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Comment #48005905
High market cap but universally hated by its end-users is probably not a great yardstick to measure consumer software against.
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Comment #47715907
Because it's a polite fiction that men and women are equally capable and expendable at warfare. Successful and enduring human societies practice traditions around warfare that refl…
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Comment #44319530
Well, you can make things yourself worth 365 x 100 million and decide to use them for something else. Fortunately, the rules in well-functioning societies do not allow anyone other…
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Comment #44319370
There was a seriously sour grapes quality to that comment thread. I wouldn't give it too much weight without hearing from actual SpaceX employees.
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Comment #43611416
Norwegian here. People collectively lost their minds after the 2024 election. The USA is a great country, embodying values that bring out the best in humanity. You don't deserve th…
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Comment #43240479
Is the top half of the comments on this forum for entrepreneurs really discussing the communist revolution revisited?
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Comment #43212975
Nation-state politics often devolves to the level of children on a playground. This was one of those occasions.
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Comment #43212721
> The energy policy of most European countries was clearly mismanaged Still is. That Germany continues to leave their nuclear fleet fallow in the face of this is absolute insanity.…
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Comment #42726656
Another way of phrasing the situation is that Quantas _very inconveniently_ chose to put their flight path straight through the projected trajectory of rocket debris.
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Comment #42388813
Tesla will win this, followed by Cruise. Waymo isn't scalable.
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Ask HN: How to get good advice for investing in non-public companies?
Hi folks. I'm probably not the only person on HN who technically qualifies as an Accredited Investor and is interested in investing in pre-IPO companies. Given the greater requirem…
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Comment #40716974
In most European countries, you are only ever allowed to be in possession of a gun in public if you are travelling to or from the shooting range.
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Comment #40622546
Just ensure that there’s good a insurance system to finance the rare health issues, and the market will take care of the hubcaps and spoilers. Solving e.g. male pattern baldness or…
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Comment #40504678
I guess that most likely means not winning the bid with Apple. But these companies aren't exactly aged grandmothers who have walked all the way to the one pharmacy in town; I don't…
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Comment #40439988
Norway’s child protective services has 17 convictions against themselves and counting in the International Human Rights Court of Strasbourg.
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Comment #40349451
At some point, algorithms for reasoning and long-term planning will be figured out. Data won’t be the holy grail forever, and neither will asymptotically approaching human performa…
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Comment #40347127
One of the linked demos is it being sarcastic, so maybe you can make it remember to be a little more edgy.
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Comment #40333062
Absolutely not. I first noticed this when visiting Iceland. The hot streams bubbling out of the ground sounded the same as boiling hot water being poured from a kettle, not the kin…
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Comment #40234846
Maybe IQ fell with advanced age previously, due to cognitive damage caused by disease or other environmental factors. And this is less prevalent today.
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Comment #39681501
If passengers were touching the ceiling, it would have required either a very powerful downdraft or control surface inputs leading to greater-than gravity acceleration downwards. V…
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Comment #39639152
SpaceX is amazing, but having Elon Musk as a critical geopolitical asset seems rather dodgy given his loud anti-Western comments recently.
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Comment #39581027
By definition you're risking more than 100% of your portfolio value when trading on margin, even short-term. One wrong bet can wipe you out. You shouldn't delude yourself to believ…
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Comment #39482727
It's been irrational since the Industrial Revolution; future growth has never been priced in even to the level of a reasonable discount rate.
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Comment #39482713
Don't invest on margin, ever.
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Comment #39452403
The market economic incentives of capitalism will weed out your colleague in short order. Or if not, your company.