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The nerds have reason to believe that if their community accepts new people, eventually they will be excluded from their own community by the most popular newcomers. That's the who…

Learning those prompting skills was very useful for you, but in the context of schools it's a lot more difficult to make the investment worth it. Schools are slow, by the time the …

Your kids were raised on those before predatory people and unscrupulous corporations learned how to take advantage of them at scale. To protect against those, you have to make kids…

I actually didn't initially think of the parent's objection nor your rebuttal. This is why I like reading HN comments.

Isn't Democrats retaliating just the status quo for them? Democrats have been picking on the poor tech billionaires ever since the Cambridge Analytica scandal, when they were thoug…

I suppose that could be solved with a delay. Limit internet archive for articles that are less than a week old.

There was also the point about lack of granularity and follow-through. The government has the power to ruin your whole life, so it's reasonable that they have high standards of evi…

My bicicle got stolen a long time ago and I never recovered it. The perpetrator was never caught. From this we can conclude many things. Maybe the thief was very crafty. Maybe the …

Near the end of the book Winston finds out that he was watched much more thoroughly than he thought. They read his private diary and carefully put the same mote of dust on top of t…

Sounds very hard actually. If you asked me to spend a significant fraction of Bill Gates' money I wouldn't even know how to begin. How would you do it? Do you have a way to earn hi…

Supposedly Richard Stallman's secretaries knew how to code their own Emacs macros. I don't expect any LLM to empower people as much as Emacs can, but they will definitely empower m…

Professionals are doing what I am doing, only inside companies. They make custom software that solves ultra-specific problems of that one company. I don't quite understand the obse…

You won't see it because it's mostly personal software for personal computers. I've got a medical doctor handwriting decipherer, a board game simulator that takes a PDF of the rule…

Maduro was offered some sort of limited amnesty and safe conduit before. Pardoning a different drug dealer can be a way to show Maduro that they were serious about the offer, that …

What if you fail for whatever reason and don't finish college? Then you spent a bunch of time and money for essentially no benefit. College will always be worth it for people who a…

How do you know it's not still punished? You didn't find that article through Google. Maybe they are still being punished but linkedin and nyt figure that the punishment is worth i…

I sometimes share interesting AI conversations with my friends using the "share" button on the AI websites. Often the back-and-forth is more interesting than the final output anywa…

I think in that sentence the fog isn't really that important, it's just an excuse to tell you about the surroundings. The speaker is probably standing near city limits. There is so…

Have you ever accidentally clicked on a YouTube video and then had your recommended videos turn into pure garbage for a little while? It doesn't have to be a high stakes situation,…

Couldn't the constitutional court have acted before the election took place? Forbid that candidate from running in the first place? The reason this looks sketchy in the first place…

Most of the country works in the service sector. It's not like I'm some kind of out of touch elite. The ones who are most hurt by tariffs, most affected by higher prices, are the w…

I don't disagree, you can definitely build more industries with tariffs and protectionism. I just don't see the point. I'm a consumerist at heart. As long as consumers get to consu…

> From a national security standpoint this can be deadly in a hot conflict. What about a cold conflict? How much do the tariffs and protectionist policies cost in the middle to lon…

> The subsidy is already a tit, the tariff is tat Why is someone else subsidizing the price of a thing you buy bad? The subsidy is doing you a favor by reducing your input costs, o…

Wouldn't that lead every other business to stop investing in additional infrastructure in that state ever again?