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This all sounds very hypothetical economic universe. In the real world, rich people do buy expensive things and do nothing with them.

In some places it is. Some people can indeed be "prescribed" (it's not a prescription, it's a referral) exercise and a low-cost arrangement is made with a local gym and appropriate…

A google search for the creator of the Comic Sans font, Vincent Connare, triggers a fun google Easter egg.

"If something actually saves money then it doesn't require a subsidy because people would be doing it regardless." Yet people frequently don't. This assertion and reality disagree.…

A rebase that can't just fast-forward? That you know what that is makes you the right kind of person to be delegating it to an LLM; you can be trusted to use the LLM for this sort …

Purely for the fun of thinking about it, and not just to be awkward: We owned a heavy, wooden CRT TV set from the 1970s or 1980s that hid all buttons behind a fake, black "speaker"…

(I find ways to make it worth my while..) I understand that somewhere is Australia is a supermarket which appears to be generating its own carrots in that it sells far more carrots…

A friend of mine prepared an arsenal of hooks and the like to address this and LLMs still disobey them at times. It's a model of language, yes? Trained on a big corpus of text. I h…

each time I become familiar with a business it seems like we're actually causing most of the problems we solve. Do you mean, in general, as a society/culture, or are you just havin…

extremely biologically conserved process This seems just plain wrong. It is not at all extremely biologically conserved. Pregnancy and birth varies wildly across species. Not conse…

"it is that in practice there is probably going to be a soft ban on this sort of space" I looked around in my area, and the is not a soft ban on this sort of space. No need to gues…

Who has cavity wall insulation removed? The effect on your heating bill is going to be much worse than a small amount of mould Some of these houses have been transformed into being…

If you like that, you'll like this: https://www.filfre.net/2016/10/how-jordan-mechner-made-a-dif... And an awful lot more written by Jimmy Maher on that site.

"We required the students to buy the book" This was always so odd to me. I used to think it was just a US weird thing but I understand it happens in many more countries as well (an…

Code reviews. Code reviews in theory done by humans, but containing copy-pasted inane statements of the obvious. Questions that really did no more than demonstrate a lack of contex…

How should you allocate these highly coveted game dev jobs? Would the company not conduct interviews and pick out whoever seems like the best candidates?

That requires explanation of a mechanism that would generate wealth for yourself Acquire it from other people. That's how I do it; my day job pays me less money than me just swappi…

So your claim is that wealthy people aren't interested in generating more wealth for themselves? They're interested in getting more wealth for themselves. The easiest way to do tha…

Ah yes, VC++6.0 It had such a long lifetime. The last time I used it in anger to release commercial software was round about the year 2020, at which point the dev environment for t…

To what degree do they really invest it? A lot of rich people just buy shares (other than at an IPO) and just move money around each other's pockets rather than investing in someth…

Physical sales are dead. Well, 80% of sales are physical rather than digital. In what way is that dead? The evidence indicates that you are incorrect, and while I appreciate your p…