jonhendry

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[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 4 points 11 months ago

Also the paper is a decade old.

And redolent of 'emerita disease' although I don't think the authors have technically achieved that honor.

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 3 points 11 months ago

I didn’t exactly imagine them being a demographic big into a big box furniture and interior decoration store. Ikea, maybe.

Not even furniture, really. It's more like sheet sets, comforters, bed skirts, faddish kitchen utensils, small cheap appliances, towels, toothbrush racks, etc.

I expect a lot of BBBY nuts are the "mattress on the floor with no fitted sheet" type, but they probably spend money on desk/chair and living room media furniture.

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm glad I've never been a good enough programmer to believe I was a genius programmer.

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 5 points 1 year ago

It's kind of a shame that Linens 'n Things wasn't still around for contrarians to "support". It could have been a meme stock lunatic battle royale.

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 9 points 1 year ago

A PhD student got an opinion piece published on the hill dot com.

Also of course he has his own EA organization / grifting engine.

Which looks like they probably use Twelve Monkeys as a role model.

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 7 points 1 year ago

He has quite possibly written more words about Harry Potter than She Who Shall Not Be Named, herself.

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 6 points 1 year ago

Thinking it's bad: not controversial. Thinking something should actually be done about it: not that popular. Spending money / imposing costly regulation to prevent it: very unpopular.

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That seems like an inefficient use of space if the ceiling is anything more than six feet high. If they're ten foot ceilings, then the shelves are spaced about 20 inches apart, which is rather larger than typical books. No wonder there are multiple layers on some shelves and books overflowing onto other surfaces.

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 3 points 1 year ago

Fred Clark (https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/) recently drew attention to John Hagee, a Texas preacher who's been preaching about the imminent Rapture since the 1980s. His church recently spent millions of dollars to start a K-12 school. Which really isn't consistent behavior if you really believe the Rapture is imminent.

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

There's a SCOTUS case that says the government only has to pay a fair market value, not the "inflated by the government's need for the property" value. In the case a guy had bought a tugboat and fixed it up quite a bit. When WW2 started the government sought to buy it, and he insisted on a price well above the cost of the boat and the improvements, arguing that WW2 had increased demand so he should get a higher price.

So Musk would get a lot, but maybe not as much you'd think.

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 2 points 1 year ago

I'd think being there to take a photo of her mid-Caesarian section would have convinced him otherwise.

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 4 points 1 year ago

The bar for being treated as a genius by media seems extremely low now.

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