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I enjoyed reading this article but I think the author overlooked that "low-level" languages aren't just less supported, they're also character-dense. You can accomplish more with l…

I agree with you. I'd go further and suggest that candidates should get anonymized information about applicants in the pool. Nothing like negotiating with yourself for a job...

What's interesting is that broadly speaking, people acknowledge that negotiating with asymmetric information is immortal or wrong. Take the stock market for example, insider tradin…

There's also another angle. During the call with Lex last week, Dario seemed to imply that future models would run on amazon chips from Annapurna Labs (Amazon's 2015 fabless purcha…

Let's not confuse correlation with causation. Is the organizational pressure that seeks conformity filtering out tattoos based on tattoos or the lack of conformity? It's tough to u…

Yes.

Ironically, we use tattoos for opposite reasons. If you're quick to judge someone's character based on their tattoos, it suggests a tendency toward superficial assessments. I find …

Eric Schmidt advocated for this exact thing in an Op-ed piece in the latest MIT Technology Review. [1] https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/05/13/1092322/why-amer...

High tech manufacturing at scale is often equally as challenging as development work. Starting with a proven design let's teams focus on leveling up their manufacturing capabilitie…

Against the Gods by Peter L. Bernstein is a fantastic book that has a few chapters about this family. It's worth the read if you're interested in the history probability and risk

I think your point is fair, but the point I'm making is that we should applaud when private industry is willing to shoulder a large proportion of the risk (vs. the traditional exte…

Also relevant and stated publicly by John, Blue Origin expects to cover more than 50% of the total cost. To put this into perspective the DoD will happily invest north of $1 Trilli…

There's something deeply ironic about a person commenting from a highly-engineered device, operating on a highly-engineered network, sitting inside of a highly-engineered building,…

There actually is precedence to this, albeit not in transportation. If you own a superfund site, the owner or operator of each facility must establish financial assurance for closu…

There are few books by the American Statistician Edward Tufte worth checking out. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Envisioning Information, and Visual Explanations, …

I've thought deeply about the problem and I think the solution is fairly simple; account for the cost. Businesses are simple and will react in kind. Either shift the burden of proo…

The prisoner's dilemma strikes again.

To be fair, any billion-dollar multinational will have an organizational chart that looks very similar to this. Companies like EY exist, almost purely, to create 'tax effective' st…

It partially dictates how the company communicated with its’ employees. A remote first company is going to engage with its employee base differently, invest in benefits that respec…

Paying less in taxes doesn't have to be nefarious. When you put money into a 401K you're shielding income from taxation. A 401K is an explicit tradeoff the government has created; …

Reusable rockets with massive cargo capacity is just one example. SpaceX equipped rockets will soon be able to carry around 100 tons of cargo to any place on earth in less than an …

This is an incredibly small minded perspective. Difficult challenges require new technologies, new processes and new ways of thinking. More specifically, technologies developed thr…

This is a bit of a strawman. There are a lot of factors influencing the decision on both sides. That $2500 will leave a gap in your resume, both literally and from an experience pe…

There are two aspects of 'your' credit score that could be effected by the shutting down exisiting credit lines. The credit score system is certainly not perfect, but I don't belie…

I was actually under the impression that what Pinterest does was against the ToS of Google. I can't find the link or reference, but I believe it was along the lines of 'You can't p…