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LessWrong can be reasonably characterized as a recruiting ground for pyramid schemes and/or a cult of personality. It is an attempt to reframe libertarianism as apolitical and as t…

Thank you. Please read directly from the source instead of participating in anything to do with LessWrong.

I referred to "if the title includes the name of the site, please take it out, because the site name will be displayed after the link" but I get that this may apply in particular t…

I don't believe this was a good call. The title was accurate before, and the meaning of the submission has been substantively changed. Now it uses the title of the site - something…

In both the case of the phone and the Peloton, it allows someone who can't afford the item to pay for it on an installment basis. On an individual level that access to credit might…

Instead of $1,995 up front, it's $3,783 over 39 months due to a subscription contract bundled with the financing. This is a very clever way to claim "no interest" but actually char…

Absolutely this. A bubble doesn't look like one until it pops, so you can't just say "everyone's buying $2000 spin bikes, everything must be fine." For starters, Peloton does a maj…

Murphy's law: "anything that can go wrong, will go wrong" Muphry's law: "anything that can be mispelled, will be mispelled"

By "tech" is meant "the community." You can't get policy change without enough people getting involved and supporting that change. Do you want to fix this? Join YIMBY Action. Suppo…

They really buried the lede. "Politics is an organizational problem, not a technological one." If we could just build more houses by saying that we decree them into existence, we w…

"Let it get really bad so people notice" isn't even close to a solution. We all know there's a housing crisis; the solution depends on who you ask. Some folks are going to say "let…

For even more context here: they're part of a biotech incubator called 4Catalyzer. The other companies are also working on potentially life-changing products too, including cancer …

As far as bringing in some UK sources that were traditionally print, I'd probably go with The Guardian and the Telegraph - caveat, they do have a left- and right- leaning bent, res…

Looks great, and the only thing I could ask for is a way to request that more sources be added.

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A few of my teammates at SendGrid have been following the situation, and we definitely feel for the engineers who are scrambling to fix the problem. It's never fun to get paged, es…

This is a genuinely good take, and the downvotes are disappointing. We like to describe new efficiencies in productivity and information-seeking as "good for the consumer," because…

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