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hhmc··on Swedish composer becomes Spotify's most-famous musician you've never heard of
Why is this conspiratorial? It’s simply a theory, no?
hhmc··on Waffle House's Magic Marker System
Not in the UK (passthrough sugar tax)
hhmc··on Japan's airport control towers stop using 'No.1' instruction for plane takeoffs
sometimes also 'niner' instead of 'nine' for similar reasons.
hhmc··on Sigil II, a Doom WAD from J.Romero, has been released
What happened?
hhmc··on Trading bot that buys stocks bought by politicians is up 20% since May 2022
3 years is plenty if the sharpe is high enough (it probably isn’t, but GP’s comment about volatility of returns is important here)
hhmc··on Reflections on quitting my job
I'm with you, incredibly vapid content
hhmc··on Detroit wants to be the first big American city to tax land value
> difficulty in valuing the land

This seems by _far_ the biggest difficulty, and I find it strange that this rarely comes up in LVT discussions. Even for nominally 'liquid' land it's not clear who values it or how.

hhmc··on NSA, FBI, and CISA Release Cybersecurity Information Sheet on Deepfake Threats
What's the solution? A powerful enough regulatory framework to fine (or otherwise punish) proven misinformation?

Even then it's probably hard to prove that insufficient checking was performed at publication time

hhmc··on Ask HN: What benefits are important to you when choosing a job?
I've seen (rarely) unlimited with enforced minimum, which fixes the worst problems
hhmc··on 5 years ago Valve released Proton
Got it, my misunderstanding!
hhmc··on 5 years ago Valve released Proton
FWIW many game developers would genuinely rather you pirate the game than buy keys on the ‘grey market’ sites. If you’re not going to pay anyone who deserves it, you might as well just not pay anyone..
hhmc··on Releasing an indie game on 3 consoles at once and failing financially (2016)
> that ignored the studio sensibilities

I mean, it's strongly 'inspired' by dwarf fortress, so any heterodox design credit mostly belongs there

hhmc··on Louis Rossmann calls community to leave Reddit
Aomngst all the dicsussion of reddit's flawed business model, I haven't seen much conjecture into how they _should have done it_. Clearly they need to make money at some point -- I'm curious if they ever had a route to do this that wouldn't alienate their userbase?
hhmc··on The Guardian bans all gambling advertising
Its right wing broadsheet counterpart -- the telegraph - just filed for bankruptcy. So I don't think there's any counterfactual to support your 'arugment'.
hhmc··on Always the same warning signs
Perhaps he’s buying deep out of the money puts instead of actually shorting
hhmc··on Killing Community
What prejudices would these be?
hhmc··on Killing Community
How? If I said that I think >99% of people have 2 arms, a photo of a one armed man doesn't refute it.
hhmc··on Killing Community
one photo isn't data
hhmc··on Why are lithium prices collapsing?
If your claim is that 'finance bros' (perhaps let's call them commodity traders) don't consider anything about the fundamentals of the underlying, then you simply have no meaningful understand of trading.
hhmc··on On a great interview question
Similarly you can precompute a dictionary for the Cartesian product of the dictionary with itself, then lookup into that.

Big in space but O(1) (wrt word len at least)

hhmc··on UK Treasury trying to find a Head of Cyber Security for £55k
Not the part of the mortgage that's accumulated interest -- which is going to be considerable at current rates.
hhmc··on UK Treasury trying to find a Head of Cyber Security for £55k
You are gated from almost nothing in London on £140K -- the only meaningful exception would be buying a house in a central location
hhmc··on Generative AI set to affect 300M jobs across major economies
This is a great comment, and the examples are compelling for the 3 quadrants you mentioned.

But what about jobs with intrinsic ability required but not a lot of training -- I think something like bouncer/doorman might be an example of this -- but what would the white collar equivalent be? How automatable would those be?

hhmc··on TikTok banned on EU executive staff devices
Is whatsapp meaningfully different than, say, imessage in this context?
hhmc··on Time to get the Posix elephant off our necks?
Even if neovim never gathers critical mass, it must be considered a success purely for how much of a fire it has lit under vim development.
hhmc··on 1min high-intensity exercise 3x a week improves fitness as much as 3x aerobics (2016)
Change, but not materially, maybe 5% or something that doesn't really move the needle like the claim of 500 calories.
hhmc··on 1min high-intensity exercise 3x a week improves fitness as much as 3x aerobics (2016)
It's 'basal metabolic rate' not 'base', and it's not going to change materially over a year, even with a shift to inactivity.
hhmc··on Twitter TOS Change
How is a downloadable gui at all comparable?
hhmc··on Less gym time, same results: Why ‘lowering’ weights is all you need to do
> When you attempt a 250 lb squat and your body shuts down and just collapses under the weight you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

This is one of those glib statements that sounds reasonable, but is clearly meaningless on any real thought. It’s like saying you can’t understand high energy physics without personally being collided with a particle at 3 TeV.

hhmc··on Less gym time, same results: Why ‘lowering’ weights is all you need to do
You're just presupposing the researchers don't know anything about strength training, any basis for that other than some lazy guess?
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