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> Maybe I don’t know much about Markdown, but my understanding is that the whole point of it is to provide a syntax where the most common HTML tags for prose can be replaced by simple punctuation characters that are meant to be visible to the writer.

Cracking up at this quote

"Why doesn't _EVERYONE_ move where broadband is!"

Except, uhhhhhhhhhhh, they can't.

Silicon Valley moment from gp

If they're going to push to arrest peaceful marijuana users and ruin their lives with a drug charge then the people involved in this raid should see the inside of a cell at least as long as someone up on possession because what the raid plotters have done is more corrosive to a free society than anyone smoking weed at a concert.

I feel older every day.

Capitalism has _everything_ to do with this as while the _amount_ of land may not be growing, the economic system does _nothing_ to cap the price of this essential commodity. The only cap on the price of land is the amount someone is willing to pay for it.

To say that the advantages of location are not capital (or equivalent to capital) is just ignorant. There are plenty of pieces of land that act just like capital - access to natural resources, access to a coastline, fertile for farming, or in a location where a toll road or similar could be employed.

It becomes very difficult for someone to build and own a sapphire mine if they don't have the capital to buy the land that has the sapphires in it!

As the romantic partner of someone going through a degenerative disorder and as someone who watched my grandmother be consumed by dementia I can say that it's something most people develop over time instead of being born good at.

If a hang nail is bad enough to make you withdraw then that means you don't have a lot of experience of getting sick to the point where you had to push through as it hasn't happened a lot. Over the course of the 14 years I've had with my partner (started year 15 last month!) I've seen how she's had to adapt to remain involved and communicative - and a lot of days, that's a struggle for her that she puts herself through to stay connected to the people she loves.

tl;dr: It's an adaptation, and I'm glad that you've not had to build that adaptation.

Looking forward to seeing the pictures of the animals you sponsored

It would be surprising if you had a prior Fall 24 batch....

Wait....

All I can glean from this is that joining a YC Batch gives you access to a time machine.

Every time one of these cases comes up, everyone wants to blame "bad apples in the legal department", but newsflash, the legal department aren't a bunch of cowboys that just run wild and do whatever they want - they often require the approval of someone higher up in the company to commence action.

Stop this. Stop letting companies you like off the hook by compartmentalizing the things you don't like to "the guys in the legal department".

This you? https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/9/3640401666859...

In the 1980s, it was typically things away from the computer - renting videos or video games from Blockbuster and things like that. Not to mention all of the actually interesting things on cable.

The local video store would run a deal over the summers when I was a kid where you paid $30 and got three, two night rentals (new releases excluded) a week for the summer school break. Being able to grab a new game or movie every other day (since you were already there to return the previous one on time) was great.

> If anyone can make music then music has demeaned itself, and maybe it simply wasn't ever a big deal in the first place.

I'm not sure I follow the logic here. Could you please explain?

> Most people frankly cannot and moreover do not want to be sysadmins when they just want to play their vidja gaemz. This becomes even more of a poignant issue with more "normies" and "casuals" becoming gamers.

Normies don't self-host - they go to a game hosting service provider and pay a few bucks a month to have hosting done for them.

Except how often does that _really_ happen?

> Giving away the source does not protect the game creator and actively harms them since they are giving up trade secrets.

Then maybe they shouldn't have published the game in the first place. If you can't do the bare minimum that the market demands/requires by regulation then you can't engage with it. Simple as.

> I do really want to see a layer of the internet where it can be trusted that every poster is a real human, or a citizen of a particular country.

Why?

In a recent study by the USDA, Household Food Security in the United States in 2022[1], it is estimated that "17.0 million house-holds were food insecure" (meaning that "they had difficulty at some time during the year providing enough food for all their members because of a lack of resources") and "5.1 percent of U.S. households (6.8 million households) had very low food security" (meaning "food intake of some household members was reduced, and normal eating patterns were disrupted at times during the year because of limited resources").

That's 17 million HOUSEHOLDS that struggled to provide food and 6.8 million HOUSEHOLDS that had to skip meals. I wouldn't call that rare.

[1] https://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/pub-details/?pubid=107...

People didn't seriously think that privatizing the ownership of the Internet would result in the end-to-end principle being retained, did they?

Are you in the habit of releasing software that causes users to violate the ToS of services?

Those startups are their competitors. You don’t have to pay millions of dollars to acquire a competitor that was never started because of your inconsistent API policy.

Google makes enough money that losing several currently non-existent revenue streams that are theoretically $10 million apiece isn’t hurting them. It’s hurting their users.

Google is all about ads - why would they give a shit about the users?

That sounds like a fantastic way to have a SWAT team kick down your door

This is fake nostalgia.

There were a lot of places in the world (and still are many places in the world) where the copper phone lines are anything but crisp and clear - lots of noise and hums and clicks and static. That's the rule more than the exception in some places. Now these intrusions are typically not enough to disrupt a voice call, but they were a major issue using modems and DSL.

Spamhaus getting a taste of its own medicine for once.

You love to see it.

Fuck you for making it impossible to run an independent mail server without dumping hours per week into it or paying for someone else to run it.

Of course it's Granbury........

I'm the opposite from you. I would rather light my hair on fire than do anything in person with anyone on my team.

I was no less productive working from home during the pandemic, a metric I can back up with completed user stores and completed projects.

If you want to go back into the office then please, by all means, as that's clearly the place that you work better in, but don't force people who are less efficient in the office to come into the office.

Never forget this - if this were "real" inflation and not corporate fuckery then their profits would be down.

The company I work for took the pandemic to cancel the vending machines and coffee service that we had. They re-established the coffee service after about a month after their RTO mandate because people were refusing to come in. The vending machines are still gone.

If I want to get a snack, I have to end up walking fifteen minutes to a cafeteria in another building, get it, and then walk back. That cafeteria is also the cafeteria that most people eat lunch in, so half of my lunch break is gone just walking there and back.

No wonder why nobody wants to come back - I have better snacks, food, and coffee at home and it takes me less than five minutes to grab some.

> Orgs are doing this because they are more scared of failing an audit than they are of the consequences failure of the underlying systems the audits are supposed to be protecting.

I've been someone in one of those audit meetings defending decisions made and defending things based on the records we keep and I understand this because it is both a deeply unpleasant and expensive affair to pull people from current projects and place them before auditors for several hours to debate what compliance actually means.

Especially this week