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I strongly suggest you learn more about the history of media. Your post has nostalgia for a time that never existed. You may also wish to consider the notion that your perception o…

I love the way WA votes. I've lived in a half dozen US states, and it is by far the best experience. It makes it extremely easy to vote thoughtfully. No need for a smartphone. The …

It is reasonable and normal for governments to care when other governments attack their citizens.

One main benefit of a return is that it creates costs to Amazon (shipping, returns processing, then disposing of the returned product). I'd like to think this makes Amazon marginal…

Your AWS conspiracy theory is bizarre.

Yah good point. Most small businesses would suffer no harm at all from an adversary with an initial $10MM allocated toward an attack. After all, most businesses have no employees w…

Cool. Did you know that Peter Thiel, in his own words, decided to "create a shell company to hire former investigative reporters and lawyers to _find_ causes of action against Gawk…

I can't help but laugh that a guy who calls himself 'Smirking Revenge' is a stan for Peter Thiel's revenge by proxy lawsuit. If you were a fictional character, I'd think the author…

To clarify, you are ok with billionaires having the ability to use the legal system to destroy any organization they personally dislike?

If Peter Thiel wants to pretend he cares about privacy, he should shut down Clearview and Palantir.

For what it's worth, her car is a 2016 Subaru. The fake shifts are very subtle when driving gently, and noticeable if you hit the gas hard. I'm curious if Subaru changed their shif…

This wouldn't be terribly surprising. My wife's internal combustion car has a CVT that emulates an automatic with gears and shift points, presumably because that felt more natural …

similarly to financial forecasts. a very good one-day forecast for SPY is between -9% and +5%. a very good one-year forecast for SPY is between -45% and +95%. a very good 20 year f…

It's really fucking clear-cut from a risk management point of view.

Yah, it's a real shame that the fossil fuel (and adjacent) industries spent decades spreading misinformation and disinformation, and funding the hell out of any effort that created…

I'm a Sr Manager at a FAANG company (and I started here in my 40s). My direct reports include other SDMs, senior product managers, and staff/principal engineers. You mention "tryin…

We generally trust that every page of a kids book will be roughly as expected given the title and author of the book. We trust the same of things like PBS kids programs. The same t…

In my last job we were sufficiently sophisticated users of AWS that we routinely had conversations with product managers to learn if specific features were on the roadmap, and if s…

A good way to have a great annual return in year y+1 is to have a 21% decline during December of year y.