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On iPhones you can't install software except through the app store

That's why you need to get rich before moving to Europe

Can't use that one here: "AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard'" https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/21/aws_ceo_entry_level_j...

On top of that the ACA prevents new physician owned hospitals from being established and placed restrictions on expansions of existing ones

There are many EU citizens who don't hold your opinion. Are they allowed to do business with the these entities on their own terms? Why can't you just de-google and de-apple and de…

He also lacked the authority to realize the full vision, being only a guest of Trump. Hence the inevitable conflict when it came to the big beautiful bill.

It's popular now to level these accusations at text that contains emdashes.

"Car" typically means "passenger vehicle" in common parlance, at least in the US. A lot of truck sales like you point to are fleet sales for work vehicles, so this person is probab…

I would disagree for a different definition of optics. As someone else who replied to me mentioned, the top selling vehicle in the US is the Toyota RAV4. Based on the many people I…

In most HCOL cities it's cheaper to rent than to buy

The car market right now makes no sense to me. Interest rates are high, prices are high (inflation + tariffs), unemployment is rising, inventory is low, and yet car sales are boomi…

Funny, I use a variation of the eigenprompt to give my chatgpt even more personality: https://x.com/eigenrobot/status/1782957877856018514

I keep seeing accusations of tantrums. Can a company say no without it being a tantrum?

I use steelmanning to connect across cultural divides. This way I don't end up writing off half the country as deplorables. If I simply wrote them off in this way it would be contr…

I disagree that the measures you're suggesting will move the needle on fertility, since they will be enjoyed by singles, dinks, and families alike. If you want more children you ha…

I think we agree, but in case I wasn't clear I will restate this more plainly: patching over the problem of fertility with immigration is toxic to the social fabric of a nation.

It is what I consider steelmanning. Not of the conspiracy itself (I'm not interested in that, since the literal version isn't even well agreed upon by most of its believers) but of…

Here's an attempt to steelman just one of the things you bring up: the great replacement theory. The United States, like many developed nations, is experiencing a fertility crisis:…

It of course has a technical/historical definition but it's not used in that principled way by most people. Just like "neoliberal" this is a kind of buzzword that generates a parti…

how would you steelman his position?

No one is proposing a list that is tailored to the HN audience? That people should try to like? Here's a start: - Ads - Regulations - Trump - The EU - Social Media - Musk - AI - Ve…

So long as the in office folks are split between different offices in groupings of 1-2 you're fine

In a world where we couldn't arrest criminals, only keep track of them in a log book, yeah that's probably exactly what we'd do

Older boomers benefited but were not the culprits as you say, so I don't think you can call it a "boomer selfishness moment" is all.

We live in a remote world where a hiring process like this is less of an option in most cases