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I also stumbled onto Crime and Punishment at 18 and expected it to be difficult and was blown away with how Dostoyevsky wrote one of the greatest novels of all time, to be sure, but as the author he…

I think we're past that point; they're absolutely useful already for a lot of tasks. I think it's about costs, convenience, and benefits of a frontier model for what you're doing.

I loved this when it came out. Lars von Trier was one of its creators and has a collection of amazing films. Check out Dancer in the Dark (2000) if you haven't already. But it should be remembe…

Thank you for taking the time to say that. I really appreciate it. When YouTube was new, a guy named JT Helms made that top one (Once Upon a Time in the West cut to Arcade Fire) and when Bruce Spring…

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I'm using an old domain to put together a curation of film edits set to music https://brodlist.com

The DoD was running illegal bioweapons labs in the Ukraine? This is huge.

I'm a huge believer in this. It's something we need to do more, in our industry, and everywhere, honestly. When I moved back to the Bay Area after having lived in the south of France for ye…

When I was in high school I was a reckless driver, and with each narrow escape, I became more confident and certain that I was in control and a bad outcome wouldn't happen, couldn't happen. …

I have to defer, you're a lot closer to these things than I am, but I remember since the 90's the "this-for-that" analogies were around and became hot at some point, so that you we…

HN is a mirror on the tech world -- which is dead. There is dearth of original ideas, generally. There are no cool startups, no investment, nothing happening.

You're definitely looking for something other than the writing and even the plot. For example, the novel "The Firm" had a ridiculous ending but they fixed it for the screenplay. I drop…

I think it was a combination of right place/right time, knowing everything about film-making (and you're right, what makes a good adaptation) and was just a naturally cool, interesting guy, …

I had a good friend who did this -- was a reader for a movie studio, looking for adaptations. Everyone teased him for having such a great job.

A CAPE ratio of 40x and record-high margin debt; what could go wrong?

Exactly this. They're a necessary evil and they require constant vigilance to minimize the "make what you measure" effect. The original author's point is interesting, seeing rules…

My theory is this civil suit was used to expose Sam's (and Greg's) self-dealing and perjury. This was civil, now comes criminal.

The Spirit Level by Pickett and Wilkinson argues convincingly that the pursuit of equality and social safeguards makes life better for everyone, rich and poor. San Francisco used to be my favorite big…

I remember in the couple years before the dot com crash in 2000, there was a lot of satire being written which was being taken very seriously. You couldn't tell what was serious and what was hum…

In 1961, Peter Benenson, a British lawyer, read a newspaper story about two Portuguese students who went to jail for making a toast to freedom. He wrote letters to the Portuguese government and got o…

I heard what they're saying, and while I don't personally agree with it, I can see it's shared by a lot of people. Personally, I'm not sure a separate thread makes sense. What if …

Hi, I'm David and I run the "What are you working on?" posts. I hear what you're saying and yet I think it's just the new reality. There will be more projects and some of th…

On the second Sunday of every month, there's an "Ask HN: What are you working on?" post. Feel free to show your projects there!

Raid? They're committing a crime.

I wish I had some advice that could help. I think you're doing everything right, it's just winter out there right now. The employment numbers are all a lie -- it's much worse than any…

71% of adults say that their monthly debt payments prevent them from saving. So why don't they take it out of that thousand they have at the end of each month? America is suffering economically …

Every single court case is two sides bringing forward only "objective facts" by definition. It's not that one side brings lies and the other facts. They both bring objective facts. So…