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Out of curiosity, what if the "can be useful" part is Gell-Mann Amnesia?

"They actually have a great contempt for expertise. They don't see it as necessary because they think that they're the smartest people who've ever lived, because they're the wealth…

"Adam Becker: I've got a magnet on my fridge right now that says the heat death is coming. Certain Silicon Valley visionaries hate the laws of thermodynamics. Others claim that the…

Don't forget that people don't really want factory jobs, which suck; they want union jobs that pay well and don't kill them.

https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/Mercantilism.html

Don't confuse the Goldman Sachs branch of the Democratic party with Musk/Bezos/et al bankrolling the Republican party.

Well, now, that depends on when and who exactly is involved in large scale protests against the Trump administration. If they call out the active duty military against middle-aged,…

This is the biggest lesson of the first quarter of the 21st century.

https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-4-29-2025#...

That is what Amazon said in their comments disavowing the additional information.

Amazon reportedly threatened that this morning. They backed down immediately after Trump (or someone at the Whitehouse) called Bezos.

The usual HN response to wealth inequality is "why do you care how much they have?" The answer is, of course, that money is power and the power that many of the wealthy are exercis…

Fundamentally, mathematics is about understanding why something is true or false. Modern AI is about "well, it looks like it works, so we're golden".

Many years ago I heard a mathematician speaking about some open problem and he said, "Sure, it's possible that there is a simple solution to the problem using basic techniques that…

The only confirmed example I know of is Harley-Davidson, roughly during the boom of cruiser motorcycles (1995-2010?): They only ran one shift, but the PR of waiting lists and extre…

The important part is at the end of the article: " For those interested in building a stronger foundation in logic, the Open Logic Project provides excellent free educational resou…

See maternal mortality in Texas. https://www.texastribune.org/2024/12/06/texas-maternal-morta...

So, like Hacker News?

A fun thing to do with google's search engine: look for "Scheme tutorial". For me, the links are: 1. Arun Muthu's Programming in Scheme ( https://medium.com/atomic-variables/progra…

I was going to say... " I began to see TIs like Luca as a group of individuals who are caught between two competing narratives.... The second narrative – the TI narrative – is that…

Japan had more structural problems than that. For one thing, at the time it was reported that wealthy, powerful people could not be allowed to lose money in the stock market; the b…