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Dagny is the first "Anti-Mary Sue" I can remember in literature. She's ostensibly the protagonist, but is literally worse at everything than her male couterparts.

The "vibe" of Atlas Shrugged (other than "fucking boring") is pretty much "Insecure guy who wears a suit to high-school and is on the debate team" or I guess more simply "Ben Shapiro".

So yeah, I guess so.

Paul would much rather make a punching bag out of straw than actually grapple with the massive inequality that he has personally helped cause. Just remember guys, the real problem our society faces is that someone was once mean to paulg on Twitter.

It's a weird feeling to live in a world where even extremely detailed, documented, and cited facts have near zero impact on popular opinion. Belief has always been a mix of feeling and fact, but I don't remember the balance being skewed so far.

The phenomenon you're observing is broken-down drones who are bitter that other workers are refusing to tolerate the abuse that they accepted.

The only people opposed to "civilian" oversight (Are cops the military now?) are corrupt cops.

What on earth are you talking about? This doesn't make any sense.

I think he's saying they have to grow 25% per year to please their PE overlords.

1. It's Fannie and Freddie, nobody uses the acronyms, but if you must it's FNMA and FHLMC.

2. The mortgage meltdown started with subprime loans, which were not guaranteed by Fannie and Freddie. It was private lenders selling loans to clients and then selling the mortgage-backed securities on the private investor market.

3. Fannie and Freddie were not under federal conservatorship at the time. They were regulated by the government as government sponsored entities (GSE) but were corporations with shareholders and profit motive. The regulation under the Bush administration was extremely lax. There was no FHFA or CFPB.

4. The real damage happened between 2001-2006. That's when option ARMs, pick-a-pay loans, and NINA/SISA (no documentation) loans were being made. The fact that these loans would age poorly was well understood in the industry. It was just assumed that continually rising property values would offset how genuinely terrible these loans were.

5. After the clusterfuck, Fannie and Freddie were brought into conservatorship by the federal government to prevent a repeat, and it has largely worked. The quality of mortgage paper is much, much higher than it was 20 years ago.

Yes, it was 100% stupid greed. And to be clear, nobody learned the lesson. The Trump administration is going to defang CFPB and probably bring Fannie and Freddie out of conservatorship. Another mortgage meltdown is a predictable outcome of this and I would expect it around 2032.

They never cared about DEI. The difference is that now they don't feel pressure to pretend.

Also, OUR idea of ownership, at least legally, is based on the idea of usage and access. You may own a piece of land, but not the mineral rights. You can't prevent an aircraft from flying over your property etc. Ownership is a bundle of rights and exclusions. The idea of ownership meaning "who is allowed to hunt on this land" would fit right into our legal framework of ownership.

This may be the most Hacker News thing I've heard since Soylent.

Nvidia probably could sell cards directly now, given the strength of their reputation (and the reality backing it up) for graphics, crypto, and AI. However, they grew up as a company that sold through manufacturing and channel partners and that's pretty deeply engrained in their culture. Apple is unusually obsessed with integration, most companies are more like Nvidia.

There is a backlash against COVID actions that is happening now, is because people are terrible at math and worse at assessing risk. The idea that COVID was not a valid emergency is pure historical revisionism with no base in fact or data.

Nice nostalgia piece overall, but I especially enjoyed this line: "The distinction between noise and signal becomes decreasingly apparent the further one gets from their source."

Very succinct and insightful. I will use that in the future.

That's what I love about these junior devs, man. I get more experienced, but they stay noobs. All right, all right, all right.

They do sell some PCs, but their market share is very low, and I can't imagine it's a significant part of their revenue. They definitely wouldn't bother slowing down Windows 11 adoption to sell a few more Surface Books.

If you're going to run Windows 11 anyway, why would Microsoft care if you do it on a new or older PC?

I don't see how you're going to catch people like this without doxxing them. They rely on opsec and misdirection to avoid getting caught. Do you have examples where the information was gratuitous?

Your bookkeeping service shutting down with no notice over the holidays is not cheap either, my friend. Some things are worth paying for.

This would be a great question to answer and would provide a lot of peace of mind.

Actually, parent is wrong. You're not supposed to do that shit on Windows either. That's what AppData is for. Writing configuration files and folders to "Documents" or the user's home folder is sloppy shit.

Do the right thing even when you really don't want to is a valuable lesson, but I'm not sure I believe that the right thing to do is attend funerals for people who you were not actually close to. It feels extremely insincere.

Not really. Free Press is only pretending to be journalism. In an article defending JK Rowling, they describe people who are upset with her views on transgender rights as "maniacs, who are then flattered by cowards". It's a partisan rag.

The author is really laying the populist manipulation on thick. After about two paragraphs, I felt as greasy as a McDonald's hash brown.

1. Neither Hamlet nor Macbeth kill their parents.

2. Neither Hamlet nor Macbeth incite violence. In both stories, violence as portrayed as something that evil people commit. Good people are wracked by guilt when they commit violence.

Also, your argument is just super bad faith.

Much more likely is that self-reporting is notoriously unreliable and "paycheck to paycheck" is a state of mind.

I don't think it's hate, exactly. Derek is a well-loved guy around here for good reason. I just think people are tired of hearing that the key to success is to work themselves to death.

Derek is great, he's had a very interesting life and accomplished quite a bit. But if this is supposed to be advice for aspiring songwriters and musicians, I think you have to at least consider that he was not an especially successful musician. This is great advice for someone who wants to quit music and run a record label.

Man, I was so afraid this was going to be about Fortnite. Turns out it was a fantastic read. I feel really sad but unsurprised about his description of what it's like to be an Open Source maintainer.