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Crazy, I could have sworn this story was from a passage in 3 Body Problem (book 2). Memory is quite the mysterious thing.

Funny, I assumed it was a subtle critique of how change always elicits haters. Though now I realize it was an honest non-sequiter to complain about his pet issue? Honestly not sure…

We call them DJ's and many are quite famous.

Sad to see Healthcare and government employment growth outpace everything else. If we're all nurses or regulators who will build our country?

Bring your whole self to work, at this point, is the term you use to criticize this policy, not to describe it. Maternity leave is a version of BYWSTW. As are PRIDE/ethnicity relat…

Reminds me of a demo I played 10 years ago called swap box turbo. Designed for two players, it is a simple platformer where you and your partner swap positions and momentum every 3…

Is it how many workers you have when you build that building

To be clear VTI is only US stocks and VEU is everything else. It is confusing because "Vanguard Total Stock Market" contains only United States equities.

"I'm going to just go ahead and say 'based', entirely on the premise, thank you." Is how I initially read this.

Patrick Collison is from Ireland.

I would say this would have been nice to know ~20 years ago, but umm, it came out ~20 years ago. Ah well. Perhaps I had to learn my lessons the hard way regardless

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Owning ~.00001% of a company feels illusory to me, more difficult to intuit values. So would Nvidia share owners rather own all of Nvidia instead of all of Apple? I suspect not. Th…

> (I won’t talk about Magnet much here, because the proximate reasons for its failure are pretty simple: we ran out of money and the market fell out from under it. It might have - …

The Texas electric grid is 25% cheaper than New Yorks: https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.ph... Texas produces more electricity than any other state, in fact…

I get the https://www.newsminimalist.com/ daily newsletter in my RSS reader. A few important news stories each day. Where important is decided by ChatGPT.

I have a similar rule: "The first person to tell their opponent 'your ideas are offensive' forfeits the debate". I believe my rule prevents more bad arguments.

I am happy for Las Angeles to perform a widespread trial of this kind of initiative. Attract people to Southern California that might be homeless elsewhere, help them get on their …

India is not homogeneous. Neither are most (all?) countries in Southeast Asia or Sub-Saharan Africa.

This is cool. Isn't finding these the same as minting a new block of bitcoin? So definitially hard using our best understanding of algorithms, math, etc.

Looks like the 2020 line is just east of Chicago and just north of the SFBA. The line can't move West or South too quickly as every additional minute represents so many people shif…

+1 my best office was a 15 minute walk through a upscale shopping area, into a cramped room alongside my teammates and boss with a great view of a large pond. All of our desks were…

In defense of Ford, GM and Chrysler; it is also a subsidy to BMW, Toyota and Tesla.

When blue states show me a viable public transportation network for a reasonable cost I will support them in my red state. Consider the CA high speed rail a PoC for the nation. Wou…

I use the term Anglosphere. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglosphere ).