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I sometimes wonder about the V2, atomic bomb, bomb sight, and other massively expensive WWII research programs. It seems like they all could have been replaced with much more borin…

You are correct. If the company wanted, it could probably be profitable in the next couple of years. But that would require aggressively shedding stuff like X, xAI, and Starship. I…

Growing up inMichigan in the nineties, solar water heaters were surprisingly common. Your comment makes me wonder how hard it would be to pipe water through the PV panels en route …

Good tip. Somehow this feels more fair than the elevator example but I can't put my finger on why.

I used to work in a shiny new LEED certified government building here in DC. My office was on the second floor. I had to take a elevator every day because the only stairs were for …

In my own experience, the brass sets the culture and expectations that encourage department heads to break the law. Certainly there are done CEOs explicitly commanding people to do…

Honest question, why do they need tens of thousands of GPUs? I would have thought they could run a Sol-level model on a few million dollars of hardware. Let's say it's ten million …

One of my friends from grad school got a Masters of Public Policy then decided she would rather chalk menuboards for a living, spun up an LLC, and does amazing work. I admire peopl…

I totally agree with you! I love seeing a flyer at my daughter's school that was obviously made by a student. It shows that they care enough about the thing to put real work into p…

This is incredibly well stated. I might trot out this comment the next time the bosses ask for more accurate next-year financial projections.

Now most people get their music through a paid service that streams content from a remote data center. OpenAI is trying to replicate the music industry's history.

It'll be easy to enforce for most corporate clients. I work in a profit-driven corporation that's now owned by a private equity firm. We try all sorts of things to make money. But …

I've lived in Washington DC for 20 years and I never realized why the bus stops here are concrete! Thank you for this.

I recently hired for a tech position on my team. I ended up hiring an amazing internal applicant. I consider myself lucky. The hiring process has gotten awful on both sides in rece…

If you do crime, can you be arrested by the local police? "I have diplomatic immunity! Also I live on a reservation with their own police force. So no." It's pretty clear that's wh…

I'll point out how many cases are decided unanimously. It's quite rare for a case to be decided 6-3 on ideological lines.

What change would you suggest? A minimum period of time in the country before birthright citizenship applies? What about people who enter the United States illegally and then have …

The United States is different from 95% of countries. We're the place you are supposed to flee to when those other countries oppress you. That's just not the history of a place lik…

And Guinness thought the t-test was too dangerous to announce publicly over a century ago

This is real. If your app breaks because your AWS region crashed, the CEO probably isn't going to blame you. If you have similar uptime but the crashes are due to you picking a che…

I wonder if there's a single trainer in Kenya who is responsible for some of the conventions we see so often. Maybe (s)he just really likes full stops and used them in all of the t…

I'm not excusing Altman's many many lies, but it is worth noting how many algorithmic advances in the past 20 years were made with relatively little computing power. Think of thing…

US law is more murky if they are responding to a perceived emergency. That can give probable cause. Imagine someone calls 911 due to smoke coming out of the neighbor's house. Clear…

What a terrific and depressing game!

Nicely done! When I started moving up from being an individual contributor to corporate management years ago, the brass would casually say things like "P&L" or "EDITDA" and I had n…