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On its face this sounds like an indictment of an electorate. But I think it's actually a much deeper indictment of the incumbents who couldn't present a vision more appealing than …

> The biggest evidence against collaborative editing working and being useful is that programmers don't use it. We go through the pain of having git branches and manual merges. Hmm…

Yes, and yes. The sibling comment here about liquidation preferences is correct, and these separate incentives are usually structured as retention incentives — eg, compensation for…

These days, most employees getting nothing out of the deal is par for the course for acquisitions, unfortunately. The acquisition price is almost never exchanged directly for share…

Huh, which process was doing this grinding on your MacBook?

Why would the transactional nature favor students now though? What’s the mechanism for that, that’s internal to the system? In other words it sounds like you’re arguing that the ro…

Wait, but the point of the piece is that although college has always been transactional, behavior has changed . If so, why would transactional-ism be the cause? Read on: > The aver…

As a counterpoint, Postel's Law as implemented in other domains has been spectacularly successful. One classic example is in transistor networks: each node in a network (think inte…

> The $/sqft of housing tends to go up as density increases This is only true generally, not within a specific neighborhood, and it's because of correlations between demand and den…

> there is a highly lucrative business in simply buying low-density zoned land and going through the entitlements to turn it into a high-density zone Sure, but this is only a lucra…

> This is not the case with land. Not with that attitude! Kidding aside, most people looking for housing aren’t buying land, they’re buying housing — which absolutely does not have…

Why doesn't it feed through to the price of food? Of vehicles? Of energy? It only feeds through to the price of certain classes of goods: housing, healthcare, education. Those are …

> Gentrification actually only affects a very small percentage of people who end up refusing to sell and holding out until they cannot afford anymore. Not quite just those who refu…

Actually, in many cases they cannot. Take a look at the EPA "exception" that California has needed in order to impose more stringent fuel efficiency standards for automobiles. Many…

"Securing the funding" is much closer to the work than "providing roads and sewage". In most sciences, to actually secure the funding, you need to argue for why the problem is impo…

Why on earth was that post flagged/killed??

With apologies to Bill Buxton: "Every interface is best at something and worst at something else." Chat is a great UI pattern for ephemeral conversation. It's why we get on the pho…

Yeah, and in fact this is about the best-case scenario in many ways: "good defaults" that get you approximately where you want to be, with a way to update when those defaults aren'…

> It's a pretty crappy life By human standards, sure. Weird take I know, but since only one female bee in the hive passes along her genes (which are shared with the other bees), it…

> China built enough homes to house its population twice over, yet it's not reflected in the prices. All because everyone and their grandma is investing in real estate. Yes, but th…

I suspect any other "hook" would work just as well, a comment with a nonce--and could serve as block boundaries to make changes more likely to be complete? Graphologue used a versi…

Oh that is super interesting! I wonder if they track how often it succeeds in matching and replacing, I'd love to see those numbers in aggregate. Total anecdote, but I worked on th…

> That is not what we were sold by the media / peer pressure mRNA producing COVID spike proteins that the body then recognizes as foreign is exactly the mechanism of action for thi…

Hi Steve! Super cool implementation. Any chance you’ll make the source available? There are about 50 extensions I’d make to it if I could! (And I’m sure I’m not alone.)