to me: makes one remember that textual criticism of the sort that’s linked here is by no means the final word on these matters. https://x.com…

The local "castle" on the map is Fort Duquesne, which is listed as "ruins" but in fact has no ruins to visit. It says "The site of both forts is now occupied by Point State Park, w…

There's an episode called "Digital Estate Planning" where his dad mocks him for his lack of business acumen: "In 1980, you said that video games, not moist towelettes, were the bus…

Pierce Hawthorne, is that you?!? (Given that he audited classes for years, this very much strikes me as a class project based on his interests...)

Armchair historian AT BEST but...a lot of grassroots social institutions formed in the period between the Industrial Revolution (mass migration to the cities) and the invention of …

The person you replied to did not mention a specific leader's policy.

Having been around enough houses (in the US) to have a balanced opinion - I personally prefer older houses but - older houses tend to be a lot more inefficient in their use of squa…

okay, so like...7x that $433 figure? $3000 a month? If a mortgage + escrow payment on a 400k house is around $2500/month, a comparable rent is $5500 a month? Where do you live, if …

Yeah, I can't explain it but the headings feel very AI. And there are a bunch of things in the text that remind me of chats I have with Claude during the day job >and it is worth b…

Not sure what the intent behind this reply is but - I guess it's strictly true and I think we're agreeing in some sense, but to be clear I think it is totally fine to say that scal…

I mean, you saying that landlords don't do much is the exactly what I meant when I said "arguing about what 'adding economic value' means" >typical rent is many, many times the val…

I think that if you poke at the term "rent-seeking" with the definition of "middle men who add no economic value yet inject themselves into transactions", you'll just end up arguin…