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The OP implicitly raises the question of why does "productivity" exist. I've been giving that some thought lately, and the hypothesis I arrived at was that of diminishing suffering…

I wonder what is the contextualization of the OP's preference of the "Palantir as a data/power broker" narrative to that of "Palantir as a highly profitable staffing agency".

Re the "Manhattan project in 1944" argument - I am very cautious about the "modulo engineering scaling" carve-out -- unlike the uranium manufacturing pipeline of World War 2, that …

Touché! That's a good one.

Is the question at hand about balancing local building authorization with the government's intent to encourage a specific kind of national infrastructure businesses? This seems to …

There's correlation all right, but is there causation? A lot of folks I know regard mechanical watches as a type of jewelry, a high value item that's not intended for the everyday.…

I find merit with the core point as well the delivery. I wish it was more commonly accepted that choosing not to act is effectively a stand against one's own value system in favor …

I think Python's centrality is a consequence of its original purpose as a language intended for instruction. Yeah, some of its design decisions required immense cost and time to ov…

I came to regard YAML as a kind of a syntactic HFC syrup, a bearable idea that was taken too far. Alas, YAML is just about everywhere, so the chances for a replacement that'll be b…

To the extent a random person's evidence on the Internet amounts to proof: From people at Facebook circa 2018, I know that end user privacy was addressed at multiple checkpoints --…

TL;DR: is the described business viable? I can see how a tech-centric person would see the described business as viable, but putting on my founder hat, I realize that it faces enor…

I'd like to encourage you consider the following two perspectives -- 1. A senior Google leader telling the shareholders "we've asked 1% of our engineers, that's 270 people, costing…

Proper disclosure: I'm not a US resident, and I'm deeply alarmed by the de facto defunding going on right now. Furthermore, I concur with the piece that a proper investment in the …

Hey, I've been developing professionally with Python for 20 years, so wanted to weigh in: Decent threading is awesome news, but it only affects a small minority of use cases. Threa…

Thank you, that's a well stated and thorough critique. A lot of your reaction is towards the notion of dramatic impact. Note that I tend to distinguish between an "intellectually c…

> This raises the question of what constitutes "dramatic impact" That's a valid critique. What I had in mind is the overwhelming prevalence of researchers who in my opinion have ne…

Proper disclosure, I have a graduate degree with a thesis in a STEM field from a university that's occasionally ranked worldwide top-100. I appreciate a lot of my former classmates…

Bell Labs grew to be a dominant player in an age that was characterized by an oversupply of a manageable number highly capable scientists who did not all have a chance for getting …

What I find remarkable is the way the Admiralty - a very imperfect system with multiple facets that are downright clownish is nevertheless principled as a whole when it comes to st…

Actually I do not see the similarity. However it appears that you see disrespect where only respect was intended - could you propose how should I have conveyed the message in a way…

> people in more precarious circumstances have more kids. I don't know why. Did you consider that the judgement of precariousness of the people's situation is in your value system,…

The duty cycle (number of business days per year) is less than 1% for typical guests but around 100% for a sizeable chuck of hosts, and in the 20-80% range for a lot of the rest. H…

I mean by "competitive economic prosperity" the ability of a national economy to endure multiple successive economical challenges of modernity as well as other nations. Such challe…

I wonder how popular is my theory that competitive economic prosperity in modern times is almost always typical in liberal regimes, and is almost an impossibility in populist regim…

I have very little sympathy towards the Soviet empire, but the war remained on the Afghan side of the border, and was of a limited scope for most of its duration; construing the So…