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At the Republican TX state convention this week, they proposed to add wording against differential privacy to their proposed platform via an amendment, justified with an example fr…

Next, I’d love to move in to text SPAM, the perplexingly unsolved problem that we’ve been particularly reminded of every election season for the past 20 or so years

The idea of a Lego AI sounds amazing... just thought of what might happen if you took a photo of your pieces then said "I like original Star Wars, make me a series of spaceships fr…

They need more than that - they raised $22M but only for a portion of the company so presumably at a valuation of multiples of that. To get a 10x valuation it may have to become a …

Same - chrome on ios

Depends on the environment. In a startup, the top performers often say basically “what took you so long? Glad we can move faster now. And try to hire some more top performers for m…

RIP content writers scratching out a living on a beach in Bali

Firearm deaths just overtook auto deaths as the leading cause of death in children and adolescents in the US: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmc2201761 Unclear the portion…

I started triathlon training and the swimming helped bring my back and knee pain into line such that I could actually run again and I haven’t had a reinjury of the back disc (previ…

Deploy this to production on NEAR and fund it every step directly with staking rewards that are piped in from a small endowment and it will run forever. Hell, I’ll give you the tok…

This represents a reasonable-sounding surface view but is mostly off the mark. There are valid concerns but insufficient logic to justify a dangerous trap . O/P TLDR: 1. Art is sil…

An oldie but goodie. I suspect applying some modeling of traits would show people low on Agreeableness/people-pleasing would naturally harbor far fewer of these crony beliefs since…

Plenty of good points but don’t forget that the fully loaded cost to an employer of a European employee is anywhere from 1.5-2x of what it is in the US. This alone is a major drivi…

I love the idea of that but do wish it didn’t require altering so many of the basic facts. The most compelling alternate histories use the same set of facts but show how the victor…

Any article citing Sweden as a failure today indicates they haven’t done their homework. After a brief surge, that country is doing far better than much of Europe and didn’t sacrif…

I have the same problem with melatonin — it seems like artificial sleep because when I wake up 4-5 hours later, my body really doesn’t want to fall back asleep.

The poster said 'better shape' not 'good shape'. A biz that's dead in X months of runway is still in better shape than one that's dead in a week.

It's not the solution to everything but there must be a wide range of domain-specific challenges that people are facing on the ground where better technology can help.

So you're implying that our ability to take risks in the pursuit of massive systemic gains is exactly zero?

Don’t feed a troll, expose it to sunlight.