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> For me it’s just the fact I cannot state any opinion at all because of the controversy it might cause. Years ago I would have rolled my eyes at this comment. As someone who is li…

There is no hiring process that is perfect. Plus, people burn out, organizations shift focus, etc. People who shouldn’t have been hired in the first place make it in, and people wh…

I mean, isn’t that always the case though? That lots of people don’t belong there? It’s just the law of large numbers + the ever shifting lives of people.

This seems so sensible to me that I’m curious why the hell it wouldn’t work.

And this is only true in a markets that are easy to enter. Starting an insurance company isn’t easy. Why are profit margins only 5%? Could be many reasons, including collusion. Ins…

This would be true if there were a reasonable amount of market understanding by customers and the friction to switching were low. Neither are the case. Most of the time, it takes a…

People who work at FAANG calibre companies are professionals, perfectly capable of finding new positions that suit their skills and level of commitment. I think it’s infantilizing …

If your question was intended to claim that the Article you quoted gives The Supreme Court ‘the final say on legal interpretation,’ I’m interested to know which words in that Artic…

The Constitution doesn’t say any of that.

The Supreme Court can just ignore its own precedents, so this doesn’t really help.

Tolerance and diversity are not absolute.

I wouldn’t consider those “American values,” except in the sense that those companies are trying to protect their interests by having a platform that appeals to a wide variety of p…

> If not, then it would seem to imply that we are OK with western powers using their capital (instead of gunboats) to impose their ideology on other cultures in the world. “impose …

Always glad to see spyware companies struggle

Good point. While the interest rates are “high” now (prime rate is 4.75?) that is actually a regression towards the mean, and definitely not 1970s hyperinflation territory. I wonde…

>Well when 80% of all US Dollars were "printed" / created in the last 2-3 years massive inflation will follow Be careful. This theory tracks for regular currencies, but gets distor…

>This is the first time in my life (34 yo) that price changes have been so large that they’re apparent to me. We lived through a unique time in history, and that unique time has la…

Thanks! I’m trying to round out my understanding. I’m not too big of a fan of textualism/originalism, but it’s a major judicial theory (obviously).

Do you have a source for this? My understanding of the second amendment comes from reading America’s Constitution: A Biography by Akhail Reed Amar. I’m trying to find reference to …

Well regulated militia

There are so many guns in this country (far more than people) that criminals don’t need this database and don’t need to rob someone to get a gun.

When looking at statistics like this, it’s somewhat unhelpful to consider the US one country. Because of the low density of the population + essentially no federal government, the …