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1. If someone is running to a cop because someone didn’t pick up after their dog, that is a sad state of affairs. 2. If we are so interested in enforcing laws, what about all of th…

Hotel wants to avoid undesirable guests. Seems reasonable.

Convert some to cheap residential. Solves both problems: affordable housing as well as rebalancing supply and demand for office space.

Why participate? Why not just skip any site that wants a photo of ID? Also, those sites run massive liability risk for the inevitable data breaches that will occur.

There ARE regulations for sure. But they exist to protect the population at large. For example, food safety laws were not created out of government hostility but rather because foo…

Then those people are on the sidelines like every other citizen. Play the game or be a spectator. Nobody gets to have it both ways.

If businesspeople want to get involved in politics, they should have the courage to run for office like anybody else. Lurking on the sidelines and waiving money around is really la…

At the end of the day, the processor can only do Turing operations: assign values to variables (registers, memory locations, storage), loops, bitwise operations, and conditionals. …

I think the gap is because 1. For coding, Claude is amazing - mainly because of its curated skills and because massive amounts of working code has already been carefully labeled ov…

What other industry regularly acts in such bad faith with respect to claims made? In the securities industry, material misstatement of fact lands people in jail.

Tech is supposed to be a tool that serves other products ends, not an end in itself. At this point, tech biz leaders are massively over-reaching and trying to influence the rest of…

Gee, what an optimistic outlook you have. Do you think the truly creative innovators in the fields of tech, science, engineering, and art get out of bed in the morning believing th…

Wearables are creepy. Please stop pushing “products” that nobody wants.

Forecasts are a thought exercise, not the revelation of something foretold. Best thing to do is think of the outcome you wish for and then try to take whatever actions you can to h…

1. so is everyone who is subject to a corporate mandate... but... 2. this may be ok. A good way to learn a piece of software or tool or process is to play with it. We learn lots of…

Carpet has been made for millennia. Scotchguard is new and toxic. So just make the carpets without the stain protection junk. Frankly the carpet factories will do more business as …

Both try to maximize engagement. Both (soon to be) ad supported. Both driven by algorithms that show the user what they want to see.

Like dot matrix printer fonts

I’m not sure anyone needs to break anything. I’m not sure this is a commercially viable business once all of the VC and foreign funding scaffolding goes away.

If they produce large negative externalities like data centers do, then yes absolutely. In a normal market, tech cos would have to pay for the messes they make (the negative extern…

You can’t determine age from a face scan. And it’s trivial to hold up a photo of an older person. Seriously if a website wants an image of your government ID or facial image, maybe…

Isn’t this sort of like saying you know how to use a web browser?

Good point regarding “ survivorship bias and groupthink” here.

Remember Web 2.0? If not, check Wikipedia. The idea was that everyone could create mashup web apps to do anything thanks to open standards and free APIs. Where did that dream go? D…

Trump is the only one convicted of felonies and found liable for civil wrongdoing. No other president violated laws (and please don’t start with Monica Lewinsky or that time Obama …