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Because the citizens don't understand what 'inflation' means, despite it's simplicity. (Re Trump and Warren both wanting to increase/abolish the US debt ceiling)

Whether the government/other 'friendly' entities were behind, coordinated, or were oblivious to the 911 attacks, they enjoyed what 911 allowed them to do (be completely free of the…

X will have a basically complete picture of its users, tying financial numbers and everyone the person makes payments to, to their weekly schedule to interests and desires, to the …

Are we comparing USA to other countries and saying America should be held to their standards? or is USA the strongest, most worked on Constitution in the world and what happens wit…

Americans interactions with authorities rely on their consciousness of Constitutional protections, and they have accepted that in airports there is no US Constitution. Test feeling…

This week everyone's been asking this, and news agencies tried to put $3t in perspective but didn't really do it, resorting to things like how many dollars it takes laid end to end…

100x would mean after one month, people'd say 'I just did 10 years of work.' Is anyone saying that yet?

Don't you think coding is being reassessed in terms of cash value? Egyptian scribes. Other ways of payment include donations. But in general coded products will (don't you think?) …

Employment, particularly for juniors is perceived to be down, but there are a lot of trained coders. People have been unhappy with BigTech products for a decade or so. Data selling…

When travelling in some countries, hotels require you let them photo your ID to stay (while in other countries this is illegal to do, and in others it's legal but never done). I wo…

Or what outcome do you see (for various countries)? Currently, it's already considered very rude and an invasion of privacy/peace to be filming in a restaurant or public space and …

The idea that 'ideas are cheap' is common but wrong. If that were the case, we would get great new products every day. Some people are technical and enjoy most building (here codin…

In light of the OpenAI shakeup, many here have pointed to Altman's goals with the project being ones most don't consider the most important (money, reckless use which many enhance …

Might there also be a consideration of peak value of OpenAI? If a bunch of competing similar AIs are entering the market, and if the usecase fantasy is currently being humbled, sta…

This is only true for the majority of people Obvious things don't need to be stated generally Why spend energy on non-help

Work for free, change the internet Looking for probably someone with a few years behind them, maybe 40s or older, who already has made money and had successes. Someone who is somew…

Buffet has a long resume.

You're looking for a restaurant. You see two side by side. One has a sign above it that says 'No tipping in this restaurant. Tipping is not permitted' beside a restaurant that does…

I guess any sense. New things would be interesting to see people doing. Or it could be things to make a better internet, which means things that people don't currently have in thei…

Or even a one-hour window once per week, when they let each account post one domain's post (other accounts can't also post that domain), so any blog can get some exposure. How woul…

There are high quality original sources writing information today, just like there was before Web 2.0, when people would go on the internet to learn things and spend actual quality…