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> How is it technically incorrect to say that solipsism discards or devalues the perspectives of everyone else?

The burden of proof is yours, not mine.

> How do you explain forms of socially facilitated learning if your mind is the only thing that exists?

I don't because I'm not a solipsist, but I see no reason why that couldn't be imagined. If anything, most people have a problem with not imagining reality.
I recall reading a section in the California DRE salesperson training book 20 years back on canvassing for new clients. They actually discussed perusing local obituaries and contacting next of kin, because you know, there's a likely sale to be had. But they cautioned waiting 2-3 days as it could be seen as being insensitive.
Gets stuck in the middle of the lane. Often multiple cars at once.
lol, I've been using Apple laptops for 15 years and had no idea this was a thing. All this time I've just copy+pasted and then gone back to the source folder to delete the original.
Ever since I bought my first house I have always hated the concept of realtors. Maybe before the internet it made sense because it wasn't easy finding houses. But what value does a realtor actually bring in the age of Zillow, Redfin, etc...

Also - the percent structure has never made sense to me. Why should a realtor make more money just because the house is more expensive? Does a realtor really deserve to make 60k on a 2 million dollar home sale? Did they really bring twice as much value as a 1 million dollar home sale?

I'm not saying that realtors don't have _any_ value. Yes if you are unfamiliar with an area it is nice to have someone who is familiar with the area help you look for a home. But with the internet this is nowhere near worth points of a sale of a home.

And yes, they can negotiate for you - this has value too... But is the delta of their negotiation skills worth 6% of the home value??

When I sold my home I was also frustrated. I remember when I looked for a realtor to sell my home they tried to convince me they have additional avenues they would sell beyond what me listing myself could do. "We will get your home on our LinkedIn page! On our monthly magazine!" Really? Have you ever heard of anyone buying a home from a LinkedIn page?
age verification wouldve killed it. most legitimate users use the site because they can just open the site and start talking without sign up
There is also https://opengarage.io/

For anyone who wants an out of the box, and open source, solution.
And there are a lot of fear tactics used as well. Or FUD, at least.

"Don't skip the inspection, what if something is wrong" sounds sensible but pre-purchase home inspections are quite surface level, will only find visible, obvious problems, and in the fine print they disclaim responsibility if they miss anything.
God, they're complaining about newposters all the way back in 2007. Is the problem really Eternal September or is it just "kids these days"?

Also Leif K-Brooks is a thoughtful person, and it bleeds into his posts

I don't know why exactly I think a one on one chat system would be different from an imageboard. When one makes a post on an image or discussion board, I think one does take into account that his words are going to be judged by the whole community. Even he isn't worried about preserving some identity, he still identifies with those words and responds to the reactions they get, and I think that ultimately leads to self-censorship and conformity. When there's only one person passing judgment, it doesn't have nearly the same negative impact, and what's more you can hit F5 and dismiss the entire thing, whereas a post still remains.
Have you been fitted for an eye patch yet?

https://pastafarians.org.au/pastafarianism/pirates-and-globa...

The number of women I know with cut marks is terrifying - but they grew up before Instagram and Facebook.
Some more discussion a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38156557
If your box is ever empty always say the whole box was stolen. You can’t return a stolen package.
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While you have a point there since certain aspects of the internet experienced by each generation were different, I think a shared part of it is just the sheer sanitization of the 'open' internet that has happened since the mid/late-2000s. That aspect is not coming back in any way for the generation growing up on the current internet, unless they go deep into techie circles to 'frontier' places like certain corners of the fediverse or matrix, the only internet they'll know is the heavily sanitized corporate-run advertiser friendly side where everyone's walking on eggshells because a power-tripping moderator or AI has complete power over you.

This was something that turned out to trigger nostalgia of the 'old internet' between both me and decade older friends when exploring the fediverse, we realized that to us, the old internet was mainly defined by a stronger sense of connection/genuineness with other people's content because even if deplorable, it was mostly unfiltered. A similar feeling was evoked for me by Kagi's 'small internet' option.

So, I think the current generation might miss their 'old internet' only in the sense that by the time they're adults it'll probably have gotten even more sanitized.
When people appear to be making poor decisions, it may simply be that their time horizon in your mutual iterated game is much shorter than the horizon which they proclaim.
I read the article, but I still don't understand how the National Association of Retailers enforce the 5-6% total commission. Does anyone know?

The incidence question (is the fee "paid" by the buyer or seller) is a semantic one, but if the cartel is able to inflate the total fees, that's something else entirely.
> Wealthy nations are seeing reductions in total CO2 emissions. US dropped from 6 billion metric tons in 2007 to 5 billion metric tons in 2022.

