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The conclusion you should draw from this is therefore "GDP is a shit metric for measuring anything and even worse as a target".

In what sense are movies a "luxury market" and in what sense have they not been "commoditised" (as per your definition) for 100 years...? Seriously, your answer to a conversation about an economy that squeezes the middle-class and serves more and more the ultra-wealthy is "but netflix"? Uninteresting conversation.

It's silly to say that "Europe" has substantially different working hours for the majority of the population, compared to the US. Grindset hustle sigma influencers are an outlier of course.

One would think that self-proclaimed "conservatives" would like to conserve the natural world... Long gone are the days of Teddy Roosevelt that's for sure.

Nuclear reactors are a notoriously clean and safe method of electricity generation.

In other words: everything to do with economics is worse and everything to do with the inexorable march of progress is better. Yeah sorry but no shit. Technology has progressed since grandpa's day.

"TVs are better and cheaper" is not a useful counterpoint when discussing the economy of the 2020s.

Never get high on your own supply, says the dope peddler.

What do you mean snap feature? Can you explain?

On a casino? Play good poker and go for a low rake. Playing the house is always negative EV, by definition.

Thanks for your thoughts, but how is this is anyway relevant to the issue at hand? I'm sad that this is the top comment...

Rare or not, destroying books is in itself a morally repugnant act. I don't know man, it's not so long ago we used to view nazi book burnings as an archetype of evil. Today companies are offering book-burning-as-a-service and it hardly causes a stir.

Bearded German man was right.

> Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. Consequently, whoever rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves. For rulers hold no terror for those who do right, but for those who do wrong. Do you want to be free from fear of the one in authority? Then do what is right and you will be commended. For the one in authority is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for rulers do not bear the sword for no reason. They are God’s servants, agents of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer. Therefore, it is necessary to submit to the authorities, not only because of possible punishment but also as a matter of conscience.

Romans 13. Is it any surprise that such a religion has consistently, throughout the centuries, been on the side of the rich and powerful, of the lords and emperors, the reactionaries of all stripes?

Yes, I'm very annoyed that I cannot look at historical data (even from the past couple of days) in weather websites!

Jesus, what a bizarrely aggressive response.

I'm shocked, astonished even, that enterprises on which trillions of dollars are being poured would consider cheating on marketing benchmarks.

The first "scenario" starts with this description

> By 2026, when a human with a customer service inquiry has to deal with another human instead of a robot, they get upset and ask to speak to a machine instead.

It's genuinely astonishing how out of touch some people are!

> there has never been something so powerful it's kept me up past 3 AM every single night working beyond every fiber of my body telling me to sleep. I feel empowered as if I command an army. And there are millions of us

Yelling "slop" at a clothes-folding robot is stupid, but reading this kind of shit makes me want to embody Ted Kaczynszky and go live in the woods.

Yeah, an AI generated blogpost telling me about human emotion...

I actually fucking do this, and have done for a year or two. Sad state of affairs.

No need for that even. Just git reflog and rewind back to any spot your want!

Exactly! The most interesting arguments for Rust that I've ever read have come not from people who hate C++, but precisely from people who are really into C++, because those are the people who actually recognise its shortcomings are are better positioned to give INSIGHTFUL criticism into it.

People who are motivated by a superiority complex or by the wish to impress a herd of twitter followers hardly if ever produce a thought I want to read.

Indeed. LLMs produce truly atrocious code, unmaintainable and unreliable. If you're vibecoding a toy to amuse yourself or something similar low-stakes, that's perfectly fine! For higher-stakes code, it's definitely not.

> Casey Muratori and Jon Blow have pushed this concept frequently

Ah... The school of what I like to call "maximum opinions and minimal evidence". Aggressive arrogant dismissal of anything except their exact view (and for Muratori, you're also "woke" for good measure), coupled with a complete lack of _hard evidence_ to back up their views. In that regard, they're not unlike "investment advice" instagram influencers.

> you should be celebrating what Elon and his companies have achieved

The level of servility of some people never ceases to amaze me. This sentence is viscerally repulsive to me.

You're not the only one: "Beyond the limit: Satellites and mirrors in space pose threat to the night sky" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48787042

Make a "reverse vote" to reject passing a law = abstentions mean you don't reject passing the law = abstentions mean you support passing the law

This comment makes no sense. For one, "you need the absolute best performance and you decide to drop to down to C++", no, C++ and Rust are virtually equivalent in that they pretty much expose the underlying machine fully; if anything Rust makes it easier to write idiomatic performant code.

For two, there are plenty of reasons to use C++ unfortunately: compatibility with existing code based and availability of developers to name two.

Static guarantees are better than stochastic parrots. A static linger beats telling Claude "check this idiom". Etc etc.

There's a Hyundai car whose name literally means "pussy" in Portuguese and Galician x) It's marketed as something else in those territories.

Cars sold for the past years already record and transmit all your movements and telemetry, I'm sad to say.