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No controls for any other industry - if you want an H1b, bid. So anyone who desperately needs someone on a visa can get them. Low-end body shops go away and a bunch of industries t…

I'm appalled at the lack of ethics in civil and mechanical engineering! Automotive engineers willfully destroyed opportunity for stablehands, whip manufacturers, and train conducto…

Sometimes you catch a spy, fire them, and have them arrested. Sometimes you identify, feed them false information, and watch who they talk to... Sometimes you screw up. There can b…

The reward function was horrible! You need good sightlines for the kids, room for desks, and need to ensure kids aren't isolated in a corner. Plus light (not just to a small courty…

It all comes down to how explicitly preferences are originally understood and then if the reward function can incorporate implicit analysis. There have been recent studies about AI…

The proposal was fine and jail for repeat offences, now it's been kicked to "review". Like Seattle's job tax once you get serious attention on something, not to mention the teeming…

Many pensions have ambitious assumptions of 7 or 8% annual returns. S&P went from 1565 Oct 07 2007 to 735.09 Feb 27 2009. We're now up to 2818 but if we had delivered 8% since octo…

Well said! Too many critics focus on pure dollar optimizing rather than value optimizing. We all have different value maximization functions - if you understand that dollars are ju…

The second part of your analogy is off. It's not billiard physics to general relativity, it's billiard physics to fluid dynamics and predicting the exact route of a stick through a…

This is exactly why people have been screaming about this problem for a couple of decades. It is going to be HUGE and do incredible damage. Retirees will be hurt catastrophically, …

A major problem is that this is a case of I'll be gone, you'll be gone. The union leaders and the politicians - typically in their 50 to 70s - who made the promises will be dead by…

The guarantees - constitutional in some states - are what will cause the problem to be bigger. When you can't resolve unsustainable debt without bankruptcy, then you will go bankru…

There are political choices behind the decline in infrastructure. It costs NYC $2.1B per mile to build the Second Ave subway while in Europe it costs $200-500M per mile. There's Ca…

In 2005 (pre bankruptcy) each GM car had $1525 worth of health care costs and $675 worth of pension cost built into the price. So $2200 was being spent on benefits for a population…

When you're designing or building some things you are just GOING to kill people. The right decision in designing a car (centre of gravity, stopping distance, thickness of gas tank)…

It comes down to this question: are they Viaweb or are they Amazon? If they're Viaweb then they should only do "taxi-like" stuff and should throw away all the automation and other …

We praise "peer review" without understanding/acknowledging that there are few peers and little review. The aphorism "science advances one funeral at a time" is saddeningly true. T…

Salt to hypertension thesis has been hit with a number of problems recently. As have many other "known" results in dietary and epidemiological studies. Current research suggests th…

It's because the language and approach with respect to Asians (and specifically Chinese, Korean, Japanese backgrounds) echoes the explicitly racist efforts of top universities, esp…

This is a very good and detailed list, includes some of the things that I did in my sales process. One thing to add is that for each company you should reach out to MANY people. CE…

The Romans were claiming a link to the Trojan war in their origin myths! Prominent Romans would "discover" an ancestral link to a named hero... While the Japanese Royal Family clai…

I've sold a company in your space. Reach me on gmail gramerhein at...

There's a reason why most contests state that you have to be 18 to participate. It's generally overlooked for free fries but for real prizes you need an adult to claim them. Like t…

The people doing the rigging were looking to hit targets and get bigger bonuses. There was pressure up and down, depending on personal and corporate positions. There were also issu…

Do you believe in free speech? Do you believe in free choice? Do you think that individuals in a city/state/country should be able to talk to others in a different city/state/count…