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That's a good point. This might be a better example:

    irb(main):009:0> String === String
    => false
    irb(main):010:0> Integer === Integer
    => false
    irb(main):011:0> Class === Integer
    => true
    irb(main):012:0> Class === String
    => true

The switch statement in Ruby uses the `===` method under the hood. `===` does not mean "equals" like it does in Javascript. Instead, `a === b` means, does `b` belong in the set of `a`.

    irb(main):001:0> Integer === Integer
    => false
    irb(main):002:0> String === String
    => false
    irb(main):003:0> Object === Integer
    => true
    irb(main):004:0> Object === String
    => true

Seas are connected to the ocean. Lakes are land locked.

> What would people think if there was an american movement to stop using foreign loan words in English because they're diluting our culture?

The difference is that English is THE dominant global language, pushed by two global empires (first the British empire and now the American empire). It does not need protection, as it essentially like an invasive species at this point. It’s reasonable for counties to want to protect their native language(s). We’re already rapidly trending towards a global, American-flavored monoculture. Why make it worse?

But now you're asking the government to regulate against a hypothetical damage that may never occur. The problem with "vision" is that we can all let our imaginations run wild about new technology is capable of.

I remember having the exact same discussions on HN about autonomous vehicles over a decade ago. The consensus then was that autonomous vehicles would make truck and taxi drivers obsolete within 5 years, and that this massive, sudden loss of jobs would cause a lot of social unrest. Yet here we are in 2023 and there are a grand total of zero driverless trucks on the road. I'm not saying AV tech is totally useless or that we won't someday get to a world where a large percentage of vehicles are self-driven, but it's clear now that the hype and fear around them was heavily exaggerated.

I feel the same way about ChatGPT. It's definitely cool and impressive, but the hype will die down once people realize how truly limited it is.

Can you help me understand what exactly is so scary about ChatGPT? The only places where I see this hype/fear around ChatGPT is here on Hacker News. I've played around with it a bit and the magic wore off in less than 10 minutes. I asked it to generate code for a sudoku solver and the result it gave me was perfect. I then asked it to write code for a crossword puzzle generator and gave me a word search puzzle generator instead, where it simply shoved all the given words together at the bottom of the puzzle. These were just toy examples - I can't imagine ChatGPT is actually useful at work outside of generating very basic text snippits.

I asked a group 10 friends, none of who work in tech, about what they think about ChatGPT and then consensus is that it's a slightly better Google in certain situations. None of them are worried that it's going to put them out of work, take over the world, or violate their privacy. I have to agree with them. I think all this AI stuff is way overhyped, just like all the other fads that came before: VR, crypto, drone delivery, CRISPR, autonomous vehicles, metaverse, etc.

This chart is even better:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FEDFUNDS

> Seems like a housing price crash and AirBnB regulation would make them look a little bit less like geniuses, no?

Idk, I know of a ton of RE investors who would love prices to go down, precisely so that they can pick up more properties. And even if the town you're operating in outright bans AirBnBs, there are ways to pivot into other short-term rentals like furnished 3-month rentals for traveling nurse.

Real estate investors and even regular old homeowners have always looked liked geniuses for exactly this reason. When the dollar loses value every year, loans are cheap, mortgages are subsidized and largely purchased by the government, and the supply of new housing is constrained, the absolute smartest investment to make is in real estate.

Reminds of the Navy Pier Flyover in Chicago, a half-mile long bicycle/pedestrian bridge that took seven years and $64 million to construct[1].

Not saying that this project was simple by any means, but why did it take seven years to finish? For comparison, the Sears Tower, arguably Chicago's most iconic building and at one time the world's tallest building, only took four years to complete.

[1] https://blockclubchicago.org/2021/05/10/navy-pier-flyover-a-...

Wow, that's a really interesting observation and describes me perfectly. I wouldn't consider myself a "real" entrepreneur, but I've always had a side hustle and I own some rental properties.

I took me until the age of 34 and having kids of my own to realize that my childhood wasn't that great, and that a parent's role should extend beyond just feeding their kids. My upbringing made my hyper-independent, so the desire to make myself completely financially independent basically consumed by 20s. It took me a long time to realize this drive, while useful in my career, came from a very unhealthy place.

Even in this example where inflation doesn’t occur, consumers will never benefit from the productivity gains that allowed producers to make more apples. Something clearly changed that allowed more apples to be produced. Maybe a significant amount of capital was invested in more machines, or a new, faster growing cultivar of apple was developed. In any case, the entire benefit of the free market economy is that competition creates an arm race for better products at lower prices. When the central bank steps in and creates a bunch of new money, it destroys any benefit of increasing productivity, since apples with always be $1, regardless of whether 100 are produced or 1,000.

