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The internet created vast new opportunities for software engineers to create value. Generative AI is about replacing software engineers in creating that value. These are very diffe…

Hamas is the favorite to win an election in Palestinian state: > If elections were held today, Fatah would lose to Hamas 17 to 34 percent. https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2024/03/22/p…

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You'd rather Israel doesn't have the technology to target terrorists with precision, and instead will be forced to use crude methods to carpet-bomb large areas where they hide?

They didn't just "protest" their company's work with Israel. They took over company offices, including the office of Google Cloud CEO in Sunnyvale, and refused to vacate them for 9…

In what form of government is a vocal minority of activist workers allowed to take over their employer's place of business? Please don't say "communism" as they would be sent to th…

Employment is high, but real wages have been trending down for more than 2 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_wages#/media/File:Wages_i... So the average working person is i…

Actually doing it is of course only for other people.

Yes, they're already crippling international shipping: https://apnews.com/article/red-sea-yemen-houthis-attack-ship...

The threat has already been realized. Ships are already being rerouted en-masse due to Houthi attacks: https://apnews.com/article/red-sea-yemen-houthis-attack-ship... We all know t…

Now the Houthis are facing a competent military, that is so infused with progressive moralism that it can't use any of its competencies, and is very careful not to kill any Houthis…

Yes, MBS is terrible, and his regime is autocratic. Also, intelligent mature people make policy based on real-politik and the aggregate sum of its consequences. They don't just res…

Iran is using the Houthis to apply pressure on a regional rival, Saudi Arabia. The Saudis used to be a close American ally against Iran, but purist progressives in the Obama and no…

Without presenting a full argument, just based on your own post, if everyone is starting to do this almost in unison, in cartel-like fashion, then each individual company has no co…

Seems like the good old false Marxist argument, in a sexy new "mathematical" package to appeal to a geeky crowd. I predict it will do extremely well here.

Their economy was stagnating for at least a decade before 2018. They've gone from near-zero growth to negative. It doesn't matter what the reasons are, really. The pandemic hit eve…

The EU economy fell way below the US (after being roughly equal) because they were never able to compete in the new digital economy. All the big tech companies are American. You al…

Stagnation isn't "a good thing" when you're comparing to societies that are progressing. And it may be a zero sum game, when stagnating nations are drained of talent and brains, so…

The only problem with this model is that it doesn't seem to be working long term. Economically, Europe has been stagnating for a long time, and recently its been in a decline. So i…

"Hate speech" isn't well-defined, which is the core of the problem with any policy trying to censor "hate speech".

What if you discuss sensitive health-related details with someone other than your doctor, for example your attorney? The privacy issues here are bottomless, and so are the legal is…

It seems like violations that used to be rare and unique, and a huge deal like Watergate when they blew up, have become completely routine. Seems like we get such stories every wee…

Yes. Consider the case of Sandra A. Sellers, who was cancelled and fired after remarking that black students consistently end up at the bottom of her class: https://www.nytimes.com…

I can't think of a "good faith" reason for why the grievances of some races are elevated to a top priority, while the grievances of other races, that are often more recent and rele…