Residents put up road signs to fix the problem, but many cars became trapped

Looks like they’re already partway there

Ok that one is pretty good too

Anything where you’re putting money in and hoping to get more money out, where it’s a zero sum game and any winnings will come from other people doing the same, is gambling imo. A gamble can be a good financial investment if you only do it in situations where you know you have some kind of edge, but doing it for fun is stupid because it fucks with your emotions and you’re just going to get screwed out of your money that way. If you are playing against people gambling for fun, rather than playing against “the house”, that might be one you can win.

Morally I think the ideal situation for gambling is one where people in bad financial situations get together so at least some of them can escape those situations. The worst is when people who don’t need more money ensure all of the profits will go exclusively to them, and no one else will really win.

I think it depends on the context. If it’s like a close friend and the deception screws you over and was an unexpected betrayal, then it’s basically a lie. If there’s some reason someone might suck at a job and they don’t mention it in the interview and were not asked, that’s different because it’s an adversarial situation and looking out for yourself means not showing all your cards, and everyone should understand that it’s like that.

Personally I can’t remember basic syntax very well and constantly have to look things up. Although just knowing that a way of doing something exists does help a lot.

I am really uncomfortable with them, but there isn’t a clear alternative given that our computing environments are designed in a way to be inherently insecure, patching exploits as they occur is the only plan other than not using the internet. But it means that the people with the keys to the software can install what they want on your computer and probably take it over. You could check every update yourself and compile it from source yourself if it’s open source, but that would be too much work.

I don’t know, I spend a lot of time on the internet so it would feel hypocritical to limit it to a big extent, but I’m not sure if it would be doing someone a disservice to raise them to be like I am. Maybe I’d keep some desirable stuff blocked just so they’d have an incentive to go over to a friend’s house where it isn’t blocked.

Might make more sense to just call someone a racist instead at this point

I had to dig hard to find this is a SAAS sandbox offering not an actual sandbox (the software i can use locally). Its just wasting peoples time, no one needs a non opensource sandbox.

I agree with the top HN comment

So it’s basically just a judgment call of whether someone “deserves” to avoid working, because of having had a job in the past? To me it’s basically the same if people are living the same sort of life, because those sorts of judgments are not a good way to consider a person’s identity. It’s only natural to not want a job and the main question is whether you have the means to avoid being coerced into it, people who have the means are really in the same category.

What’s the difference?

The law is against explaining how to use a VPN in certain contexts (“websites subject to the state’s age verification law”), so yeah it is selective and excludes a corporate office telling people how to access it with a VPN.

“Buy experiences, not things”

The rationale isn’t exactly wrong for the comparison, but it smuggles in an underlying assumption that it’s reasonable and normal to be spending all your available money in an effort to be happy. Money is way more useful for reinforcing your continued survival and freedom than for anything else and the idea that it’s good for regulating your emotions beyond that is a deception geared towards keeping consumer spending up.

Yeah, tbh I also take .5mg melatonin before bed regularly and add a valerian root tablet on top of that occasionally

All the most effective stuff you can do to get better sleep is done ahead of time (like daily exercise, not spending time in bed when not sleeping, keeping a sleep schedule, avoiding caffeine/alcohol etc), so if I get to that point there isn’t that much to be done. Getting up and doing something nonstimulating other than lying in bed for ten minutes can help a little bit sometimes. If there’s something in my sleep environment that is abnormal and it’s possible to correct it that will help. Lowering the temperature can help.

gotta reset those expectations somehow

Sounds like a massive headache for whoever is in charge of their estate, needing to check with all the parts of the government they may have had outstanding fines with

The trick to those is to appear as lazy and careless as possible, so your project partners will fear a failing grade and do all the work before the deadline instead of hoping that you will do it and everyone fails because no work was done. Not sure how this advice translates to the other side of the analogy though

Maybe they should have thought about that before taking away the little bags of pretzels and cookies

I would like to see some ROBOT9000 esque oddball meme communities overtly based on heavy algorithmic moderation, can be LLM but wouldn’t have to be. Weird rules strictly enforced by robots, could be fun.