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I, for one, favor having a .1 cent piece, a third the size of a penny about the size of a shirt button. Because San Francisco sales tax is 8.63 and something the costs 1 dollar is …

What's sad is that unionizing will accelerate whatever the decline of the company is causing the dissatisfaction. Wiser for employees to just jump ship or found a new game studio w…

I stole a lot of books too, reading them and all. Just integrated them into my worldview, and don't pay a license fee when I use the ideas in new contexts. Sometimes I even quote f…

Very excited about this. I've been flying curious for years, but haven't actually done it. Some of the cons that have held me back... A few of the places I'd want to travel to have…

I dearly wish Apple would just publish Dark Sky again. Let the Weather app be whatever super clean design hero you want, just give us back this perfect information dense weather ap…

No, it's painful.

An excellent unintended consequence of forcing builders into modular housing might be a much more robust modular housing market. Sort of like Tesla starting with higher cost Roadst…

What a great update, thanks for posting!

Context is important, this is targeted at journalists. They are usually trying to make a point to casual readers. For readers with more interest or who are numerate in their day jo…

Nah it's fine. Arizona doesn't use more water than it did in 1957. https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-environme... and 74% of that goes to agriculture. Western wate…

The problem is that average sms security is higher than email, but email CAN be much more secure. So for mass market accounts sms makes a good login confirmation and improves secur…

I'll second that for Waymo. Just took a Waymo ride across San Francisco 3 nights ago in hard rain, at night. A hilly complex city with bike lanes, kinda oddball medians and bollard…

Nah, it's failure mode is to slow down and pull over. It would be amazing if drunk humans did the same.

Just took a Waymo ride across San Francisco 3 nights ago in hard rain, at night. A hilly complex city with bike lanes, kinda oddball medians and bollards, many pedestrians, and hom…

A quote from Tyler Cowen I read this morning... Tyler Cowen: Uncertainty should not paralyse you. Try to do your best, pursue maximum expected value, and just avoid the moral nervo…

Sorta surprised at how badly people dislike the Cybertruck.

Harvard's actions are also consistent with her not doing good research. Note that she was not snapped up by another institution to be faculty, just a "tenure track position". One r…

10 years ago, I thought it was important have newsrooms reporting on current events. But now it's so schlocky, even on things I agree with them on, that I think they do more harm t…

Yes! Saw that and was relieved I have nothing on them :-)

A problem for me building on this is that Google Cloud has no coherent strategy. So the price could easily be double or quadruple Amazon in 2 years. Google Maps is the key lesson h…

Advances are always welcome, but it's worth noting that desalination works economically right now. In the last 15 years large scale desalination has become practical. It's one of t…

Add Visionect to hacker unfriendly devices. They forced a change to subscription service. Ask me how I know :-(.