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Growth in wages is meaningless if inflation consumes it. My opinion is that inflation is generally a bad idea but the thing that really matters is inflation volatility. The market …

Every online service is compelled by law to answer subpoenas. You're supposed to assume the collaborate with the state.

I don't know, maybe it's because I read the book on the side in highschool when I was supposed to be doing something else but I really loved Linear Algebra. Once I understood what …

The enforcement penalty of the constitution is the state's ability to rescind delegated powers from the federal government. No one seems to think it's bad enough to be worth having…

Just using Guix requires a pretty substantial amount of administrative work. I'd imagine maintaining it is even more intense and that's why they're running into issues like this. Y…

Regardless dealing with this would be a luxury. The rest of the economy has to function first and then we can talk about this. If you intentionally sabotage the country with these …

> by people grossly violating the constitution I'm sorry what was that? You want rules after all?

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Also features that people assume are part of the OS, like push notifications, but are really a service run by Apple that your phone is locked to using cryptography don't work with …

She was another software engineer and needed VMs too so I thought I'd just let her use some of my spare compute.

I'm 100% self hosted so it's just power, I had to upgrade my solar array so I suppose I could amortize some of that but I was planning on it anyway.

I used to say "oh yeah just run qemu-kvm" until my girlfriend moved in with me and I realized you do legitimately need some kind of infrastructure for managing your "internal cloud…

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The domestic situation in the US is also a real issue. Israel gets unreasonably favorable political treatment compared to every single other country, it's a real issue from the iso…

Language matters. I actually really like what Stallman does. You need this kind of thing to counteract repeated exposure to marketing material. It's similar to the Dave Ramsey situ…

Apparently they just can't live without Netflix and its even worth their freedom.

Part of what makes 4chan 4chan is the lack of politeness. Politeness is nice and really important but sometimes it gets in the way and you want the honesty. You don't want that all…

I wrote bingeblock.com to deal with stuff like this. It kicks you off sites by domain name with no opportunity for snoozing. You set a daily limit in minutes and then you get exact…

America? the Anglosphere? the improvements to India? The almost complete eradication of slavery? The web? The British Empire arguably has a greater legacy than the Roman Empire.

The people who fall for these scams will just get tricked into buying giftcards anyway. There's nothing you can do for them if you don't want to institutionalize them, stop botheri…

It looks to me like we hit the end of the debt cycle. The market was predicting this by the end of the fall last year before Trump was even elected. I don't think not doing tariffs…

Variance in income is more highly correlated with IQ. But hey if you don't like it we could have it my way and bulldoze the public schools since personally I think they're a huge w…

Slowly building up context with people like coworkers and classmates over years.

That's very recent while this started quite a while ago.

Children from low income families tend to do poorly. Being able to measure their IQ helps demonstrate when it's more environment than genetics which strengthens the argument for im…