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My first thought was that the article was redacted lol

Libraries spend like $2B / year buying books https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/2021-08/fy19-pls-re... , which is like 10% of the total book market. So even if no one ever bo…

If you take a loan against your larger capital pool, inflation helps you (to the extent it wasn't incorporated in higher lending costs). But yeah that's a second order effect. Ther…

Yes, and when you do pay it's a lower "real" tax (due to inflation)

Yes, I came here to say this sounds a lot like Strunk & White

fwiw the substack app did this to me too

Jassy suspects AI will reduce jobs: > As we roll out more Generative AI and agents, it should change the way our work is done. We will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that…

It's also bad because of the time value of money (deductions in the future are worth less than deductions now). But I agree that much of the outrage seems due to a confusion that 8…

Not sure what you mean - both the "Explore" part and the Life List both have the pics and the calls together? It is indeed a good app, but my beef is how bad it is at adding birds …

More like he says the affirmations result in stock market premonitions. For example, he said after his "I will get rich in the stock market" manifestation he woke up in the middle …

This guy always finds a way to claim victory for his AI pessimism. In a few years: "AI's Nobel Prizes aren't even in the top 10, just like I predicted"

I just asked Claude what would happen if the Earth rotated in the opposite direction, and it correctly told me the sun would rise in the West, which is indistinguishable from an an…

Can you summarize what kind of responses you get? I'd like to believe I'd quickly figure out this too-on-the-nose response wasn't serious and it'd lead to a laugh and more interest…

https://archive.is/GazXf

Similar energy lol: https://theonion.com/ob-gyn-assures-woman-he-respects-doctor...

You should read about compatibilism, e.g. the work of Daniel Dennett, which argues that the parts of free will worth wanting are consistent with determinism. He definitely doesn't …

Why would you assume it's all or nothing? Will (free or otherwise) implies something like effort and clearly we're not constantly applying effort. Believing in free will doesn't me…

I feel like all recommendation systems already do similarity well -- and it's not what I want. True, similarity matters to some extent, but my dream is something that can accuratel…

The "noise level" heading is spelled "noice level" and at first I thought the author meant "nice" spoken like an Australian lol

Do you have any evidence that redirects are bad for SEO? Redirects are a normal part of the web and Google tells you they are fine with it https://developers.google.com/search/docs…

I don't understand why you think this is a bad idea - 301 redirects exist for a reason. Redirecting to what the user probably wants is better than a 404 page. That said, typically …

Except there's no duplicate content - the site redirects

The flat part wasn't confusing, was just quibbling about the odd over-explaining of the size (fwiw in the video the person says "baseball" and "softball", and indeed I didn't see a…

>Forecasters warned of “DVD-size hail” as stones larger than grapefruits... Not sure what "DVD-size" adds in this subtitle beyond the grapefruit reference, especially since a DVD i…