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Slop existed before AI at a monumental scale. Meta and Alphabet made sure of that.

Coming from the middle class, I've never met anybody talented coming from a shitty school who didn't also get filtered into a gifted program at a good school. Maybe your school sys…

I'm not sure that is maximizing employment as much as it is taking advantage of labor that is too cheap to meter.

You can use payback time to back into expected returns that adjusts for the time value of money and you need to consider that you're getting expected (investable) savings as well. …

You can make a joke because that, while conflict minerals are horrible and cause enormous damage to human life, the conflicts between people on a team are also very small. Comparin…

A character assassination would be something like "He does something morally reprehensible (cheating, selling ads to three year olds, etc". The above post is more like "He harps on…

So many times, dark mode just seems like somebody pressed the "invert color" option

One of those stories is having a bad password memory. One is a person conducting business on his personal account and triggering flags. Another is a business messing up. It's a goo…

Musk drives his team for speed because every one of his companies still has the "how much runway do we have" mindset. Lots of people can throw stones from their glass towers knowin…

Quibi has all the hallmarks of _corporate_ groupthink. "You know what the kids like? They like phones and Joe Jonas, my daughter won't stop talking about him." These things are mad…

Mosquitos transmit and incubate malaria. You don't get malaria from hanging out with a person with it, you get it from getting bit by a mosquito that has previously bitten a person…

> Mexico is safer than the US - some will find that unpaletable. Get over it. This is quite verifiably false? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_homicid... https:…

That is explained in the video

Whatever is happening, it got me out of bed instead of browsing endlessly

Whats your point though?

That's just arbitrage, right? If you're able to sell them at higher prices, the venue should've done it themselves.

Good question. It should be a progressive tax

Hax0rz2

You think a bunch of lawyers who got into their positions because they speak well will start writing in comment threads?

I imagine that "death from sitting too long" and "death from heroin overdose" differ a lot on the preferability spectrum.

It depends. When you read, you're approaching a well to drink the knowledge therein. When you're approaching a place that streams- HN, reddit, twitter- you're approaching a river. …

One of the key things that the book does is say, "Hey, you're probably looking at history with fundamental attribution bias goggles on. Take those off." The civilizational features…

There is an entire section in the article about how most people's first reaction is "don't burn the house down" and how the community worked together to create safety systems. The …

To be fair, France currently has more forests than it did a century ago.

This comment is unhelpful and negative for no reason. Somebody helping somebody else should not be dismissed but instead rewarded.