mathiaspoint

A lot of people think of insurance like a savings account rather than something like a sequence of options being rolled over so when they experience the reality of what they've been spending money on they tend to get very upset.

That sounds about right. Playing games with this needs to be frightening or you'll have people abusing it which is not only bad for innocent people who are accused but also discredits legitimate complaints. It's impractical for everyone to "believe all women" if half of them are lying for sport.

Maybe unmarried people of opposite sexes just need to not be alone together and if they violate that rule they give up their right to seek any kind of "justice." There might be no peaceful alternative to that.

The more you worry about that and force people to do things they don't want to the more everyone pulls away from public socialization and the less there is for desperate people in general.

Quit trying to micromanage the public.

Just let people do what they want. If they want to pay premia for free association let them and if you think they're abusing it, hey that's arbitrage (ie free money) for you to take from them.

The advantage to capitalism is the escape hatch not the cybernetics.

Right they'll still have a persistent session that accumulates data for them. Just without the ability to persistent settings, subscriptions etc.

I always buy a domain well after I've finished the MVP and have been using it myself for months. Am I doing it wrong?

Why are we involved at all makes much more sense to ask and I think will lead people to the criminals faster.

Often it's either overblown or outright wrong and just used by wealthy people to manipulate the public. I think protecting the environment is very important but most political environmental movements are doing something else.

I'm generally against the environmental movements and I think part of the problem is that the utility markets aren't elastic enough (or at all) to appropriately charge these companies for what they're doing.

But the huge amount of fresh water going to waste for cooling makes me very uncomfortable. In an ideal world it really should go the other way where the heat from the DC is used to desalinate salt water.

Yeah it goes both ways too. As they say it's the thought that counts.

They probably won't for much longer.

It was never about the rocks. Like nearly everything else in the economy it's really about attention.

What is ofcom going to do? Extradite Wkimedia employees?

The most they could realistically do is ban them from recursive resolvers. Maybe they could force ISPs to block routes to their ASN if they have their own and aren't using someone else's CDN.

What a dumb idea.

If you're willing to be fiscally conservative, go to a cheaper location, and continue working on side projects you don't need the payout at all.

The question everyone seems to be asking is "is the payout worth spending the first ten years of your career in the West Coast startup scene." Ten years is quite a lot of time to spend somewhere you don't actually want to live.

Technically everything that isn't a public company (ie tradable on the stock market) is private equity although I think you're complaint is about private equity rollups.

No. But I think I'll be much more relaxed after being laid off.

People were much more worried about teen pregnancy. I suppose they were successful in their campaign.

I was (at least up until the other week) extremely pro MAGA and did not like Patel.

Serious organizational disfunction is a good way to describe most large tech companies.

I like Richard Stillman's word for Trump: "the wrecker." It perfectly captures the disagreement here.

I disagree. Most articles on the web are very shallow and kind of tend to terminate searches for more knowledge while LLMs are fantastic at pointing you to more nuance on subjects you're unfamiliar with if you know how to ask them.

That heatmap idea sounds really neat actually.

I'd argue chatbots give zero actual attention since they're not human (other than in the irrelevant technical sense.) Saying they can is a bit like saying a character in a book or an imaginary friend can.

It will probably take a few years for the general public to fully appreciate what that means.

That's a result of secular growth in female participation. If you remove that it's almost monotonically declining.

Modern phone hardware is incredible. Often the most powerful computer people own these days is their smartphone because it's so good.

And I ran my phone with unit scaling. You don't need everything blown up to 400% especially with keyboard driven UIs.

Programming on a phone is actually pretty amazing if you can run a good overlapping window manager and an OS that won't randomly kill background tasks. I had a phone running Linux for a while and it was great I wrote a ton of unit tests for my side projects on it while taking the train. One time I was out and ran into some UI issue and fixed it right there on the bus. There's nothing like that now and everything that's available is so bad no one even understands what they're missing.

I'm surprised they do 911 at all. My Canadian VoIP provider doesn't do it and my understanding is that it's relatively difficult to do.

Go look at the labor participation chart. It's bad enough people are giving up.