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Comment since when (Score 1) 12

Around crowds of others, I believe clothing has been the human GUI since at least  Gobekle-Tepe. Yes yes visual expression varied   from Minoan dash to Mycenea paranoia, but sensory response carried TRUTH  long before language. Of-course  in this enlightened age some laxers do not dress for the occasion ...

Comment Re:Not surprising (Score 1) 40

With fusion power, crypt-coyn, Quantum computing, vegi-meat  and *.AI all producing negative returns ... and promising those losses  continuing into the indefinite future ... pure-play investors need to believe in SOME sure outrageously profitable money-stream.  The wife may tolerate silver, but the mistress demands gold ! If not hallucinogens then ... what ...? Panic ... panic ...

Comment Re:AirBNB decides to commit retnal market suicide (Score 2) 129

Why make life easy for AirBNB community smashers. Owners of such properties ARE running mini-hotels and denying land-use/housing  to real residents. Instead of shelter for full-time residents AirBNB creates  drug-addled adult  vacation-toys for the upper-mid class. Is that act basically  wrong?  Yes ... in that nearby rental properties decrease land/aesthetic  values for nearby permanent residents --- see < Isle of Palms SC  > for a prime example, where proliferation of AirBNB-type housing culturally  raped the local community.  Of-course ... no moreso than a resort in the Poconos or Sierra Nevada. But, the distinction should be perfectly clear, between residential  and recreational properties ; things like tax-rates, professional services and maintenance ought to reflect that difference. AirBNB owners want it both ways ... hotel+ income while shoving maintenance on visitors. I'd stop that right now ... as well as allowing ANY AirBNB properties within residential neighborhoods.

Comment Re:Building wealth (Score 1) 202

You describe a race-to-the-bottom; your betters are not impressed.  The wealthy still wear hand-loomed silk suites and dresses ... sail hand-fitted wooden yachts ...  grouse-hunt with  hand-bored shotguns ... and have their man-of-business do their trading. Factories can't compete. Maybe you need to save-up for a week to buy that hand-built & sharpened paring-knife; splitting goose-berries for cobbler really takes  thumb-against-blade. 

Comment Re:I don’t get it. (Score 1) 49

Generally speaking ..."Against the GP: the plan IS to have robots do those sorts of things. And there's real progress being made." ... replacing human labor with machines is no progress. The wealthy have ALWAYS understood this ... for example ...  butlers, tailors, men-of-business, lawyers , secretaries, chauffeurs . Against the GP: the plan IS to have robots do those sorts of things. And there's real progress being made. Wealthy engage an entire class of personal , human assistants .  OTOH grifters,  strivers ,  hustlers and wanna-Beez pretend silly machines can substitute -- a humanist inhuman touch  like  self-driving autos OMG -- and consciously try forcing all to the same pretense. More honest and more "agentic"  leaving  "service"  to your betters  while practicing DIY tasking.

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