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No one says that deep fakes are production ready today... but given the speed of progress, they’re going to be in FAR less time than takes for our social and political systems to m…

It’s ugly but it’s different. People can see you have one from 8 miles away. That’s an essential part of a status symbol. Like the extremely ugly Louis Vuitton print.

If carbon capture is good then why do they encourage composting? Shouldn’t we be taking that organic material and burying it somewhere?

Well it’s possible for the unintended consequences of an action to more than cancel out the intended consequences.

Because of a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity.

Esther Duflo is so good that she got her husband the Nobel Prize. If Banerjee hadn’t married her and started coauthoring so much with her, Sendhil Mullainathan definitely would hav…

A one-bay NAS... didn’t even know those existed

The psychological root of “call out culture” is the same as sports brawls, wartime civilian massacres, and bullying. Vanquishing people is... can we admit it... fun. That’s why the…

Why is it fake if it has photos? I’ve included photos in my reviews.

Why would this data be so valuable? In an Uber people are with a stranger in their car so they will probably not have super confidential conversations.

Why is that? Does Kindle limit the number of words?

Huh, I kind of like that sentence and that kind of florid prose.

That happened to me literally an hour ago. I checked out and when the shipping was added the price felt high. I left the cart open and started browsing Reddit. I was waffling on th…

In the US “antebellum” refers to the Civil War and “prewar” to World War II.

Can confirm, definitely see many more drunk assholes loitering outside the bars on my street.

Cooking is great but you cannot learn it in an hour.

Today, but large scale efforts like city development happen over multiple decades, over which the number of remote workers will almost certainly increase due to new technology.

Not to mention that the quality of life outside big cities is far healthier and more human scale and human paced. People are more focused on things like children than on Kubernetes…

It’s obvious that the rape charges were a highly selective enforcement action. It would be great if Sweden pursued every rapist as though they were Osama Bin Laden but the fact is …

You mean it was just a pretext to exfiltrate him to the US, and that Sweden does not in fact have a long national track record of pursuing rapists across international boundaries w…

What is a “free country” in your definition?

Nicotine also improves mental performance.

This industry seems like it could be put out of business on the low to mediocre end by deep learning.

Yep — hard to believe that Satya Nadella is only 5 years into the job at Microsoft. It’s like a completely different company.

The risk reward profile of the S&P 500 is way better. Buy Legos if you like them, sell them opportunistically, but don’t get into it as an asset class.