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I know this is a developer, so they're never going to suggest anything except number go up, but if the cost to buy is going up faster than the cost to rent, that suggests a distortion in the market that is not entirely about housing supply. Which means, number may go down. We have seen this movie before.

"More than 30 meters long, it filled a 9 m by 15 m room and weighed about 30 kilograms."

It was a balloon?

>For profit organizations are legally required to maximize shareholder value.

No:

https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/16/what-are-co...

I suppose responding with 'AI;DR' would seem rude?

Just change his title to Secretary of War Crimes.

If I described my symptoms to an AI and it suggested a diagnosis, I would defintely get a second opinion.

CBS/Viacom was trying to unload Simon & Schuster. PenguinRandomHouse wanted to buy, but it ended up selling to a private equity company. A rare instance where that was actually the better option.

I was part of the NY sf publishing scene in 1990s. In those days the genre felt like a constraining box. The commercial successes of the 1970s and 80s, and the corporatization of publishing in general, meant that there were limits, in literary and conceptual ways. It's funny that he mentions Jonathan Lethem--I saw Jonathan a lot in those days. How to break out of genre was a frequent topic of conversation. It really seemed the only way up was out.

I worked in NY publishing in the 1990s and also did some small press stuff, and even then the 'death of the midlist' was already an old topic. And yeah, consolidation had someting to do with it: publishers were owned by bigger businesses that saw them as black boxes to extract value from. Distribution was changing: the big 'superstores' and Amazon/online sales starting to be a thing. Mass-market was getting crushed. Obviously, not everything that got published was a bestseller, or even expected to be, but authors couldn't get the same space to grow a career. If it didn't work, they'd be cut.

Now I'm a production editor for a uni press. For a while, it seemed to be a bit of a haven from the madness, but it's coming for us now too.

When you are MC Hammer, everything is an MC nail.

Instances often block users or other instances because their users have asked them to do that. They often have posted guidelines about what they will or won't allow. Users will hold them to it. Users can and do block other users on an individual basis. If a lot of people are blocking you, the problem might not be them.

Dwindling number. But maybe? I mean, they're already investing at a level that's completely disconnected from actual results, based on magical thinking and hopium. Just take another hit.

One factor that the author glosses over a bit is that highest swipe fees are for credit cards with benefits. The interbank system he describes is a debit system, no credit is being extended. Even in the US, debit swipe fees tend to be less.

And then crash.

You may need a unique identifier. You may use the isbn if you like. No one will stop you from doing that. But no isbn-issuing entity has applied an isbn to that file.

>if archive.org scans in a hardback with its ISBN, what do I use for the scanned pdf?

The scanned pdf just doesn't have an ISBN. ISBNs are assigned by publishers to products for inventory management. That's it. If archive.org scans a book, it's not a product that needs inventory control.

What, and do seperate commits and merges for every comma and dangling modifier? That makes no sense. In addition, there needs to be comments and queries.

Version control is not editing.

Is there a way to do the equivalent of Word's 'track changes' feature in Vim/Neovim? As an editor who reviews manuscripts in Word, I want to be able to make edits, have the author review/approve them, then clean up the result into a file that goes to the typesetter. If I could do that, then a plugin like this becomes potentially more useful to our workflow.

There are no good options for grandma these days. I've been helping my 85-yr-old mother with her computer stuff (she has an iMac) and there's so much user-hostile, broken stuff--not just on the Mac itself, but many of the internet-based services she has to use--it makes you want to take a baseball bat to the while affair.

>the most revolutionary technology in 100 years

That remains to be seen.

And the job is to make city services work better for residents. It is far from clear that current Ai tech will make that happen.

>Notably absent on resume and in the news article is proficiency in AI or machine learning,

You say that like it's a bad thing.

Long ago I was working for a programmer writing an accounting system for a client (I wrote the user docs). The machine we were replacing was an old NCR plug-board system. Programmed by wires plugged into holes on a board. One person left at the client knew how the machine worked. No one knew how the programming worked. If the wires fell out of the holes it could not be put back together again. At one time someone knew that, but the knowledge was lost. This is the system we are building again today.

He ran a sex-trafficking ring that involved hundreds of girls and women. Possibly over a thousand. He wasn't keeping it all to himself.

Note that one of the authors received funding from Big Walnut.

This suggests that there are online ads that are not scams. Who knew?

Cheaper than paying staff, I guess.

This was pretty much inevitable. The real death-blow was the collapse of the independent distributors. The effect of centralized buying and distribution was fewer slots for 'midlist' books and more slots for lead titles, so for most books, it was harder to push out enough copies to actually make any money. Print runs declined and unit costs rose. It was easier to sell trade paperbacks in traditional bookstores, then ebooks came and ate the bottom of the market.

But they made exactly the same arguments against it, and it was bullshit.

Mass. passed a high-income surtax a few years ago, with the result that we raied a lot of funds for schools & infrastructure, and we atill have plenty of rich people. Wealthy people hate paying taxes, but after paying, they're still pretty wealthy. And, some of them like living in a state with decent schools, health care, etc.

https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/11/17/do-millionai...