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I think a lot of people are misunderstanding the significance of "cluster" here. It's not just a statistical anomaly where a disproportionate number of deaths happen in a short spa…

> I'm thinking about having it automatically filter and re-rank my social media feeds so I can steer the algorithm instead of the other way around. I hadn't really thought about th…

Here's a question I have for all the predictable "I don't need a union" SWEs out there: if unions were so bad, why do companies literally spend millions and break the law to make s…

You're so close to realizing the point but the difference is between a dystopian future and a future worth living. Corporate housing, and worker housing in general, is what we're b…

So I'm Gen-X. Statistically speaking, I have more yesterdays than tomorrows. I can't even begin to describe how much of a dystopian hellscape the world has become and is becoming. …

Two thoughts on this. First, it is incredibly difficult to pivot a large organization because there are too many competing interests, too many fiefdoms people have built and too mu…

We'll see if anyone gets to cash in on those. All you need is one down round and that gets wiped out. Or if the IPO gets delayed and disappoints then the stock can drop well before…

1350 is a neo-Nazi dog whistle. Think about it this way, let's say that black men committed more crimes per capita than men overall. That means one of two things: 1. There is an in…

This is one of hundreds of reasons why I laugh at the idea of the US going to war with China and being prepared for a war with China. That's never happening . Why? Because China ca…

I really dislike the manufactured conflict with China because it only exists to sell weapons. There are several flaws in this theory: 1. All but about 10 countries in the world rec…

I've linked this article several times on HN. Nobody goes to war over a solar panel [1]. You have to understand that the US is an arms dealer empire. We now spend >$1T/year on the …

There are several conclulsions you can draw from all this: 1. The US has been strategically and militarily defeated by Iran and this has been clear since at least April to anyone w…

If I'm ever on the jury of somebody charged with this, the prosecution has an incredibly high burden to convince me the poles and the cameras on them didn't die of natural causes. …

Corporations want a reproducible formula that can scale. Creating movies (and TV) is an inherently creative process. The people who end up running these businesses hate that but cr…

I question the methodology of that 100kg (per kg) figure for beef, for several reasons: 1. It's not the true Carbon or CO2 figure. It's weighted for other greenhouse gases. That's …

Two mild criticisms: 1. Don't call your project "shitty". At best it's juvenile humor. At worst, it's going to make adoption within companies difficult for literally no reason; and…

One big difference is that heroin is mostly illegal or, if not outright illegal, decriminalized for personal use. Gambling is legal in most places, can be advertised quite freely a…

This is the slippery slope fallacy and people in tech seem to love this argument. And you can argue in whichever direction you want with it. For example, "unfettered Internet acces…

That's a completely unhelpful, overly simplistic straw man argument. We restrict certain activities and places in the real world from certain people all the time. For example, not …

Not to repeat myself, but I'll point to earlier comments about what's going on with interest rates [1]. For some context here, it's worth mentioning the Yen carry trade [2]. This i…

Yeah, I really don't know where this goes from here. Like certain sources, particular Reddit and Twitter, have to largely be considered spoiled at this point. It's hard to quanitfy…

Financial advice for most people is incredibly straightforward and it can be summed up as: cut expenses and invest conservatively. Cutting expenses is the absolutely best thing you…

> We show that language isn’t isolated from political currents and that this dynamic has been a facet of human history for much longer than previously thought. Um, when did anyone …

There are three companies I am confident will survive an AI bubble popping: Google, Microsoft and Apple. A lot has been made of Google's recent earnings being cash flow negative (I…

It's this [1]. From 1986: > If there were not an Israel, we’d have to invent one It's lying about working on a ceasefire [2][3]. It's sending more and more weapons to Israel afer O…