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It's 4-5% increase when averaged out across the population. Some have personally faced much larger increases.

I feel like no-earth orbit is always going to beat out low-earth orbit in the long-term. I live an area that the USDA classifies as rural and I now have multiple fiber options, inc…

no, a combo meal (entree, side, drink) there is ~$10.

Scrabble only comes with one Z, so some of those are gonna have be sideways N's.

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I can't find the source anymore since 538 is no more, and I recall Nate even describing what could (and did) happen, which was that one swing state moving to the right had a high l…

Pipelines and jobs have effectively halted across the platform

The thing with all AI-isms is that they all started humans, but we're apparently not allowed to use them anymore. Emily Dickinson obsessed with em-dashes, now they belong to ChatGP…

Glad to have one less reason to incentivize ISPs to monitor every single thing we do on the internet.

Just put it in an oven if it gets too cold.

Because there is often a large tech component to it. The United States and Israel have two of the most advanced high-tech sectors in the world and they are playing a large role in …

> I don’t think we should hold our guidelines hostage to pleas for the heart. I don't think that's an accurate framing of the situation. It's a single post that enough people decid…

At the same time, there must be a point where general humanity overrides community guidelines.

Writing good code might be a bottleneck and the same can't be said about code in general.

I think fewer people would care about Palantir (and several other notable companies) if their CEOs/founders weren't using the company as a platform for their own ambitions and ideo…

That approach may need to be reexamined as it didn't appear to work. https://seekingalpha.com/article/4872657-us-goods-trade-defi...

We will have to keep waiting. The science isn't there yet.

Feb 2021 was peak covid tech bubble stemming from ZIRP. There are a number of companies that hit highs during that period that they'll likely never see again (or for quite some tim…

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Arresting people solely on the basis of their skin color or having an accent is akin to kidnapping. How many legal residents and citizens are you comfortable with being arrested wi…

Other comparable countries also having roving gangs of secret immigration police that are unbound by the law and the only departments responsible for overseeing them are managed by…

"This isn't just huge. This is a paradigm shift"

There's a lot of value in helping out locally as well. I don't have as much lived experience of someone in Vietnam as I do someone in my community. Nor do I understand the language…