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I'm pretty sure that a good chunk of this article is generated by an LLM.

Governments try stuff like that pretty regularly (you can only buy certain things with food stamps, etc), but it's typically expensive to administer and inherently prone to abuse. …

I don't think capital has any special attachment to real estate specifically. It's just that we have policies that essentially require your money to be invested into something (bec…

> The most hated companies [...] Johnson & Johnson, 3M You're living in a serious bubble if you think people hate the company they most readily associate with shampoo or scotch tap…

For better or worse, government jobs are perceived as something you get for life. That was part of the appeal: yeah, the pay is less than in the private sector, but they're unlikel…

What's the damage to the society done by Disney holding the rights to Mickey Mouse? Like, if we're being honest? Patents, sure. They're abused and come at a cost to the society. Bu…

It's probably a matter of pragmatism. People are gonna use instant messengers, might as well recommend the least bad one. I've seen it in corporate environments too. If you have lo…

I'm guessing it's annotated by an LLM. Would be a lot of thankless work otherwise, so don't really blame the author, but it means you get the occasional nonsense summary. Edit: yea…

Note that this is gonna be skewed pretty heavily toward domains that have existed for most of HN's history, at the expense of any newer domains that had fewer chances to rack up po…

More importantly, a lot of it was hidden from view. Your washing machine and laundry detergent might be not as good as 30 years ago, but... do you know that for sure? And when did …

You can run Arduino code on anything, since it's mostly just a bit of syntactic sugar around C. But I'm sure you know what I mean. My point is that people who are attracted to Ardu…

I used to say things like that, but come on: Arduino is targeted at hobbyists. More specifically, it's targeted at hobbyists who don't want to spend too much time learning hardware…

Because a lot of environmental movements aren't rooted in utilitarianism, but in deeper beliefs that the endless pursuit of growth is inherently evil. The basic idea is that tigers…

The author isn't posting angry rants about it. I think one can look at it as just a quirky collection. No different from cataloging the movies that feature the Wilhelm scream, and …

> Like it or not, "eyes glued to phone" has become a pretty clear indicator of distraction, and I'm fine calling this out. This is not like work meetings: 99% of meaningful policy …

If superintelligence gives you superpowers, then why isn't the world trembling at the feet of Mensa nerds? There are rapidly diminishing returns on "excess" intelligence. Life is c…

> Did Slashdot really kill itself or was it just never ambitious enough to seek a broader base or try to foster communities? It's still around, but there's one simple DAU measure w…

I think some of this is on the authors of reference texts, though. I often catch myself writing what I think is a very accessible intro to a particular topic, only to re-read it a …

The parent's quip was that you can't rise to the top of the field. My point is that it's irrelevant. Textbooks used in college coursework are usually written by academics, for obvi…

> If you read a few books on mathematics you think you're easily going to become one of the top mathematicians? No, but so what? The guy behind 3Blue1Brown probably isn't one of th…

> I cant work for someone who doesn't understand what I do. But you already do. Unless you're working for a tiny startup, your CEO or the Board probably doesn't understand the spec…

Perfect in what sense? Kickstarter is useful if you're thinking of doing something capital-intensive and need money and customers beforehand. This comes with downsides: deadlines, …

The same reason why text LLMs show exaggerated emotions (enthusiasm about your questions, super-apologetic tone when you dislike the answer, etc). It masks deficiencies and predisp…

Venture capital bets on returns. It's not about some objective and eternal value. A successful investment is just something that another person will buy from you for more. So yep, …

The practical trade-off is that it is very, very difficult to secure a modern browser. Major vendors employ large teams of full-time security engineers and still ship vulnerable co…