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“white childless workers” also doesn’t get flagged.

Google could get me to come back if it: 1. Offered a paid version without sponsored results 2. Let me block sites from my results (bonus points if it penalizes sites with lots of users blocking their results)

If people don't want youtube videos to have advertisements they should buy youtube premium.

Steam deck is an extension of the already existing PC gaming market. I suspect that almost all Steam Deck owners already have a PC they game on. Steam Deck just makes it so those PC gamers will care if a game runs well on Linux.

The point isn’t to take over the console market but to defend the PC gaming market from console exclusivity and Steam itself from e.g. Microsoft Store

Bad example. Lots of Christians read e.g. James 2 as indicating both faith and works being necessary.

There are 1.2 billion Hindus for example

If tyrannical localities want to enforce their norms, let them block it themselves.

There are arguably untrue things said about US political leaders all of the time and in general this is allowed and should be allowed.

Investors are banking on not enough new homes being built. We should simply build enough new homes then it won't matter who owns them.

Netflix hasn't had content worth watching in awhile

Humans who are incumbent property owners don't like crowding and want to preserve their privilege. Those who aren't don't mind being crowded in.

This is probably good. The same should be required on dating apps.

Every once in awhile I try to switch out my native apps for web apps where possible, and the problem is that the web apps are always very noticeably worse. Maybe there's a fix for that, but if so it's a different problem than "monopoly power".

Crypto can't fail, it can only be failed.

I go to Walmart Vision. They do all the measurements and write down everything without complaining at all for (I think) about $70. Then order a few pair from Zenni and restock every 5-7 years.

I mean, legally they are not in a caste, right? Does the Indian state recognize caste?

OChem is a weeder course for med students. Med schools are controlled by the AMA, which intentionally keeps the number of doctors low for normal cartel reasons. It's not about teaching Organic Chemistry, it's about reducing the number of students who can apply for an artificially limited number of med school slots.

Always thought it was suspicious that all documentation, videos, discussion was around mining Helium tokens, not around how to use the network for something real

Housing is not zero sum at current US density levels. You can put one house on a half acre or you can put 3-4 10-story apartment buildings on it with 20 3-bedrooms each. We immorally choose to have a housing shortage to keep the poors out.

Eh. Aren't we the part of the world that supports free speech? Let them say what they want.

So, how should I behave differently knowing that I'm not waiting for DNS to "propagate" but rather I'm waiting for DNS cached records to expire?

I've thought about this. The thing is that the current relevant browser environments (basically Safari, Chrome, and Firefox) require, what, a billion dollars a year to maintain? 2 billion? And this doesn't even count the various JavaScript frameworks, auth systems, CDNs, etc.

Any replacement technology/protocol which does the same "write once, use everywhere" thing and manages to perform better would still need to achieve wide adoption. And I feel like users would still want that to be able to play seamlessly with everything in their lives that they have online.

Phone off and 1mg melatonin every night at 9.

If I'm in "work" mode by 10 and I don't want to quit, I set the alarm for 04:30 and lie down with an audiobook (preferably something that's reasonably dense, e.g. the Odyssey or Milton). Never takes more than 15 min.

It lowers the "value" as a monopolistic asset class but not the "housing/day units" value.

The second value is what society should care about increasing, and it should go out of it's way to destroy the first kind of "value".

What you describe in the last paragraph is, I think, the reason so many gay men join/ed the priesthood. Celibacy is less of a sacrifice / it is/was a highly respected thing a man who doesn't want to marry can do.

They should add the part where the drug probably doesn't even work to the headline.

Here's a project that's been in the news recently that relies heavily on scraped data. http://www.thebillionpricesproject.com/

Anything you might look up or keep track of online that helps your business is probably being scraped by someone who is using it themselves or selling access to the curated data set.

Prices (are yours high, low compared to competition?), reviews, locations of physical stores, search result placement (where does your widget show up when someone searches "widget" on your site?), just to name a few use cases.

Markets are competitive and efficient when all parties have full information. If Amazon doesn't want its prices to be known amd finds ways to successfully prevent them from being scrapes, in some sense the state should force it to disclose them via API (or something equivalent)

> Not to mention, information asymmetry is anathema to a well-functioning market, and yet no. 1 reason for fighting bots given in the whole thread here is a desire to maintain that information asymmetry.

This is exactly right.