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Perhaps “Jobs for new families” would be better phrasing? This isn’t a hypothetical scenario though - the lack of economic opportunity across the border is a key reason of why I’m married.

I think you’re tilting at windmills here. The industries sustaining the city are healthcare, finance and higher edu. There’s no invasion of m fedora-toting tech bros building B2B SaaS AI Agents. Thi…

Is this not the Rust-Belt writ large? De-industrialization for decades on decades - of which Pittsburgh did an okay job of pivoting (many many other towns nearby faired far far worse) - pile on brai…

How can you sustain a city if the existing inhabitants children would rather leave?

Jobs and new families? I’ve become intimately familiar with Youngstown, OH - about 70 miles away from the Pittsburgh - and it’s a great case study of how far a once-powerhouse city can fall if it does…

Unexpected to see this talked about on HN. I actually went through the Allegheny county “newcomer tax” just some months ago. It was a bit of a strange process to appeal (I lost; my house is very weird…

Great video on the theory: https://youtu.be/Ado90kMT_FM

Have people (smarter than me) come up with a good equation - or at least heuristic - to determine what inventions are morally good? I suppose it'd be from a utilitarian perspective? Ex: My gut fe…

Will Butlerian Jihad be on the 2028 ticket?

My hobby horse is the lack of a “modern” filesystem on obsd. Without journaling I really don’t agree with the oft repeated claims it makes a good “router”. Any networking gear I’ve used is treated as …

My Subaru Solterra / Toyota bz4X is the same way.

Epstein used Gmail

Doesn't Aldi work against that theory?

The point is "America Bad. Upvotes to the left."

If I recall correctly, I was obsessed with the PBS show "Cyberchase" and had Googled the main antagonists name "Hacker" which lead to me HackForums. It ended up being a very signif…

> I went to urgent care a few months ago to get tested for COVID and two other flu strains and it came out to almost $500. They have at-home COVID+Flu tests are my local CVS for $35, why go to an u…

I enjoy a local Pittsburgh bakery Mancini's. That's my benchmark for "good bread", I've never been to Europe though.

Jacob's Ladder (1990) is one I'm thinking of too.

Nostr is basically this. It's a cool idea , in practice it kind of sucks as an experience. It's been developed adjacent to the Bitcoin community and I can't say there's much going…

Perhaps ATProto vs. ActivityPub will been seen as the Fediverse's East-West Schism. Instead of decrees over the "filioque" we get blog posts about the definition of "federation&quo…

> read Marx read Popper

..as opposed to other green energy programs that received no government investment? ...or the externality-free fossil fuel industry?

> I don't want to self-host my photos, too much management. I dunno https://immich.app is pretty painless IME.

? it has a mute button and I find it as responsive as my old shield tv.

I never experienced but I've heard universities used to have the best curated radio stations.

> There's also many independent internet radio stations or music podcasts these days which can be launched for little money, don't require a broadcasting license and can be listened to fr…

Thank you for your service!

I was under the impression that the Steam Deck runs under KDE Wayland? I wasn't aware of it having video game support challenges due to Wayland.

> a much better strategy is to first make the feature unavailable by normal means They started doing that in early 2024 with the release of KDE 6.0 by enabling KDE Wayland by default. The Wayland-o…

I have a ‘25 Subaru Solterra (rebadged Toyota bZ4X) and it checks all these boxes (except it lacks a glovebox, though I believe this is remedied in the ‘26). It’s a good car in the sense it’s good a…