Probably mostly outsourcing manufacture and associated pollution elsewhere (e.g. China).
A harder stumbling block compared to nuclear is land mass requirements per Mwh:

https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-per-energy-source
not gonna lie, seeing "Fortran is a great language, I’m glad the tooling situation is at least starting to improve on Windows" was not on my 2023 bingo card
> If the pedo found her at a walmart, would she sue Walmart too?

Yes, meatspace public venues used by traffickers are frequently sued for enabling the trafficking [0], its not something unique to cyberspace venues.

[0] e.g., https://guestban.com/2023/07/12/the-unseen-side-of-luxury-ho...
I recommend listening to Immigrant Song.
Even he mentions that the shop is not liable if they ask for ID.

Anyway, it’s really twisted my original point your leaning into alcohol laws that do not apply.

If I make a service that says nobody named Bob can use it, have a checkbox Not Bob? - how can I get sued by someone named Bob?
> I am not optimistic. But it is not too late yet. Parliament still has to vote about this. Let your MEP know that you oppose the Digital Identity and that you want your MEP to vote against it!
ome tv, and monkey app both require sign up
I miss the good ol’ days of Minitel. Imagine an internet made up almost exclusively of French people.
I am actually starting to think about using European services (Hetzner?) for some things just to have some sort of legal framework that offers plausible control of my data. I already use paid email.

I mostly trust that something running in a VM is not accessible or abused when I sign a contract - I just don't want to use 30 SaaS services that require me to allow data consumption from me and my customers.

Can you compare Proxmoc to just running small VMs or a container on a bare-metal hosting provider?
What is wrong with that?

It is a fact that many homes are sold when their occupants die, and offering your services to a potential customer when the customer likely needs it does not seem out of bounds.
Free countries start from the presumption that everything not forbidden is allowed. It would affect the money supply greatly, but there was a time when every bank was a narrow bank, so isn't it really the fractional reserve banks who came along and affected the money supply greatly?

I'm not saying narrow banks are worthwhile, but it's utterly insane that it's illegal for a bank to simply hold $100 bills in a bank vault on your behalf. It's utterly insane that banks are not just permitted, but legally required to lend out your money. And there's a minimum amount, too, because a bank that lends out $1 of each customer's money won't get a license.
A good realtor can guide you through the market, inspections, and negotiation - all of which hugely affect the largest investment most people make. But that's no reason for them to demand a PERCENTAGE off the sale of the home!

Closing fees plus realtor fees are a big reason why it takes so long for a home to break even for most people - something like 7 years in NYC. And one reason why there's so much pressure for home prices to keep going up. The cost of selling a home and buying another one also makes the labor market less dynamic - people find it harder to move to where there's better opportunities.
It's mostly due to the fact that in order to list a house or find a house you need to use a system called MLS. In order to use the system you need to be a realtor. It's quite simple actually
Our 55" A95K has Google TV built in but we never use it and it has never seen a packet from an outside network since we got it. We use Apple TV with it, and for that purpose, it is very fast and easy to use.
Of all the scams associated with real estate transactions, title insurance is kind of legitimate. The title chain itself may be recorded, but there may be some lien against the property that was not properly recorded. That’s the situation you protecting against.

Now whether that’s worth .5-1% is debatable.
I had completely forgotten about the Hollywood strike.
"But doctor, I am Pagliacci"
and since I can't send bitcoin with SEPA, obviously SEPA must suck.
Sun Cable, formerly known as PowerLink, is an ambitious idea that involves sending solar power via an undersea cable 4,200 kilometers (2,610 miles) from Darwin, Australia, to Singapore.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia-Asia_Power_Link
Technically, you don’t need to use MLS.

You can put your house up on Craigslist, Facebook marketplace, make your own website, put a sign on your front lawn, etc.

But most people predict they will earn per time they invest in selling by going with MLS, where the home buying audience is largest.
They can only speculate because of the value brought to it by illicit purposes.
Home inspections aren't compulsory are they? I thought that they weren't even required by lenders. Of all the things listed they sure seem like real value to the buyer.

If you're not borrowing to purchase a home you probably wouldn't need an appraisal. I think lenders just want objective evaluation of the collateral. Who can blame them?
> An incredibly sizable portion of technological development in the U.S. in the past 100 years is due to government (i.e., public) funding, not private funding.

Never mind semiconductors, jet engines, television, internet phones, AI, electric cars, engines, steel making, typewriters, the whole textile industry, telephones, CDs, electric guitars, autotune, cameras, need I go on?

> Just because someone makes a lot of money doesn't mean they are intelligent or did so upon their own virtue. And it doesn't necessarily mean they're good at investments and capital allocation.

