purplerabbit

There’s so much pent up collaborative human energy trapped behind language barriers.

Beautiful articulation.

This is an enormous win for humanity.

Stealing and piracy are different

Stealing removes something — nothing is removed here

But maybe this semantic battle is lost because most people make this equivocation

(Not saying piracy is necessarily OK)

that’s an amazing change. Could you elaborate on your training regimen?

Our knowledge and ignorance are both astounding. But there's definitely more we don't know than that we know.

Do you know why the flag?

This method seems to work pretty well: https://www.philosophicaleconomics.com/2013/12/the-single-gr...

Unique in that it seems statistically verified. Here’s an up-to-date version of the projection: https://financial-charts.effingapp.com/

Your first question is a good one to which I don’t have an answer.

On the second: possibility applies at all levels of the hierarchy. Obtaining basic health increases possibility — it increases the ways you can navigate the world at a simple physical level, and “unlocks” The possibility of “higher levels” e.g. relationships, which unlock still higher levels of possibility.

I believe the purpose of life is to create possibility. If that’s true, there will never be an incentive to work less so long as there is more possibility to be created (assuming that people are living purposefully, and it seems to me that those that don’t are evolutionarily selected against)

Because your choice will eventually generate the hundreds of thousands in tax revenue necessary to pay their Medicare and social security bills

They’re the only mega bank with both a 2% cash back card and a competitive HYSA

Changed my life as well. Accelerated my assimilation of good software principles, management theory, business strategy, and salary negotiation. Accelerated my career by like 40%. And lots of entertainment along the way. Thanks HN!

If the purpose of life is any broader than “construct a beautiful fantasy world” then such an approach is a mistake

My review of Richard Powers: reading him is like reading a Yale-educated version of Nicholas Sparks.

The LDS church has owned for-profit entities for decades. Check out the "City Creek Center.

Not at this magnitude. If you read the latest Semianalysis article, Microsoft’s current infra project is the largest infra project currently being undertaken by humankind (not sure if that’s overstatement, but regardless, $50B largely and competently directed towards (Open)AI-supporting hardware isn’t something easily replicable)

How should the government decide which taxes to implement, then?

I think the solution to this is an incremental shift towards property taxes + away from income taxes. Doing so would nullify the investment arms race that’s turning home ownership into a sick financial game.

If you’re paying 6%/year in property taxes, a home is no longer an “investment”, and the house hoarding (especially by the likes of investors buying single-family housing) will cease. People will buy homes to have a place to live, and the market will cool off.

This comes with the additional benefit of progressively taxing wealth instead of solely income. Wealth discrepancy is orders of magnitude worse than income discrepancy, and currently we’re doing almost nothing about that.

I like the sentiment, but you’ve gotta admit that being able to skip the “generation” step has its benefits

Your bio says “most people are stupid” — how’d you arrive at that conclusion without judging people?

What’s an example where this works be a significant time saver?

In my experience writing a Zod schema to parse something into a typesafe form is quick and easy and you end up with full maintainability

What is a reverse dutch auction?

Imagine if it was another name that became generic, like “Steve” or “Chad” instead of “Guy”.

“He’s a nice Steve.” “Ted is an awesome Chad!”

Very few authors approach Kurt Vonnegut in hilarity, brevity, or creative brilliance. His writing is easy to love.

What are Dex and Nebula? (I’m considering trying this setup)

Are you saying that you've come across non-English-speaking communities that don't have this problem? If so, could you elaborate?

Fascinating. It's like your body gradually figured out that you were trying to fool it, and revolted.

I'd bet there are digestion processes that "start up" in response to taste. Maybe your body detected that stevia was regularly "starting up" one of these processes and then withholding the expected glucose spike, and got upset about the pattern

I've had this same thought many times, and I'm sure others here have as well.

Has anyone come across a serious study/proposal along these lines?

I'm curious whether this foretells any potential future change in strategy for e.g. Cruise/Waymo, which are similarly ultra-expensive.

What problems in particular have you run into? Genuinely curious.

Have you tried TypeScript? My impression having used it in both JetBrains and VSCode is that it achieves basically what you're describing.

I similarly get irritated using anything else now.