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If you’re of a certain age this article headline should immediately make you think of this website: https://despair.com/products/mistakes And if that doesn’t resonate with you then…

I guess it depends on what you call the new world, but for what it's worth that's not quite correct, the main transit point was Manila. In true pedantic HN fashion I am currently v…

> Meta isn't a public nuisance The premise of the article is that they are, as determined by an actual judge, as well as a jury after a full trial where evidence was presented. Rep…

Well, of course. But I think any list of well-run countries, societies, and so on that doesn't have places like Scandinavia and Switzerland tied for first is a little bit confused.…

Yeah this was a shocking realization as I grew older. I always thought “third world” countries were trying really hard to improve their economies but just failing for various reaso…

> Otherwise you get the Europe situation I love when people use this as an argument. As far as I can tell “the Europe situation” is the most successful model for social and economi…

Money does not fix all unhappiness but lack of money guarantees it.

This concept has annoyed me so much that I decided to give it a name and create a bunch of shortcuts in my AI tools to stop it. I call these things "sprinkles" Because I feel like …

The CPI showed health care price dropping by 7% in the most completed numbers, which were June. It's fucking ridiculous and obviously so. The problem does involve methodology and s…

The numbers are just bullshit. The current inflation numbers tell us the price of health insurance is falling for example. When reality seems to be in conflict with logic, the next…

The business model is making your country more innovative, which makes its citizens richer Americans used to do that too, spectacularly. Just consider the two alternatives: one is …

It's not forgery so much as people using the same passport. People look similar.

Yeah, I completely agree with you. I think it should be highly regulated. I think billboards should be completely banned, or at most relegated to designated districts of dense urba…

Yes, of course, there's often dishonest or misleading or exploitative marketing. But that's not really what the problem is, since marketing would still be annoying even with that s…

Marketing is just an attempt at persuasion. It's the most fundamental form of communication. It's intrinsic to being human and interacting with other humans, and drives the reprodu…

Who cares? There have always been layers of abstraction. I've been around for a while, and when I was a kid, the two choices I remember seeing were assembly code and simple semanti…

That does not seem to be an accurate description of what has happened here. What it looks like is someone with significant biochemical experience and a Harvard PhD has created some…

It’s not legal. There is a current federal lawsuit on this exact topic.

Yeah but the veil doesn’t get pierced that’s super rare, which is more important than everyone’s emotional state.

Kind of a tangent, but as someone who's done both, registering in Delaware versus New York is actually basically the same process.

> I can tell you that you have never lived in a 'society' where there were no taxes. I have. Bet ya haven’t

You have convinced me that there are in fact no differences between things, and that protecting children from adult content is indistinguishable from stealing from people, and ther…

> I, who don't have or plan to have children, should spend my money to protect other people's children from the Internet. For the same reason your taxes pay for schools even when y…

> If you don't have an answer to the question of why someone should have to pay again to use the Internet Of course I have an answer. To do something about the unlimited firehose o…