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Pynchon doesn't pretend to be anything. His material mostly consists of low culture, obscenity, and engineering nerd stuff he finds interesting. He lived through the beat and hippi…

Yes. It's actually uncommon for a business not to take loans out. You can see how much a public company owes in the balance sheet: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/MSFT/balance-shee…

The base interest rate has gone up. Businesses don't pay for costs solely with revenue, they also use cash from loans. Revenue is used to pay off loans, so higher interest rates me…

Ordinary people will sign up for Bluesky instead of Mastodon. Removing friction is absolutely essential to growing a user base. Not everyone finds value in signaling how technical …

The weird thing about these is that they blame Google's search results on spam. I work in SEO and I can tell you that they are much better at ignoring spam than they were in 2010, …

I like to know which page I'm on

I'm going to argue no. Unemployed people are not lazy sponges mooching off of an extra, measly $300/month. The easiest explanation is that teenagers are cheaper to employ for a cer…

I have read Anathem. It's math as occult magic riffing on harry potter.

>what if the math is the reality, what happens then? Magic. Reversing the relationship between reality and our interpretation of it literally means bending reality with ideas. In t…

This is idealism getting lost in the sauce to the highest degree. If you ever find yourself thinking "reality is just math", you must remember: the map is not the territory .

>Apple's pricing isn't higher than the competition Back in the Intel days you were paying twice as much for a Macbook laptop that used the same CPU as whatever Windows laptop with …

Yes, but you wouldn't know it by how Google ranks news websites.

Except that dark matter is often described as exotic and actually existing but not yet discovered. And I'm not talking about the publications that platform charlatans like Michio K…

I always wonder if dark matter doesn't exist and it's just hard to measure the mass of stuff very far away.

It's more complicated than this. Google links directly to search results now, they stopped using the tracking redirect years ago. They probably track clicks and scrolling directly …

There's nothing 'punk' about it. We just stopped being creative with naming subgenres. It's more appropriate to call it "Solarhope"

Finally, some Buttigieg campaign flair!

Also recommended for bored chess players, Shogi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shogi

So what's the name of the new algorithm?

>The comments here that PageRank is Google's secret sauce also aren't really true - Google hasn't used PageRank since 2006. That's quite a claim considering they were reporting Pag…