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>Doctors protect doctor's interests. Lawyers aren't idiots, they're professionals who run businesses with the express intent to make money. And this is generally a bad thing, to be…

It does seem like a reasonable middle ground would be something like selling a dongle that provides PIV attestation of ownership, that could be resold and could even be used across…

I would say different white collar jobs have different expectations for personal appearance. For example, even looking solely at the men at my company, our sales reps, marketing le…

Men tend to work in less public facing/social career fields. Your appearance doesn’t matter much if you’re a linesman or a welder; it matters more if you’re doing sales or supporti…

“Claude, please review my repo for any work that could be novel enough to receive a patent. Be liberal in your definition of ‘novel’”

You’re right that it does appear to be near a school (I don’t think anything that contradicts anything else I said). I think the health effects of siting a school right on a major …

The data center in question is being installed next to a Walmart supercenter and highway 101. It’s being built on land zoned for industrial use. It’s not next to anybody’s home.

This headline seems misleading at best. There was, as far as I can tell reading both this piece and the original reporting in the WSJ[0], no community vote for or against data cent…

The difference is that cryptocurrencies never had an obvious benefit beyond subverting the existing banking sector. A more apt comparison would be to cloud computing, which likewis…

Officials in the US government confirmed to reputable reporters that al-awlaki had been killed in a CIA drone strike almost immediately after it happened.[0] Speculating that the U…

USCYBERCOM is not the IC, it’s DoD. The majority of CYBERCOM tasked units are cyber protection teams, primarily focused on securing the DoD’s own vast and bloated network infrastru…

The supplier receives more money in the first of those scenarios, which (a) can be used to expand its own supply and (b) creates a demand signal for competitors to attempt to clear…

>even countries with a liberal democratic tradition are converging towards the Chinese model What specific examples of this do you have in mind? I can’t think of any liberal democr…

We would all die in a week if we went without water, yet water is cheaper per gallon than gasoline or printer ink or perfume. It’s a question of scarcity and supply curves. Water, …

You really would think that at least in theory a company like Cloudflare would make it very easy for internal teams to automatically request new subdomains

Didn’t Warren Buffett just approve a $10B investment in Google?

He said the following in 2019, at a StrictlyVC event, “The honest answer is we have no idea, we have never made any revenue, we have no current plans to make revenue, we have no id…

There is an artistry in assembling other art into a single cohesive piece. The film director doesn’t design the sets or give the performances or do the makeup, but they place an au…

Faster scans means more scans. More scans means getting scans earlier and tracking abnormalities on scans over time. This can lead to earlier intervention, which means you get trea…

Reminds me of the sentiment expressed by James Burke at the end of the Connections series. “Maybe a good start would be to recognize within yourself the ability to understand anyth…

One can support both billionaires and unions. Sweden has more billionaires per capita than the USA while roughly 2/3rds of their workforce is unionized

I mean, I would say both, “I support governments,” and, “I support companies.” They are unique social institutions that provide value to their members. The former provides a monopo…

“Union recognition” means the employer acknowledges that the union is the bargaining representative for a subset of employees within the organization. This comes with additional le…

I definitely read a lot more about developmental economics and vaccines than I otherwise would have

>No one starts liking nerdy stuff because Bill Gates or Jeff Bezos does, because no one really wants to be them Hmmm, as someone that entered high school around the time Bill Gates…