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Yes, work will expand to fill all your available hours due to unaligned incentives between who does the work (the SWE in this example) and who decide the quantity, timeline, and co…

The most interesting parts of this paper (in my opinion) from Microsoft Research are found on page 12 and 13, where they list the jobs and occupations most and least likely to be i…

Sure. I'm not claiming that everyone must find the ad disturbing, just that the ones who do tend to feel much more strongly than those who don't, and their feelings tend to not to …

Imagine an ad for a virtual puppy game using hydraulic press to crush real dogs, showing closeup of twisted broken head and blood splashing on camera and all. Surely you can unders…

Gitcoin probably would work for developers, who are highly paid already and their code have high potential of being used in profitable projects. Not so well for artists who earn a …

The differences I can see are these: With websites you can set a robot.txt file to opt out of indexing, and if they keep indexing anyway there are mechanisms to block it, both tech…

The creators DALL-E and Github Copilot -- and people in favor of training AIs on publicly available data in general -- argue that people have been studying and making derivative wo…

Changes take time, and there are massive opportunity costs to moving your supply chain base elsewhere. If other countries can do manufacturing equally well (same quality, cost, leg…

It's a bit messy. Legally the board has to act in the best interest of all shareholders. In actual trials the judges tend to defer to the board's business judgment since they are i…

The board cannot, by itself, decide the value per share. The board can present its opinion that the deal is fair by approving it, and suggest that all shareholders take this course…

Revenue share and price parity are standard clauses in most department store lease contracts and not at all unprecedented, at least in my experience. My company is routinely told t…

Designing cities around cars is a great mistake of urban planning imo. Ideally there should be no motorized vehicles above ground within a city's boundary. The improvements to safe…