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Taste good, taste hard to cultivate, taste easy to fake and hard to prove. There, TLDR. We still have a metric for good taste, and it is $. Solve a problem that people care about? …

damn. I am so sorry to hear his wife passed, my heart goes out to him and his family. What a thoughtful tribute. I have always been a big fan of Stephen Wolfram, I had no idea his …

> China did not make an "autocratic bargain" with its people For a good review: https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2025/10/05/chinas-authoritarian-m... Shangahi went from a dusty fishing v…

The article explictly mentions trying to export it via belt and road, which is why I bring it up.

I'm sorry to hear you feel it rings hollow. As you know, the secretary of state is Marco Rubio, who is appointed and confirmed by the senate (bipartisian-ish, I might add). I am no…

I am not Chinese, but the CCP loves to insinuate that the middle kingdom is 5000 years of uninterrupted rule. As we both know, that is hilariously untrue. > Are you really that bul…

> Common sense says countries rise and fall in cycles Oh common sense. If you believe all countries are autocracies, maybe. But to examine the trajectory of the US on a "Chinese ti…

I recently read capitalist realism by Fisher, and I think it is impossible (or very close to it, barring major war/plague/thanos snap) for something like degrowth to be seriously c…

Hey that’s pretty smart! Fradulent, but very smart. I was honestly expecting botnet. I expect many cameras of “dubious” origin are used for similar tasks, same with most “smart” de…

Climate change will almost surely increase growing seasons and agricultural productivity in higher latitudes (for some crops). It will be extremely crop and cultivar dependent, I e…

The issue is recognition. Everyone can see and admire shiny tools. Very few people can look at an empty editor or stub and see a good new product/feature. So lots of focus on tools…

bah, all is not lost. Climate change will create winners and losers. Losers -- anyone on the equator or within the the tropic of cancer/capricorn. Winners -- those outside those re…

the company, sure. The stock or people who own in, less clear.

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Very impressed at net cost. I used to run a small ecom business targeting total prices in the range of $3-10. At $3, payment processing is nearly 11-12% of costs, which is absurd, …

Because it isn't about CSAM, IMO. You see this with plenty of social issues, notably firearms ownership. The claim is we will restrict/license/outlaw xyz for the kids, but really, …

feature velocity >> feature stability. Core libs/software have never been better, eg I have had much better luck with stuff like ffmpeg and virsh than ever before. If it has a UI a…

Holy smokes is the browser versions of PPT, OneNote, word etc buggy, I could not believe that was an actual released product. Random page crashes, refresh loops, etc, all for the c…

Here's an idea for you -- property evaluation. It's not hyper-specific to your monitoring system, but it would be very interesting to understand before buying a house: 1. How loud …

found this showing the grooming process, apparently actually getting the mite is tricky! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpdmDr7da6U

> anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity close enough imo any apparently 400 voters too.

Agentic loops are being promoted by the same people selling tokens, abstracting away the cost per token, and doing everything in their power to obfuscate costs. I think a senior de…

> So the only ingredient that’s doing anything in that bottle of DayQuil makes up just 2% of the bottle: the roughly 8 grams of acetaminophen this argument makes very little sense.…

Disappointing to see you downvoted on hacker news of all places. Cmon, have some ambition. A bunch of people here have no idea how bad the water crunch is. The oogala has been over…

bah, bait. > You Can Only Change Yourself This is a good reason to argue with people! Forcing yourself to look critically at your own positions via debate is a key self-improvement…