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I’m waiting for like GEICO’s app to significantly improve. I’m not expecting Chrome to because it already had virtually unlimited resources devoted to it. On the other side I’m not…

Let’s say somehow the politics lined up and you were given huge hiring budget for your team. You went out and recruited what seemed like great talent. Weekly standups make it seem …

That exact dynamic—-sharply appreciating house price, falling interest rates, no prepayment penalty—-allowed them to use the homes as an infinite piggy bank. Very convenient.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case-Shiller_index#/media/File... If you bought at exactly the right second of the crash, houses were where they were at the peak of the late 80s bubb…

Yes, the finger pointing can and does go in many directions. Meanwhile the observed pattern is the boomers (actual boomers) get the golden path and every other generation doesn’t. …

> Someone in their 60s is supposed to be doing better than someone in their 20s. That’s an incredibly new, and probably temporary, phenomenon. Across the vast majority of space-tim…

You can just not plant anything. It’s not required that every inch of desert is used for irrigated cultivation. Alfalfa is the cleanest case of a crop that would not be planted nea…

Alfalfa isn’t food.

Radical Luddite posting on the internet is … something.

I don’t really know how to rephrase it. It’s a distraction. This article could have been about shipping alfalfa to the Middle East and Asia, but instead it was about this.

My point was that google generates hundreds of billions of dollars from the same water that $34 million in alfalfa. It’s absurd to complain about their usage. Water use policy is a…

Google’s just-released 2025 sustainability report is an instructive example. The company said it consumed 10.9 billion gallons of water—a 34% increase from 2024—almost all for data…

Yes, that’s where we are today. Colleges definitely can’t avoid fundamentals right now. But at the same time, they should be skating ahead of the puck. Once the calculator has been…

In 2024, we had some coding exams, and AI was explicitly NOT forbidden, which lead to them making the exam more difficult (because with AI, you can solve it so much more quickly, s…

> Imo, the fix should be to work on culture. We can’t even agree on what’s wrong with it. We aren’t going to be able to fix it.

I definitely see people asking for features from c++. In part because virtually every feature is in c++.

I’d say it’s the opposite. We get non enforcement and anti enforcement because lots of people aren’t directly affected. Different neighborhoods, work from home, private transportat…

That wasn’t anti Protestantism and this isn’t antisemitism. You should defend Israel and its actions directly on the merits. Why is that so difficult?

During the Troubles in the 80s was Northern Ireland rilled with anti Protestantism? Just a bunch of people that hated all Protestants for no reason?

There’s definitely antisemitism out there. Criticizing Israel is not part of it. The people that run to that ever. single. time. ought to be ashamed of themselves for crying wolf. …

That’s too high a level of generality. Sure police situations where the branches are at direct loggerheads. But in this case we have a law passed by congress and signed by the pres…

No one has ever called me a kike or Christ killer. No one has ever accused me of controlling the media or banks. No one has spray painted a swastika on my house, or my synagogue fo…

I don’t think it does. Discretion is fundamentally case by case. Drawing categorical lines is legislative. It’s akin to the distinction between law and equity courts at common law.…