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if spotify employs an american and they become more experienced over their tenure were american resources extracted? human capital tends to get better with experience, particularly…

interesting. Manus is nominally a Singapore based company and should be immune to these actions. Tiktok argued that it was headquartered in Singapore with a Singaporean CEO. breaki…

I'm not being prescriptive, just observing the likely consequences of gendered policy.

I am wondering if the affected men will demand preferential treatment as a consequence of service. Women currently benefit from disproportionate employment in the social safety net…

How does feminism survive if this becomes the norm? If young men feel like they're expected to give more to their society it's natural to expect renumeration financial, socially or…

the modern world emerged of rationalism, the end goal of AI & automated thinking is necessarily at odds with rationalism (systems will be increasingly illegible as AI accelerates p…

America clearly has an EV industry (Tesla, Rivian) but its adoption is pretty limited by infrastructure.

This doesn't really pay attention to token costs. If I'm making a series of statically dependent calls I want to avoid blowing up the context with information on the intermediary s…

contra-pessimism: My parents run a small organic farm on the east coast — (greenhouses, not row crops) and they extensively use chatgpt for decision making They obviously haven’t b…

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I don't know how to really accept the fact that America is becoming a dramatically more corrupt country at the population and political level. It reminds me of growing up in the th…

The entire piece keeps telling you to ignore the people in question, their statements and their preferences. It wants to push this doomer narrative of left behind people, while ign…

this seems overly polemic. My parents live on a small farm and heat their home with firewood. My dad likes splitting wood, and it’s marginally cheaper since they own a plot of wood…

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids both the poor and the rich from living in dorms past college.

they rolled this out to NYC a month or two ago. They were airport shuttles with an initial price of $10 and will go to $25. It was dramatically more comfortable than taking the sub…

1. I’m being descriptive not prescriptive. property taxes being used to drive urbanization and development is a standard urban planning practice and was used to be used in LA durin…

the extremely unpopular but logical next step in managing change would be to induce development by increasing property taxes. Basically compel people to move and sell their land to…

Without trying to start a flame war... There's likely an element that's certainly cultural, or a biologically based differences, but it seems like there are some very straight forw…

couldn’t you just ignore them?

He's speaking rhetorically, most of the time the company setups you up with options that expire worthless.

worse, you’ll be paying to bail them out in the name of solidarity.

I think your idea of economics is more informed by online debate than actual research. Contemporary economists mostly try to articulate things through econometrics, which is a fair…