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Most amazing art isn't really a product of inspiration, but from severe editing (or severe practice, if it's live). Good writing needs a lot of "post-production" to get the ideas h…

I'd say it's a social mechanism more than anything else. While I haven't used the service myself, I expect the UX steers people to generate video-based content themselves, which is…

A huge part about whether honesty hurts or helps is the framing that revolves around it. In this case, it's a matter of social expectations driven by the timing of that honesty: * …

NOTE: I'm in the USA, so it may only apply here. It all depends on the framing of the situation. For myself, I frame it as a few of the following, context-depending on how it's ask…

Genetics play a huge part as well. From birth, we're given a death clock, which goes downward as stressors hit us, then further as we relive that stress. In other words, everyone w…

This may be taboo to discuss here, but the wording could phenomenologically transfer to "the love of commoditization and scalability of meaningful things that give power is the roo…

You're forgetting that there's a secondary market for these things, similar to how subsistence farming is largely gone in lieu of the supermarket. Just purchase a share of camel sl…

This is a natural product of how power works on the internet. Barring an algo that downgrades time spent, the people with the most power are proportionally the people who do the le…

The trouble goes back to a 1910's telegraph bill. The US created a de facto monopoly on each carrier for each zone of land. On a particular parcel of land, there is only 1 carrier …

The US has something like this already with cellular with MVNOs, driven by the free market. The TL;DR is that the cost of cell towers is mostly the same irrespective of bandwidth (…

It's a natural trend cycle: things grow beautifully, they stagnate, their corruption load exceeds their productivity and they start declining, then they collapse in lieu of somethi…

Well, not necessarily everywhere . In the lens of history, new countries with a new constitution don't have that problem. Over time, they create layers of new laws, then cruft when…

I love the OG callback. Before I clicked the link, I was scared this was contextually something far scarier: "After centuries of intellectual property legal disputes with the Catho…

A huge part of this is tied to the "conscientiousness" aspect of the Big 5 personality. For myself, I need 1.5-2 days of off-time, depending what I'm working on. I consider myself …

I'm not entirely sure if this corresponds, but I've been getting a 404 message these days. I've deduced that it only happens when I use a VPN. My OSINT skills suck, but it's reason…

I've had a hard time penetrating philosophy myself, and found out from PG's essays that he saw much of the same problems as me. So, I wanted to summarize a little of everything tha…

If you wish to comment to the FCC about it, you can do so here: https://www.fcc.gov/document/proposing-reestablished-open-in...