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Don't let your personal love of Piranha II convince you that it was a box office hit.

The flipside is a lot of municipalities have become a lot more aggressive about enforcement, and changing regulations (especially regarding gas and electric) and manditory inspections mean that there's less that you can get away with.

I feel you. My property tax has gone up more in the past decade than it did during the previous 3 decades.

Cost and necessity of permits for renovations plus re-asessment of property after renovation for tax increase means every path forward is much more expensive than it would have been in decades past.

Working class parents in their 20s in the USA could afford to buy their own homes well into the 2000s. Some got burned by cyclical factors, high interest, etc...; but many still achieved sustained lifetime home ownership.

There's nothing quite like the empowerment of discoverable user interfaces devoid of dark patterns.

We're talking about hot-rod culture here, which has been explicity coupled with projections of notional masculinity from its inception.

The inherrent dangers of nuclear energy stem from flawed actors admimistrating something which carries manageable and often avoidable risks.

Fracking as a process carries inherrent unavoidable risk.

Indeed. This is an awkward era where we're using these artificial language tools to target abstractions made for humans to manually write.

At some point the path from human language to machine code is not going to require an interstitial step writing to higher level languages as we know them.

Kowloon Walled City.

Cancer is also growth.

Conversely, Rexx scripting on the desktop was glorious in 1995.

2026 is an election year for the Governor. One year moratorium conveniently allows the incumbent to have cake and eat it too.

Regulate the business model, not the interface.

> Smartphones in dumb pockets made it all possible.

>> Smartphones did nothing. The "people" who manipulated the reality within them did.

So those manipulations and their machinations weren't enabled by the existance of smarphones?

Apple certainly played a major part.

The long distance culture war was enabled by long distance visibility.

The whole 'own the libs' thing wouldn't have existed in an era where everybody wasn't paticipating in a medium that made non-local people extremely visible to one another.

Smartphones in dumb pockets made it all possible.

I wonder if rural farm town to Miami is the real story here vs. any sort of national culture clash.

At some point, (programming) languages themselves will become vestigal abstractions.

Well said. As mentioned in another post, it's not about intelligence, it's about vulnerability. One particular type of misery is mourning, and the western world does a pretty good job of creating mourners in a number of places where terrorist groups flourish.

Terrorists organizations are members of high control (ie. cult) groups.

High control groups succeed because they apply their tactics to people who at vulnerable. Vulnerability has no correlation with intelligence. Lots of intelligent people are exploited by high control groups because they are recruited at a time when they are vulnerable.

I wonder if Metroloft cut corners on structural engineering practices given that they also exploit non-union workers.

How did you come to that conclusion?

Were you alive and in the Northeast US during the 80s and 90s, if not, what are your sources?

You're talking about acting vs. lived experience. That doesn't invalidate the premise of the article, it actually strengthens it if you aren't overly pedantic in your read and interpretation.

Sometime in the 90s we started getting really good Dostoyevsky translations, and they make a huge difference.

It's not just 5 grams of some random cubensis, it's 5 grams of the enigma strain, which is ridiculously potent.

Style is a thing. Your version is not better.

Might be a great article. Overriding scroll behavior and velocity so that content moves when fingers aren't touching the screen seems like a suicidal choice for a publication.

Mobile scrolling is a solved problem unless you make it one.

Writes about a romantic relationship and:

References Steve Jobs in a positive way

References Elon Musk in a positive way

References Ayn Rand in an extremely positive way

Their inevitable breakup is going to be spectacularly dysfunctional and likely play out in an extremely public/online way.

Return on capital generates income at a much greater rate than return on labor.

Time is a factor, but it doesn't seem like that's what you're talking about.

May her passing be a gentle one.

For what it's worth, a random person on the internet just shed a tear for the both of you.