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The article is about oligarchy. You've somehow redirected it towards immigration. How are you making this connection?

I think we might be talking about different things. My understanding is that voting with your wallet is orthogonal to why you want to do it.

This is literally what capitalism tells us to do though, isn't it? If you don't like it, don't buy it.

It feels like a lot like mobile telecom providers, trying desperately not to become commoditised by trying to value-add up the chain. Those guys mostly just ended up annoying consu…

But what is there to accept? I was lucky to be born and not be run over by a truck today. What is the purpose of this information? How do I internalize it and use it to guide my be…

Odd thing to blame on a bunch of schoolgirls!

I agree with you. The internet is now important enough that it's required for almost everything past basic sustenance. Governments worldwide are moving services to the internet, so…

This line of thinking comes up so often, but ignores second order effects. I don't need schools because I have no children, but I will certainly depend on well educated children en…

Indeed. Maybe it's just a function of passed time, but it feels like people surrounded by hustlers - including themselves - look at this and think "what's the hustle behind this?" …

I have a skill and template for adding ADRs to the documentation for this purpose.

Visual Basic scratched this itch for anyone who was willing to spend roughly the time learning it as, say, becoming basically proficient at Excel. But the ship appears to have sail…

I use Q/aka kiro-cli at work with opus and it's clearly inferior to CC within the first 30s or so of usage. So no, not quite

Not if 1% of the time it turns into a pair of scissors.

"Not controlled by ideology" is a pretty bold statement to make about a self-declared Communist single-party country. There is always an ideology. You just happen to agree with wha…

Valheim and No Man's Sky are ones I've played recently.

Asking from ignorance - are schemas not enough to replicate this most of the way? What are the extra nice to haves that would bring PG on par with Oracle here?

Am I incorrect in thinking this is as much true of the linux kernel or emacs as it is of an LLM?

Presented to us by the same people who gave us the film "Climate Hustle" [1] 1. https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/05/climate-hustle-wants...

I see DJing as more akin to being a skillful curator than being an artist. They are related but not equivalent.

Ask a Himachali person how far something is and it's always "just around the next hill." Another couple of hours of walking and you"ll still get the same answer.

Here in India you can usually tell them apart by whether they are advertised as HEPA vs "HEPA-type".

I think it's more about messaging rather than reality. Only one of these parties fights the safety nets, is against raising the minimum wage and cuts taxes for the rich, and that's…

I'd say that proportion of what you might call "vegan" food in india is quite small. Dairy-based products are everywhere in vegetarian dishes, and many (too many, imho) recipes tre…

You're right, it's seeking and developing nuclear weapons that has been the problem historically. Once you have them it's fine, the sabre-rattling pretty much stops. Worked for Ind…