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The round is still open, Amazon is funding in tranches, and Sam doesnt get all the cash until he hits unknown metrics. Sounds like a down round.

Why would Amazon want to invest in AI, which would help their customers find what they want to buy, when they make all their profit from showing their customers what they don’t wan…

It’s funny to me that you think people were forced to by cars by “ripping out trolleys” when it was the buying of cars that did that.

America built train tracks at the same time and the rail Operators went bust post WW2 because Americans stopped taking trains.

Again, you have it backwards. Penn Station went bankrupt in the 1960s because rail passenger volume didn’t match the projections made in the 40s and 50s. Most American, even poor A…

“Land use choices” are downstream of what residents want less what they can afford. You have it backwards.

“ I love Disney and I love Dolly Parton, but it says something deeply broken about our national priorities when their theme park trains outclass public infrastructure in billion-do…

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Crazy idea: charge $1

A lot of words to say second place

No!

FSD is worse than autopilot, and makes autopilot worse. When you enable FSD, it turns on the cabin camera and applies the same driver attention standard to autopilot. Autopilot is …

Ending Medicare would make EMTALA obsolete

Ban all health insurance. And Medicare. And Medicaid. Require all healthcare services be transparently and consistently priced in cash. Transform the IRS into an insurer of last re…

Give me your checking account login and tax return and I will know who you owe money to

Plaid

Every financial institution has its own credit file on you. They don’t need the third party services at all. Credit profiles can be created easily from any number of public data so…

Old Facebook now exists in group chat

Yes the culprits are industry and not local government who giggled with piggish glee to set up meaningless and costly recycling and compliance regimes which generated them billions…

“Self reported” is exactly the standard of evidence I expect from Covid researchers. Thank you for the thoughtful reply. Next up please control for vaccine status. Long vaccine any…

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How do you distinguish the feeling of being less sharp from the psychological impact of lockdown?

This reminds me of 12 years ago at NY Tech Meetup when some whartonites debuted a carbon credit marketplace and the first audience question was “is this a scam?”

are we allowed to ask questions about his sister now or will that get flagged and deleted again?

Birds are not people.