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I wonder if another factor is how many people move around the country.

For families with kids, forming deep friendships as an adult can be a logistical challenge.

Many people have no current relationship with friends they made in college or high school

Thanks for the links, very interesting.

That has been my feeling too. I have completed soo many personal projects (or improvements) that were collecting dust on my 'mental shelf'.

Without AI I would probably never get to them because realistically, I do not have dozens, or hundreds of personal hours to devote to fun, but unnecessary projects.

Well it is subtle satire done well because another person could write the same thing and be completely serious.

Yes a bit ironic, but I am glad they can see that there are times to use AI, and times for human interaction.

How can one downvote on HN?

Yes, I was wondering if I missed some context.

Interesting, and I have also finished live football games thinking it would have been better to just watch it on TV at home.

However, his claim that a spectator would "automatically reframe what she saw into the way it would appear on television" is never supported other than him saying "trust me, it's true, if you don't believe me you are in the minority".

I think that depends on how you interpret "happiness to become one’s default state of mind."

I think feeling happy is my default. I still get mad, hurt, sad, bored, etc. But when those feelings wear away, I return to a general state of happy contentment.

This sounds interesting, but I do not totally understand your description. Could you explain further what you are building?

Do you have a link?

I'm suprised to see Nix at #20. Is it becoming more widely adopted?

Dune - Frank Herbert

Software should not be free for the users. The expectation that profits must be made through advertising, paired with the entitlement of users who scoff at the idea of paying for a product is a recipe for disaster over the long term.

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius definitaly affected how I live my life.

Top notch podcast, one of my favorites.

I love the Earthsea series and so much more that Ursula has written

That was my same thought. This example would only work in specific circumstances, so why present it as a rule,