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Under True Capitalism™, cartels could do their price fixing on reality shows.

> Calling it “drafting” is another way of saying that the article was written by AI and the person publishing it maybe reviewed it. I don't think that's a safe assumption. You could const…

Make sure your email is on file with every horrible news outlet in the world so they can write over 9000 stories about you before the next World Cup. Get a few nice glamorshots and make sure you have …

Who do you think said it was?

> Overall, it's one of the easiest languages to master. I'm with you on almost everything else, but the fact that it is such an unwieldy, awkward language means that a ton of communicatio…

My problem with this stuff is that somebody who spent three hours on wikipedia reading about the War of the Triple Alliance is usually counted as somebody who didn't read for pleasure that day.

Be cool if they would research that, instead of asking rhetorical questions and assuming that none of it matters and everything is "obvious." I think it's just people being snooty. Best…

No, the vast majority of published books are (and have always been) an insult to trees.

The Spanish Civil War would like to have a word with you, but maybe Franco is part of "the resistance" now.

There's no moat to any of this shit, and they have to try to do something about that. Everybody involved is deeply, deeply, in debt. Watching these things work make it easy to figure out what the…

> So you can't compare per-capital rates of imprisonment and go, "Gee, that's high in Country X compared to Country Y and Country Z". That's an exceedingly weak defense for…

Or they just switched sides and played again, which is less silly.

It was not a degree mill, it was a stupid real estate seminar scam like dozens of others. It's even exaggerating to call it a scam - it preyed on people who thought that Trump knew something abou…

What exactly do you think your comment is? Metagriping is not somehow superior. Stop complaining about other people complaining. At least they're complaining about systems and trying to think abo…

> But it absolutely is calculated. I've been in those rooms when those calculations were made. It's insane. I've watched so many people ridicule basic descriptions of utterly mundane…

> It's the nature of the beast. It's not calculated, and not personal. These are simply weird declarations that you're making, and 20 years ago the world was not like this. > It&#…

I don't think this works - I suspect it's the decoy that's doing the work. Once the decoy is seen, the LLM stops looking. It also seems pretty much effective on a lot of people, too. No…

I think you're describing a "great" fan. A "smart" fan is one that thinks. e.g. smart TVs are worse (and therefore cheaper) than dumb TVs, but they do a lot more thinking.…

You say this as if it were necessarily irrational. Clothes became chain-stitched (and later lock-stitched) because machines could chain-stitch. If there were a super-efficient hammering machine, it co…

I think it's better not to fall in love with any single flashcard. Mature them and forget about them. You're not trying to learn flashcards, you're trying to learn facts and skills.

> It doesn't but it also will not create a different sentence to you to practice a word. Anki doesn't create either words or sentences. Drilling words doesn't work. You've drill…

A lot of it is actually GPL-washing and rust is the excuse. I'm on the rewrite it in rust bandwagon, but I secretly want to rewrite things in rust so they can be refactored and made easier to mai…

> I was somewhat surprised to find out that illiteracy does not mean that someone needs to be a total (or near) analphabet - but rather that it is a broad and wide spectrum. It's a very recent…

> In sharp contrast to this are the US and Canada, where there is no shared definition of "white" even though the majority of their populations are ethnically European. I think you'v…

It shouldn't be annoying when somebody politely and indirectly asks you to stop calling kidnapped slaves "immigrants."

You're making it sound like the desire to be a Frenchman is an unreasonable requirement for becoming a Frenchman. > abandon your own language, culture Thank god nobody is asking this. They…

The US is an exception, doesn't require language proficiency for almost anything, and doesn't have an official language. This is very controversial in the US, and always has been. Historical…

I've always heard it said that "polyglot" starts with the fourth language. The opinion is that to have a at-home (family) language, an outdoor (regional) language and a market (capital)…