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Funny enough, I've had the opposite experience. Easy access to books and reviews has me reading conservatively 10x as much as I did a decade ago

It’s unfortunate that many Americans are comfortable with this guilty even if proven innocent approach to justice

It has dropped to 100th while the MentraOS post remains at 5th. Is HN pushing negative PR for AI down the ranks?

Does controversy cause articles to slide on HN? I noticed that this had more points in less time than several articles ranked above it, which surprises me a bit

e.g. at time of writing a post about MentraOS has 11 points in 1 hour compared to this article's 51 in 53 minutes, but this is ranked 58th to Mentra's 6

As far as I am aware, wealth inequality is significantly better in Europe than it is in the United States (https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/wealth-in... as an example) and I still wouldn't characterize democracy in Europe as "perfect" even if we narrowly define the rubrick to be only concerned with money tipping the scales of power

I think the frog and the scorpion were both wrong

Peasant has a more specific meaning than this. More importantly, it has been used as a pejorative for a very long time now and that is clearly the intent the vice president had in mind.

Not likely to be a workable system in a home with children, then

I would say in your toy example the hospital has been shutdown due to the PE firm "cashing out" excessively

This aligns with my experience with a couple of DEI (or similar) programs at large tech as well. Coupled with really basic training that amounted to "Unconscious bias exists and it can happen to you, make sure you judge candidates by their performance and nothing else", which always seemed pretty reasonable to me.

Deflation is a problem, but not for the reason mentioned there. The reason deflation is an issue is because it makes holding cash into an investment strategy. If the price of goods is dropping, the value of money is rising, so the more cash I hold the richer I get. This obviously dissuades people with cash from investing their cash into actual productive work, which means fewer jobs. There was a small deflationary bump in American history around the 1930s that helps to illustrate what can happen in a deflationary spiral.

funding for public schools in California and most other places is based on number of students in attendance

The same way anyone could make a judgment call before the attack was carried out? We are capable of abstract reasoning about the consequences of our actions.

I would like to add that everyone should check the incredible documentary "For All Mankind" scored by Brian Eno.

funny enough, "To Beat the Devil" of his is my pick for the best riff on the trope of country songs about musicians taking on the devil

And how long has it been since the last US backed coup in Bolivia?

A mix of quality, management of scarcity, x-factor (call it what you will, some kind of intrinsic appeal to the in group who buy this sort of thing or otherwise inherent desirability), and marketing

We have already imported Mao struggle sessions, essentially.

What? I haven't had to go publicly shame my neighbors for not being revolutionary enough, at least that I remember.

The article explicitly states that the drop is in income, and does not take spousal or child support into account

I'd like to be able to begin it with an image rather than a prompt.

Greg's removal was announced in the same press release as Altman's

Rolex actively engineers this situation, though

Sometimes life doesn't have three acts! Sometimes life is just a Kafkaesque decent into madness and all you can do is try to cope with a coy joke.

so if this holds water, wouldn't we expect these educated professionals to return to the states which appeal to families when they are ready to start one?

I kind of tend to agree with your skepticism / consternation broadly, but it does give _some_ indication as towards the types of jobs:

This project can bring new employers to Solano, and independently create thousands of permanent, good-paying local jobs in construction, energy, services, and other industries. We are also interested in building trade schools and other educational paths that help Solano residents learn the skills they need to get those new jobs and build long-lasting careers

I have no experience managing a company at that scale so I won't challenge the assertion that Elon is doing a better job than I would but... the feed has not been rate limited for unregistered users for the history of the site as far as I know, and its been pretty damn stable and snappy!

The turning of the seasons and the weather are as immutable and absolute as social media, so this is a perfect analogy for the situation at hand.

But RealPage emphasizes the need for discipline among participating Lessors and urges them that for its coordinated algorithmic pricing to be the most successful in increasing rents, participating Lessors must adopt RealPage’s pricing at least 80% of the time.

I really, really want to agree with this, but as much as I enjoy Abbey Road, I also can never get enough Rubber Soul

Ok, I'm curious. How does the explanation for everything's existence being "God did it" not simply push the question up a level to wondering how to explain God's existence?