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also note that `class="text-red-500 text-green-500"` gets flagged immediately by the Tailwind VS Code plugin > 'text-green-500' applies the same CSS properties as 'text-red-500'. t…

Yeah backlash against railroads was very widespread, from lots of angles (farmers, property owners, canal investors, health-conscious people, religious leaders, etc). Probably the …

I think you are missing the point of talking about utility in the first place. I have no interest in lamentations. If you told someone to stay away from social networks because of …

> but because "everyone is there." That ubiquity is the only "genuine utilty" they are offering you. Sure. So what? You nonetheless cannot deny the utility. The friends that I have…

I just have website.com and my Substack is subdomain.website.com. If I ever wanted to move off (I definitely don't!) I could keep all the urls exactly the same with self-hosting. B…

> even if, from first principles this is a non-starter in a democratic society. This is a strange phrase - initially you had to either own land (therefore pay tax) or else if you l…

I'm sorry but you live in a bubble that is beyond imagination. I don't think even 0.5% of tourists to the USA think this.

very minor nit but no CO2 is released during concrete curing. And over time (decades) the calcium hydroxide in concrete reacts with CO2 to pull it out of the air, producing calcium…

That sounds a bit like one of Saturn's (1985-2010) original ideas from the 80s. The plastic paneling was easy to take off so that people could DIY change the colors or add their ow…

> It is hard to overstate the damage that the infinite money being poured into AI is doing to the wider economy. I get what you're saying but medium term this is an extremely funny…

On November 16 2022 Michael Burry tweeted "You have no idea how short I am" On January 31st 2023 Michael Burry just tweeted out "Sell" that period was the market bottom, which has …

reminiscent of when people were trying to mine bitcoin in the background of web pages, or with more trad malware

I've had surface devices for a long time, originally for work to test HTML Canvas with the touchscreen. Unlike a lot of the other comments, I've had a nice time with them. The scre…

true but be sure to see `All Employees, Government/Population` https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1WF5r

Many people hold one or more of the following positions: 1. Illegal immigration is bad, and we should do more to reduce it. 2. Immigration (any kind) is too numerous. Eg someone co…

Because how you spend your time is different when you need to work for a living and when you do not. If that's not transparent, this can't really be discussed. Spending 4 years and…

There's not really enough info to know if this is just a coin toss or something more. "Company tries to roll its own system and [saves / loses] money" is just a common story, one w…

we spent one zillion dollars over 200 years to make flat surfaces everywhere, often perfectly flat (like inside of stores), so that ball bearing wheels can work well. We've found t…

So that was 2016. Why doesn't it link to "Chinese property sector crisis (2020–present)" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_property_sector_crisis... Never mind, I added a link …

> but [gestures vaguely at the state of it] Everyone wants to gesture vaguely at the state of it but it's still by far the best place. Just use the site the way you want to use it,…

Younger Dryas, definitely. It very likely abruptly stopped progress in human agriculture, before allowing it to abruptly restart again. Makes the Medieval warm period and little ic…