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drbeast··on Late Hokusai: Thought, technique, society
Hahaha this. I remember watching a video where an art critic tries to explain this work without saying "it's early erotica". Was it sister Wendy Beckett? Drawing a blank, this was in middle school art history class.
drbeast··on Yes, a branch of the Army Corps of Engineers did make a cat calendar
Bloody hell I love it. You're never going to forget how to clean a gun now.
drbeast··on Fewer than 40% of New Yorkers earn a living wage
Wrong again bucko. See what the great frozen north did for foreign real estate investors https://www.npr.org/2023/01/07/1147678857/a-new-two-year-ban....
drbeast··on Fewer than 40% of New Yorkers earn a living wage
This is bolshevism. https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-remote-work-is-killi... There are plenty of empty sky scrapers in midtown NYC. Want to know why they aren't turning them into apartments? > Building codes I'm sorry but if we want affordable housing then it's time to accept that some apartments won't have windows.
drbeast··on Ask HN: How to best take advantage of the coming recession?
Yes OXSQ is a BDR firm I like. IEP is Carl Icahn's conglomerate that yields 15%.

https://www.marketbeat.com/dividends/high-yield/

Anything less than 20% is what you're looking for. If you expand to foreign markets like the UK, they're entire stock market is set up to prefer dividend payments over share price.

I avoid miners and commodity stocks like rio tinto though I did time the commodity boom correctly to get their fat dividend they had not that long ago.

drbeast··on Ask HN: How to best take advantage of the coming recession?
When everyone is expecting a recession, one does not come.

Expecting higher inflation and flat to slightly reduced growth (aka stagflation). Find dividend paying stocks that actually keep up with inflation (10-20%). They exist and have track records of maintaining this pay out, you just need to find them.

drbeast··on A college student made an app to detect AI-written text
Ah yes, one of those jack offs who disregard arguments because of a phone posting auto correct.

Do us a favor and get the COVID vaccines. They're safe and effective!

drbeast··on Show HN: I gained 50k users for my app with NO marketing
> Would love some overall feedback!

Yeah why don't you explain the app in more detail because that link throws a 404m

drbeast··on Fewer than 40% of New Yorkers earn a living wage
Maybe, just maybe instead of liveable wages we should be asking why the hell are our fixed costs so high? How about instead of jacking up wages, we lower the costs that make those untenable wages tenable. Start b eliminating real estate investors and forcing landlords OUT of residential real estate entirely. Gasp I know, denying monopoly cash to the parasite class.
drbeast··on A college student made an app to detect AI-written text
Ok, so I'll have chatgpt write my 15 page research paper with citations. I'll then spend 1.5 hours rewriting and proofing it as opposed to the multiday researching, outlining, and writing I used to have to do.

And with all of that extra time, I'll study for your "exams".

Just replace chatgpt with Wikipedia, did this for 4 years of uni and another 2 at an ivy n school. No one was the wiser and now I have a cushy MBB job to show for it.

drbeast··on A college student made an app to detect AI-written text
Look at Paris Hilton. Do you think she cares about subjects she doesn't know whilenshe gets chauffered around on her rolls Royce, eating meals made by a personal chef, in her Beverly hills home?

The answer is no. A life of material richness vs being poor and highly educated. Ask a postdoc this question and I bet the majority would take lifetime wealth to having to slave away in a lab.

drbeast··on A college student made an app to detect AI-written text
I went through college using Wikipedia to not only make my outline but also provide citations. I'd then rewrite the articles in my own word. This greatly reduced the amount of preparation needed prior to writing. No shame, the majority of research papers done in unis are silly and regurgitation. Really technology is just getting good at eliminating busy work which will be the death kneel of liberal arts. Double rant: college is largely a waste of time for liberal arts classes.
drbeast··on The first time I'm aware that Meta is taking back signed, FTE offers
At work so no.
drbeast··on England just made gigabit internet a legal requirement for new homes
Wonderful, let's make new homes even more expensive! And to those who are downvoting this, every building code requirement like this jacks up the price further. Not everyone is a SWE with a TC of $250k+ you over privileged ninnies.
drbeast··on Ancient Apocalypse reviewed
Sounds like I triggered an academic. Do us a favor and get the COVID vaccines. It's "safe and effective" like running untested code directly on production.
drbeast··on Ancient Apocalypse reviewed
Honestly, anything that makes ivory tower alphabet soup credentialed academics seethe is a good thing.

I'll make sure to add this one to my watch list.

drbeast··on Why didn’t we get the four-hour workday?
I'll have to look this one up. Thanks mate#
drbeast··on Why didn’t we get the four-hour workday?
Get over yourself. We have 7 days because the ancients attached the 7 classical planets to the days. Not rocket science.
drbeast··on Why didn’t we get the four-hour workday?
Because 4 hour work days aren't tenable. Here's a novel concept Why do we have 7 day weeks?

Why don't we have a 6 day week with a 2 day weekend? That way we get the benefit of 4 working days, we can standardized the calendar to not have this 31, 28 day nonsense (30 days only), and more importantly working day lengths stay the same. We just get to the weekend faster.

I propose the day to be deleted be Saturday because Saturn's mythology is a righteous c*nt.

Here's a calendar of what a 6 day week would look like https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/calendars/images/9/93/Cale...

drbeast··on How transportation technologies shaped empires
RTFA and not write commentary off the cuff?

Hahahahahahahaha! You're funny, if not naive.

drbeast··on How transportation technologies shaped empires
Ghengis Khan, Queen Victoria, and Alexander the Great have entered the chat.
drbeast··on Calculus they won't teach you [video]
I can't. Promptly forgot it all which is why I will never bother to go get a graduate degree.
drbeast··on Netscape 1.0 Browser Emulator
Stop, I just read a random post from 1999 and seeing this makes me want to go back.
drbeast··on I Disapprove of What You Say, but Will Defend Your Right to Say It (2015)
Sad that this is from 2015.
drbeast··on A newspaper vanished from the internet. Did someone pay to kill it?
If anyone bothers to RTFA, there's a blurb in there about the 2004 UVA rape case and a hint that a former victim of the false accusation (now an investment banker) bought the archive, DMCA'd links to the archive, and then took it all down. Dare I say, dangerously based.
drbeast··on The political orientation of the ChatGPT AI system
If I recall anything from days of Tay, every chat AI is a few messages away from right wing death squads and genocide.
drbeast··on A collection of 88x31 pixel web buttons from the 1990s and 2000s
Dangerously based. Should start a web 3.0 design trend where we bring this all back and make big tech ux designers cringe.
drbeast··on A collection of 88x31 pixel web buttons from the 1990s and 2000s
My father still has and uses a juno email account. It bothers me immensely. I know another guy who still has an active aol email too. Lgr did a video where he signed onto the old aol walled gardian browser homepage before it was killed off.

I ... Want to go back guys.

drbeast··on Habits of Highly Overrated People (2013)
Well, that's actually me. I do a lot of stuff on this list. No shame, I'm in upper management.
drbeast··on The Rise of the Non-Working Class
The "disabled" metric is a joke. A lot of NEETs aren't really disabled and are gaming the system with fake diagnoses and are outright lying.

There's a whole class of these guys who have basically retired on the state dime and use MGTOW tropes like blaming women, the work force, home ownership, etc to justify their laziness.

I used to be sympathetic but when you meet these guys, they're basically a "big rock candy mountain" hobos and have a myriad of personal problems they refuse to fix since the state freebies make it possible to live this way.

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