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I've been surprised that the news that Strategy (formerly Microstrategy) bought 3x the total amount of mined bitcoin in the past year didn't cause bigger waves. A single corporatio…

I just checked, and the SAT math section covers algebra, trigonometry and statistics. Look at this list: Quadratic equations and functions (vertex form, roots, discriminant) Polyno…

Voters rejected a proposal, and your response is that the result will be more parties that support the type of thing that the majority of voters just rejected? In a sense, you may …

And the safety-focused AI lab ends up being the most dystopian one. Is that irony? Scary future, where we'll all end up increasingly dependent on AI models, but those models will h…

California has 10% income tax vs 0 in Texas. Austin property tax is 2% vs Palo Alto at 1.4%. Salary of $150k in Austin requires $282k in San Francisco to be equivalent. Source: htt…

This comment seems like 15 years outdated to me. I'm curious what you think "normal" pay and "startup" pay are. Or maybe how early you're drawing the line for defining "startup". B…

"Environmentalists" is a large, diverse group and nuclear energy has been a controversial topic splitting the group for decades. Many environmentalists are pro-nuclear, and viewed …

> I guess I just don't get it Imagine you liked something, then realized that thing was bad and you didn't want to do it anymore. Then somebody offered you an alternative without t…

Reservations have no federal restrictions against development. In fact, they are exempt from regulations that restrict nearby land, which is why casinos are such a common usage. Pe…

> US instantly becomes a pariah state Aren't we already? The current administration has torched relationships with essentially every allied country except Israel. From Toronto to T…

Payroll taxes on $160k salary are $12,240. Employer contribution to health insurance is maybe $6k - $20k. Retirement maybe $5k. Still under $200k. Heck of a lot of "support cost" t…

Surveillance capitalism is going to swing around to full communism. Airfare, hotel rooms, now even groceries will have their price adjusted based on ability to pay. Getting a raise…

There are ~700k h1bs out of ~157 million American jobs. So about 99.6% of jobs in America are held by Americans and 0.4% by h1bs.

I'd imagine that most couples would still want to be able to close a door when they're on the toilet. I'd rather sleep in a shared room at a hostel and use a toilet in a stall in a…

You've got your cause and effect flipped. They don't sound like AI. AI sounds like them, because this is exactly the type of content that the LLMs were trained on and tuned to repl…

Journalists really need to stop using "millionaires" when they mean billionaires, centi-millionaires and deca-millionaires. About 1 in 5 American households are millionaires. "Mill…

8h on zoom is far more desirable than 8 hours in person shuffling from meeting room to meeting room for me. I can have the call in the background while looking at something else wi…

The weapons will be used by the people in power. Do you want your country's current political leaders to have more weapons to suppress information they dislike or facts they disagr…

> housing that is income or means tested Hasn't means tested social welfare basically been proven to be bad in every way, regardless of political or economic belief system used to …

> the audience understands that it's a caricature with a lot of truth and a bit of simplification I suspect a whole lot of TV fails both parts of this test. The audience doesn't un…

No one is risking multi-year commitments of millions or billions of dollars to build a factory in America when the tariffs change week to week. If you want to incentive domestic re…

"Founders" are a tiny percentage of the rich, they're just the ones in the news. The richest 1% own half the wealth in the world and the gap is getting wider. Since 2020, for every…

Where does the money go though? Europe has its own problems, and US instability will magnify them. The last 20 years have shown that China is essentially uninvestible for foreigner…

HFCS is a sugar. The difference between HFCS and standard cane sugar is relatively minor - a 5% difference in the ratio of fructose to glucose. There's some evidence HFCS is worse …