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What particular setups are getting folks these sorts of results? If there’s a way I could avoid all the babysitting I have to do with AI tools that would be welcome

Doesn’t Arc and Weak work for doubly linked lists? Rust docs recommend Weak as a way to break pointer cycles: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/sync/struct.Arc.html#breaking-...

Surveillance, in public, run by the government, is _not_ a political issue?

This article use the word “perhaps” way too much

Possibly controversial take, but I don’t think it’s helpful to gossip about who the bad apples are. Either take a risk and name names, or wait until the dust settles.

The point I was probably trying to make is that I suspect that the author of this study and the accompanying article probably has a particular political axe to grind. That's mostly…

Good question, I'm not sure there's necessarily one answer to that. That same sort of question arises in many places, though. Some people avoid watching trailers for movies or show…

“To many conservatives, trigger warnings are a symptom of a world gone mad: a fragilizing ritual meant to insulate the delicate worldview of a weak-minded generation.” Conservative…

What about stuff like movie and game ratings? What about things like restricting sexually explicit material to minors? Seems like a weird point to make. What I like about content w…

All the poorer people I know are very skilled at saving small amounts of money on things, e.g. pirating shows, using a cheap old phone, knowing where to find the cheapest groceries…

If I understand Yglesias' point, tech executives got annoyed that twitter would grant verification to journalists that gave them negative press attention? Why is everyone so obsess…

This article doesn't mention the one article of faith every crypto utopian I've run into really believes: the US dollar and every other currency will collapse soon and be replaced …

It's worth considering how recent advances in things like gay rights are, and how much more is left for things like trans rights. Why should I care more about debate club than abou…

Most liberal countries have restrictions on outright hate speech. It's definitely possible to be a liberal and also oppose the right of Nazis to advocate for mass genocide.

I take issue with calling the desire to do violence against people like me an "ideological difference"

Time to pull out the dril tweet: "theres actually zero difference between good & bad things"

The problem you're describing with physical coinage is one of the reasons why paper money was invented in Europe, among other places

How do you explain the situation in Japan? Their money supply has grown steadily over the last couple decades, yet they've seen basically no inflation. See: https://tradingeconomic…

Isn't any business always looking to "add to the portfolio of things they create rules for and manage"

People already get leverage on their car via car loans

Something like Axie Infinity just seems _incredibly_ cynical. I sometimes joke that stuff like professional sports are just financial instruments, which only incidentally involve a…

Are you not arguing that public sector employees in San Francisco should get a pay cut?

From within a VPC, you can either access DynamoDB via its public internet endpoints (eg, dynamodb.us-east-1.amazonaws.com, which routes through an Internet Gateway attachment in yo…

Isn't drug addiction specifically when you lose agency over your own drug use?