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In America we have amazing, reliable communication systems (postal, sms, email, telephone) that are rendered horribly degraded in terms of their actual usability because we allow t…

It's a big country. Even today there are wonderful places to live in the USA, and also terrible places.

You might not be able to do that, but you can visit the HN front page as it existed on pretty much any arbitrary date in the past. https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2015-08-05…

I have mixed feelings on this. Should old stuff be cheaper because it's old, or should it be expensive because you can't get it anymore? I've seen many things turn into "vintage cl…

Honestly, I don't think the average nostalgic Gen X-er is that interested in a sealed video game cartridge. I think the "sealed, unopened, graded" flavor of collecting is always mo…

It makes sense. If we think about pre-agriculture human societies, you have many small groups occupying different economic niches who may trade, fight, or intermarry with one anoth…

I wonder if they forgot they already used this bit in Seinfeld or if it's an intentional homage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBBQdFSvvTE

People love these shows so I'm sure I'm the weird one here, but after finishing this one and a related one called Shrinking I walked away with 2 conclusions: 1. Actors writing for …

That's great that this works for your family, but you should be careful not to project your personal experience onto others. An actual productive political discussion where someone…

What, a guy with a Slavic name couldn't possibly write good English? Even so, I've read a lot of stuff written by ESLs over the years and far too much stuff written by LLMs over th…

The figure might be misleading. It might not be. Either way, the idea that the natural and normal state of affairs is that every person can go out into the world and be a perfectly…

Sure, modern containerization is objectively good and should be used pretty much everywhere unless you have a strong reason not to, but the unfortunate reality is that it is nowher…

Modding a car to be louder is antisocial behavior and should be illegal.

Yeah, it's pretty important if you are interested in the continued existence of your society

If I had to guess, probably Web-style. LLMs are actually useful, people are willing to pay for access to them, and they do genuinely enable things that were unrealistic or impossib…

Granted I skimmed the video and checked the slides, but as far as I can tell the presentation doesn't mention Perforce once? If you're marketing a new version control system for ga…

> since modern Germany is a very synthetic unification of what were historically very different sovereign nations This is fairly revisionist. Germany is no more synthetic than most…

I'm going to assume that you're not being intentionally obtuse, so I'll clarify what people are saying. Germany didn't and still does not have meaningful immigration enforcement. F…

Yeah, those are different people than the ones who arrived en masse during the "refugees welcome" phase. The healthcare workers are overwhelmingly people who migrated legally throu…

If you think US foreign policy decisions are, or ever have been, made primarily on the basis of preventing the suffering of civilians in other countries then I have an Aerospace & …

I mean the PS3 was launched in 2006. The fact that the PS store has still been supported on the console for this long is kind of incredible.

Learning Latin vocabulary is pretty useful. Latin grammar, not so much.

Is relying on a 65 year old programming language much worse than relying on a 54 year old one? In the case of COBOL vs C, maybe, but not for reasons of age.

It would be cool technology today if we lived in a system that prioritized human dignity and general welfare over the desire of a handful of people getting obscenely wealthy.

Highly dynamic languages existed for decades prior to 1995, Python was not particularly innovative in its features at the time. There were also countless languages more feature-ric…