I am shocked it resonated with readers here so universally. It was well-presented visually, but genuinely miserable to read with all the worst tells of AI writing. It contained two or three actual sentences of content with intense repetition, obnoxious signposting, and disjoint "what the fatcats don't want you to know" framing throughout. "Nobody in a position of power is saying this. The reason is simple: They sold you the condition. Now they sell you the treatment." The single worst thing I've read on Hacker News this year.

Two Kickstarters, one with the "Projects We Love" badge from the platform itself, have raised $1M+ by promising a clamshell PC with mechanical keyboard while demo videos show a known AliExpress headless keyboard/touchscreen (no internals) running benchmarks while never showing the rear I/O suggesting hidden cabling.

Turns out my blog is actually a newsletter? Seems like a distinction without a difference.

I'd argue there is a difference between a blog and a newsletter, but that would take longer to discuss than I have right now. But you're right that the boundary between the two is extremely blurry.

However, I'm guessing you tried to submit a Substack URL and was told newsletters aren't accepted? Even if I allowed newsletters, I wouldn't add any Substack newsletters because of the platform's fascist-supporting tendencies.

It's easy to be a text maximalist now we're in the LLM era, but I disagree that ideas are a separate, nonphysical realm that cannot otherwise be described. https://lucent.substack.com/p/one-map-hypothesis

Rather than "hurting America," Crossfire was the highest form of political debate America could suffer before retreating into info bubbles.

I chose the Sony 1000XM4 because the RTINGS graph showed the strongest cancellation in the 60Hz range. All my tormentors are in the AC-powered machine noise range.

https://www.rtings.com/discussions/adsg5oN7w-9Dgb3O/treadmil...

https://www.rtings.com/headphones/1-8/graph/25566/noise-isol...:

I don't doubt these bring awful externalities, but children requiring cochlear implants due to hearing loss from a nearby datacenter?

But think about all those virtual coins worth absolutely nothing being "mined" ..?!

Loud noises slowly hurt the body from ears to brain. The effects are not instant but they are real.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNd3Eo5bvvw

Regret-centric advice always follows the implicit model of: had I taken Action, best case I add Good Result to this timeline, worst case I revert to this timeline. No, failure can have a cost that wipes out this timeline completely, leaving you unimaginably worse off.

So true. Very good to know which decisions are one-way or two-way doors.

This is great! The format isn't 100% what I had in mind but the functionality is just what I needed! I think I can use it as a basis to build my own simplified presentation that I wanted.