The thing is that literature, and art in general, should be more than just entertainment. It should edify the reader, communicate some concept, moral lesson or keen insight about the world.

Remember when you were taught to extract the "moral of the story" in school? That was the whole point. That form of communication is what makes art valuable and it definitely is what makes some art more valuable than others.

We do get a say on whether we like it or not. You CAN just decide to uphold privacy rights. We make the laws

Large marketplace platforms need to be regulated to have due process.

When hundreds or thousands of companies live and die by your platform, you can't just close accounts arbitrarily.

Either that or you get split up for monopoly. Take your pick, but this shit doesn't work

That has happened like 4 times with AMD already since I've been buying PCs

Switching to TSMC broke their negative feedback loop, though. In the past AMD could be relied on to somehow not have the money to invest in their fabs at some point, resulting in another Intel era.

Nowadays, there will be another process node from TSMC. If AMD doesn’t pay for the R&D, TSMC’s other customers (like Apple and… actually, Intel) will instead.

The problem for Intel is all the growth since mid 2000s is non PC.

Yup, though it's been never such a good run for them by far. Granted things were moving much faster back then overall, but amd has been dominating for 7 years now.

I've come to accept that, at least in latam, shirt sizes no longer have any real meaning.

Every manufacturer in the world has a different opinion as to what those letters mean.

There is truth to this and it has certainly been true of women’s sizing for many years where everyone wants to be a size 2 (or whatever your number is) but no size 2 is the same across brands.

It’s an entirely different problem when I buy two pairs of presumably the same pair of jeans in the same style and size yet one can barely be buttoned up and the other requires a belt at all times.

And then there is the adventure of asymmetric cuts. Quality control has been outsourced to the customer. The return rates have increased a lot, some of it going straight into the bin.

Do you think maybe clothing is size now inferred from an item's weight? Cut close enough and then bin by weight...?

Finding knit caps for my pumpkin sized head is challenging. I'd find a good fit but then couldn't reorder the same item.

I stumbled onto the notion of selecting by weight instead of the declared size. Success!

More recently, there was a HN thread about buying good jeans. I then noticed the better quality mfgs also include the fabric's weight in the item's blurb. Which I then used to inform my foraging.

Massive, shiny and slow

well, maybe it could deliver 200k pounds of gear while carrying 100k pounds of counter measures?

but again, the original plan was always good enough for humans dropping slowly on parachutes

This has also been my experience. Curriculum standards really put a stop to any radical changes in the way we structure the learning process.

I guess that IS the point of standards, but we really should be experimenting more on the fringes.

They expect AI bureaucracy to be more effective than human bureaucracy.

I expect this to be entirely true in some cases.

Yeah, totally nonexistent product for most of the world

So, obvious question, is there a database of IMDB reviews?