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by trgn 5d ago
I have made so many users happy with !important
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by trgn 13d ago
just on the ellul mention, I still think he has the best distillation of what it means to be a technical society, and it's one in which man internalizes the value system of the machine, and the machine only has one value, efficiency. i
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by trgn 13d ago
My street has speedbumps since a few years and its been an amqzing improvement
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by trgn 14d ago
thanks, will look him up.
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by trgn 14d ago
rip, sad day for my homestate, he's a giant here. and for me too, as he's one of those rabbit hole authors, revealing a Truth (capital T). berry is in the same lineage as somebody like muir, and it really pains me to say, but i re
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by trgn 16d ago
the commodification of everything, just one more example. once you see it, you cannot unsee it.
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by trgn 21d ago
> to enforce artificial borders and deny everyone this basic freedom. a very postnational view, humanist in a way, lipsius or erasmus would recognize it. that sort of individuated cosmopolitanism only works for educated men and women wit
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by trgn 21d ago
I think many (if not most) countries in the developed world should reduce immigration, and usa in particular should abolish birthright citizenship. The first because a lower supply of labor is going to create breathing space for an entire w
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by trgn 22d ago
i wonder about this too. modern art (the cubes etc) always had a cerebral, iconoclastic, anti-bourgeois element. and i think those are just markers and categories that have no meaning anymore in 2026. everybody's smart now, watching te
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by trgn 22d ago
you're agreeing, just harping on slight different (and all valid) uses of the words.
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by trgn 23d ago
seeing the commons get worse in your lifetime, span of 10-15 years, if we're really precise about it, really is quite a trip.
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by trgn 26d ago
I believe it, but what's the point of having them then.
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by trgn 26d ago
That cannot be an emperical statement. Traffic engineers have absolutely wrecked the american city, largely be ause they didnt know the impact of adding lanes. It's not the only reason. I think that traffic engineers lack/lacked a
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by trgn 27d ago
> Sontag has the credentials / writing skills to discuss it well. 100%, and just to give an example, she finds good art is excreted (her words - perfectly chosen) rather than created, and I think her example was how the immaculate c
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by trgn 27d ago
it's largely because it's being dumped or littered instead of being disposed in a garbage can.
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by trgn 27d ago
always great to see reminders that software is not a commodity.
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by trgn 1mo ago
there's a new urbanist community, walkable, bikelanes, etc.. in my part of the midwest and it's teeming with children.
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by trgn 1mo ago
what's that theory?
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by trgn 1mo ago
> logical intelligence it's this that AI is stripping. the work is becoming systems thinking. not bad per se, but removing the small scale puzzle aspect of the job
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by trgn 1mo ago
didnt know, it's on my watchlist now!
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by trgn 1mo ago
this stuff was huge for a while, 20-25 years ago, digital libraries, information exploration, ... consider even things like minority report, or more prosaically, all the demos coming out of MIT medialab. It never really caught on, completed
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by trgn 1mo ago
weight is the easiest measure. wear&tear on road, mpg, damage in accident all scale with weight
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by trgn 2mo ago
I consider myself reasonably competent, reached conventional milestones in a career in tech, did a thing here and there, and I'm reading this, sort of nodding along, and barely understand what's the issue again with cut&paste,
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by trgn 3mo ago
dont know the laws well enough, but would be crazy indeed if companies could borrow against their own stock when they're issuing first new ones with sbc and then buy back on open market.
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by trgn 3mo ago
yep, clearly, just meant they're not cash strapped.
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by trgn 3mo ago
vacationing/digital nomading in belgium atm, it looks erhm rich. traveling between brussels, leuven, ghent, bruges, soon antwerp... people dress well, never been anywhere with so many german luxury cars on the road, meals cost about th
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by trgn 3mo ago
i dont think this announcement will boost the stock either, for the same reason we are wondering here why 7% is noteworthy for a globocorp.
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by trgn 3mo ago
but none of this applies to elastic. it's cash flow positive, and has such a cash hoard it's doing stock buybacks.
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by trgn 3mo ago
i dont understand this either. just dont hire for half a year or so, a generic globocorp gets to that 7% easily.
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by trgn 3mo ago
isnt that just a temporary bottleneck? a self-confident generation might make the sacrifice. plus, the opposite of increasing isnt necessarily decreasing, stabilizing is another one.

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