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They wanted a new CEO and didn't expect Sam to take 95% of the company with him when he left. Sam also played his hand extremely well; he's likely learned from watching hundreds of…

Sam Altman has done in four days what it took Steve Jobs 11 years to do! I'm impressed.

I think the most obvious redesign would be to switch to a stenography system instead of Querty/Dvorak/etc. By chording, we could type faster with less movements. Steno takes longer…

South Korea seems to have done this; they have more testing than anywhere else, yet they have less new cases now than they did last week.

Getting Re below 1 seems like the right approach, but I really hope that we can do this through extensive testing and travel restrictions. This way anyone who gets any illness and …

I switched my browser to use verbatim by default when doing google searches for a few months. It still came up with false positives like this.

Older people also tend to have more friends in the industry and more capital along with competence/experience.

I've been using the Gemini PDA for the past year; it's recently been replaced by the Cosmo Communicator. It has a normal glass screen that folds like a mini laptop to reveal a keyb…

For very short distance flights, electric aircraft are already viable. For example, Harbour Air Seaplanes operates a 20 minutes flight between Vancouver, BC and Victoria, BC. They …

There is a compromise. I have a tendency to work odd hours because it's much easier to get actual work done if there's less distractions. On the other hand, I do feel it's importan…

Presuming you still can't borrow a new book if you have overdue books at home, and you still have to pay for lost books, this seems reasonable. It reminds me of the old-school netf…

I wonder how countries like Norway and Switzerland implement their wealth taxes if this is absolutely impossible. It's true that more countries use an inheritance tax which has a s…

Thanks! I didn't know how to get by this paywall until now.

I'd be willing to try a fitbit if they had a daylight-readable smart watch. I haven't gotten around to getting a Garmin, but last I checked they were the only watch since pebble wi…

This isn't a new phenomenon. I've also read magazines with advertisements disguised as articles, except for the small "advertisement" label at the top.

Obviously Harvard is a really good school and learning English is useful, but it also makes me wonder if dictators and their daughters would be even more radical without a western …

I tried reading an issue of Dabiq once because I was curious about how they interpreted the Hadith. It was really hard to get, which probably shows that the cyber attack worked. If…

That explains why the jquery based script I wrote to change the alpha channel of an image didn't work in Edge whereas it worked in all the other modern browsers I tested. edit:clar…

I've been thinking of switching from an old Pebble to a Garmin because it has a daylight visible screen. Do they also have a system to text in case of emergency like the Apple watc…

I've always considered Amazon's search system as pretty bad, often ignoring keywords to get more search results. It does look like their sort by price mechanism has improved. eBay …

With Hong Kong's population density, I could see this technology working fairly well. I'm not sure how well it would work inside buildings, but could be good enough for people walk…

I know of a pastor who asked a woman in his congregation to go to a different church for a while so he could date her because he wasn't allowed to date parishioners. After they mar…

I wonder how if this European study holds true in North America. The US and Canada have a regulation for maximum speed/power, but pedelec is optional. In Canada it's pretty easy to…

The article states that miniature horses live 35 years or longer, whereas dogs have a much shorter lifespan. Presuming both are equally difficult to train, this is an obvious advan…

He has a point. I started wishing I knew more maths when I started playing with tensorflow last year....