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All good tips but I think it really boils down to the last bit: sustainable changes. This doesn't help one understand how to differentiate a sustainable versus unsustainable change…

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Yes but even this ignores the more important dynamic at play: rent rises to eat nearly all the productivity gains. If you add technology to your workplace your wages should go up (…

> How can I be free to do my gardening whenever I want when the landlord is asking for $11K rent in my SF flat? This is the fatal flaw. It's been recognized explicitly for at least…

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Sure, the model that you propose here sounds a lot better than the one being proposed by the current administration. It seemed like you were suggesting that a property tax (which d…

A patent definitionally only has market value (i.e. a value to be taxed) if it's something people want. Right, I'm aware there's a spectrum from bullshit patent owners to non-bulls…

And so... how does a property tax fix any of what you're describing? If it's a bullshit patent that's not being deployed to the market, it can't possibly be very valuable, ergo wil…

Obsidian is a personal knowledge management system which is unique in that, yes, it's ultimately just a pile of Markdown files! Obsidian gives you a good UI to interact with it tho…

> allowing patent holders to try to levy (what amount to) taxes that are paid indirectly by the public. What are you referring to here? The premium that a patent holder (one who cr…

But again: Alex Jones' and Limbaugh's hugely popular shows pre-date that. So does the libertarian strain on the right. Modern MAGA definitely spun out of the Tea Party which didn't…

Interesting theory but anecdotally doesn't fit with my experience. The most compliant, least critical, and laziest thinkers in my acquaintance are all squarely "anti-institutional"…

No, they really didn't. Institutions made mistakes, sure, as they always have. None of these mistakes, individually or in aggregate, justify anything close to the discredit they've…

The problem is that a massive orchestrated campaign to sow distrust of institutions can succeed well beyond what's needed to achieve their destruction. The actual truth and institu…

Grievance politics amplified by an assembly of the most astoundingly dumb people you’ve ever seen behind a podium That’s it! That’s the strategy!

No the implication is that you’re repeating press releases from extremely biased parties as if they are fact. They are not, and this discredits you.

Not true, there’s been a huge jump in deportation of people with no criminal record. You’re right though there has been only a marginal increase in deportations specifically of cri…

I disagree. Not sure how common this workflow is, but I write by putting all the different unsynthesized ideas down and rearrange them as the latent structure "reveals itself." At …

6 months ago were you saying "there's no way he'll do broad tariffs" or "there's no way he'll do a mass deportation campaign?"

Okay you have a point. AI probably would do really well when short case abstracts start walking into clinics.

Here’s how this is working in practice: There’s a fast-growing cottage industry of companies using AI to figure out how to bill insurers “better” And there’s a fast-growing cottage…