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Demis is CEO of Alphabet material. He would be exceptional in that role, and Google would be wise to put him there

Apple is cutthroat in business too. Tony Fadell, the inventor of the iPod and co-inventor of the iPhone, and later Nest founder, commented this in Stratechery about the lawsuit whe…

I like this, it will be a really exciting benchmark to refer back to in a few years

One of the best and most clever "hidden" features. Very Apple. I never get nauseous looking at my phone in an Uber anymore. My wife can barely handle looking at a screen in a car a…

These have become some of the most valuable companies on Earth. The idea that there are lapses in governance in these companies is insane. Any shareholder is buying in fully aware …

Instagram Reels? Your measure of “innovation” is just not how large companies succeed. They are specialized at optimization, and take seeds of things and water them. Instagram had …

Socialist Russia was an environmental disaster. https://www.gchumanrights.org/preparedness/the-environmental...

we regularly depose those with political power. In elections. And the wealthy die or stop participating within around 30 yrs of becoming wealthy normally. And compete themselves ac…

The villains are the people who let these people continue to commit crimes and make life worse for others in the name of empathy instead of quickly and forcefully moving them into …

The whole post is premised on a fixed pie economy. "The financial model underneath requires the elimination of human cost centers at civilizational scale." No, it is not. It requir…

"certainly" is doing a lot of work here. I'm not "certain". In fact the people I have spoken to who have worked on Palantir platform were deeply suspicious of their users treating …

Flame of the West? Seems like a pretty apropos name for an American defense company

They have over 300 falcon 9 launches in a row now, just in case you’re not caught up on the latest

I realize how unpopular flock is, and I will first say that I have literally never personally looked into the privacy concerns. But one city you don’t see named here is SF, which h…

It was 1T post merger with xAI being 250B of it, SpaceX being 750B

I'm pretty sure this is the school that was on the corner of a military base, and the school building hit was previously part of the military base.

“I’m going to either steal your work in a way you don’t consent to, or not consume it” isn’t really great. The alternative is paywalls

The steelman is that this issue is politically loaded, and there is not yet proven public evidence for the most explosive version of the claim. That makes it an easy target for par…

The opposite of this has been my experience. HN comments bias far more negative towards technology, tech companies, and current politics than the people I know in real life. People…

We usually just call this collective extraction “taxes”

“While the pouches are considered a tobacco product, they don’t contain any tobacco, and are instead made from the plant fiber cellulose” It’s just Zyn, which doesn’t seem that dra…

As you know, this is a subjective take. (I enjoy my experience there more now, for example, with less social politics in my feed.) And their head of product claimed that X only has…

Would nuclear energy research be a good analogy then? Seems like a path we should have kept running down, but stopped bc of the weapons. So we got the weapons but not the humanity …