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+          "description": "Imagine living like this: You have four children, all younger than 10. Your husband was killed three months ago in an airstrike. You’ve moved five times in the last year, taking only what you could carry, which wasn’t much because you had to hold an infant in a sling. You don’t know what became of […]\nTo read this article, log in here or subscribe here.\nIf you are logged in but can't read CP+ articles, check the status of your access here\nIn order to read CP+ articles, your web browser must be set to accept cookies.\t\t    \n\n\t\t More\nThe post “Who Gives a Shit?” appeared first on CounterPunch.org.",
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-          "description": "Oren Cass’s “What Economists Could Learn From George Costanza”(The New York Times, December 23) has forgotten what economics Henry George taught. That’s the pundit named Cass who invariably calls for constrictions on consumers, as opposed to Cass Sunstein‘s advocacy of “choice-preserving but psychologically wise interventions” that would make “automatic enrollment in government programs” the default (in the words of  More\nThe post What Oren Cass Sunstein Could Learn From Henry George Costanza appeared first on CounterPunch.org.",
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           "description": "Michael Hudson introduces anthropologist Giorgio Buccellati's fascinating book on the political evolution of earlier societies.",
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           "description": "Team Trump's tech industry regulatory plans have gotten less attention than some other initiatives. An overview helps fill this lapse",
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           "description": "A new story on the financial tsuris at even the most elite universities underplays how they've made poor investment choices for many years.",
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           "description": "After avoiding the issue for years, the legacy media are now trying to manufacture public complacency and consent for the government’s digital identity — and by extension, CBDC — agenda. On July 5, the day Keir Starmer became UK prime minister, we wagered that a Starmer government would intensify the push to roll out a […]",
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           "description": "Looking at why the media seems increasingly to be talking to itself and not ordinary people.",
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           "description": "Tesla is now just ar mid-size automaker amid EV competition that is eating its lunch. What might realistic valuations mean for Musk's clout?",
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           "description": "~ Today's Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics;  Mangione judge, defense fund; WSWS on managing disease through allowing infection; Populism and the Wizard of Oz ~",
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           "description": "> Europeans could learn from Canada how to allow immigration in a fashion that the population embraces rather than tolerates\nClearly the author is ignorant. Canadians are sick of immigration. Young Canadians doubly so. Racism is becoming more acceptable by the day.",
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           "description": "I don't think you have to have Fuck You Money to get to this point. Most people eventually become disillusioned with work enough that they reevaluate what matters to them. Getting a very profitable exit is just one way to trigger that experience.\nIn my experience, a lot of people who get into this state start self-sabotaging hard as a way of rejecting what feels, ironically, like losing control. Sudden freedom can feel foreign and lot like your world got forcibly taken away from you. I'm not surprised the author is turning down opportunities and breaking off with his girlfriend. It's a way of taking back control.\nWhen this happened to me, I pivoted hard from getting satisfaction out of what I built to getting satisfaction out of developing people. Now I take great pride out of the careers I've nurtured...a lot more than what I've built, in most ways. I've heard others express similar ideas in different ways, like \"I now enjoy making other people rich.\"\nNo matter what, I encourage the author to use this time to build connections instead of destroying them (real connections...not work or SF acquaintances). Something I did not read in this essay is how he grew closer to anyone (in fact, I read the opposite). No path out of this valley involves traveling alone.",
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           "title": "New comment by madrox in \"I am rich and have no idea what to do\"",
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           "description": "I don’t think his problem is money.\nI think his problem is his identity (founder of Loom) suddenly disappeared.\nNow he needs to develop a new identity.\nThis is especially difficult for single founders without kids (in the sense that people with spouse/kids already derive much of their identity from those 2 things).\nSelling a company isn’t all that different from going through a divorce (in the sense that your identity needs to be completely rebuilt from scratch)",
           "link": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42580224",
           "publishedOn": "2025-01-02T23:28:43.000Z",
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           "description": "> The \"unsubscribe\" button in Indeed's job notification emails leads me to an impassable Cloudflare challenge.\nThat's a CAN-SPAM act violation.\nFTC: \"Tell recipients how to opt out of receiving future marketing email from you. Your message must include a clear and conspicuous explanation of how the recipient can opt out of getting marketing email from you in the future. Craft the notice in a way that’s easy for an ordinary person to recognize, read, and understand. Creative use of type size, color, and location can improve clarity. Give a return email address or another easy Internet-based way to allow people to communicate their choice to you. You may create a menu to allow a recipient to opt out of certain types of messages, but you must include the option to stop all marketing messages from you. Make sure your spam filter doesn’t block these opt-out requests.\"[1]\nExperian was recently fined for making it hard to opt out of their marketing emails.