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Yeh the central line is AWFUL. I used to travel out of my way to avoid it.

There are many tasks for which speed is not an absolute requirement. I bet there are lots of places that parallelisation makes more computers within the ballpark of acceptable perf…

Yeh try TinySeed - the help is likely more valuable than the money, which in itself likely helps a great deal.

You have to be willfully ignorant to believe a proposition that no one cares, and willfully naive to believe everyone will. Look at https://ourworldindata.org/economic-growth and t…

> though I will be waiting for an FDA-approved vaccine myself. If it was July, and this post popped up, heck even November pre-US election when we were told the vaccine was months …

Homebrew seems unfair: https://radvac.org/a-homepage-section/ Trying it is IMHO a risk calculation once you've jumped the "is this credible" bar.

I only saw part of the Lex interview, and in the part I watched Loeb was saying if we had seen it on the way TOO Earth, we could have sent a rocket to investigate. If we aren't loo…

Step 1: Define in such a way I am right. Step 2: I am right. When aggregating at the country level, data skews massively. China and the US are more like the EU than Norway or Engla…

> The key policy question, one that drives so many others, is whether the city should prioritize full-time drivers over part-time and casual drivers. I wish EVERY policy decision w…

> not just the enterprises that employ low/no skill labor or their consumers. Why would any company ever employ anyone in the close-to-minimum-wage bracket? Amazon gets flack for e…

+1 from me.

I think it is the opposite - it is a consequence of which system has better long term surviveability. Companies survive because they don't die. That seems trite, I know. The conseq…

The problem with this view is that it is hopelessly uncomprehensive. When you start on the politics stuff, where do you stop? Should Coinbase have a political opinion on native rig…