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Nothing stops someone from selling a 3 million dollar Cupertino home and buying a $300,000 home someplace else. So it’s a bit disingenuous to say that person is “homeless”. They’d have a different home and a pile of cash.

That’s a deq

It’s simply false that positive sum doesn’t exist the real world. Even the most simplistic trade argument in remedial Econ 101, or even Bio 101 reveals this.

What’s rare are zero-sum games.

Well then, there's even less reason to pay the rent Stack Overflow was wanting.

Your answers are already sold for profit again and again. That's the whole point of SO existing, or maybe you under some delusion that SO is a charity?

OpenAI shouldn't have paid a license. Just scrape the content. It's fair use.

Now they paid the shakedown fee, and Stack Overflow has user riot on their hands, albeit one that's trivial to shutdown. Send OpenAI the db backup.

A better question is why should it be pay to win?

> Arc is also built on top of Chromium, so websites just work

sigh Fucking monoculture. Fucking propaganda against open standard compliance.

As someone who has repeatedly had to deal with Unicode nonsense; I wholeheartedly agree. Also, you don’t need accents. You just need to know how to read and have context. See: live and live, read and read, etc.

Temu.

But seriously, there are plenty of ads that are based on geo located IP. Then of course there’s the cookie (and cookie replacement) ads.

Complaining about site content is pretty bogus.

If I had my way I’d create a unicameral legislature with a combination of multimember districts and at-large party list seats in the vein of Germany’s Bundestag.

On a slightly more reasonable note, I’d be happy with just eliminating all state senates nationwide, similar to Nebraska.

Bicameralism is bullshit

Cupertino is being sued for violating state law for not rezoning for housing. In fact, Cupertino spent funds allocated for affordable housing on lawyers to fight against affordable housing.

Thank Scott Weiner for the builder’s remedy.

https://sanjosespotlight.com/cupertino-spent-affordable-hous...

I loved Red Meat. I didn’t know it still existed, but I do have three of the books.

I also have the complete Jim’s Journal, but alas I never got a t-shirt. “I went to class even though I didn’t real want to” was my favorite

You’re fundamentally misunderstanding what is going on. There are a majority number of votes to support popular legislation. These bills are simply not brought to a vote BY THE MAJORITY PARTY due to internal majority party politics.

Nothing in your facile proposal would remedy this. What would fix the problem would be change to the rules so that simple majority could bring legislation to a vote. This does not exist in any functional way.

And we haven’t even touched on the fact that the majority of seats are often controlled by a minority of voters due to gerrymandering and the constitutional structure of the senate.

You may not realize it, but this is exactly how it works in the House of Representatives today, and is the exact cause of dysfunction.

In case you are unaware, but congress has been DEEPLY dysfunctional for the past 30 years, and has been getting worse every session. Even this week it was shocking news that a bipartisan bill managed to even come to a vote.

This is what happens when the party that doesn't have the White House chooses obstruction and enforces the the Hastert Rule.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hastert_rule

I still like Nirvana, and think they defined a moment, but let’s be honest here. Dave Grohl has had a longer career with Foo Fighters, and Cobain hasn’t put out new stuff since 1994.

I’m not really interested in reliving that time.

You’ve discovered the Pareto Principle. It’s true about literally everything.

As a middle aged guy, I've used TikTok to find new music.

Spotify recommendations are kind of crap after a bit. It's a fundamental problem with similarity based recommendations and people getting stagnant. I don't want to listen to the greatest bands of the 90s and 00s. I want to listen to new bands that were influenced by those bands.

They turn stuff off. It's not a secret. The vast majority of the sensors are off. They're simply not needed in interstellar space.

Allegro has an amazing UI and debugger. Like seriously, every alternative is janky experience that should be embarrassed to exist.

> For what it's worth, there's also more nuance to the word "democracy" than you seem to be presenting here. At the time of the founding, it basically meant "rule by popular vote", and was pretty much a synonym for "mob rule". A large part of the US system was explicitly designed to work around the shortcomings of direct democracy.

But even this is a misunderstanding of the terms as even (mis)understood in 18th century. Representative (i.e. indirect) democracy doesn't inherently provide any defense of the minority. It's literally just a scaling solution. Nor does the constitution as drafted provide any protections to a minority. In fact, this lack of protections was one of the biggest arguments against ratification, and directly resulted in the Bill of Rights to address some of these issues. Even judicial review of unconstitutional laws didn't exist until 1803, and arguably is extra textual.

What's left is split a legislative and executive, a legislature that is a poor copy of the House of Lords and the House of Commons, and an idiosyncratic points system that 248 years later has not only yielded three unpopular presidents, but elevates whims of a few voters in depopulated states. None of that protects a minority from an abusive majority, nor does it make an affirmative case about why the majority rule should not apply. Far from protecting the minority, electoral college actually enables minority rule. The same can be demonstrated with gerrymandering and legislative seats. A real concern for minority representation balanced with majority rule would address these obvious failures, but it doesn't.

Even the Wish.com House of Lords is joke as originally conceived, since it empowered state legislatures rather than the people of the state. It's a very concept that is an opposition to the very idea of a common nation, but not alien to the idea of a confederation. Now this may have made sense in a 18th century drawing room, but hasn't made sense over 160 years. They thought they were making a European Union, but that's not what developed.

The American constitution may have been great 250 years ago, but it's not by any modern standard today.

Luxo Jr got jacked.

No. There’s a term for what you’re describing. It’s called, “liberal democracy.”

The whole “We’re a republic not a democracy,” lie isn’t about that at all. It dates to only WWII. Specifically, it was coined by America First’s Boake Carter as quip in response to Roosevelt’s talk about “the defense of democracies” and “the arsenal of democracy” while arguing that it was perfectly fine for the nazis to run wild in Europe. This phrase continued on with John Birch Society, where it morphed into its sophomoric partisan quip and excuse for unpopular minority rule it is today.

When anyone utters this phrase today, it’s a tell that they literally have no idea what any of the words they say actually mean.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/27/opinion/aoc-crenshaw-repu...

Hell, I remember a proposal to encourage that during the GWB administration for “terrorism”. I wish I could find it, but Google is incapable of returning anything from before 2023 any more.

You're thinking it's about money. It's not. It's about vibes.

And that's why Musk is mad.

Man, I swear media literacy is trash anymore.

Because it’s not about being a shareholder. It’s about trying hurt Dorsey’s pride. “Watch me destroy your greatest achievement!” Musk is trying to damnatio memoriae.

That is assuming Muskbis doing this purposely.

One time I phone screened a blind engineer. I had no idea he was blind at the time. He did the coding exercise with no problems, and I forwarded him to the onsite. The only thing that was unusual, was that all his code was flush left. It was perfectly fine code, just formatted oddly. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Nothing autoformat couldn’t fix.

When someone else interviewed him at the onsite and saw my comment in the packet, they told me. We guessed it was some artifact of using a braille display or something.

If anyone is familiar with this technology, I’d be curious to know if my hypothesis is correct.

The topic was the IDF’s policies of targeting homes and setting a quota of civilians that are acceptable to kill. Please don’t try to derail the conversation with whataboutism.