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In my opinion, there's a limit to the market size that can be satisfied by insular startups. SV is big enough that there's always another startup doing a bunch of the same things i…

And though the idea is tricky, commercializing our genome is no longer about "hey, the next R&D breakthrough will come from your genome." It's about making sure that the first huma…

After all, how can you read a review on something if you're not going to use it? Which seems like a pretty big impact on the efficiency of the entire market.

The changes in the weather patterns observed over the last few decades are more complex than just warmer temperatures, and it will be many decades before it is clear if climate cha…

So if you are able to read and understand a single page of code, then you can almost definitely understand the overall design of a system and the flow of its operations. But if you…

Of course, this all assumes there are no loopholes in the current cryptoasset system. That is, there is no way for the government to go "we found your tax fraud, now you are going …

It's also a very old problem--the need for people to find meaning in a world that is essentially devoid of any kind of meaning for them. The old, ancient problem. I would argue tha…

And I can appreciate that even when it's not my favorite, it can still be beautiful. The fact is, as an artist, it's hard not to look at paintings by Picasso or Van Gogh and think,…

I'll teach them about the true, true nature of truth, about logic and evidence, and about facts and information. I'll also teach them that they should be skeptical, and that they n…

So, the government benefited from the creation of the housing bubble in its own debt instruments, the same debt instruments that would go into the hands of the people who were bein…

I'm also a big fan of reading out my favourite quotes. If you're not sure what to say for your funeral then try to imagine yourself saying them, what do they say and where would yo…

You don't really want to waste your time trying to understand why you made a choice. If you're like me and like learning through trial and error, then try to think of it this way. …