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A fun hack I remember was that Windows internally used two left-to-right control characters in a window title as an indicator that the entire window should have its content flipped…

Real (inflation adjusted) wages are up, not down.

If companies have been "depressing wages for decades" how come they're at an all time high? https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N People make stuff like this abroad beca…

The property values are up, the rates are down.

That means is called property taxes. Datacenters pay a lot of them, and in Loudon county specifically residential property taxes have fallen as a result.

Ticketing in California generally results in revenue going directly to the enforcing locality, not the state. It's an important difference, and why you tend to get things like spee…

"Buying grants to pollute" is literally how cap-and-trade systems work, and they've been extremely effective at reducing pollution. We don't hear about "acid rain" anymore because …

Those requirements are all facially illegal and unenforceable though. In the US you have federally protected labor rights that you cannot contract out of. The right to discuss pay …

> neither one has any interest in supporting non-game applications. I don't know how much of their business it is today, but CodeWeavers spent their first decade or so supporting o…

Yes, California has long been a "donor state", ie one that pays substantially more federal tax revenue than gets spent there. This shouldn't be too surprising as it's much richer t…

Why can't they impact insurance? Are CA insurance companies prohibited from using non-criminal information when deciding who to cover or set rates? Given that they insure cars more…

What's the base rate? Even a very healthy economy doesn't have all sectors growing simultaneously, so I'd be very curious to know if this is a matter of going from "normally 20% is…

The author complains about country selector drop-downs as part of the address flow, but if you're collecting zip codes you are already assuming United States. I don't think there's…

You may be interested in "Do Morons Make Prediction Markets More Accurate?" - https://nicholasdecker.substack.com/p/do-morons-make-predict... Essentially the argument is that more …

Elon very publicly killed brand safety efforts. Advertisers care a lot about the context that their ads appear in.

There's still Uncyclopedia, though apparently there are 3 forks of it now?

> No amount of salary would have made me able to afford housing near work in sfbay I assure you there are people who live there who can afford to do so because they make enough mon…

I thought "vibe coding" had come to mean "I used an LLM to generate this code", but didn't really imply we'd given up trying to review and read the output. The author is taking it …

Forgive me, I was responding to the original claim that "it’s a safe bet that labor will have lower value in 2031 than it has today".

What you're forecasting is a scenario where total output has substantially increased but no one's hiring or able to start their own business. Instant massive recession is by no mea…

> * it’s a safe bet that labor will have lower value in 2031 than it has today If AI makes workers more productive, labor will have higher value than it has today. Which specific w…

> On the insurance front - expect your insurance to decline this forever unless you are at serious risk of diabetes. It would make you cost them $3-6k/yr more. Insurance premiums w…

These forums still exist. Typically with much older and mature discussions, as the users have aged alongside the forums. Nothing is stopping you from joining them now. My Something…

In general free open-source Wine has been developed with the philosophy of of not allowing application-specific code. Crossover (and presumably Photon), however, allows such patche…

It was definitely not just balancing rules patches for gameplay purposes - there was a clear deliberate intent to force people to buy new models. Complete with arbitrary changes to…