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People do pay to see movies, to read books, to go to the museum, and for formal education… Do you think the ratio of cost to go to film school per video made for an individual is t…

Well of course I read the things I link. To clarify, my points are: 1. "Likelihood" ≠ "Certainty" - I might think there's a high chance of getting caught, but unless I'm overwhelmi…

And this illustrates why GDP is a terrible metric for measuring the kind of collective/civilizational wealth that they are talking about.

Only ~47% of incarcerated people in US prisons and jails are in for violent crime.

It's not "likelihood of getting caught" because even if you have a 1 in 5 shot at getting away with a crime, desperate folks (or folks with a shaky understanding of probability) wi…

Lowest 10th percentile of which society? In Europe or the US, maybe, but certainly there are whole regions of the world toiling away in horrific conditions to make their baseline s…

A lot of folks seem pissed off by this, but it cannot be denied it adds a lot of headaches for developers. Specifically really demoralizing to UI/UX devs who try and bring their sk…

Think of it another way: transparency hurt a criminal corporation’s ability to use its army of lawyers to defend itself.

Especially [1]. So many millions of American jobs are driving. Rideshare drivers, sure, but taxi drivers, couriers, delivery drivers, truckers, etc. The economic incentive to switc…

This dude's portfolio really does not live up to his hype.

Definitely I think the psychological aspect plays a key role. I have not kept up with the Covid-19 literature in the last year and a half, but I recall many women reporting that it…

I can relate about physical exercise—I had debilitating long covid symptoms for about six months with no end in sight. Could not work out, had to plan climbing stairs around my sch…

For a barber, more haircuts = more money. Trying to imagine what kind of relationship you think epidemiologists have with money? It's not like they get a nickel for every person th…

An important skill is reading between the lines, and recognizing libertarian dog whistles. Freedom to them = freedom from government regulating business. Freedom to me = freedom fr…

It's a good thing, I think. "Absolute free speech" is most often championed by people who want to build society around pure logic rather than empirical evidence. The slippery slope…

I mostly agree with you, especially the Matt Taibbi thing, which gives me nostalgia for the weekly firings and excommunications Trump did to his loyal grovelers. However, I resist …

At the very beginning, it was about the subprime mortgage crisis, which cost a lot of people their homes, their retirements, their investments and created a great deal of disillusi…

But, he did. That's like saying "Hey, this company would have done this bad thing under any leadership, so let's not hold current leadership accountable." He bought it, all the sha…

I think Substack Notes is the most viable alternative to Twitter and stands to capture a lot of the userbase as Twitter continues to go down the drain. I mean, adding the doge meme…

Think about the vocabulary you use shooting the shit with your friends. It's not that wide of a vocabulary. And there are plenty of abbreviations/shorthand in texting that condense…

> I think schools would benefit from privatization Well, we (in the US), have slowly been privatizing them and it’s bad! If you look at test results though, it’s great! Because pri…

Having a psychotic break doesn't suddenly make you homeless. You would need a psychotic break + lack of healthcare + lack of family/friends/support network + lack of money + lack o…

> Slowly but surely, decision after decision, cut by cut, the insatiable desire of central authorities to stick their fingers in every part of your life has led to the brute forcin…

So many things wrong with this. First, making all your policy decisions around maximizing reproduction seems really myopic. Many places are overpopulated and straining global infra…