\nThe actual regulation text:\n§ 316.5 Prohibition on charging a fee or imposing other requirements on recipients who wish to opt out.\nNeither a sender nor any person acting on behalf of a sender may require that any recipient pay any fee, provide any information other than the recipient's electronic mail address and opt-out preferences, or take any other steps except sending a reply electronic mail message or visiting a single Internet Web page, in order to:\n(a) Use a return electronic mail address or other Internet-based mechanism, required by 15 U.S.C. 7704(a)(3), to submit a request not to receive future commercial electronic mail messages from a sender; or\n(b) Have such a request honored as required by 15 U.S.C. 7704(a)(3)(B) and (a)(4).\nThat seems to cover it. File a CAN-SPAM act complaint (spam@uce.gov). Send a copy to the legal department of the sender.\n[1] https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/can-spam-act...",
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           "title": "New comment by Animats in \"Tell HN: Impassable Cloudflare challenges are ruining my browsing experience\"",
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           "description": "Hilarious irony:\n> With hindsight, some of my past rejections have become amusing.  With a coauthor, I once almost solved a conjecture, establishing the result with an \"epsilon loss\" in a key parameter.  We submitted to a highly reputable journal, but it was rejected on the grounds that it did not resolve the full conjecture.  So we submitted elsewhere, and the paper was accepted.\n> The following year, we managed to finally prove the full conjecture without the epsilon loss, and decided to try submitting to the highly reputable journal again.  This time, the paper was rejected for only being an epsilon improvement over the previous literature!",
           "link": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42568746",
           "publishedOn": "2025-01-01T19:54:15.000Z",
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           "title": "New comment by dwaltrip in \"One of my papers got declined today\"",
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           "description": "> Credit card delinquency rates, which are seen as a precursor to write-offs, peaked in July, according to data from Moody’s, but have only fallen slightly and remain nearly a percentage point higher than they were on average in the year before the pandemic.\nThis is a prime example of a style of reporting that really grinds my gears.\nThe citation is clearly to another internet source, so a link should be provided. If it truly cannot be linked because it is private, more context is still needed to understand what this data means.\nI actually can’t find the source myself, but I can find “Delinquency Rate on Credit Card Loans, All Commercial Banks” from the Federal Reserve. [1]\nThe percents from that source somewhat match those referenced in the FT quote. “Peaked in July”\n- 2024Q1 3.15%\n- 2024Q2 3.24%\n- 2024Q3 3.23%\nUsing 2019 as “the year before the pandemic”, the average was 2.5825. Is +0.6475 “nearly a percentage point”? I guess it technically would round up.\nSeemingly important context that the quote doesn’t give is that 3.23% is lower than any time 1991Q3 to 2011Q4. But, maybe the trend matters more for this metric.\n[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DRCCLACBS",
           "link": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42553307",
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           "description": "I worked with John for a few years in the 1990s. This was during the heyday of BBSes, when he joined our small team at Mustang Software after Mustang bought Qmodem. John moved to Bakersfield California (with his family, including OP!) to be with us. John left a few years later due to I think business differences with management.\nJohn was personable and full of joy. He always loved a good joke. I remember the parties (not wild, we were pretty tame back then) we would have around the pool at his place. He was generous with his time.\nThe story of Qmodem itself was a bit different. Qmodem for DOS was a one-man shareware business and was John's pride and joy. It was clear that he poured everything into that program. It was finely tuned and just worked. Times were changing though, and people were calling for a Windows version. Unfortunately, John was not interested in learning Windows programming, so Scott Hunter (now at Microsoft), Dan Horn, and I built Qmodem for Windows. It was good, but it really never had the same level of polish that John's work did. It was \"Qmodem\" in name only.\nAfter John left Mustang he also left Bakersfield and I lost touch with him. I'm sure he continued to make the people around him smile. Thank you for your time and contributions, John.",
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           "title": "New comment by ghewgill in \"Tell HN: John Friel my father, internet pioneer and creator of QModem, has died\"",
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           "description": "> SQLite is not open source in the legal sense, as “open source” has a specific definition and requires licenses approved by the Open Source Initiative (OSI).\nThis is wrong, and harmfully wrong. OSI are not the arbiters of open source. Their Open Source Definition, though generally useful and accepted, is not without legitimate criticism and controversy. As for their approval, that’s a dreadful thing to rely on for any purpose; https://writing.kemitchell.com/2019/05/05/Rely-on-OSI.html> is a good description of most of what’s wrong with it (it doesn’t really get into the broken politics enough; but some of his other articles contain more), and I like its summary: “The list of OSI-approved licenses reflects OSI’s practical and political history, not any useful, consistently functional category of license terms.”\nAs for whether SQLite is open source, well, the only reason a public domain dedication doesn’t meet the OSD is that it’s not a license. It’s more open. In a way that is legally mildly uncertain in some jurisdictions, sure, but to call it “not open source in the legal sense” is just wrong.",
           "link": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42550846",
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           "title": "New comment by chrismorgan in \"Fun facts about SQLite\"",
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