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typo, you likely meant "Markets are NOT predicated on capitalism." right?

sounds like post-hoc justification to me, you could have been confused other way But here's a real solution (though I don't think it was a problem needing to be solved): "FOSSY: th…

Despite some validity to what you are saying, it has always been the case that the convention center is unusually crappy in terms of food options. It's surprising given where it is…

unpopular opinion (which I hold, so I wish it were more popular): anything that makes driving awful is good because the worse it is to drive the more pressure there is for people t…

When WWII ended, the changes it made to the world never reverted to the prior status. Also, the rest of history since then has been completely dominated by the effects of WWII and …

I'm sure there's some subreddit or something where people appreciate knee-jerk defensive reactions to the entire idea of free/libre/open anything. There are people out there who ac…

The comment you are replying to seems to be pointing out that Ed Sheeran himself , i.e. his own brain, is trained on the past work of Ed Sheeran. That's how I read it anyway.

The same status quo that has lousy public transit is the status quo that gets us a lot of "those who vandalize, defecate, and litter". There's no reason we are stuck with that stuf…

I haven't read the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Made_by_Hand series but my impression is that Kunstler would agree with you except with the caveat that there won't be cars o…

If only everyone were as gracious and thoughtful… thanks for demonstrating responsible engagement online! Yes, Poe's Law and all for sure… Also: https://mimiandeunice.com/2011/06/0…

Naw, due to climate chaos, we'll have widespread civilizational collapse and the plain breakdown of the car-supporting infrastructure within less than 50 years.

Yes indeed, but there's no reason even in the U.S. that we need to stick with private car ownership. We could easily get by and accomplish everything we need, even with the current…

I think HN is generally a community that celebrates learning and changing-our-minds rather than resist any suggestions in those directions. You don't live in isolation as is, your …

Yeah, but the other poster was probably being sarcastic and just frustrated in a tone that is hard to describe in plain text.

The title is precisely correct, but it is easy to infer wrongly "and you can't enable it".

Just Intonation and everything from https://en.xen.wiki/ and related, maybe some of the YouTube stuff from "Hear Between the Lines" is a good start for new accessible stuff. Music …

There's also the more widespread phenomenon of profitable-enough local businesses blaming Walmart for putting them out of business. How do we evaluate which analogy is appropriate?…

Maybe you misread or misunderstood (although maybe it makes no difference to you), but the specific issue is: the FSF won't link to the bug tracker (not can't) because of proprieta…

> Most Americans actually like things that way and can't really imagine living any other way. If people cannot imagine anything but one way of living, then it isn't really reasonab…

What makes Overcast better than AntennaPod?

I understand that there's a weird critical mass issue with adblocking. If everyone blocked ads, they'd do more to either paywall everything or fight harder against the blockers. Th…

Of course it would never happen to you. You grew up in OR, so you never tried to pump your own gas. That situation only happens to people from out of state who come to OR and start…

I agree almost entirely. I am open-minded to the idea that there's some amount of transition-to-electric that is positive, but it's entirely in terms of the counterfactual question…

As someone focused on sticking to FLO software, I've been using Skrooge for accounting. It's just local, but it works well. How does Actual compare?

I love nutritional yeast! Have never tried marmite though. Is it similar at all besides being yeast-based?