nobodyandproud

People pay a premium for hand-made over factory-made.

It’s too early to make a conclusion but its an interesting hypothesis.

Size isn’t an excuse.

If there’s no real accountability then it’s a very real and negative problem.

Why is it not evidence?

Still counts! Poor, eager, young, and a bit geeky: C64 was made for those that fell into this category.

Umm, yeah…I was going to let this go but “Microsoft Update” is a later, more annoying though perhaps necessary turn of events.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_pack

https://microsoft.fandom.com/wiki/Windows_service_packs

You mean…service packs?

That hasn’t been true for some time.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/deploying/nati...

The reason to dislike .NET is Microsoft’s now weak engineering. Their cloud team has negative impact on the entire org, and Microsoft engineers like Raymond Chen seem to be a rarity.

Even former cash cows like Windows and Office are struggling and infected with Nadella and Azure/Entra/365/who-knows-what-next’s touch.

Idiot employers; only exceeded in idiocy by white nationalists targeting the easy (and non-issue) targets.

In the US—and I dare say most of the world—these are understood as not mutually exclusive.

Only certain toxic personalities and cultures think otherwise.

No, try the institutions telling you what’s happening in real time.

Only one party and one segment of society supported the Chicago school of economics.

The billionaires and aspiring billionaires are the ones that put us in this trap.

The term-unlimited and woefully out-of-touch Congress are the ones that looked the other way as they allowed the lobbyists to carve away more and more of our industry.

If you want to blame, blame the “fiscally conservative” party that foolishly loved and still loves the Chicago school.

To paraphrase your beloved dictator: “You have no cards and no leverage”.

Thiel chose an easy target, and opened the door to destroying journalism.

As un-American as it gets but hey, he’s the right color with legal bundles of cash; so much for our cherished, upper to middle-class institutions.

The heart of the matter is that any licensing and exclusivity rights to our food supply is counter to our interests.

For farmers, the right to grow breeds of crops unencumbered by enforceable contracts is what the public expects.

The exception will be when government forbids certain crops; or encourages certain varieties with incentives.

Working as intended. Though Peter Thiel will do his utmost to further destroy journalists, I’m sure.

Why is a privately owned hotel compelled to deal with controversy not of its making?

Perhaps things work differently for those of South African persuasion…

I think the problem is that it wasn’t just used merely as a placeholder, but to hard shutdown any discussions—often started by lay persons—about possibilities that didn’t involve brand new particle physics.

I still recall how neutrinos and black holes “couldn’t” be candidates.

To physicists, this means stellar neutrinos and blackholes (and galaxy centers). To lay persons, any category such as cold neutrinos or primordial black holes also qualify.

The sheer amount of vitriol and—I can’t think of a better term than this—“smugness” was off putting.

Before the internet, this was fine when locked away in their labs and classes; but I don’t think you understand the scale of damage neurodivergent scientists and its fans have done to the science community once they started to participate directly.

I have yet to see a Costco not filled to the brim.

Have you assessed the size of United Healthcare?

The number of paper pushers and executives is sustained by your premium.

It doesn’t have to be this way, but the cost is performance (and falling behind competitors).

Are those NDAs enforceable? That’s a major governance gap and problem if so.

Given the absence of other data, I’d say the lack of consequences is the driver.

https://www.macrotrends.net/4694/new-york-city-area-unemploy...

NYC even before covid was renter friendly and difficult to evict, so things must have taken quite the turn.

Which sucks because—and the essay doesn’t specify—rent stabilized apartments remain one of the few ways for lower income to make it into the middle class.

It’s not all pleasant (mice and cockroaches measured in inches) but it’s what allowed me to save, invest, and get out.

Not knowing anything, I’d be afraid of the quality control.

Not that it was altruism, but I do have thank the early adopters on HN on the pros and cons of GLP-1s.

It’s been quite effective even on the lowest doses. At some point I need to try the cheaper oral medications as its only a matter of time before my insurance cuts me off (a $1000 month).

Over 50s me would love to do this. Though perhaps not on the schedule this work demands.

It doesn’t have to be writing. At least one culture used ropes and knots.

Your PM Netanyahu is a disaster. Your religious hardliners seem to love him.

Even someone neutral to sympathetic can’t help but look on in disgust at your PM and his supporters.

Edit: The point being that it tarnishes everything that Israel does, and makes fault-finding way too easy.

For humans, I wonder if population size and density is also a factor.

That is, if there’s a critical mass and population size.

We have counter examples of human pods that never really achieved “civilization”.

What’s missing that make them more akin to orcas or wolves?

Humans are one of a handful species equipped to change their immediate environment to suit their needs, across virtually every environment, and introduce stability.

Beyond that…

Being able to have down time seems like a prerequisite to creating. civilization.

Also, having both the intelligence and desire to seem and recognize ways to improve—even if not strictly necessary—via tools to free up even more time also seems to be a requirement.

And having a system to reliably and in-scale transmit this knowledge is the final ingredient.

So some baseline stability, down-time, intelligence, reliable knowledge transmission, tool-use for the above, and active willingness to improve all of the above all seem like necessary ingredients.

What is the employment rate between the two quarters?

Edit: 4.2% (2025) vs 4.3% (2026).

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/data/UNRATE

I posited that one as a question.

Naive and stupid, but it was downvoted and flagged away into oblivion with zero chance for a conversation.