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The other thing I recall tying those two periods together was enthusiasts saying, in the face of an obvious bubble, "Well, things are different this time." My glib summation of tho…

> I've been saying this for years now, because I first noticed the differential in fertility rates as a child in the 90s. You and The Onion both: https://theonion.com/study-uneduca…

I think my favorite Simpsons gag is the episode where Lisa enlists a scientist (voiced by Stephen Jay Gould) to run tests to debunk some angel bones that were found at a constructi…

I think the killer app will be online meetings. Online socializing really. I work fully remote and Zoom/Meet works fine for meetings. But I kinda dread things like team happy hour …

> Everyone agrees that FTX paid $100's of millions to celebrity endorsers and arena naming deals. Don't forget the fortune cookies. I know that I and some others on HN ( https://ne…

I agree. It is an amazing, quasi-anachronistic novel. Speaking of Utopia, Melville offers his own vision of it in Chapter 94, A Squeeze of the Hand: Squeeze! squeeze! squeeze! all …

E.O. Wilson does a wonderful job in the opening of his book Consilience illustrating the philosophical tension between the Realists (Linnaeans) and Nominalists (Darwinists) that th…

I take it you didn't sniff any deeper. From the text: Gunnar Broberg’s biography dutifully accompanies Linnaeus every step of the way, trekking through his life for four-hundred-pl…

Ask and ye shall receive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5-over-1 See a lot of these in my area (Southern California). I'm ok with them. Probably need more.

Good example here: https://archive.org/details/thequestfortherest_flash It works! It had been effectively defunct for years: https://amanita-design.net/thequestfortherest/

I have a lot of sympathy for skeptics but this is the first thing that comes to mind the idea of Skepticism as a movement comes up: A few years ago, he told me, he went to a skepti…

Christ. I realize you're probably being facetious. But de-extincting species to consign them to industrial food production (or some other industrial extraction process) seems like …

This is legendary Simpsons writer John Swartzwelder's technique, too: Since writing is very hard and rewriting is comparatively easy and rather fun, I always write my scripts all t…

Experienced this myself trying to get it to write a poem with an unusual rhyme scheme. ChatGPT's response when I tried to explicitly spell it out (a few different ways): Yes, you a…

Glad you mentioned this. Not horror, comedy! Listen, you! I was born here. I raised a cloud of children here. My ancestors came over here on the sandwich. One of my favorite episod…

Good example of that here: https://www.cnn.com/2015/03/06/us/ferguson-missouri-racism-t... So began an odyssey with Ferguson police, municipal court and city hall that left her wit…

Have you tried this game? https://playheyrobot.com/rules

Did anyone else see the FTX fortune cookies? https://mobile.twitter.com/klenwell/status/15921781646752522...

I detest the Meta metaverse as much as the next Hacker News user. But there is one use case where I could see it luring me in. Virtual meetings. Really virtual social events or hap…

I actually do this more effectively working from home with my wife. For people who like the aesthetics and atmosphere of an office for some reason, I think a coworking space would …