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The US hasn't fought a just war since WW2 and even that is actually somewhat questionable

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GitHub is different because they need to scale writes , that’s fundamentally a much much harder problem

Reminds me of when ISIS was at its peak a few years ago and the BBC and all other news in the UK would always prefix it with “the so-called Islamic State”. Like… no, it was a state…

This is the flip side of East Asian societies where everything is polite and orderly: they're also extremely conformist (sometimes stifling so), and the conformity and good manners…

Yes, good chance this all ends with Microsoft absorbing OpenAI and Google absorbing Anthropic, or something along those lines

To be fair the US has been an extremely successful country all things considered, so maybe they were onto something

Arguably the natural end state of every system to be honest. Power, money and influence were concentrated in the Soviet Union, they're concentrated in modern day China...

The US is not really capitalist, it’s an oligarchy - a small number of people like Larry Ellison essentially control everything. It’s always been like that, even going back to the …

You have a maze (a really, really complicated maze). Two cases: 1) you have to find a route to the middle 2) someone gives you a route to the middle and you have to validate it It’…

The $100,000 H1B fee is probably one of the only ambiguously good things the Trump admin did. Genuinely need a skilled worker? Well $100,000 is quite a lot, but not absurd relative…

This approach is wrong though, as we’re now seeing. GPS is comically easy to jam or spoof and assuming it will work all the time is just a silly, dangerous assumption. We just happ…

Iran was fighting them though, the Shia leadership of Iran have absolutely no time for Salafism. You need to be a bit more specific with exactly what you mean by “religious” extrem…

The Occam's razor explanation is that it's all about Israel. They're the only country that actually benefits from all these misguided Middle Eastern adventures, and it's not like i…

Some industries (e.g. law) are close knit, at the top level everyone knows everyone, you’d get blacklisted for pulling stuff like this. But tech isn’t like that, there’s always a n…

Happened once in English football: Wimbledon moved from south west london to the soulless new town of Milton Keynes. It was radioactively controversial at the time, most fans never…

At least MacOS is unix based and has a proper shell etc (not that school kids will be using it). For someone who picks up technical stuff easily learning how MacOS actually works i…

Yep and red flags were there in hindsight, but everyone ignored them. I think the brutal truth for maxis is that coldcard was promoted by them because of coinkite’s bitcoin-only st…

These guys never do anything by accident, like when Jamie Dimon said "I probably shouldn't say this, but if you see one cockroach there's probably more". You don't get to manoeuvre…

This is a bad one: bug in the RNG logic during seed generation, so you can lose funds easily without any action from the user and the device never connected to the internet. I stil…

Keen is definitely a word but when used to describe a person it’s often a bit of a backhanded compliment… you don’t really want to be keen. Saying "I'm keen to do x" or "he's keen …

Yeah I get it, same as Americans coming to Europe for two weeks and thinking everyone in Italy is living La Dolce Vita. But I’m quite well travelled and some places have vibe and a…

Yes, but if their machine god really is as good as they say it is, why are they constantly resorting to statistical sleight of hand at best and outright lies at worst with every pu…

Have you ever actually been to Canada? It's quite nice, pretty clean and safe, feels fairly functional, people are totally different to Americans (in a very good way). Hard to judg…

Yes, absolutely colossal amounts of batteries though - what if it’s quite hot but also cloudy for 5 days in a row? You either have to significantly oversize the PV (easier said tha…