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Yeah, tbh I’m more interested in that parent looked around and didn’t see any signal in their normal internet hangout spots or found it weird that they hadn’t heard of SBF and imme…

So US intelligence propped up a kid on the spectrum to take money from huge venture capital firms while playing video games during the pitch meetings and running this billion-dolla…

Echo chambers are very, very real and it’s easy to get caught up when everyone around you is drinking the kool-aid. I moved to a new city a couple years ago and met up with some ot…

That’s the impression I got looking at the dev behind this site. They clearly have development experience, they’re just mad and trying to make as much noise about it as they can.

Oh I’m not saying that paid services are perfect by any means. But relying on a free service in prod is unquestionably more risky than using an established service in a paid contex…

I think that relying on a free service in a production environment that could cause an outage is a really, really bad idea because you have no SLA or relationship with the vendor. …

“Free” is never, ever free and it blows my mind that people still don’t get this. Like, it’s understandable that you get a little burned the first time it happens, but then you’ve …

True. I think there’s an argument to be made that a market which seeks AI-generated content of specific people isn’t exactly looking for basic entertainment. If traditional adult c…

That’s not how addiction tends to work, unfortunately.

I’d buy a maxed out MacBook Pro, get the reimbursement approved, then return it for a refund.

Ehhh maybe. I’m very much in favor of a 30-hour workweek situation, but hesitant about the 1-hour-per-day idea. I sometimes provide feedback as a senior engineer that gets correcte…

This just is not true. The amount of admin work per deal has perhaps come down, but agents work with much higher volume because deals fall through so fast now. We looked at almost …

Yeah, but a crucial part of getting those listings from him involved talking through the ways in which the house might have problems that weren’t disclosed, etc. Home listings are …

I disagree with this. My agent basically had to always be on-call to send me listings that we could go see and offer to place calls at odd hours so we get everything scheduled sinc…

This is what frustrates me so much about the deepening surveillance state: it just doesn’t work the way that its architects believe it will. It makes sense that a high-tech barrier…

True, but you always have opportunity to refinance once rates come back down.

I’ve been seeing Crystal pop up more and more lately, I want to dive back into that again.

> I'll just keep renting, I guess, since it makes no difference. There’s no way that the tax burden offsets the equity you would build by owning property vs renting. 95% of my mort…

Voters ultimately have to pay those taxes and politicians want to get reelected, so there’s a definite check there.

The Strong Towns YouTube channel makes many similar points. Suburban construction in the US is terribly inefficient and wasteful in the long run by maximizing the convenience auto …

> Folks were sharing what they thought worth sharing, mostly to gain more attention. This is what influencer culture does. There’s very little value actually shared on LI nowadays,…

> But the divisiveness they employ makes them a political distraction. We need workers’ rights in law for everyone. Not just those who are in a union. And how do you propose we ali…

Technology suffers from the same dogmatic, performative rhetoric that we see in modern politics. By hyping or rejecting the tech du jour, we are ostensibly participating in a polit…

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1667582737228627971

6-7 years is a pretty reasonable amount to get out of a consumer electronic device. Hardware still makes large gains over that period of time and Apple doesn’t brick those old devi…