There's nothing stopping you from having both at the same time, with the caveat that your contributions to the IRA may not be deductible if you earn over a certain threshold.[1]

[1] https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/investing/can-i-have-a-40....

Yes, and while less goods were being produced, the Fed simultaneously brought an obscene amount of new dollars existence, resulting in even greater inflation.

You act as if governments throughout history haven’t committed atrocities a thousands times more gruesome than this. I’m fact, I can think of a fairly famous example within the past hundred years.

It’s because our federal government purchases the majority of residential mortgages, and therefore indirectly sets the standard for the entire market. It’s a major reason why real estate is such an attractive investment.

Imagine a world in which the government caps the number of new cars that can be manufactured in a given year to 1,000. The price of cars would skyrocket across the board. People would respond to this new reality in predictable ways. They would buy cars and sit on them for the resale value. Car rentals would become the norm and car ownership would be exclusively for the well off. Bandit signs would pop up in every city offering cash for used cars. Investors, foreign and domestic, would start sinking large percentages of their funds into this new “safe” asset. ETFs and REITs would be created to give regular people access to this amazing new investment opportunity.

In this hypothetical world, it would be foolish to blame individual actors for the price of cars being so high, when the root of the problem is obviously the artificial cap on the number of new units that can be manufactured.

It’s the same with real estate. It’s foolish to blame AirBnB, landlords, investment groups, foreign investors, and Boomers for the price of real estate. These individual actors are merely responding to the reality that local governments make it nearly impossible to build new housing.

Why would an LLM be better at this than Google?

I feel your pain and switched to high quality, physical cookbooks instead. Recipes on the web are generally garbage unless they come from an author that you’ve already vetted.

I’m not going to defend crypto, but this is a bad argument. One Satoshi (the smallest increment of Bitcoin) is currently worth $0.0002289.

We started co-sleeping with our son at first wake at around 8 months, and have been doing that continuously for the past 7 months or so (basically he sleeps with us in bed between 2 and 6ish AM). I've enjoyed the arrangement but my wife is tired of it, due to getting kicked and punched all night long. On top of that, she's 32 weeks pregnant and really needs the sleep.

Does your wife share your enthusiasm for co-sleeping?

> This thread makes me wonder if Americans have such info (whether a call is a likely spam) automatically pop up when receiving text or calls.

We do have that, but it probably depends on the carrier and the type of phone you have. On my iPhone with Verizon, there's a setting to "Silence Junk Callers", in which "calls identified by Verizon as potential spam or fraud will be silenced, automatically sent to voicemail, and displayed on the Recents list."

It's not perfect, though, and I still get a ton of spam calls. As a rule I almost never answer the phone if I don't recognize the number.

> Your totally ignore the key element here: a new technology is allowing denying entry at a whole new scale. Nobody really has an objection to organization blocking a single individual who is might cause trouble. But blocking an entire class of people is a) newly enabled* and b) much more harmful to society.

So you're okay with the principle of denying individuals entry to a private business, but you're NOT okay with businesses enforcing this with technology? How does that make any sense?

TL;DR A personal injury lawyer ("in a wreck, need a check?") was banned from an attending a show. She attended anyway and was asked to leave. Computers were involved.

The big corporate gyms are dirt cheap and typically have onsite daycare for a small fee. My wife and I pay $55 a month for a family membership at LA fitness, and daycare is $5 per visit or $15 extra per month. No indoor track, though.

Yep, I live in Chicago and I'm about 10 miles from my parents' house, as the crow flies. I have at various times in my life regretted not moving around and living in different cities, but I didn't feel the urgency to move a thousand miles away from home since I grew up next to one of the largest cities in the US. I imagine that if I had grown up in a small town, like my wife, moving far away from home would have been the only option.

If it you makes feel better, at the age of 34 my therapist handed me a "feelings wheel" as a way to help me name my emotions[1]. Prior to that, my emotional vocabulary essentially consisted of "anger" and "joy". This in turn lead me down a very deep and painful rabbit hole to figure out why I had so much trouble accessing my own emotions, opening up to people, and trusting others.

[1] https://feelingswheel.com/

> free daycare

France has free daycare and yet has had a below-replacement level birth rate since the late 70s.

Tech stocks have been getting slammed over the past year. Amazon, Alphabet, Netflix, Meta, Microsoft, Tesla, Snapchat, and Uber are all down 25-81%. Apple seems to be doing okay though.

Honestly, that doesn’t seem like that much. That’s only ~13 large plates at the gym.