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What percent of them are married to men in tech and then leave the industry after they have kids, since they can afford to live on a single income at that point even in HCOL areas?…

Perhaps now you can better relate to the Laurelhurst residents, they also experienced a whooshing over their heads.

Isn’t stones/pounds just like feet/inches? Do you support dropping feet and only using inches? If not, why not?

The current crop of big influential companies is old and super bureaucratic, possibly with the exception of Apple which from the outside seems to have less bureaucracy. I’ve been w…

I’m going to start referring to exhaling as “venting gas”. Thank you.

Was this definitely not accounting trickery? Like even the way money is created is intentionally convoluted and approximately 1% of the population even attempts to understand it. C…

I’m also an atheist, but just looking at the huge amount of anthropological information we have, from hunter gatherer bands to large scale civilizations, I am quite sure that a per…

N = 1 though. > With money borrowed from his boss Genius in field works for wealthy man in field, gets special treatment at a young age. News at 11.

Google search keeps switching me to Spanish. One day recently I went on Reddit and it said “null” after every username. Google Sheets had a weird rendering bug that was worse then …

Ah I had assumed you presented yourself as a convert and what you were faking was honest belief in the stories. If you were faking already being a Christian, I can see how that cou…

Don’t tell them? I’m pretty sure quite a few people who bring children to church don’t literally believe in the stuff themselves and just think the social elements and the morality…

What happens when there’s an outage though? Just hope the LLM can fix it? Who is on the hook if it can’t? Do you have people frantically trying to reverse engineer a basically unfa…

I can’t tell if you are serious. Are you serious?

SF housing dropped relative to other high demand locales during COVID. I wonder if this is just a recovery after Austin et al didn’t pan out as alternatives?

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It might help to not have much in the way of environmental, safety or labor regulations. Whether or not you feel like those are good overall (I do), they do actually also slow thin…

Okay let’s be clear on what we’re talking about. I have seen lots of discussions about headlines along the lines of “ bans ”. Or just referring to book X as “a banned book in ”. Th…

This kind of thing happens commonly with language development over time. If a word or phrase picks up a strong connotation, then the word or phrase stops being used generically. Th…

*gene level

It’s such a tiny hop from there to “has a friend at Google who used it once as a favor”. I hadn’t even considered that people would do such a thing!

> everyone would lose their own money if the banks just disappear tomorrow Sure, but only because banks are legally allowed to lie to customers about how much money they have.

> not because they have bad societal consequences when the reader is not mature enough, but because they don't like the content for ideological reasons “Bad societal consequences” …

By that definition everywhere throughout all time is authoritarian. Everywhere throughout all time is obviously not authoritarian, so the definition fails. Sorry, you are wrong.

Whenever the topic of “banned books” comes up, a bunch of people argue about whether they should be called “banned”. What I haven’t seen mentioned in these discussions is where the…