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Not sure if its a sufficient explanation, but I like what I've heard from Cal Newport about this. More and more self-service IT systems were able to replace a lot of jobs. But the result is that now you are responsible for doing things via IT systems that were previously outsourced to somebody else. E.g., you're booking your own travel instead of using a travel agent. In some sense, things are more efficient because we don't need travel agents. But also, things are less efficient because now you just have to do this task yourself. Do this across dozens or hundreds of discretely tasks and fields, and you end up with a society where everybody is doing everything themselves in a web browser instead of having some expert or professional to do it for them. So less individual time and focus is spent on your own area of expertise, and more is spent trying to figure out any number of confusing IT systems built to replace a "less efficient" human system.

It's been disappointing to see Khan's FTC focus so much on big tech—and frequently fail to make their case—when so many other anti-competitive behavior in other sectors has gone unchecked. The consolidation of medical firms and hospitals comes to mind. Feels like they are picking their fights based more on ideology than on trying to minimize harms to American consumers from anti-competitive practices.

Putting all your community resources on Discord is the surest way to repel me from joining your community.

Bills should only have numbers, never names.

Cattle, not pets.

This was my first thought too. Shows how Google has trained us to expect the worst from them...

Learning, memory, and attention are finite biological resources on the individual level. As long as there's a fresh crop of college grads each year, companies can afford to burn out a few older people.

I've had this same experience. Every time I go to my local specialty beer shops, it's nothing but 4-packs that _start_ at $16. I've never even heard of most of them, and a large portion are just the really over-done trendy IPAs that every brand new brewery seems eager to produce. Maybe 20% or less of their offerings are what I'd call a solid mid-range 6-pack of beer.

For months now, emails with subjects like "MCAfeeconfirmati0n--#21845315" and "confirmation#4073301981" have been hitting my inbox. These are such obvious spam emails that I'm unsure how the spam filters aren't catching them. Reporting them as spam hasn't done anything to catch them.

How many CEO's are CEO'ing for more than one company?

If they can do it, why not the plebs?

That's the real danger of AI: not that is wants to kill us all, but that it kills us all simply by accident.

Book bans just feel silly and antiquated in the age of the Internet. If kids want to read something, they can get it on their phones—that and probably much worse than anything that would ever end up in any school library.

Something I once heard that I think is kinda true:

When something goes wrong on the computer, there are two types of reactions: I am wrong, or the computer is wrong. The "I am wrong" person is discouraged and never gets very good at computes. The "computer is wrong" person persists until they bend the computer to their will.

The disappointment of old games for me is usually the controls. Newer games have polished controls so well that movement almost feels like a direct extension of thought. But when I go back and play my old favorites from decades ago, movement feels so clunky! I spend so much time fighting the controls rather than getting into the groove of playing. I didn't see it the first time around, because there was nothing better to compare against.

I've been getting this feedback since grade school, and I'm still getting it now in my 30's.

It's an extroverts' world and I just live in it...