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I'm not Zitron pilled, but hasn't OpenAI raised more funding than in the history of the valley?

He really elides his thoughts on the "RSI business", wish he could have gone into a bit more depth there. Good post, though.

IIRC TurboTax has a bunch of loaders / spinners like this, similar idea.

> General NIMBY-ism

Mamdani explicitly campaigned on building more, especially housing, so not sure where you got that idea. NIMBYs show up at community board meetings, sure, but your post makes it sound like that's somehow the mayor's fault?

I'm also not sure if you're a New Yorker or not but the NYC EDC remit is a hell of a lot more than just "encourage big business". They run the ferry, for example, and other infrastructure projects

In the vast majority of venues, ID checks are happening anyway to verify eligibility for drinking.

They're being evicted from their home, but from the landlord's property. It would be the landlord's home if the landlord lived there, but they don't, because they're renting it to the tenant.

That's not true, a number of Jan 6 people were convicted of seditious conspiracy, it's just that those convictions have now been vacated because the coup plotters have now ended up in charge regardless through other means.

That's a feature, not a bug

Yeah, we're talking about the guy who leased a new car every 6 months in order to avoid having to put a license plate on it, and then parked it in handicap spots, right? Absolute same "rules for thee, not for me" energy

It's not 2019 any more.

This one is probably popping today because of the simonw post yesterday about using an LLM to basically one-shot port a lib across languages with the help of an extremely robust test suite

So they gutted and destroyed USDS in order to... Create it again?

In practice, "egregious" in English never means very good

We have the opposite problem, where if you live in NYC or LA your vote basically doesn't matter at the national level

It could put you in Guantanamo Bay: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio_F-91W#Usage_in_terrori...

Being able to walk to the store "sounds worse than hell"?

The Marketwatch link, which is paywalled, just links here:

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/novo-nordisk-s-can...

a friend recently described bouldering - which I understand is also fairly popular with engineers - as something to the effect of "solving problems in a physical space with your body". this seems not dissimilar

The "heist", which presumably gets covered in part 2, is that a lot of these items were originally looted from Iraq after the US invasion in 2003. US Customs ended up seizing a lot of them, and about 15,000 items ended up having to be returned.

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

DOGE's shared data has been consistently off: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/doge-says-i... https://www.npr.org/2025/03/01/nx-s1-5313853/doge-savings-re... https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/us/politics/doge-musk-con...

And just to be clear - Occam's razor to you suggests that this project hasn't actually been defunded, but rather that the people working on this project have chosen to stop work on it in order to project the appearance that it has been defunded?

*Norquist

Which was basically the point of the USDS, which has now been gutted of its original purpose and turned into DOGE

Really not enjoying the fascist-eugenic turn this place seems to be taking.

I also got this, felt like a cold that just took forever to clear. Wasn't covid, but didn't feel as bad as proper flu. I got my flu shot going into the season late last year.

I find that I actually sleep worse the night I've worked out (3x / week)

> What I've realized is that the fame of the book is closely related to how interesting and unique the "elevator pitch” of the book. Which makes sense when you think about it; It's the elevator pitch that's spreading by word of mouth, not the book.

They call this "high concept"

> The buyouts were not offered in a random fashion, however. We targeted them to reduce the layers of bureaucracy and micro-management that were tying Government in knots. We made sure that departments and agencies tied their buyout strategies to their overall plans to streamline their bureaucracies. As a result, almost 70 percent of our buyouts in the non-Defense agencies have gone to people at higher grade levels, such as managers.

this isn't how it's being done now

WSL is a big improvement over the MinGW era

No, it's not, but there's a spectrum of drug experiences. Scrolling social media is more like sitting in a shitty motel by yourself on a meth binge, or being on the nod.