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> Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. The t…

We are going to have an ever-increasing supply of stories along the lines of "used a LLM to write a contract; contract gave away the company to the counterparty; now trying to get …

So, HN has deleted this off the front page after about 20 minutes, and sure, they generally want to avoid "political" stories but the simple fact is that when a "political" story r…

Trump to Bukele, 2025-04-14: Trump: they demand you, they love you, they love what you do... Bukele: {something about supporters} Trump: you know what I want to do? Home-grown crim…

The problem is both US political parties would strongly oppose any attempt to "get people in the streets", making it very challenging for any such protesters.

Two or three very small opsec failures equals one massive opsec failure.

Yeah. The only lesson that would be learned from a bunch of tablets depicting agonizing death to those who approach would be "I'll make sure to send the low-paid workers in first b…

If you've honestly never seen the types of leaders envisioned in this article you are very lucky indeed. For a large majority of supervisors, if you give them carefully-worded, pol…

Over and over we've seen the same financial scam play out: a) company starts up that explicitly avoids being a bank b) company does something where some amount of money is placed i…

The California school curriculum includes and has always included algebra.

The "rigorous supplier vetting" of any corporation consists of checking which supplier is charging the least.

The definition of "liberal" being used here by The Hill is "voting with the Democratic Party". Their definitional left end of the spectrum is "bills put up by the Democrats" and de…

Article writer does not understand how significant figures work or why they exist.

The idea that the human race will never exactly agree on what is "true" is correct and obvious. The opinion expressed here that nothing has changed in the world recently about how …

Based on other mass extinctions, we can expect ten+ million years of very low life diversity during this extinction that we're causing. So, for a period much longer than humans hav…

Probably the easiest way would have been to draw a line around each factory in the US, declare that those now counted as outside-US for emissions purposes, and then declare that no…

Luckily for the government, the law doesn't say "monopoly" or require them to prove there is only one company operating. The law just says that anyone that has market power (which …

Luckily for the government, the law doesn't say "monopoly" or require them to prove there is only one company operating. The law just says that anyone that has market power (which …

> which are the point of the concern. Well, that's not in evidence here. There is maybe one commenter total in this thread other than myself who is NOT commenting as if these are r…

The UK, which creates UK pounds, can pay off these UK pound debts any time it likes; any day between lunch and tea time that it decides to do so, it can. Discussions of sovereign d…

"my retirement is safe and secure, I've invested with Crypto401K"

The bulk of content on Youtube today is some stock video footage, an AI-generated script read by a computer voice. Maybe a human spends a few minutes cutting together the video foo…

Yes, at great expense, we bring in tons of life-sustaining supplies from habitable parts of Earth so that people can live briefly at the South Pole or on top of Everest. In the abs…

Seems much more likely that in the US at least, fossil fuel interests will push for taxes on solar installations and usage to bring their costs up to the level of oil and gas.

What solution do you propose for the noisy child on a plane? Throw them out?