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While that does happen occasionally in SF, it's <5% of my commutes.

Americans save at a much lower rate than Europeans (5% US vs. 15% EU), which I think makes your whole thesis backwards. Maybe Americans SHOULD be saving more for retirement, but th…

It's read-only data, fwiw

My RSS reader downloads a local copy of posts so I can read offline (Reeder). I imagine that would trigger his analytics.

Yes - I've set it up as an 'office manager,' where it mainly snakily interacts with the local team via Slack, and controls an office TV to show our quote board, PTO calendar, and u…

Huge amounts of cash were given to many Americans during Covid.

1950-1985 and 1985-now are pretty steady. Decreased inflation volatility over time. I think your chart shows the "that inflation slowly erodes purchasing power over time." That doe…

Facebook stock is up 6x in ~3 years, so the market does not agree with your assessment of his track record.

Reading between the lines, it sounds like the FAA maybe did not trust CBP to "test" operate the high powered laser near civilian aviation, in part given that they mistakenly identi…

Yes: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/airspace-closure-followed-spat-... FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford on Tuesday night decided to close the airspace — without alerting White House, …

I agree the risk transfer is very important, but Visa and Mastercard don't do that (they just facilitate it)

It's extremely improbable that a random critique of Thiel led to one of the many many many companies he invests in banning this guy. It's not impossible, but - Occam's razor, it's …

But you'd have an asset you own at the end of that period, and your mortgage payments wouldn't go up over time whereas rent likely would.

I was thinking autonomy, but you're right for EV alone.

1/6 is a lot lower (good!) but is that sufficient to say they're not a large source of particulate air emissions?

EVs help with air pollution & congestion, but a huge part of the AQI impact of cars is tires, and I don't think there's a solution for that yet short of "fewer cars"

It's a big number - but still less than tech industry profits.

What?

Yeah. He starts with reasonable points about the economy changing into the Electronic Era and then starts making increasingly less-evidenced points by the end.

He clearly says this is in the context of "transaction processing" in the comment you're responding to.

I doubt it's her husband. She's more powerful than he is.

There are extremely high fixed costs + we require hospitals to do unprofitable work (they aren't allowed to turn anyone away from the ED, for example). In many small regional chain…

While this could be true, I don't think OpenAI is investing the $hundreds of millions-to-billions that would be required otherwise make it actually true. OpenAI's fund is ~$250-300…

At least in the US, insurers have been losing money in recent years. Definitely not price gouging. Insurance is an amazing service.

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