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Hanania: Why you are pathologically risk averse, and the problem with "mental health"

Your formatting got me to read every line of what you wrote, even though I only agree with about half of your thesies

can you clarify your case here about Apple as an antitrust or monopoly power? In what ways are they using their market power to diminish welfare or competitiveness of the marketpla…

the answer here is about the competitive space that he's in and whether his competitor is buying brand terms around his area. if not, he's probably fine and he can use his organic …

I’ve read a lot of great celebrity memoirs that surprised and moved me (Will Smith, Mel Brooks, matthew mcconaughey, Arnold Schwartzenegger) and I’d like to get more into business …

tell me more about this hypothetical Russia+China+NK+Iran axis and why they would be so united in this particular fight?

PJ O'Rourke was my first into to a feeling that I've become more familiar with over the years - "liberal cringe" I still count myself as a liberal (more classical than modern) thes…

1. Having Data 2. Using it to Predict 3. Using it to Manipulate There are major, major leaps from collection to then even having effective prediction models. Prediction is hard, es…

i believe this is true but it is not reflected in the public earnings at all. User growth in the US may be flat but earnings per US/CA active user is up which implies that the valu…

FB lost US about 2M users in summer 2020, but has been pretty flat since then. See FB's slide 13: https://s21.q4cdn.com/399680738/files/doc_financials/2021/q4... The drop this roun…

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Hasnt the economic story of 2020-2022 so far has not been "lets see what happens when we open up" but rather "lets see what happens when we close down"? How does 2022 so far imply …

I suspect, like all political shifts of independents, that this would have a strong moderating impact on the Republican Party. Swing independents tend to be more political practica…

counterpoint: nothing has happened to us as a society. we have always had pressures to monitize things and do things for money, but of course money isnt everything and there have a…

the article's whole point is that this conclusion ("covid made us crazy") is the "official explanation" but that there is better alternative explanation in road design and traffic …

my read of the diabetes tie is that it is unlikely that covid causes diabetes but rather that the causality could be both ways, with obesity or other medical confounders making Cov…

capitalism seems like a more likely home for broadly distributed systems than government systems which are, by their nature, centralized

What would a global plan of attack look like? Who coordinates it and who decides when they've been successful?

i think you see this rarely discussed because its an issue that is rapidly declining in importance over time. The trade off of either-this-US-kid-gets-it-or-that-Indian-adult-gets-…

I dont think the concern for what our neighbors are doing has gone up so much as our ability to make noise about it. Dealing with conflicts between neighbors is ancient.

in the past, local voices did not have power to organize or constrict local development. its a form of social technology that has enabled this around the world over the past 80 yea…

yes. many people are vaccine hesitant because they dislike or are afraid of shots. also if this can help impact the rate of hospitalization and death among unvaccinated than it als…

its important to note two things; Facebook does not target 6 year olds. Many other companies do.