nemomarx

if there's a strong measurable effect to any of these supplements, why can't it be studied? there are companies on both sides, so someone who sells creatine could fund one if they like.

I'm also personally a little skeptical that the current administration would actually go to war with China over, say, Taiwan or control of the South Sea or so on. Maybe they are keeping that in mind, maybe they're just isolationist in general?

Whether the admin would have done anything to Iran without being asked by Israel is a big open question for me here.

How's the Iran thing figure in, then? That's a lot of the stockpile used up before China starts.

Just require them to also pay for a new local power plant with the capacity to cover them before they get building permits, honestly. Maybe say they can't qualify for tax breaks too?

The only difference between a rural or suburban town and the sprawl of a city is time, really. Lots of modern urban areas used to be suburban or essentially rural.

Anyway if you densify cities you can slow down the sprawl and maybe keep suburbs actually smaller? a few more ten story apartment blocks downtown might house the people who have to live in your area and commute.

Part of being quickly usable might be the brevity or utilitarian style. Maybe it looks intimidatingly long?

How'd you solve the Arabic issue?

(the previous blog post mentioned Arabic language news sources as a major pain point, so I'm wondering if anything changed.)

getting them to admit they don't really do anything useful is kind of the point of the joke, right?

The extreme majority, yeah. The guys doing it are less popular, although they also have a kind of "anime husband" aesthetic.

Marketing and promotion, some level of organization involved (coordinating streams with collaborators etc) and merch deals, I think?

Not all of them need it - plenty of full independents out there. But even some small ones group together to hire a manager and form a little "network" I think.

Okay, so if the chinese models are used everyday, do they become a value add? Like what's the line you're drawing here. Amount of value it creates?

What makes the Internet raw data in a different way? wasn't it mostly worked on by people first?

you'd need to legally prove it's malware and they would definitely claim it's useful software tools that come with the hardware or something

Yeah I mean specifically the "sell at a loss, wait for costs to get lower over the generation" thing. if it's at a loss at the start of the generation and component costs only rise, it'll still sell for a loss at the end but also it'll be more expensive for customers. this puts the company in a hard position. a lot of gamers are also used to waiting until the end of the life of a console and getting games used, which might no longer be an option

when do you recall them being about the people? it's gotta be before Bush so maybe I just didn't grow up with it

own a physical copy, rip it into a digital format. legal and works pretty well to keep up with the times

Given recent price rises for console hardware I think they're struggling with that too though. The model doesn't work as well if the components get more expensive over time and not less?

It depends on if you mean the space part or the nascent AI mega company SpaceX is pretending to be. The ipo claimed the space launches would only be a small part of their future profits and business and that they'd reach a 7 trillion dollar TAM or etc - this isn't a good sign for that promise.

Genghis Khan or Napoleon, maybe? Probably you'd want to pick someone further back but before the modern era you lose details.

Musk has made some tech innovations but he hasn't changed the lives of many generations of people yet. I'd only put him at the level of Edison

With all the money floating around in tech you'd think PR would be solveable. But you still have AI founders going out in public and saying they want to get rid of jobs instead of some pitch about how easy work will get or you'll be happier or etc. Why?

the fsf has never really been concerned with commercial viability. They're the worst audience for this sort of argument.

and I doubt these apps are really Free versions - do they support user modifications and access to the code? If they did support the four freedoms maybe the fsf would have something positive to say to balance it out?

https://www.meridiangrooming.com/collections/trimmers

more of a trimmer but this had an alright replaceable blade set up and has USB c. if you need the rotating heads I haven't seen one just yet though

Why haven't phones just moved to have two USB ports?

A slight convenience when you want to charge it in that you don't have to turn it around, you can have USB headphones and also charge, you could use more accessories...

common crawl pays the sites they crawl?

instead of scraping then, they could pay the fsf for a dump of the site or some API access or something, right? why overload the servers normally.

are they on land flock owns though? I don't think I could go put up a camera on city infrastructure like traffic lights without their permission. does flock buy a lot of little permissions to install and power their cameras or something?

flock shares the data with other cities and jurisdictions a little more easily, and also flock workers can see your videos. That's some amount of extra abuse potential?

The simplest version of this, which I did myself, is just to have less food in the house. Stop buying snacks, only get items you have a planned meal for, and you spend a lot less willpower resisting the temptation to grab stuff while you're already in the kitchen or etc.

It's harder to modify what restaurants and online orders are available to you, but maybe you can work up to blocking or uninstalling those apps or something?

isn't this a tourist attraction? You wouldn't want to estimate with the local population but by visitors or something.

https://nors.ku.dk/english/news/2025/tourists-flock-to-the-f...

Looks like about 130k visitors a year but I'm sure the tourism board is trying to get that number way up.

I mean the feature is "you can tag another users handle to base images on them", that doesn't seem like core functionality?