Maybe read biographies of Musk, Jobs, Gates, Bezos, Buffet, Rockefeller, Walton, Sears, etc., then tell me how stupid they are.
But what's preventing realtors from defecting and offering their services for a lower rate?
> A good realtor can guide you through the market

Sure they can, but the entire incentive structure creates a situation where it's in the agent's best interest to get the sale done regardless or the outcome to the buyer/seller.
AUSTRALIA. That's a completely different animal, incredible country, but your justice system is/may be a little more fair than America. I wish you luck!
Have you actually looked at the data or are you just repeating things that were true in the last century? Here is the data:

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN
That joke’s got a whole section in the article.
But that's true about fiat money, too. Far more fiat money gets traded on exchanges in a single day, than circulates the rest of the whole world's economy in a year. But I think you'd agree fiat money derives its value from the way you can go down to the corner store and buy stuff, not from the fact it's traded on exchanges, right?
I heard something similar: that nostalgia is mostly what was popular when you were 12
> But they’re mostly irrelevant anymore

The ACLU war chest has been over $400M the last few years, with many thousands of people in pretty much every state working with the organization in some capacity.

There's absolutely no evidence to support your claims that either the ACLU is irrelevant, nor that it has somehow shifted its momentum considerably since 2016 in what class of cases it handles (especially given the age of the organization and number of shifts vs. overall societal/cultural changes).

On the contrary, I can find many recent examples of legal actions spread headed by the ACLU across dozens of issues all over the country. If you can't find any it's because you're not looking, though you can start with their Annual Reports.
I mean yea, but also not yea.

It's definitely you get what you pay for. If you have a good home inspector they may be able to tell you something like "Yea, the roof is fucked", or "That crack you didn't notice in the foundation is really bad news".

I don't build homes nor do I troubleshoot them on a daily basis. Someone that does, and has a at least a modicum of experience will still notice more than I.
Quizzle, guess the word in fewer than 20 questions
Language-Restricted Iterated F(x) Systems, Koch Constructions, & L-systems(1994) [pdf]
Porn and sexual stuff is always on shaky ground with card processors.
This isn't silly at all. I have this exact problem with Telegram. I'd like to use it as a "serious" messenger where people can contact me using my username, but there's plenty of communities I'd rather not post in using my real name (or something close to it), so I just cannot post in them without vacating my username.
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There are many parts of the world that are uninhabitable because it is too hot.

The perfect location for solar installations.
Show HN: Hot Allowances – Crypto Version of Traditional Allowances
Hot allowances are the crypto version of the traditional allowance. They are simple, non-custodial and a brand new way to get your family and friends on-chain.

How simple are hot allowances?

For the receiver, they are dead simple. There's no social logins, phone numbers, emails, bank information, names, home addresses, browser extensions, mobile apps, or key management. The receiver just needs a browser and enters the funder supplied password at an installation link. It's 10x easier than setting up a google account and 100x easier than setting up a centralized exchange account.

How does it work?

A hot allowance splits the crypto complexity between the funder and receiver. The funder deploys the smart contract, handles key management, and funds the allowance. The funder can manage the hot allowance by stopping, restarting or sweeping the allowance funds in the contract. Since the hot allowance is a periodic payment to the receiver, if the receiver gets hacked or phished, only the claimed portion of the allowance is primarily at risk.

Technical Note: Reverse social recovery

Hot allowances invert the social recovery process. Rather than someone setting up a wallet and assigning guardians to recover the account, with reverse social recovery, the guardian creates the allowance and delivers it to the user. This is the major insight that makes hot allowances suitable for crypto beginners.

Are hot allowances non-custodial?

Hot allowances are non-custodial and have no hard dependencies on hotallowance.com. The funder creates the hot allowance on their local device and then encrypts the data. The encrypted data is then sent to the receiver for installation via a url link. The receiver decrypts the hot allowance locally on their device. The hotallowance.com website is not required. It just streamlines the initial handshake and helps both funders and receivers manage their allowances.

I've created a few demo hot allowances on several ethereum testnets. These are one-time install urls, so please only use one. If you want to create your own hot allowance (the exact same code is used for both mainnet and testnet), go to https://hotallowance.com/testnet/create.html

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Security Phrase: ethRedditDemo2

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The father-son struggle that helped ensure IBM's success
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> that's more to assuage guilt or plaster a name for posterity than it is for any return

And you know this, how?

> always

If you have to insert this word, you've created a strawman.
I touched on some good approaches here [1]

But they’re aimed at the next tough job market, not this one, so they’re more long term.

