Everyone who watched that movie felt a pang of longing to live that way; it's still selling the experience to the reader

Most people are not first-principles thinkers about politics. They are self-interested. Where that motivation is considered unsavory, they will deny it, even to the point of deluding themselves. Race is a prime example, because, like all forms of identity, everyone is biased in favor of their own ingroup, but admitting this bias is far more stigmatized than admitting other forms of ingroup bias.

If you take nearly everyone in the United States at their word, then racism has been effectively wiped out. And yet the indirect evidence of it is everywhere. Which means people aren't being honest with others--and possibly even not with themselves--about being biased in favor of people who look, speak, and act like they do.

This gets even worse when we start talking about politicians, who are trained to routinely lie, to the point where the media starts to safely, and correctly, assume that what they say is motivated entirely by self-interest and completely detached from the truth if it deviates in any way from what would advance their self-interest.

Notably, politicians who buck this trend--Justin Amash, Bernie Sanders, Thomas Massie--aren't generally stigmatized by the mainstream media as self-interested troglodytes. Their views are criticized, surely, but few question that they genuinely hold those views from first-principles reasoning, because they've demonstrated that they're principled people.

This suggests that the media is actually pretty good at distinguishing troglodytes from the truly principled, and while that may rub off on people like Ben Affleck the wrong way, directing your hatred at "the media" is misplacing it.

Also, the guy who wrote this article wrote a conspiracy screen about Obama's "plot to overturn the 2016 election" literally two days before. So him calling out others for impugning their political enemies' motives as coming from bad faith is pretty rich.

I mean, what did you expect?

Don't.

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That cuts against every labor demand projection.

Frankly, even mediocre programming jobs are a great option for most people. The lower mode is still much more than most entry-level jobs pay.

Which means, if you need to support IE10, you need a whole parallel set of styles. There's no graceful degradation when it comes to overall site layout, unless you're willing to serve the single-column mobile version to older browsers.

But using "torture was recently brought back" as a data point to rebut an overall statistical decline makes no sense. It's like saying "Apple's stock price fell today, therefore people are wrong to say the economy is improving".

A) Cheese is not usually expensive, like avocado, and so not usually considered worth paying extra for

2) Cheese is known not to be healthy, and part of the appeal of Chipotle is the illusion that you're eating healthy food

3) A different kind of cheese is already available for free, so that substitute good is bound to drive down demand for queso

I did notice that they recently cut corn tortillas and one (or two?) of the meat options, so they at least seem to be cognizant of the benefits of reducing decision fatigue by concentrating on their best-selling options

She doesn't consider AI as much of a threat... but I don't think she fully understands the leaps and bounds by which software is getting better at detecting patterns in images. As a software developer, I know that my field is still in its infancy. I wonder what it's like to look back on your profession, knowing your generation is the last of its kind.

Because many people that hold it bought it together with BTC as speculation and decided to sell simultaneously

A lot of life events are the same way.

When someone asks how work's going, I don't want to be honest and talk about how goddamn happy I am seeing that fat number land in my Mint sidebar every two weeks since that promotion. So I say "It's hard work!" instead.

There are online-only banks now like Simple and Ally; they obviously can't provide cash. If they can deny cash why can't other banks?

>giving owner Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. an advantage in the race among technology giants to capture the next generation of internet users

...seems suspect. Most western Chrome users started off with Netscape, Internet Explorer, Safari, etc., and then switched when they got better machines and got tech-savvier and realized it was a better browser.

So just because a browser reaches a user first does not, I think, mean it has "capture"d that "generation".

Especially for movie theaters, where the marginal cost of additional filmgoers isn't as high.

If I watch a second Netflix movie, Netflix has to spend 2x as much on bandwidth to serve it to me.

If I theater hop, the theater doesn't really have to spend anything more. The only cost to the theater is the opportunity cost of me not paying to see a movie I otherwise would have paid to see.

In other words, as long as the MoviePass subscription cost is higher than the opportunity cost of losing the average moviegoer's ticket revenue, then everyone wins. In fact, the theater probably really, REALLY wins because the more often I'm at the theater, the more often I have a chance to buy concessions.