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It's an old concept that "the system [of property]" has a hard time fighting:

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/absentee-owner.asp

Think about what allows the toxic management company to thrive, eg, by becoming the principal (part of it is an identity problem I pointed to in sibling comment)

The garden hose example is a good faith scenario but maybe it still feels icky to you because they arent the "genuine inventors" :)

How are they going to prove that? Put up a diff tree of their improvements?


>"NPE"

That's an example of tripartite problem (innovators/IP-arbitrageurs/commercializers) that's easy to oversimplify to a bipartite one (NPE vs "practicians") by inadequate notation



that's a hell of a domain name

I bet they rank for "conservative texans for energy innovation" but if they were serious about that they'd put that in text in an <h1>.

That's one. Another, making it expensive for outsiders

https://archive.ph/8pZzW

https://archive.ph/zZIen


"Write like you want Grammarly to surprise you in a good way"

https://archive.ph/2026.04.09-025600/https://arjunpanicksser...

"Write in a way that makes your readers feel like you are talking to them."

Which seems like an epistolary version of one possible (maybe also better specified) paraphrase

  Code like you think -> Code so that the machine can think

Sorry, my attention started drifting when you said "epistolary."

"Attention is not what you need [to think]"

Unless, unless you're AI?


https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ama...

1. Not foundational to curiosity, maybe?

2. Nudges humans to default to a single direction [of trade]. E.g. buy cleverness and sell bewilderment.

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tomhow


supplementing your points: Japanese seem to prefer dropping the honorifics when in English:

https://archive.ph/OI3S2

I've also heard that it's still common to address one's peers with -kun in parliament.

In GP's case it sounds rather quaint, but also endearing (like referring to a neighbor or a long lost schoolmate in the third person)

Pedantry: Takaichi is her father's surname. (I had to look that up, tbh)


There are those who don't believe in institutions because these are always made of minds "not like theirs". And there are those who believe in institutions because some are made of minds "just like theirs".

("marriage is an institution")


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