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I think the increased prevalence of work from home is a huge factor for meet ups and urban activities in general. If I'm already out and about and likely nearby it's an easier sell to get me to go to a meet up. It's harder if I'm being asked to head to a central downtown just for the meet up, but there aren't enough interested people in my suburb to support a more convient meetup.


I've certainly found that myself. Even pre-pandemic, I was mostly working from home (or traveling).

When I was in an office, even if an evening event was definitely out of the way (as was typical), the fact that I had to get in my car anyway meant that it wasn't that big a deal to go into the city. I find the bar for leaving my house to take an hour drive to an evening event is a lot higher and mostly I don't do it.


Perhaps. But shouldn't there be a lot of people living in the urban area anyway? If not, that's kind of a change from the booming urban neighborhoods of 2013-2019.


While many offices are not within city limits quite a few others are and pre-COVID there was certainly a lot of net commuting into cities for the workday. There's presumably less of that today in general and it's one thing to do an after-work event in the city if you're already there vs. having to go in.


I'm excited for ChatGPT in video games. Especially in procedurally generated or Roguelike games.


Absolutely!

A lot of completely new immersion possibilities to try. GPT powered characters will be a fascinating thing.


Online booksellers often denote "mass market" vs "trade" paperback which does potentially give you info on the quality of the paper.

"The paper quality is better as well, as most often they are printed on acid-free paper like a hardback book." - https://biblio.co.uk/book_collecting_terminology/trade-paper...

(I've found this to be relevant when sourcing physical copies of out of print books.)



Magic for Humans with Justin Willman on Netflix (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_for_Humans) has some fun demos + explanations of this if anyone's interested.

What feels like a "random choice" when someone makes it is probably just the first thing they think of. So if you can make sure they're primed to think of what you want right away you can "predict" their choice. The real skill comes in being able to prime them without making it obvious that that's what you're doing.


The opening to the film “now you see me” did the forced-choice-of-card gag well.


Does anyone have a good explanation (or resource) for why this wouldn’t happen?


The theory is just supply and demand, which is how prices are determined in a competitive market. If you give everyone $20k, would you expect grocery stores to raise the price of bananas to $20/lb? Probably not, since people can just go to the grocery store down the street. Now if everyone suddenly wanted to buy more bananas with their new cash that would have an effect, but that’s how markets are supposed to work.

In practice it probably depends on a lot of factors and would need empirical studies.


Who would supply these bananas? After receiving $20,000, do you think the farmer's laborers will go to work the next day for the same wage as before? The trucker? The grocery store cashier? Will the "grocery store down the street" be immune to the higher labor costs?


The gocery worker and trucker will have a better bargaining position, yes. On the other hand, they can also affort to take a lower pay because their basic needs are already covered and any additional income can be spent on luxory. So yeah they will demand better working conditions and goods will increase somewhat in price - but there is no reason to expect that this will be proportionally to the UBI amount.


Why wouldn't rent just increase to capture this new income for most people? If UBI is high enough to afford mortgage payments on an owned house, housing prices will skyrocket (even more than now) until those receiving the UBI are priced out of the market once again. Because once the mortgage is paid off, the value of the property is expected to grow, and that's a bet lots of people are taking, even now in this crazy market.


> Why wouldn't rent just increase to capture this new income for most people?

Of course it would. It's happening right now.


We could do what they do in Japan and deprecate housing as it ages. Very few people buy second hand properties, so a house is a liability that needs to be demolished vs land without one. It also helps if no one believes in property speculation because of a huge property bubble that burst in the 80s.


You could institute a high LVT and get all the same mechanics without any of the enforcement overhead.


Because you increase taxes to offset it so no net new money is added to the system. Everyone gets ubi but only some people get new taxes.


If I have the opportunity to use my gaming machine - I want to spend it playing a game, not reading lore. But I really appreciate good lore if it's made available elsewhere (books, apps, websites, etc.). If lore is going to only be available in game I think audio logs ( albeit with optional subtitles) are a better solution than walls of text.


I recall this coming up on HN before, but lots of big companies have special programs for hiring jr / entry level engineers. Usually, these are integrated with university and boot camp programs the company has a relationship with. Those roles exist and are being hired for, just through a different process. Another factor is that if you’re cleared to hire someone at a sr salary you can probably hire at a jr salary if you find someone, but probably can’t go the other way. Also keep in mind HR salary bands can go out of date fast in the tech market and you may have to open a sr role in your system to get the range you need to get even an entry/mid level candidate.


I wonder what percentage of Facebook's users are only there because of 3 or fewer friends, bands, groups/clubs/interests, or businesses that still use Facebook as their primary means of communication.


In there just for collectible items, in my country most of the second hand sellers use facebook.


"As soon as the Paris contract released the telelectroscope, it was delivered to public use, and was soon connected with the telephonic systems of the whole world. The improved 'limitless-distance' telephone was presently introduced, and the daily doings of the globe made visible to everybody, and audibly discussible, too, by witnesses separated by any number of leagues." - From the London Times of 1904, Mark Twain

https://americanliterature.com/author/mark-twain/short-story...


That's pretty interesting, thanks


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