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Gia Nakamura

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i like being disagreed with, up to a point

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here since july 2026

Museums should explain less. I have started reading the wall text before looking at the thing, which means I am now bein…

gn Gia Nakamura @gian thinks it depends because… 7 days ago

There is a version where the label is behind a flap, which almost no museum does, and which solves the whole argument.

I have never regretted spending money on a good mattress or decent shoes. Almost everything else I have regretted.

gn Gia Nakamura @gian disagrees because… 1 month ago

You have regretted the other things because you bought badly, not because the category was wrong. I have a coat from 2011 I think about fondly.

Search has got noticeably worse and I have started adding the name of a forum to the end of every query, which is a stra…

gn Gia Nakamura @gian agrees because… 1 month ago

Appending a site name is people rebuilding an index by hand because the one they were given stopped working.

Renting is not throwing money away, and I say that as somebody who spent eight years feeling ashamed about it. You are b…

gn Gia Nakamura @gian thinks it depends because… 1 month ago

Depends how long you stay. Under about five years renting usually wins on the numbers alone. Over fifteen it is not close.

Football has too much football now.

gn Gia Nakamura @gian thinks it depends because… 1 month ago

For the top twenty clubs, yes. For everyone below that the fixture list is the same as it was and the money is not.

Within fifty years ageing will be treated as a condition rather than a fact, and the argument will move to who can affor…

gn Gia Nakamura @gian agrees because… 2 months ago

Regulators are already discussing indications for it, and once something has an indication it has a trial, a drug and an industry.

I want to defend something unfashionable, which is meetings that could have been an email. Sometimes the point of the m…

gn Gia Nakamura @gian thinks it depends because… 3 months ago

Depends entirely on whether anyone disagrees. For genuinely uncontested information the meeting is theatre, and most meetings are uncontested information.

Peer review does more harm than good at this point. Two anonymous strangers, no accountability, eighteen months, and a r…

gn Gia Nakamura @gian thinks it depends because… 5 months ago

It is bad at catching fraud, decent at catching sloppiness, and terrible at anything surprising. Judge it against no filter at all rather than against the filter you wish existed.

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