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nerddadnear40on The death of a public intellectual

Peterson seems strongly influenced by Jonathan and Matthieu Pageau who are doing quite a job at restoring meaning to the western world, linking rational and irrational thinking into a kind of universal theory with mathematical notations across verticals. It's really mind-blowing and imho, Matthieu Pageau is one of the greatest intellectuals of our time and he remains quite isolated and hidden. His content is infrequent, freshly brilliant, and challenging for those curious to learn it.

nerddadnear40on Pythagorean Theorem found on clay tablet 1k years older than Pythagoras (2009)

Always has been. My favorite example:

George Boole (Who we get Boolean from), had a road to Damascus experience as a teenager and later wrote "An Investigation of the Laws of Thought" where we get our 0s and 1s from, and truth operations, largely to prove God is Good.

The concept of 0 and 1, absolute truth and false, was born from his spiritual views.

nerddadnear40on Where have all the laid-off tech workers gone?

"be slavishly devoted to maximizing profit margin at all costs"

Bingo.

nerddadnear40on 75% of the Most Played Games on Steam Are Playable on the Steam Deck

I play a lot of solo adventure games from yesteryear that I just didn't have time nor the opportunities before acquiring the Deck. With kids in the house, this little device is great!

Adventure/RPG/Story Games: Tomb Rader 2013 Trilogy (TR, Rise, Shadow), Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order; SOMA, RiME (both haunt me to this day, highly recommended), Skyrim/Oblivion, Assassins Creed 1-3, Black Flag

Racing: Grip Combat Racing, Redout

Shooters: Halo MCC, Bioshock 1-Infinity

Other: Rocket League, Minecraft - Java with shaders! With a LOT of tweaking, it's possible to add Minecraft Java as a shortcut and pre-load it with shaders and mods. It looks incredible and can easily handle 7-12 chunks at 60 fps with shaders depending the settings.

nerddadnear40on UK: Food inflation rises to 18.2% as it hits highest rate in over 45 years

Complex issues have complex causes. A scapegoat is a convenient way to dismiss discourse but it's not very useful.

nerddadnear40on 95% of Bay Area Cities Lost Zoning Authority

Old man yells at cloud. I can relate to that. :)

nerddadnear40on 95% of Bay Area Cities Lost Zoning Authority

"Los Altos Hills, California is one of the wealthiest communities in the world, home to Silicon Valley’s upper echelons of technology billionaires and millionaires such as the founder of Google and its current CEO. The non-diverse town boasts a median household income north of $400,000. Its zoning prohibits multifamily housing, whether apartments, townhomes or condos, along with commercial stores and shops in the entirety of its city limits."

This kind of hypocrisy where CEOs look down from the stratosphere on the common rabble yet have their corporations espouse a kind of elitist morality about diversity, equity, and inclusion is dumbfounding and disgusting.

https://about.google/belonging/

nerddadnear40on US housing market posts $2.3T drop, biggest since 2008

One little anecdote, many HUD loans are coming to the end of COVID government-sponsored CARES act forbearance periods and some of those may be eligible for 40 year refinance options, both extending the terms of mortgages and lowering monthly payment amounts.

I have no idea the volume here, but I'd venture to guess it's substantial, partly why inflation has been so bad, and may lend it's hand to a soft landing and not a dive off a cliff. But just my humble two cents.

https://www.hud.gov/press/press_releases_media_advisories/hu...

https://www.hud.gov/sites/dfiles/SFH/documents/IACOVID19FB_F...

nerddadnear40on Ask HN: How do you find stuff on the internet now?

Welp, time to short Google in the long run.

For whatever topic I'm interested in, I'll search reddit to find where the hardcore fanbase is. For example, if I'm interested in flashlights, that would be candlepower forums.

The echo chambers have grown to substantial epicenters now. Give me a search engine that finds those and puts search in it and I'd pay $5 a month for that because at that point, you've found the expert and active community and looking at cutting edge knowledge bases. I suppose it's what the academic and scientific communities used to be before subsidies and blue church ruined it.

nerddadnear40on Ask HN: Something you’ve done your whole life that you realized is wrong?

Get agreement of Time, Agenda, Outcome -- up front and in that order. Helps with all meetings not just dates.

nerddadnear40on Ask HN: Something you’ve done your whole life that you realized is wrong?

Most of us suffer a kind of nihilism that mankind has never really faced before due to modern science. Materialistic understanding of the world has broken our ability to recognize patterns of being that were once obvious to our ancestors. They would find a modern atheist and fundamentalist equally blind in these areas as they saw the reality of the world much more alive and predictable over vast time periods than we do now and they had the language to understand it.

John Vervaeke and the Pageau Brothers are working hard on this front. I'd highly recommend John's Meaning Crisis Videos, Mathieu Pageau's book on Cosmic Symbolism and Johnathan's educational videos.

If you are new to this, it can be a bit mind bending, but it's duly needed in our time.

https://www.meaningcrisis.co/all-transcripts/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIJuIN6kUcU

https://www.amazon.com/Language-Creation-Symbolism-Genesis-C...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtmLCK1keFI&t=1874s

nerddadnear40on Ask HN: What do you want for Christmas that costs less than $100?

  - Leather Bound Books (Prefer classics)
  - Dice Set
  - Mechanical keyboard/artistic resin caps
  - Mid-range EDC Flashlight/Pocket Knife
  - GameStop Gift Card
  - Wine/Whiskey/Scotch/Cigars
  - Fuzzy Slippers/Blanket
  - Beef Jerky/Bacon/Grass-fed, Local Meats
  - Nuts/Nutcracker
  - Marble Mortar/Pestel
  - Mixology Set/Decanter Set
  - Spherical Ice Maker
  - Tools (Can never have too many)
  - Maker Supplies (Resins, 3D Print Filaments, Craft Woods   
  - Leather Strips, etc...)
  - Arduino/RetroPie, etc...