[1] https://www.nishantjha.org/essays/squeeze
It's one of the oldest and most tedious clichés around, and for that reason not of interest here.
>probably-too-offensive-to-the-current-generation rabbithole

4chan offensiveness isn't so much a generational thing as it is a personality thing
Thanks for providing some details!
The Sleep Habit That’s More Important Than Getting 8 Hours
The other agent won't bring clients to you if the cut is too low.
No, it turns out that SMRs are not yet economically viable, just as us skeptics have been claiming. SMRs are continually hyped by the pro-nuclear crowd online. They aren't cost efficient vs renewables.
I worked for a while at a company in this space. The chat part really is as easy as it looks. Any competent programmer absolutely could implement it in a couple of weekends. Hell, we used the hardest parts as interview questions.

Now making it into an actually viable business is very hard (I'm not sure we ever managed it), but the hard parts aren't the technical side of implementing a chat app.
Why would he care? He's like a greasy used car salesman who is there to take advantage of your gullibility. Don't see him as anything other than a conman who got lucky being in the right place at the right time.
https://archive.ph/DUPWZ
Correct me if I'm wrong but Telegram never allowed sign up without username? I've had it for a long long time and it was always centred around phone numbers. I could be wrong.
In my area, you won't get an offer accepted if you don't waive the home inspection. In fact, it's basically required to waive all inspections, such as radon and others. So the state says you have a so-called right to these, which divests the state from liability, but on a practical level, you need to waive these. Buyers end up having to buy ~$1M homes based upon just looking at them once or twice over just a couple of hours with basically no history given at all. It's such a messed up process. I get to do more due diligence buying something off of Reverb or eBay than I did with our home. And as you say, all of the people you're forced to interact with force you to sign papers that says that they have no responsibility for anything whatsoever.
I noticed the parent commenter used the word flat so they are probably in Europe and thinking of stone/brick houses. Meanwhile a lot of replies, probably from North Americans, mention drywall and drop ceilings. There’s a huge difference in construction styles in different regions. Not to mention average age of buildings and likelihood of renting vs owning. Just something to keep in mind when reading comments.
What's the point of doing the science if we're not going to use the resulting output for things that aren't needs? Why have the needs at all if we dont get to have wants?
In a surprise move, the military's spaceplane will launch on Falcon Heavy
I see this changing really fast. Real estate firms and individual real estate agents are not gonna want to get sued for hundreds of millions of dollars. They are going to be SUPER careful to avoid that. I foresee the quick dilution of the power of the realtor trademark. I foresee new real estate agents entering the market and not using the realtor trademark. I see those real estate agents using very different business models than what are use now. Lower percentages or fixed-price - but they'll find other ways to make money by being intermediaries with the other players in a transaction.

Whatever is our cost for this cartel, the cost of the MD cartel is at least 10x higher. So perspective is needed.
The seller really should be liable for all of that
I don’t get the SNL hate. It seems fine to me? Maybe I’m not watching enough?
Google offered Epic $147M to launch Fortnite on the Play Store
We commonly accept that are large ranges of inner experience.

Different levels of anxiety, depression, focus, pain, sexuality. All that we can manipulate with medication, to bring within a range we find suitable.

So why can't ones inner experience of hunger be vastly different from someone else?
Oh-so-barely related: today I found myself listening to "Baba O'Reilly" in the car and I took the opportunity to show my son the cover art for "Who's Next" because it always seemed like it was worth a mischievous boyhood chuckle.

...and then he and I stumbled upon a recent retelling of the circumstances around that photo shoot which was kinda interesting [1].

[1] https://www.loudersound.com/features/album-artwork-the-who-w...
I did computer support and had a couple of title companies all though the 2007 boom and 2008 crash. I may seem impossible, and yet suits brining up chain of title going back into the 1800s do happen more commonly than one would think.

In the rural south there are some insane claims of title across families. I've seen title work where they had thousands of pages of paperwork involved with hundreds of possible heirs that had to be located.
Under German law, anyone involved in a criminal case has the right to privacy. The press are free to report on the case, but they cannot identify the suspect or victim. If you watch or read German news, you'll see everything you expect to see in a report about a crime, except for names and faces.

Personally, I think this is an entirely reasonable balance between competing rights. Publicly identifying suspects can cause immense harm to innocent people and prejudice the right to a fair trial based on the presumption of innocence. I cannot see any public interest argument for the general right to publicly identify criminal suspects, beyond mere prurient interest. If there would be substantial investigative benefits to publicly naming a suspect, for example to encourage witnesses or other victims to come forward, that should be a decision for the courts (or at least the police) and that decision should be made based on the individual circumstances of the case.
Some lenders do require inspection, and FHA loans do require one. They have some value buyers for sure but inspectors also have an interest in finding something to make it seem worthwhile.
All the major world powers dumped tons of money into researching light water fission, precisely because it is dual use technology for making weapons.

What has not had billions of government dollars in finding were renewables.