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willcate··on Ask HN: Why not just buy a business?
I've worked for many years for a media-business brokerage. Would you like to buy a radio station? Pretty damn cheap right now.... you won't make much money, but it's fun to do if you know the business
willcate··on China’s Revolution Turns Green
I have a difficult time believing China is serious about any of that. As we speak they are doubling down on coal-generated energy production.
willcate··on Sam Harris has deleted his Twitter
How does that meme go? "Oh No! ....... Well, anyway"
willcate··on Ask HN: What is your oldest possession?
Furniture inherited from great-grandparents
willcate··on Ask HN: Is the world going to shit?
Right now the US doesn't actually have any upward movement in GDP, so who knows... the journey might have already begun.
willcate··on The Impact Will Be Real
I am unconvinced
willcate··on macOS for Web
Well I must say that's remarkably clever
willcate··on [dead]
This isn't even effective spam.
willcate··on My employee refuses to lie to customers – but that’s our policy
Run your business as you wish, & I can't say what you should do w/ this employee. But you should be transparent with your customers on all policies regarding their interactions with you as a vendor.
willcate··on Great Fungi Documentary
This came up on my YouTube yesterday; it is excellent
willcate··on Great Fungi Documentary
Fire up that VPN
willcate··on Why Apple Will Switch to ARM-Based Macs (2014)
Or, going back even further:

https://www.mattrichman.net/apple-and-arm-sitting-in-a-tree/

willcate··on Ask HN: Has the quality of Google search declined for anyone else, or just me?
I know that's the big money-maker for them, but it irritates me that almost the entire first page of results is adverts made to look like search results.
willcate··on The smart city is a perpetually unrealized utopia
Like all other unrealized urban planning schemes, it fails to take into account (A) the basic uncontrollability of people, and (B) the rapidity of organic social change.
willcate··on Where does the wealth go when asset prices go down? It vanishes into nothingness
It vanishes much in the same way it is created -- just in reverse.
willcate··on Windows 11 Guide
This is great - well done
willcate··on Ask HN: How much did you pay for your smartphone?
Whatever a Pixel 6 costs.
willcate··on Stoned Ape Theory Linking Evolution to Psychedelic Exposure Revives
More likely because they began to eat meat.
willcate··on Human Ancestors Nearly All Vegetarian: Are Paleolithic Ancestral Diets Wrong?
Maybe so, but we humans also lived an unenviably miserable existence for 248 million years (or so) until we started eating animal meat. Really:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fat-not-meat-may-...

willcate··on Gender Identity Five Years After Social Transition
404
willcate··on Democracy at Work Is Bad
No argument from me...
willcate··on Ask HN: Have you created programs for only your personal use?
I wrote a radio station-style audio playback system, because I didn't like the tiny few that existed for Mac OS
willcate··on Ask HN: Is AppleID Down?
Has allegedly been fixed, but... probably not all the way yet

https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/21/22989393/apple-is-down-ou...

willcate··on [dead]
Honestly, at my age -- the last thing I want to know is that I've been doing it wrong
willcate··on Ask HN: How do you connect your M1 MacBook Air to your iMac?
To my knowledge that feature has long since been removed.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204592

willcate··on [dead]
I'm a long-time fan.
willcate··on [dead]
It is back on Spotify. I'm watching it right now.
willcate··on Times are great for programmers now. How does it end?
uh, with more greatness?
willcate··on Abolish States
I would refer the writer to the US Constitution, Article IV, section 4:

"The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence."

willcate··on Ask HN: Is your M1 getting sluggish?
M1 Mini purchased Nov. 2020 -- still works great.
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