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vwoolfon Ask HN: How do you find quality blogs these days?

I follow marginal revolution, astral codex ten, rob k henderson, and a number of others who put out links roundups. Those links roundups are very good and useful.

A number of useful blogs show up on HN as well.

vwoolfon How Important Are Book Reviews for Success on KDP and How to Get Them?

Very and pay for them.

vwoolfon Mitch McConnell: We Cannot Repeat the Mistakes of the 1930s

https://archive.ph/Xgf9R

vwoolfon Psychedelics are challenging the standard of randomized controlled trials

And also the argument that people have demons in them: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/book-review-the-others-with....

I read some of the guy's book. It's a trip.

If those external entities were real, we wouldn't need to wait for science, some shaman would just go to the spirit realm and get told about bacteria.

A great point.

vwoolfon Ask HN: How Do You Manage Blog Reading and Finding Content in 2024?

Net News Wire

Marginal Revolution, Astral Codex Ten, and others are good are links posts.

vwoolfon Goodix Fingerprint Drivers for Linux (Or at Least Debian)

Thanks for the effort.

vwoolfon Has Europe Already Reached Its Demographic Tipping Point?

We'll know Europeans are serious about demography when they defeat NIMBYism and build housing abundance.

vwoolfon The UK will block online porn from April. Here's what we know

Presumably a whole generation will have to learn how to torrent.

vwoolfon The ID Deadline Will Never Arrive

But security theater will live, inconveniencing us all with its invasive efforts, forever.

vwoolfon Nine writers on their Adderall use and experiences

Modafinil needs to be better represented.

vwoolfon America's Magical Thinking About Housing

It's better for housing to be cheap than expensive.

It's better for landowners to have freedom than restrictions.

vwoolfon The Reddits

I liked it better before the modern Reddit censorship machine.

At least old.reddit.com still works. For now.

vwoolfon Colorado River states draw battle lines over who should bear water cuts

States should charge market rates for water, so that a liter is a liter is a liter regardless of its destination. For example, using 70+% of Arizona's water for agriculture is terrible. https://mapazdashboard.arizona.edu/article/arizonas-water-us...

Prices work. They are an incentive wrapped in a signal.

vwoolfon Boomer NIMBYs vs. Zoomer NIMBYs

Furthermore: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39295239

vwoolfon Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon G12 laptop review: First major refresh in three years

You might not need it but you'll want it.

vwoolfon Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon G12 laptop review: First major refresh in three years

Frustrating that Lenovo do not offer Linux as a default OS choice. I'd think Lenovo want to get out from under the Windows boot themselves but they seem not to be advancing that possibility.

vwoolfon ThinkPad T14 Gen 5 includes SODIMM slots and user-replaceable batteries

Doesn't seem to ship with Linux :(

vwoolfon The ThinkPad T480 Successor: New ThinkPad T14 Gen 5

Feeling the heat from Framework!

Now checking to see if it can ship w/ Linux by default.

edit: The answer appears to be "no." Also, searching Lenovo.com for "T14 gen 5" yields: "2676 Result For ‘t14 gen 5.'" Lenovo should really work on their search functionality.

vwoolfon Ask HN: How can I become like Sherlock Holmes?

Learn how to do cold reads of people and situations.

Cold read enough, and with enough vagueness, and you'll be right enough of the time.

You could also ask: "How can I be like William of Baskerville?"

vwoolfon Sacramento ameliorated the affordable housing crisis by building more housing

https://archive.ph/mGuWv

Rents in Sacramento are falling faster than any other large city in California even as it remains the most popular relocation destination in the country. The median rent is approximately half San Francisco’s. Right now you can find an apartment that is affordable for lower-income people, at least according to the government definition of roughly $1,000 to $1,500 for a one-bedroom, at market rates (it’s true, check Zillow). A prime location studio listed for $1,400 last year is just over $1,100 today.

vwoolfon U.S. to Tackle Anonymity in All-Cash Home Purchases

Freedom isn't free.

The state demands legibility for everything you do. It is for your own good.

vwoolfon AMD Ryzen 5 8500G: A surprisingly fascinating sub-$200 CPU

runs just fine with Ubuntu

Maybe that is the answer?

vwoolfon Tech Hubs Are Losing the Talent War to Everywhere Else

Until "everywhere else" bans non-competes, like California does, California is unlikely to lose its position as the leader site and state for innovation: https://techcrunch.com/2016/02/18/silicon-valley-keeps-winni..., despite California's many policy missteps from housing restrictions to failure to enforce basic law and order.

vwoolfon The end of Windows 10 support could turn 240M PCs into e-waste

The end of Windows 10 could represent an opportunity for low-resource Linux distros, too.

vwoolfon US Army will buy enhanced variant of the Skydio X2 drone

The U.S. and Europe really shouldn't allow DJI sales: DJI is in effect part of the PLA, and they're amortizing military research across worldwide sales.

vwoolfon Blue Origin will livestream its first launch in over a year tomorrow

B.O. seems too little, too late at this point, though I wish them well. Someday, someone is going to write the ultimate book about how they fell so far behind SpaceX.

vwoolfon Why It Took 17 Years to Build 49 Housing Units in Los Angeles

https://archive.ph/3LWD2

Why is housing so expensive in CA??

vwoolfon We Now Need College Courses to Teach Young Adults How to Make Small Talk

https://pastebin.com/ppTnRPKt

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Previously, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37971198

vwoolfon The Era of Total U.S. Submarine Dominance over China Is Ending

https://archive.ph/eYZoK