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You're right. Y Combinator doesn't deserve a shred of the respect they garner. I don't know why I thought I could trust one of their portfolio companies. I assumed they did due dil…

I feel bad for the users that were left holding the bag. I put a good amount of money in the YC backed StableGains (Terra) just to watch it evaporate overnight. The investors and f…

Same. Had to take a sip of coffee and do a double take.

Aside from appointing governors, what power does the president have over the federal reserve board? The president can direct/order the FCC to pursue a course of action, but as far …

The Federal Reserve, which is almost completely independent from the federal government, is the biggest player in regards to controlling inflation. In reality, POTUS doesn't have e…

Yea, I agree. I wish there was some kind of organization that would seek FDA approval for racemic ketamine treatment of depression. It's cheap, and widely available. Unfortunately,…

FYI: Johnson & Johnson patented the S(+) enantiomer of ketamine and sells it as a nasal spray called Spavato. It's been FDA approved for depression since 2019. Although Spravato co…

Interesting. Were they operating commercial passenger flights? The FAA's statement only mentions a groundstop.

The title is somewhat misleading. A groundstop is far less dramatic than "grounding" all flights (including ones already en-route). Grounding all flights would be akin to what the …

Anybody know if you're able to transfer your cryptocurrency on Coinbase to Robinhood? In theory, I could avoid Coinbase's fees for selling.

I feel like I can relate very well to your situation. I dropped out of school in Canada when I was 20 to move to San Francisco and start making iPhone apps. I was also addressing m…

Well mercury is in retrograde...

I wouldn't be surprised if something like this gets added to Foundation in the next couple years. It looks great!

Objective-C has a higher learning curve. But once you learn it, you will see the elegant beauty in it.

This is an analogy for mindlessness versus mindfulness. It's also been well understood, for over 2,500 years, that mindless activities only lead to suffering. Even though they deli…

Not that this isn't nifty, but hasn't drag and drop been a standard UX fixture since 1984? The fact that drag and drop is a standout feature adds fodder to the argument that the we…

As a fellow Zen practitioner, I was delighted to see that this post is actually about applying Zen principles to programming and not just a post that uses the word "Zen" in the pos…

I love how good content about what's actually going on in America has a tendency to come from the foreign press.

Large-scale energy projects will have no place in a world without large-scale energy. Too little. Too late.

Large-scale energy projects will have no place in world without large-scale energy. Too little. Too late.

This version of Final Cut Pro X is the Mac OS X Cheetah of Final Cut. It's going to be an early-adopter platform for the first year or so until Apple adds the necessary features th…

America's former working class is the new American impoverished proletariat. An economy solely based on highly educated information workers is not only unsustainable, it is social-…