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I never said rationing does anything else except spread around inventory to many customers.

> The alternative is to have shortages. This is a myth. The volume of inventory remains the same regardless of the price. When demand is higher than supply you have shortages regar…

Agreed. I love that. I'm where I am because of billions of humans before me cutting paths. Its why I like building for the next generation.

That's because people like me were doing that and writing about it 20+ years ago. Everything from Claude comes from human minds.

> My immediate thought upon clicking the link referenced in the article, is that the first thing I see is at first glance looks like astrological signs taking up the entire height …

> So that's it, they need to remove the live tarot reading. Which to me while not being astrology, isn't much better. Further down he states there was never any tarot reading funct…

But I wasn't replying to the original, I was replying to another comment.

I agree, but Larry doesn't hate people, he just enjoys crushing them for his own benefit. If you can't benefit him he doesn't care about you at all.

Yep, it's been a huge tool in the control games management likes to play.

> How many bureaucracies in history have behaved in deeply misanthropic ways, especially when led by misanthropic leaders? Lots! > Don't underestimate the power of the desire to ke…

I'm not, I'm anthropomorphizing people.

The flaw in the analogy is that oracle is made of people. It's not a lawnmower, it's a group of people with human motivations and human thoughts. It's true they don't HATE people, …

Yep. "oh, you disagree with me? Clearly you're a dangerous person I need to stop other people from listening to!"

Billionaries like Kevin O'Leary and his ilk are behind those rumors because they want to discredit the local resistance. There's one activist in Utah, Caroline Gleich, has been exc…

Wait until you're in that 20%.

I completely agree.

It is absolutely real.

I just finished two solid months of my life cleaning up a vibe coded app.

I loved the last comment where he inferred no one knew the difference between a MAC address and a Mac computer, meanwhile he's fundamentally misunderstanding how networking works a…

> with quake they gave you the game code, map compilers and later the source to the engine And even before the source you had Quake C exposed! Quake 2 was even easier to mod.

Ditto, I learned a tremendous amount from him. I read everything he wrote in the 90s when I was coming into the industry.

I learned at a young age the best way for me to be a good out-loud reader was to think about something else while I'm reading aloud. If I concentrate on the words and the reading a…

If I recall, yes. I don't think clientside maps hit till HTML 3.2

Note: We never had an issue with Paypal and did not sell any pharmaceuticals. Just wanted to be clear on that.

Wow, I remember when server side image maps were the only kind of image map!