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Today we have a military industrial complex supported by both parties and our most vital student loans (championed by our "left" party) come with no bankruptcy protection. We do ha…

He's going to be many times over the richest person in history before long. This has been clear for a long time if you look at the rate of growth of his wealth. But it's not bad ne…

I've moved many of my tech investments into Amazon b/c of the steady track record and stable trajectory of good decision making and execution. If the economy tanks, it makes Amazon…

That's misleading though, because he's had great risk of ruin and lots of smart people have tried (Jet, Azure, etc.) to compete with him but have fallen short. Compare Amazon to so…

Bezos will surpass that several times over in the next few years. He's added tremendous economic value which is why so many of us pay him for his many products and services.

Is it not obvious that this article is meant to make us imagine beloved elders as participants in high risk sex?

That just changes the risk profile of deciding to execute a trade vs the predictable outcome. It may be more costly or less costly than existing approaches.

Well, FWIW js is not the most friendly language for functional programming. I'd argue that the trend toward immutable.js and redux occurred partly because rest/spread syntax was/is…

His point was that openness is highly valued. The way I'd put it is that in SF, it is completely OK to be a nonconformist and to do things your own way. It's actually hard to be fu…

Yes. This is obvious but also counterintuitive. People forget that it's a long game and that malware (such as Stuxnet) is patient and penetrates gradually.

Great links. I've been using cake for a while but without the advanced options. One random question: Does it ever make sense to add SQM to a tap_soft interface? I have two location…

I think it makes sense to give it 100 pages, but I read a fair bit faster than the average person. I think it is also a question of the other factors indicating that a book might b…

A few interesting things about SDR and the kind of tinkering and experimentation one can do: - in amateur radio, SDR is starting to dominate new commercial designs, but has not yet…

Maybe different learning styles? I spoke with one very young math prodigy a few years ago who told me that her secret to self teaching advanced material was that she tries several …

> I doubt it was some hybrid free for all like you're suggesting. I certainly would not have expected it to be a free-for-all, but the quote I pasted suggests that there was not ne…

Doing a hybrid app in the way that the articles describe sounds like a recipe for tremendous complexity. One line in one of the linked articles that really struck me was "Often tim…

There is a big difference between ego and narcissism. Many people have low self-esteem, which means that they are constantly doubting themselves, feeling less worthy than others, f…

The root cause of this problem is that YouTube does not offer a whitelist only option for parents.

FWIW I think you guys should put out a major call for help to other companies and add more non-FB people to the core committers. React Native is fantastic, but the ecosystem is thr…

This is a great point. There have been a few issues that I've followed only to find that eventually the entire thread on Github with tons of example cases of the bug gets "closed f…

> Why should Facebook pay for that? Because the overall health of the open source ecosystem around React and React Native depends upon the cost of development being somewhat predic…

I think you should just hire a few smart people who can be dedicated to supporting these issues which are high priority outside Facebook. These issues are extremely costly to teams…

Official inflation numbers are based on a basket of goods that are thought to be representative for the purpose of broad economic policy. But it's certainly true that inflation is …

And significantly more opaque. I’d say the title went from a B to a B- due to the moderation action.

I've always maintained that Open Source is less an ideological movement opposed to capitalism than it is a different sort of contract for capitalist interactions. Of course, it was…