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Eddington (2025) was a documentary.

You’re getting downvoted for this which is crazy.

Nolan makes cerebral films for dumb people. I find most of them to be entertaining and fun, but they do lean a bit too much into profundity as a vibe without a whole lot of actual substance.

my gf in Tokyo years ago was a country folk singer. played slide on a metal resonator guitar. for much of my time there my evenings were spent at folks and roots music bars, listening to talented live musicians. in States we live in abject poverty, culturally.

I just bought this paperback.

your reasoning falls apart because mass transit options are inherently faster due to the geometric-space efficiencies gained by their form factors. You just need to induce enough people to participate in it to cross a tipping point where it becomes financially viable to run regular service, e.g., in NYC taking a train is often the fastest.

Reminds me of this:

“There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.” ― Ben Horowitz

This is precisely the reasoning I bring up. In essence traffic congestion is an externality not unlike pollution. What society now pays in the form of a financial levy it formerly paid in the form of a wasted time. We've made explicit a cost that was already there, and by doing so the system can respond to it and behave more intelligently.

This is a curious form of fundamentalism. "All motion is good, and damn any effort to coordinate it."

Finally a budget cut I can actually celebrate.

what if the movie is actually bad

I just had this experience with my girlfriend last week. she could not fathom this particle man I kept singing about was an actual song.

This is certainly disappointing.

When did we stop referring to this as Parallax Effects

what incompetence is that? Having a hard time seeing the link between technological progress and thebsize of wild fires.

I ask you honestly -- why? Why do you think it's awesome? It sounds like hell to me.

love to see someone I went to high school with on HN's front page :)

TLDR; libertarian take that misses a lot of structural and historical factors. save yourself wasting the fifteen minutes on this high school grade evolutionary psychology postulating

what is this 2002? Being immediately assailed by sound when clicking a link is not a pleasant experience.

This sounds exactly like the team/culture that launched Marcus at Goldman Sachs. A lot of people went to Amazon from that team and seemed to indicate it was very much the same type of deal.

we've been online for so long now...

And not a single screenshot was provided.

CCP*

all of mine are named after songs by the Japanese noise band Boredoms. so far I have TV Scorpion, Mama Brain, Chocolate Synthesizer, Telehorse Uma, Pop Tatari, Seadrum, Super Going, and Domsbore

Zoot Allures was pretty good. besides that the only thing I like by him is his earliest stuff, like Lumpy Gravy. 90% of the his discography is unlistenable to me, and I listen mostly to stuff that people would classify as unlistenable.

Did not expect to see wfmu.org's Beware of the Blog on the front-page of Hacker News but here we are.

I didn't realize the film was based on one of her works! Pretty neat

Heartbreaking: The Worst People You Know Just Made A Great Point

“It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

This is hugely surprising. 61 is not old man. Is it me or does seem like the Gen Xers in the so-called counter culture are less long lived than their Boomer counterparts?