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If we are going to tax things that we want less of; would not taxing stupidity seem like good public policy?

Is the issue primarily caused by the English language? (Google Workspace) CLI vs Google (Workspace CLI) Because Google has there name in the product for which the CLI was produced …

Some Hong Kong money definitely goes to startups. I got flights paid for to go to a pitching competition.

What you know and what you can prove are different things. I think most people would blow the whistle if they had evidence of personal-enrichment fraud. Suspecting that incentives …

Lots of shouting on one particular occasion left me with the impression that they genuinely had not anticipated this consequence of simultaneously pulling the "no contractors to be…

As a junior software engineer, I worked at a large UK bank. Senior management routinely seem baffled that they could announce redundancies or hiring freezes, yet technology costs w…

Some people.

If you write 3 bullet points and produce 500-pages of slop why would my AI summarise it back to the original 3 bullet points and not something else entirely?

This will never stop as it would require either the reference date to be changed or fir all dates in all saved spreadsheets to be off by one.

The US has traditionally solved this problem by having dozens of political entities that can compete (at least for elites) and, since the creation of the interstate highway system,…

In the UK open banking was essentially a response to GDPR this has allowed (to a limited extent) a variety of tools to be built on top of bank accounts that others would not have b…

Can someone explain to me what the difference is between a union in which everyone is a member and a government.

This might be the biggest benefit of AI coding. If I have a large legacy code base I can use AI to ask questions and find out where certain things are happening. This benefit is hu…

This. Once you have revenue you have downside to protect. Pre-revenue the worst that can happen is that you have to start again knowing more than you did.

That would not have made it to the top of HN.

I would pay for YouTube premium again if I could switch off shorts. I actually stopped paying for premium to make YouTube less appealing.

Having used sunglasses that project a monitor on to them products I am very surprised that the speedometer is going to move with the wheel. That said an electric Ferrari is not a c…

> My outsider view is that there are more people and more volume of crypto involved in the speculative & scam sector than in the human-rights sector, but I'm willing to be wrong. I…

I ask because writing a paper with someone is a non secret operator. I suspect there is no way to establish, if one has an Epstein number >2, what it is.

How is this defined?

This was a lot of fun. The game mechanic of a count down timer made for much better play. I was most surprised for bluebottle to be replaced with man o' war. We know the man o' war…

If first class was full lie down from LAX it must have been transcontinental to JFK or BOS.