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I like to recommend Ivan Turgenev's "Fathers and Sons" as it gives a contemporary critical view of the nihilistic and utopian ideologies that shaped Russian intellectual discourse …

Iglesia El Rosario, located in San Salvador, is a beautiful Brutalist structure.

Japanese railway workers in 60's and 70's were issued the Citizen Homer Second Setting. It's big feature was hacking seconds ( https://www.fratellowatches.com/citizen-homer-second-…

I would also recommend Red Dead Restoration ( https://www.youtube.com/@RedDeadRestoration ). The creator occasionally dips into ASMR territory but the restorations sometimes double…

There is no need to eject when creating custom modules and the API for writing modules is fairly decent. Not entirely painless but miles better than a vanilla RN approach. We make …

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That Dealbook interview seemed more of a "We don't know what we're talking about so we can't ask you the hard questions" thing.

I think this is very good analysis with respect to Twitter. I suppose I'm really interested in how firms do their free speech vs. profitability cost-benefit analysis with respect t…

From the same discussion: https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/16/what-are-co...

I'm curious why these discussions sidestep the fact that a company has a fiduciary duty to maximize shareholder value. It is understandable, from a shareholder perspective, to not …

Right, it's less draconian than outright prohibition and while the illicit trade will surely exist, for most people the default bias will (probably) be there.

Probably an unpopular proposal, but higher taxes on alcohol?

I wouldn't describe it as a particularly "progressive", "neo-puritanical", or "fringe" belief. Tyler Cowen advocates for abstaining from alcohol. While Matt Yglesias doesn't go as …