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This sort of stuff will continue happening until the regulatory framework acknowledges a fundamental consumer right to privacy. If a data broker collects data without the consent o…

Bitcoin would make an awful legal tender, because by its design supply decreases while demand for it increases. An ideal, 0% inflation currency (assuming that is ideal) would expan…

It's definitely a bubble. Sam Altman wants to build $7tn worth of data centers; if that's not an indication of how ridiculous this has gotten, I don't know what is. LLM has been va…

It's an unanswerable question, but the only option we have is to try and make them work. At least until the next best system comes about. Regressing backwards because old things la…

I'm generally sympathetic to what you're saying, but I also detest a16z and Horowitz personally for being the epitome of "software guy decides he's expert at everything now" and hi…

If you want to get really scared about methane leaks, sinkholes are forming across the tundra as global warming melts the permafrost, creating gigantic methane bubbles as the previ…

Idiotic decision by that employer. Who cares where the employee is, if they're a top performer? I'm convinced the back to office mandates come from people who thrive in office envi…

If you want to see some arguing really hard, check out r/UkraineRussiaReport I enjoy it because you can genuinely interact with FSB influencers.

Couldn't agree more fully. It's a shallow lens that's not very good at prediction.

Foucault is the primary intellectual force behind the contemporary social science trend of seeing everything through a power relationships lens. His influence cannot be overstated,…

It's typical for architect "manifestos". Makes them sound more serious and important than they are

This seems to be the crux of their argument, and I find it convincing: > Passing comprehensive privacy legislation would be a major public good–but APRA no longer can be called com…

I recall one from Sydney which tested backyard eggs and found that basically all of them were terrible. I don't have it saved, however.

I'd be terrified of what else the battery company put in the ground.

I'm all for gardening - there's something therapeutic about seeing a plant grow and evolve over time. You can see something tangibly change over time as a result of your work, some…

Great point. Editors are filters for what the general public sees. The analog here is probably BookTok or whatever the social media version of book influencers is. They similarly c…

What we need are large, mandatory, fines for every data breach that happens. Say $10k to every person whose address gets leaked. Then we'll see companies start treating consumer da…

> They delight in breaking rules, but not rules that matter. To them* Which is the whole problem. These narcissistic egotists think they, alone, individually, are capable of decidi…

From the headline, I thought this was yet another attempt by some silicon valley bro to handwave furiously about everything being thermodynamics. Thankfully, this was not the case.…

Most people don't think about debt rationally. If going into debt can accelerate your plans by a significant timeframe, why not do it, assuming it's affordable? Especially if you c…

Today's generative LLM model fundamentally cannot generate new breakthroughs like that. The tech simply doesn't allow it, for one simple reason: LLMs not only don't consider, but a…

What irks me about the fad investment bubbles of the last few years - crypto/nft, defi, metaverse, now AI - isn't just how much money they've wasted on nonsense. It's that it was w…

To take the metaphor further, it's like this except the software is hosted on GitHub and open to public commits with limited moderation. It grows and changes on its own without any…

Yes definitely. But the fields of planning and architecture have learned lessons from those mistakes. These engineers, being fundamentally ignorant of their subject matter, are gua…