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Taxes on income is not usually what people mean by capital controls. Usually they’re talking about free flow of capital between currencies. But even by your unconventional definiti…

Can you share your work? Trust but verify

Is there a valid reason to ban a book? On one hand, I agree there are books which are dangerous. But usually the most dangerous ones are one’s that are more innocuous. I think Catc…

Do you track your daily macros/calories and have you done progressive overload strength training continuously for 5+ years, logging your workouts? I find most people will usually h…

The problem is most people don’t realize how short disc media’s lifespan is. Books it’s very obvious when it’s deteriorating or molding, hard drives and such are not to a laymen.

You are playing the doors/wheels game naively because you have already overly qualified your definition of what is a door and what is a wheel without realizing it. Have you conside…

Determining whether Europe or the US is more diverse is like asking the question: “are there more doors or wheels in the world?” To answer such a question, you need to over qualify…

Europeans (and oftentimes Americans themselves) tend to underestimate American diversity. Even on this AC issue where I would admit that there is less national variance compared to…

This other article mentioned that France’s left party was anti-AC but are now starting to change their policy positions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48661506 From this lim…

Maybe we can each get assigned an AI government goon to look over our shoulders 24/7. Maybe each neuron in my brain will have their own subagent goon. Each mitochondria gets their …

VC companies do not dig into the numbers as you suggest. FTX was able to get away with their fraud for a long time for that very reason. VC companies don’t care if some of their in…

You have a lot of angry girls texting you?

Reasonable people could interpret the original comment in many other ways than was probably intended. I like when people are open minded to people who are closed minded/attacking t…

As you ironically strawman me. Your hypocrisy knows no bounds!

When attacking archetypes of people, there is some responsibility to make clear who you’re attacking and why, even to someone who’s not being hyper-open-minded. At least if you wan…

I thought I needed something like this a couple months ago, but I instead now use the liminal time to self-reflect or think deeper about my work. I have always valued reflection an…

Imagine if the US’s left argued for no air conditioning: they would be called Stalinists communists and be excommunicated from polite society. Yet the policy is not completely unre…

Don’t anthropomorphize the lawn mower. He could leave anytime and learn how to enjoy a more modest and less harmful life.

Some lawyers MSG banned from the stadium tried to sue the venue. these lawyers argued that because MSG was not fully “open to the public” as their liquor licensed required, their l…

Options (a) and (b) add more bloat to the model’s context window and option (c) seem to reduce to having similar functions that already existed. There is also the option to trick t…

I’m curious if you are an Iranian living in Iran or an Iranian who lives abroad? This context will help me better understand your perspective

Conjecturing standards of living is going up is overly reductive. Essential costs — housing, groceries, education, etc — have been going up for most people and hit everyday people …

There are many more economic distortions that happen from having massive wealth inequality — too many to list in one comment — but the biggest one is that democracy isn’t possible …

A perfectly efficient market doesn’t necessarily mean that a good is traded at its marginal price. You’re instead describing a perfectly competitive market. An economy is Pareto ef…