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I remember a time when people didn't have to be coddled from opinions they don't like. He should have just said nothing.

Funded by taking on debt. Using new debt to pay back old investors. I think there is a name for this strategy?

Are you really making the argument that Zillow is the cause of housing prices going up? They bought 2,373 homes out of 6.5 million sold in 2020... Housing prices went up because of low interest rates (caused by the government).

That falls apart when: 1. You believe abortion is the act of taking someone else's life. 2. You try to dictate other people's speech to acknowledge there are more than 2 genders when the person you are telling doesn't believe it.

Seems weird that you would frame it in a 1 sided way.

Ahh interesting, I assumed since a lot of launch sites are over the ocean and east that it was a requirement.

Can't launch rockets from California. Splitting time between SpaceX and Tesla is a lot harder when its half way across the country.

I think I've seen a similar video in a previous FSD version and the car tries to swerve into the concrete pillar, so I think this person was trying to stress test that same situation, which I guess you can say it improved. I'm assuming this situation had something to do with the pillar again. Who knows though the reroute was really weird.

I've had a similar experience. I was on a low carb diet for over 6 months and then was in a situation where I would drink socially which hadn't been a while because of covid and was just like... When was the last time I drank? I couldn't figure it out. I wonder if it has more to do with how it feels to drink without glycogen stores, to me even a comparably small amount will hit me hard and I'll feel shitty the next day.

I really think this has more to do with giving people the ability to get rid of their physical wallet and therefore more people using apple pay.

Sue Visa and MC for anti-trust and start working on crypto payments immediately.

I don't have much self-discipline, but if I did I would disable notifications and time box a couple hours for sharing things/ replying. I think a lot of the issues are from consumption more than sharing.

That being said I use to have a lot of engagement on my twitter account and I got to the point that posting would give me anxiety because of the possibility of negative replies despite whatever I said being mundane. Also watching others get "exposed" for certain behaviors gave me anxiety as a somewhat popular person in my social network. I wanted the engagement, but after I got it I found out it wasn't what I was expecting/wanted and stopped.

I guess I didn't really have a secret as much as just learned the hard way.

edit: couple hours per week*

I skimmed through deep work and bought digital minimalism, mostly because I had already subscribed to the idea mostly due to the vitriol that has developed on social media, and the constant dopamine hits that come with constant notifications. I've deleted IG, Twitter, and FB with Hacker News and Reddit being my only vices left. I would say that I'm a lot happier.

I'm not sure that we really need to know all the worlds problems at our finger tips and avoiding the most disingenuous of these interactions is healthy, although I'm thinking about deleting reddit for this reason and leaving HN as my only bastion left.

I felt like it was more of a way to see if you are willing to take on a large workload no questions asked when you are hired.

VC firms didn't invest in her because they know how to smell fraud. The other investors didn't and invested in a story line over a product.

It is an issue if those forums are echo chambers blinding people to the outside world or opposing viewpoints.

After minimum wage was increased in 2009 there has been a decrease in the amount of people that make minimum wage every year. I'm assuming this is due to COL increases. A lot of the people making it at this point are probably being supported by their family.

https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/minimum-wage/2017/home.htm#....

The US healthcare system is a mess in the US because the government pays for a lot incentivizing companies to raise prices.

I believe the goal is to have a launch tower catch falcon 9 rockets, then take a starship, rotate it around the tower 180 degrees and put it on top of the rocket that just landed to refuel and launch again.

edit: super heavy not falcon 9 here is the youtube video I was remembering https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdU9RzlHm-o

Having spent so much money creating billion dollar campuses has them in a sunk cost fallacy IMO.

Tech has been a huge deflationary pressure since the 90s. I believe that heavy regulation in this space can cause a scary amount of inflation given the monetary policy that was used to combat this deflation.

Thank you for sharing, I think what I'm also worried about is lack of sharing, for example the black squares on instagram. I was called out for not posting one (I had 1 picture on IG from 3 years ago). Although I imagine that wouldn't have happened had I deleted IG prior. I just can see "I don't fully understand" when asked about something will become willful ignorance to people that deem the context unavoidable.

I recently deleted a lot of social media accounts. My concerns are any accounts I created for important things using social media accounts, and losing track of what behavior is publicly acceptable in the ever changing Overton window. I feel like the benefits to productivity and mental health will exceed those concerns greatly though.

replitsuperiority would be a good one too.

People are absolutely shocked when I tell them what China reports as their numbers for testing and cases.

People with more robust immune systems (young people often) experience higher side effects from vaccination.

To me I read it as a physical representation of what is going on online. People assuming other peoples beliefs based on if they are wearing a mask. The striation would be people's biases towards people wearing mask and not wearing mask. Despite the actual health risk now/ in the future.

So what is an appropriate amount of cases to go back to normal?

"What do you do for a living?" I dunk on people for tips on twitter.