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Happens to the best of us.

Throwing out one idea: for the 30+ crowd with kids and families, how can you make it frictionless to maintain and build friendships, especially across different groups (building, s…

Maybe. The internet was also exponential, and while it has its drawbacks, I think it's resulted in a huge increase in creativity. The world looks very different than it did 30 year…

Amazing, I feel like I'm zooming in to some alien city. I'm sure people are thinking about it, but with high resolution scanning, 3D printing, etc., it feels like it should be poss…

This is great. I'd love it for flashcard creation - paste in a block of text I'm reading and extract vocabulary from it.

I think it's more about when the market is still majority manual. 20% self driving might see premiums for manual cars go up significantly because manual drivers would have more at …

I think insurance prices will drive adoption of self driving very quickly. Consider: if a non-self driving car is in an accident with a self driving car, it'll almost always be the…

It is cynical, but quality over quantity is bad advice if you want to grow your career as a manager. It's a real failure mode. Not being aggressive about growing your headcount wil…

Very interesting, I'd always thought it was a made up thing from Donnie Darko.

Funny enough, the US government is in a large part in debt to... the US government. So for that part at least, it feels more like an accounting mechanism than anything.

Presumably I'd be able to buy it back at $0.60 on the dollar since that's what the market value of a low interest mortgage would be on today's market of 7% mortgage rates. I'd want…

https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.851/ covers them. If I recall, one use was speeding up search in range trees.

This is a fascinating article, though I'm not sure I grok the analogy about flow meters. Given they're so securitized, I wish I could buy back my own mortgage at a discount given h…

That's a fun prompt. Depends on the landlord but taking a Chris Voss approach here: "Honestly, I'm worried I can't afford to move, you're a smart guy, I bet you're worried about th…

Congrats to them! What have your experiences with vector databases been? I've been using https://weaviate.io/ which works great, but just for little tech demos, so I'm not really s…

It's so interesting to hear ideas that feel so timeless today - "unit testing", "refactoring" - were of course not.

One big viewpoint shift I've had over the past 5 years is that it should be very hard to fire people for their actions outside of work. By and large things that aren't criminal, do…

I meant what the people are optimizing for. However, even equity has its faults: equity has to vest for it to be worth anything (and later, be exercised for strike + AMT). The expe…

You have to know what you and others are optimizing for. In big companies, it's rarely the success of the project. Usually it's a combination of keeping your job and growing your c…

"If you have not notified us... you will be deemed to have agreed..." Is changing the terms of a service agreement with no confirmation/acceptance from the user even legal or enfor…

How would they have typeset this, especially the more complex equations? I'm guessing LaTeX didn't have great support on 1899 typewriters or printing presses.

Allstate/SquareTrade has been awesome. I bought a nightmare of a dishwasher that's needed repairs three times now. Each time I call, I'm on hold for under a minute, they do some br…

I wish I just had one device. Imagine a phone that unfolds to a laptop, and then can plug in to a keyboard and display and become a reasonable computer/laptop. Samsung is sort of t…

The article doesn't mention it, but part of the answer is equity risk premium: https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/valuation/eq... If I can get ~5% risk free return fro…