my experiences with people who have printed out my posts is that if there's one it's a good sign. but if they start printing out many, that's a bad sign.

my friends tell me that eating microplastics, and bpa in general, weren't as effective as actually getting on estrogen but not trivial either. maybe worth it but probably not worth the other health costs.

If you would like to argue for bringing back elevator operators, you are welcome to do so.

I am not. There are power-law distributions in branch utilization, so the first ATMs have the largest effect. The doubling of tellers from 1975 to 1985 is part of their effect.

Online banking creates teller-like jobs that aren't captured because they're not at branches; it's not apples to apples.

The consensus in the literature is in fact that ATMs drove an increase in teller jobs, as the reduction in telling activities allowed bank tellers to instead move into a more sales-like roll, and lighter bank branches to expand into more locations. Please note the absolutely massive 1970→1980 jump.

either the kyc hurdles from the banking partner end up much worse than paypal, with major withdrawals constantly raising SARs, or someone systematically violates AML.

and if you want to compete at violating AML, you should not be located in the US

i find her extremely annoying and grating but the approach described doesn't really sound like it can be made to comply with the law?

"stop hitting yourself" mentality alive and well on this website

- volition and reflection augmentation

- serendipity as a service

- step tracker for the soul

- community-based structured experimentation

- local-first research interface (probably currently involves a 512GB Mac Studio, an DGX Spark, and a massive RAID setup with all of Anna's Archive)

the harry potter generation is already at military startup / vc fund age but it's very much just a different demographic

so, so, so much

now that the scaling is over the scaling can begin

we've got a lot of scaling to do

this year, men are getting serious gifts like:
- a drastically oversized houseplant
- a copy of TaPL
- the three foot tall Miffy wall clock that looks like a giant wristwatch

i feel like i'm holding a toddler back by the strap of their overalls as they try to run into a fire

i think in a strict sense that's what i'm doing here but i feel spiritually like i'm doing something different.

they think it's accidental…