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Not one Pringles can utilized. We have failed to pass along the ancient knowledge.

Given that the median household income in the US is $83k, I don’t think that losing $1k on a busted phone is likely to put many into “spiraling debt slavery”

Yes, but landlords are inherently evil so if you want to keep the slopulism going you gotta hit them first.

Inshallah

Is United Airlines “just about making more money”? Yes. Has it done so by offering people a valuable product and generating massive consumer surplus? Also yes.

It’s very difficult for the average person to use a ten year old browser; in fact I’d offer that the only way to use a ten year old browser is to be an expert and do so intentional…

This could also be a story of technological progress. A thought experiment - imagine you, an archaeologist, recovered the remains of our civilization, from roughly 1925 to 2025, bu…

Not buy these index funds. If you don’t want to own the entire market, don’t buy funds that seek to own the entire market. Funds like ESGV which exclude companies with poor governa…

> Fewer people go to concerts Scalpers don't buy tickets and not sell them. The most scalped concerts are obviously the most attended > fans can’t afford the tickets See above. I a…

Standing in line is (today) a digital process that a scalper can trivially scale

Transferring tickets to friends is functionally indistinguishable from scalping

> This is an implementation problem, not a problem with the underlying concept. I agree. The question remains - why do U.S. municipalities universally and repeatedly fail to succes…

That wasn’t insider trading. You’re changing the topic.

There was a downward trend during the Biden years [1] but "both sides same" is not even a little bit true. [1] https://www.citizen.org/article/biden-doj-2024-corporate-cri...

> Unfortunately it is their employees that are paying the price of leadership making it rain [...] Epic's employees reaped the gains while it rained in the form of paychecks. While…

Overview video: https://youtu.be/YmPTfPh3T-Y

This is all good advice but it's not what I would traditionally think of as "logging" - it's something more like what the industry calls APM or tracing. > For a web service, that u…

XHR requests to cookiebot.com -> dig cookiebot.com -> 141.193.213.20 -> ipinfo.io -> Austin, TX

Don't underestimate travel + hotels + airport transfers when you're paying corporate prices

There is excellent recent (last 10y) research on this; summary here: https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/five-things-about-deterr... Unfortunately, the US and many other countries …

Last I checked, in the US there has not been a single instance of the TSA detecting and preventing a terror attack in its 25 year history. And presumably they wouldn’t be shy about…

HN: VC is a cancer, businesses don't need to grow forever at all costs, products can be finished, what we need is sustainable small companies Also HN: No, not like that

“I only pirate because evil corporations make it too hard to pay for my favorite content” is a multi-decade ever-shifting goalpost. Some people just like to steal shit and will jus…