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Respectfully, there’s a 1,000 word section in the middle about the fundamentally zero-sum nature of media and the competition for consumer eyeballs that I wrote to explain why the …

That is exactly the thesis and the point of that whole section! I’m sorry you got downvoted for saying it, perhaps your tone was too blunt. It’s not that Google was created as a mo…

Yeap, just +1'ing this too. One other axis of engagement is "topical relevance" -- and I think that does have some overlap with the axis of "effort put in". Meaning: putting a TON …

$35 billion? I regret to inform you the number has gone up substantially since you last checked it

OP didn't include any context here, but I frequently link this resource to friends! So allow me to pitch it to folks who come here first: reading a transcript is a bit odd at first…

I can confirm this thing is amazing the pro one, not the one you linked (headphone inserts seem like needless ear pressure): https://mantasleep.com/products/manta-sleep-mask-pro i …

Agreed. Don't forget the massive implosion of the real estate market 30 years ago that turned a whole generation off of buying property and bankrupted vast swathes of the populatio…

did you read that link or just the subtitle? quoting the penultimate paragraph (why are the relevant bits always buried?) > Analyzing a 2008 survey conducted by the National Associ…

Of course! It was hugely influential on my thinking/approach to problem solving under uncertainty/adversity. And yeah the other commenter provided a link but there is no actual rec…

I highly recommend reading Boyd's transcript of a talk he gave in 1989 instead of the wiki on this stuff: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5497331ae4b0148a6141b... It will re…

and what would then happen if a bank were -- somehow -- induced to make more of those loans, which, as you describe "duplicate" or "create" money a number of times up to the number…

In the OP - > [4.81% interest on your money after 6 months from the date of purchase] This is a single concept. The quantity of money earned (4.81%) and the time period over which …

Apple has made their own music app horrific to use -- every month it bricks when I open it and become unresponsive until it loads a fullscreen ad for their streaming service. Even …

as severe as anything the SEC can bring to bear, imo

I agree. Correcting the many incentive problems in modern American science would need a hypothetical body with significant funding leverage over journals & scientists to exert exec…

"in a way" -- the region in question is northern New Hampshire. on balance, the housing price appreciation, and therefore tax burden, on "these people" is functionally entirely due…

I hate to plug my own writing here, but if you'd like a much deeper exploration of the topic, you'll probably enjoy reading The Full Stack of Society: Can You Make A Whole Society …

This is actually a picture of national failure, tantamount to celebrating a blowout losing scoreboard. It is not a model for others to copy. Productivity and inflation are very rel…

"...requires many safety features for new cars:" > "Making them mandatory saves lives." Alternatively: making them mandatory raises the price of new cars and pushes more consumers …

To be fair, the majority of professional sports contracts include items that keep the athlete on payroll while injured or otherwise unable to play, and teams will often invest sign…

The book cover thing is really insane, too. It's gotten a little better over the last decade, but the early 2000s period was crazy (source: moved from UK to USA at that time). It's…

You can use the old definitions too and see the same effect: https://gonzoecon.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/chart-line-... The change increased M1 by moving common components of …

I rarely see this sentiment since the entire Tech class has moved to Spotify subscription streaming as their music platform of choice (slight hyperbole, only slight). But as one of…

Don't let it bother you man. It's just an example of cross-cultural confusion crossed with some blunt HN mannerisms (to put it politely). The tell is the callout that this is an "A…

> I don’t have to have any opinion at all about the origin of COVID-19 … but I did, and I didn’t share it only because of the likelihood that I’d be called an idiot on social media…