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One thing that you overlook is something that even Xi points out as an issue: right now, China needs more quality than quantity. For example, in semiconductors, Taiwan, with a much…

An animal sample from the wet market that was shut down. (I spooned they were all bagged). If they were all destroyed, then go get a sample from their natural reservoir (wherever t…

This is not about children, though, it's about investors. If Nike makes a material claim to investors (e.g. that children labor is not used), but the claim is revealed to be knowin…

Even if the guess is reasonable and is eventually true, like "we'll need to scale, so might as well prepare for 100x capacity now", it's still frequently a mistake to over engineer…

If the over-engineering is in the wrong dimension (one that the project doesn't need), then the cost will be double: adding the over-engineering and then detangling from it. The pr…

Why stop at scanning photos in your phone? With lower power sensors, head-mounted devices with always-on-sensors, and whatnot, why not sample real-time hashes that can tip LEO abou…

The argument about POW energy is overblown. There's an exponential decay of rewards of mining BTC (50% every 4 years). Do you think the price of BTC will increase exponentially, fa…

This is bizarre. If the intern did steal code, the CEO only wants the project to be taken down? Any IP agreement worth their salt would require Replit to send a formal/legal reques…

The difference between what Amjad tweets publicly and what Amjad threatens the ex-intern privately is jarring. That makes me think that either the tweets are empty virtue signaling…

That was not a direct quote on anyone here or elsewhere, more like a sentiment that was around last year. https://twitter.com/shortthebanks/status/1133735039596994560 https://twitt…

Last year people would jokingly say that the headline this year would be "bitcoin crashes to 30k", and that was dismissed as stupidly bullish.

It's amazing to me that the real answer on how to make renewable energy economical (while avoiding the ecological toxicity of building utility-scale batteries) are getting downvote…

By the way. If one thinks about tracking the carbon cost of a mined BTC (based on the energy source used to mine it) such that a carbon tax can be accurately exacted, the usage of …

> This may be a radical take, but I think nations should introduce some unprecedented legislation: ban trade of proof of work cryptocurrencies. That's not only radical, but a grote…

I think you’re making cash a bigger deal than it is. If you have collateral that can also be transferred in real-time, can’t that back a cash loan immediately with extremely low in…

Not quite. Users who complained about things being slower were hinted that perhaps the new models would be faster. It was not a communication issue that damaged Apple; but the cont…

Sure, then freeze the software of older devices and only release security fixes. No revamp of look-and-feel and other random software features that only makes sense for the new mod…

To clarify, since I think this is not obvious to the other commenters here. (1) The company ships software updates that happens to be near the launch of a new model. It's not by ac…

I think it's clear Apple intentionally* degrades software quality on older iphone/mac models in order to drive purchase of newer hardware. I've been considering switching away from…

It’s not a that discriminative in terms of reproductive rights if you consider the one child policy that applied for a long time to a lot of people (mostly of Han ethnicity). While…

Xi Jinping and the CCP’s official goal is for the Chinese people and everyone else to have a common destiny. Interpret these how you wish, because they are interpreting these how t…

Sometimes the source of the problem is political: one trying to make a more general framework to deprecate another team, or to avoid being deprecated by generalizing in a slightly …

400K to 600K is still qualitatively significant. For example, it can mean whether your spouse has the option to stay home to spend more quality time with the children, without havi…

Your current company will promote (and compensate) you based on your performance in the past cycles. Your new company will offer you a level (and compensation) based on your expect…

I imagine the large majority of people throwing stones never really gave up any of their own life comforts for a principle ("oh, but I can't give X, Y or Z up, because I absolutely…