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The techies are insolvent but not yet bankrupt. They have been running their business off accounts receivable (which rightfully belong to you) for months. There is no way to work t…

I don't understand why they would even disclose this, maybe it's useful for PR purposes so they can tell regulators "oh we are so safe", but people (including HN posters) can and w…

Let's say you own and operate a small independent hotel, some techies from San Francisco offer to perma-book every room for the next three years solid for some fraction of your nor…

Props to the author for the well-researched original article. I disagree with the conclusion. In the current environment, OpenAI can raise money as if were water pouring from a fau…

First of all, that is factually incorrect -- Trump received 28.1% of the vote in Santa Clara county, which is significantly lower than 1/3rd. Source: https://results.enr.clarityele…

Maybe Altman has no idea about the realities of semiconductor manufacturing, or maybe he does. Sometimes it takes an outsider to shake things up and produce the impossible. Probabl…

This BOD went out and shot their own company. Sam & friends can now cherry-pick whoever they want from OpenAI and recreate most of the value in a few months under their own governa…

Not the OP, but Fishscapes, Bierhaus, Milk Pail, Sprouts, LazerQuest all gone, couldn't afford the rent. And that's just Mountain View. Retail that residents loved has been replace…

Here is what I am basing my arguments on: https://climateactiontracker.org/countries/russian-federatio... More generally, if Russia (or any party) has incentive, means, motivation …

Such pathways require global cooperation and will fail unless all major nations are on board. In particular, Russia is making no effort, and has no incentive or motivation to make …

$1.7M is approximately the construction cost for a ~2000 sq ft rebuild in the suburbs. So that does seem a bit high to construct a single 150 sq ft bathroom. Probably the mistake i…

> Atherton is a billionaire enclave in Palo Alto 100% factually incorrect. In addition to NOT being part of the City of Palo Alto, The Town of Atherton shares no land border with P…

Additionally, notice that the orange data points (actual hospitalizations) are significantly under the "With Intervention" plot. So why even include the slide? Clearly the assumpti…

Checking the actual report (broadbandnow.com, not the linked article, which is blogspam) they looked at the weekly median download speeds for the previous ~10 weeks. Last week, 88/…

Imagine you wake up in the morning, first thing you do is take a swab test. Ten minutes later you have your result, and if it's positive, you self-isolate. If it's negative, you go…

The handwaving arguments in this letter are not convincing (especially the "You do also understand that, as long as the rate of increase is exponential, no linear solution to contr…

https://www.sccgov.org/sites/phd/DiseaseInformation/novel-co...

When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail, and when you're a virus researcher, every outbreak looks like a pandemic. The facts on the ground don't match the pandemic concl…