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Some do. It all comes down to whether the local government cares/thinks about this when setting up ordinances and approving PUDs. I was also appalled when I moved from a place that…

Whatever the merits of the rules themselves (which I think are estimable), the OSR "ecosystem" is buoyed up by a huge network effect. I would wager that just the list of official D…

This dataset is bad. The North Carolina state capitol is a castle?

> But it's a paradox that on HN, Google gets far more hate than any of these. There is no paradox. This is Hacker News. It's a site of by and for people in the tech industry. Of co…

So someone introduces a new, problematic feature to a long-existing technical system, and your answer is to "just" reorganize all of society to eliminate that system?

That's what the robots with guns will be for.

> he article doesn't sell it that way. "You should play modern board games if ..." would be a different claim. Indeed, but neither does the article try say you should play games wi…

I think the lesson to learn from this is that different people are different? While most people are repulsed by the complexity of extremely heavy games, others will luxriate in the…

> Using a 1960s book as a benchmark feels weird to me. I'd expect books to be more expensive when they come out and less expensive when they're the fiftieth low-cost reprint 60 yea…

I see this kind of take a lot, and I don't think it's convincing. To me it's similar to saying that the water frame and the power loom won't change anything, because people have be…

You described a want, not a need. How often does this actually come up? If your friends are frequently having "emergencies" that prevent them from meeting you, they may not be good…

Yeah there are quite a few exceptions to this. I've been (re-)reading The Making of the Atomic Bomb , and two of the four people directly involved in the discovery and explanation …

The industrial revolution is coming for white collar work. I'm finding Marx more and more relevant these days: "So soon as the handling of this tool becomes the work of a machine, …

> You might be able to argue he was a bigger star than any of them. I think that's a hard argument to make. Candace Bergen's career was just as long. Her first movie role was 1966,…

I can't speak for jn6118, but for me the reason I tend to avoid used books unless there is no other option is the lack of reliable quality standards. Used book listings rarely come…

I hadn't considered that. I can see how without modern conveniences the tradeoff would make sense.

Fascinating. I'm not sure what would drive someone to do this, since until the child can actually go to the toilet on their own, you haven't achieved the actual point (IMO) of the …

> My mom toilet trained me at 3 months. Is this a typo? I don't see how it could be physically possible for a three-month-old to be toilet trained. Among other things, they can't s…

Because they are irrelevant victim-blaming.

Well we are getting some "real change" now, so I guess the monkey's paw works.

AFAICT this is the actual bill: https://data.oireachtas.ie/ie/oireachtas/bill/2025/11/eng/in... Your selective quoting is extremely misleading. The first section about publishing a…

> woman in the Missouri-plated Honda. Why this fixation among conservatives on the out-of-state plates? Desire to pin unrest on "outside agitators" a la Ghorman? [1] In fact the wo…

True, but I think it's rather beside the point. Administrators shouldn't be censoring materials from professors' syllabi.

Inciting someone else to criminal activity has been a crime since forever. This is not a 'post-modern' concept.

> At no point in human history have humans not worked This is a non sequitur. The discussion is about the point of life. At no point in history have humans not pooped, but I would …