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Everybody forgets about tardigrades, but they will be here when we are long passed from all memory.

The profit motive reliably exposes brokenness. What changed to make loans for useless activity profitable? Normally, a loan for useless activity wouldn’t be issued, because of the …

This is one of those rare times I’ll agree we could use a gulag.

A dream that pays $35k/yr

I mean, if we’re not allowed to know that we’re not allowed to surveil the shit out of you, it seems like something we can’t worry about

I feel the same way about the Barkley Marathons. What was once a soulful, austere and obscure contest against time and nature is now become a Roman orgy of decadence with contestan…

Some kind of lotto system

Nuclear power derives its energy from the binding energy of ultra-heavy atomic nuclei, not fossil fuels. This energy can then be used to power electric cars, avoiding fossil fuel c…

You’re not going to be any happier with the circumstances of people living in enormous urban housing projects. You should want a society where we are all rewarded for looking after…

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Yeah, a shelter is only truly a shelter if you don’t pay for it. Paying for a home is the very definition of homelessness, after all.

Oh, it is if you’re on the right side of history.

He’s making the point that poor governance delivering poor outcomes will eventually by replaced by its ideological opposition, no matter how distasteful.

Very clearly, you haven’t been to a NASCAR race or monster truck rally in at least a decade. Not many oligarchs. Lots of kids.

Your implied point that prices will drop with the introduction of interstate competition and access to finance and interest by mega-corps is well taken. You are certainly correct, …

What SMB has the luxury of being notoriously unproductive? Economies of scale are very real and tend to make larger businesses more efficient, it's true, but you'll find that cause…

The old twitter had a vigorous compliance team that slavishly obeyed government requests, particularly the ones that involved secret court orders. Most of those people were wiped o…

> All that matters is purchasing committees are ok Large enterprise purchasing committees are foremost concerned with risk, you absolute dolt. The risk that price will jump 12x, re…

Because monoculture is unhealthy.

For my part, certainly. It's an important part of how I keep emotional liabilities out of the company.

“ That raises the question of how the company would deal with competitors that are armed with its very own technology - and perhaps beating Intel's own internal product teams with …

F1’s reasoning is “Andretti won’t be competitive and Andretti’s reputation will benefit more than ours if he has an F1 team” Yeah, just like being a perennial loser did so much goo…

Because building planes is an engineering task. Let’s use your argument: Would you hire a lawyer to captain a ship? Why not? It’s not like the captain actually steers the ship or o…

78% of our atmosphere is nitrogen, a known narcotic that has cost thousands of lives by inducing mental impairment in situations already fraught with hazard.

Yes, of course, sending your grandmother a text message is basically identical to you pirating Netflix content. Right-o.