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I'd like to address the YouTube claim-- I find it really quickly leaps from my algorithm into a terrible place, from innocent clicks. One of the more common examples of this in my …

Funny enough, I've had the opposite experience. Easy access to books and reviews has me reading conservatively 10x as much as I did a decade ago

It’s unfortunate that many Americans are comfortable with this guilty even if proven innocent approach to justice

It has dropped to 100th while the MentraOS post remains at 5th. Is HN pushing negative PR for AI down the ranks?

Does controversy cause articles to slide on HN? I noticed that this had more points in less time than several articles ranked above it, which surprises me a bit e.g. at time of wri…

As far as I am aware, wealth inequality is significantly better in Europe than it is in the United States ( https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/wealth-in... as an ex…

I think the frog and the scorpion were both wrong

Peasant has a more specific meaning than this. More importantly, it has been used as a pejorative for a very long time now and that is clearly the intent the vice president had in …

Not likely to be a workable system in a home with children, then

I would say in your toy example the hospital has been shutdown due to the PE firm "cashing out" excessively

This aligns with my experience with a couple of DEI (or similar) programs at large tech as well. Coupled with really basic training that amounted to "Unconscious bias exists and it…

Deflation is a problem, but not for the reason mentioned there. The reason deflation is an issue is because it makes holding cash into an investment strategy. If the price of goods…

funding for public schools in California and most other places is based on number of students in attendance

The same way anyone could make a judgment call before the attack was carried out? We are capable of abstract reasoning about the consequences of our actions.

I would like to add that everyone should check the incredible documentary "For All Mankind" scored by Brian Eno.

funny enough, "To Beat the Devil" of his is my pick for the best riff on the trope of country songs about musicians taking on the devil

And how long has it been since the last US backed coup in Bolivia?

A mix of quality, management of scarcity, x-factor (call it what you will, some kind of intrinsic appeal to the in group who buy this sort of thing or otherwise inherent desirabili…

> We have already imported Mao struggle sessions, essentially. What? I haven't had to go publicly shame my neighbors for not being revolutionary enough, at least that I remember.

The article explicitly states that the drop is in income, and does not take spousal or child support into account

I'd like to be able to begin it with an image rather than a prompt.