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It’s impressive to see simulation training for floods, tornadoes, and wildfires. But it’s also kind of baffling that a city full of Waymos all seemed to fail simultaneously in San …

Well, it’s a good example of social media’s negative externalities.

Taking your questions at face value, the difference is incentives and feedback loops. Books are static. They do not watch you, adapt to you in real time, or optimize themselves to …

The evidence is pretty clear, and it keeps growing. Social media causes real harm, both to individuals and to society. It is addictive by design, it worsens mental health especiall…

Amazon has every incentive to show tariff rates to the customer. They don't want to be the bad guy overcharging in the transaction. Neither do local merchants when they collect a s…

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Scientists achieved “a milestone” by charting the activity and structure of 200,000 cells in a mouse brain and their 523 million connections

The fact that nobody on the thread spoke up and said "we shouldn't be talking about this on Signal" worries me greatly. One possible explanation is that it happens all the time.

Because I don't know whether either of those are appropriate. There aren't many comparable breaches to this one. The closest in modern times may be Hillary Clinton's email server b…

I began my career in a classified environment working on government satellite programs. In my first week on the job, I was told, explicitly, that if I shared Classified or Controll…

Founder liquidity events are done in secret in startup land. There's a simple reason for that. It's wrong. Startup employees, especially early ones, take on most of the risk that f…

This is to show how much employees own of the company they work for. The vast majority of employees do not have access to this information today, unbelievably. Full disclosure: I w…

While I'm aligned with the goal, it's burdensome for early-stage startups to hire FTEs to deal with what is essentially administrative paperwork. All startups have this problem, so…

"It's better than new. Now it has a story." -David Mamet Not only are these beautiful and useful fonts, but each one has a story that's as unique as the typography itself. I can't …

Is it worth mentioning that on top of the $1,100 hourly rate for Bromwich, and the $1,025 hourly rate for the assisting law firm, Fried Frank, he's also demanding a 15% "service ch…

I think of myself as fairly plugged in to the startup scene. One data point that Mattermark is indeed doing what it claims—"to uncover the most promising private companies in the w…

I was there today. The emotion was shared and felt by everyone in the room. I'm not a lawyer, but it seems like this could ultimately become a serious free speech issue. Edit: I as…