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This was a super-interesting read, but I'm disappointed there isn't a description of what, exactly, was wrong about what he did, and what one should do instead. The only thing that…

This is a very interesting, very well written post. The part that stands out the most is: > if you needed venture capital to produce a viable small-scale business, you didn't reall…

Isn't ASML a Dutch company? I can't seem to find any evidence they've ever been sold.

Good comment, and, basically, I fully agree, except, I really dislike your attempt to appropriate the words "programming" and "coding" here. Like, can you just explain what you mea…

I'm not sure what is meant by "data-oriented programming" (I know what "data-driven" means...) but, yes, "Data-Oriented Design" has a distinct (if somewhat nebulous) meaning which …

I agree that "tiers vs. continuum" has no bearing on the question of whether or not Magic: The Gathering is pay-to-win. I was merely pointing out that what tedunangst was describin…

I would say, in that sense, there aren't really tiers; it's a continuum, and you can attempt to compete at whatever price point you're willing.

No, it's just a really expensive game with a subscription model. What's the price to pay to get four copies of each card in every standard set? That's your quarterly subscription f…

The time-honored (or "lindy") solutions here are joining a gym and going to church.

Accelerometers and IR sensors were advanced tech in 2006?

The Wii is actually a perfect example of that philosophy. It was built using outdated, underpowered tech, but in spite of that, was a huge success because they did something unusua…

Wasn't SVB an S&P 500 company?

I guess that's what you normally do when you're overweighted that asset class and you must cover withdrawals!

It's well known that long-dated treasuries are highly volatile. I think the lesson we've all learned here is that they didn't have a viable business. It seems like they were offeri…

I wonder why that didn't happen in this case? Perhaps fear that would just trigger a run on the acquiring bank?

> the point of the FDIC system is for customers not to have to do this kind of risk assessment themselves It seemed self-evident to me, based on the explicitly stated limit on FDIC…

> YouTube Originals flopped Maybe as a whole, but Cobra Kai was excellent and very popular! Also, in the long-run, will having "missed" streaming & shorts necessarily be a bad thin…

>And why is it legal for Amazon to be the prime competitor of the economy’s whole retail sector while not having to make a profit? I wish the author had elaborated on why it should…

Luther posted his Ninety-five Theses, but they were removed by the Roman Catholic Church because they determined it violated their community guidelines.

Menlo on MacOS, Ubuntu Mono on Linux.

Poker and 3d-platformers & first-person shooters.

Don't kids in Singapore and Taiwan only wear masks when they're sick? (Rather than the entire class at all times; at least, up until the start of the pandemic.) If so, it seems lik…

Start with Ziglings: https://github.com/ratfactor/ziglings and then after working through all the exercises read chapter 2 of ziglearn.org.

Assets are not a good protection mechanism if you buy them at the height of a bubble in asset prices!

The only advice I have to offer (which may be terrible advice!) is to keep a big chunk of your investment portfolio in cash (10-25%.) If you maintain your target weights in how you…