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Probability of success and merit are different things. For instance if you know for a fact that you have been fired due to your race (perhaps you were outright told this is the cas…

I wonder if a very small tax for RTO (perhaps with exemptions for manual jobs) would do the trick? I think it would help with making companies handle that externality.

As I pointed out elsewhere, the problem is that these parental controls don't work. It's a matter of incentive: at the moment, it's in the interest of providers to help subvert the…

The blockers generally don’t work (I’ve tried). A big part of the problem is that it is in the interest of the providers to subvert them. The main benefit of age verification is ch…

What an exceptionally bad faith way to put this whole thing. A five year old watching hours of the most depraved porn available is harmful to that child. Even if you disagree with …

I think this is really the only serious alternative.

As in: most popular modern board games combine both luck and skill. That would imply that like the parent, most people enjoy games that combine both rather than being purely skill …

We're rather used to the idea of progress in most areas of human endeavor. It's fairly absurd to believe rolling back the last 200 years of progress would lead to measurably better…

Plenty of places have relatively high teacher pay, relative high staffing (for instance 1 teacher + 1 assistant per 25 children is standard here - not quite 1/10 but pretty close).…

This is basically why the classical education movement exists. The fact that you can have remarkably better results using thousand(s) year old teaching methods/ideas than using 'mo…

> But I seem to be in a minority Given the design of nearly all popular modern board games, that seems very unlikely.

I do agentic Elm development every day (it's my job). I feel like what you describe was a problem with models perhaps two years ago. Today's models don't seem to struggle with it a…

No. Large co I work at everyone is like running at least 3 concurrent Claude sessions all day every day. Talking to friends in other companies it seems the same. Big difference bet…

I don't know if it will help fixing it, but it might help drivers avoid them more easily if they're painted in bright colors, which still sounds like a plus. Nobody wants to drive …

Actually I think this is one of the more tragic outcomes of the LLM revolution: it was already hard to get funding for ergonomic advances in programming before. Funding a new PL ec…

I always thought if Orwell was quite prescient of the eastern block than surely Huxley was even more so about the western.

I thought so too. But having talked to a few people who are generally afraid of flying, they absolutely do take re-assurance from the security theatre. They are very much not inter…

In Edinburgh the (small, we often need 2) luggage carts are now £2.

And also you are seeing serious criticism from the traditional Apple fan crowd, e.g. John Gruber has been panning it mercilessly.

Hm for me it's been a fairly steady state. The last 5 or so MacOS versions delivered features that got a solid meh from me: - Big Sur did a redesign which wasn't really needed, but…

At this point I’m going to hold out on updating MacOS for a year. If things don’t improve or the direction doesn’t change significantly I’m going to seriously consider paying the s…

Aside: the name is fairly confusing since there is a relatively well known conference called Sync Conf (which well may be worth more attention than this)

I tend to have a policy: I will click on your unsubscribe button once, after that it's straight to 'report spam'. If that sinks your domain ratings, that's on you.

Porn comes from pornē, Greek for prostitute. So at least etymologically (and arguably logically as both involve sex for money) porn is prostitution. If that’s accepted, then I find…