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It's sort a "broken clock right twice a day" thing, but I agree with not doing offshore wind in the US. The divergence immediately follows in that I wish they would just push onsho…

I said accused mainly because the big 3 won their last antitrust suit in the US, sort of "what have you caught me for, lately?" approach. For all I know, maybe they are dumb enough…

I struggle to think of a line of business as cyclical as DRAM, maybe like certain kinds of mining would be my only thought. The DRAM fabs have been on a roundabout for 40 years goi…

yeah this seems to be the catch 22 to me. the laws are out there to limit the e-bikes to speeds and power. i want an irresponsibly powered one because i have an endorsement and wan…

I agree, or at least I would stress that people should be allowed to consent to that. I don't know what the prevailing medical ethics of doing that kind of thing in consenting pati…

the aphorism that comes to mind with that prospect these days is: "populism is like cigarettes, it's not the first one that kills you, it's the last"

jeez 8-18 years, is that a record or is it one of those things they don't know enough about them to narrow down? that's another thing to think about when my ignorant self is eating…

Jeopardy style, Who is Lee Child?

Dang that 6k is pretty prohibitive not for the overall level, but because it's 4 hobs or nothing. Hardly a "give it a swag" kind of level. I assume they are probably somewhat compa…

Not sure if any of my anecdata when I was a contractor are relevant anymore given current circumstances, but among all the NASA facilities I worked with, JPL really seemed to be do…

I can add a minimal anecdote. I got some support from a couple engineers on a telecom project, and it wasn't even that big of a thing, but they were more than decent to work with. …

This is what sticks with me the deepest. With immigration are unquestionably tough decisions, tradeoffs, philosophies on the issue, and demographics in general. It gets heated, fas…

I always wondered how to gauge how effective Apple's Dialog carveout was, in terms of was it just instant PMIC department or even effective at building a foundation for them? Given…

That's really at this point that's back to where I am with crypto. Through all the speculation and cruft, there is still a shot at owning our own payments, or rather no one owning …

I remember running the class with the giant radar dish on top to keep the comms up, running skirmishes till the wee hours of the morning. Definitely biased but I agree it was such …

Yeah really, Truss really is the most salient yardstick, with the complication that any analogous action in the mechanisms of american politics feels slightly unfathomable. And I w…

One thing I am mostly against is nationalized property/casualty insurance. California seems to have taken every opportunity to not properly price risk. My worry is that while extre…

Matt Levine always has the good stuff, but he had commentary on a profile of Jim Chanos (the lesson not necessarily being specific to Chanos) that always sticks with me. The profil…

I don't want to generalize it but as soon as you said "if the culture here is different than the U.S" I thought "Okay yep that's why." I don't even know if it counts as culture, bu…

Yeah I mean there's a couple things to speculate. It could be he thinks this is as good as it's going to get for a while, don't know. At this point I usually look at the cash as be…

I'm at least a little glad to see that, for me there's the weird kind of indexy thing where you want Berkshire to sort of be differentiated from the market. So much is indexed, you…

This has no weight to it but is just sort of my anecdotal perception, my feeling from googlers I know directly or indirectly feels like, I guess I would say a lot are really vigila…

No it's actually 2-3k+ usd. I had done some cursory considering of it over the past few months because it seems like a potentially reasonable solution to a real problem I struggle …

From the propublica about this last time, there was a lot of statements like this that stuck with me: > “Initially, it was very hard for executives to accept that they could operat…

I’m gonna be blunt, that’s a strange position. I mean, even just math wise/FFT, you can break down a lot of stuff into a dc component plus your variable component. But the other pa…