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Er, as much as I love fun/interesting software things, the quality of these products are terrible for any real world use.

Solving conversational intelligence is the same as solving general intelligence (AGI), so unless google has solved the latter I would expect any chatbot system to still be pretty a…

Not sure disclosing all this helps their image, if people now understand they're capable of faking any sort of public appearance of anyone they need to.

> their biggest worry is a new class of people getting richer than them fast You can read a lot of Western political history since the industrial revolution, when the new class of …

Many in congress literally use shell companies to obtain payments discretely so yeah, shell company laws aren't getting passed anytime soon.

At risk of sounding belittling to those spend their life giving their labor to someone else, I think we can't go on indefinitely because we aspire to get something better out of ou…

Do you have money? Quit your job, go travel, go entrepreneurial pursuing something that moves you. Living in some San Francisco apartment, building a career at tech companies makin…

I don't understand why the author casually says Basecamp "burned it all down". Basecamp took action to set a culture they believed would help them succeed long term. Is having a to…

I'd recommend starting out with a landing page first before you build the app. Like a really nice, well-designed one, that captures your vision and core points. Just copy some star…

The same arguments could made against Btc and Eth just a couple years ago. I did lose an embarrassing amount betting on them circa 2018. Even today, Btc could suffer a 51% hash pow…

This is false information. There is definitely an active development team and the yearly new coin caps are pretty controlled with a decreasing inflation rate that will reach zero e…

Had a cold water realization a few days ago that Doge, which has all the functions of Btc, in being non elitist, populist, and easily marketable because it's entertaining might ver…

That is what folks have been saying for at least 3 months since I've been following. I think you underestimate how the mainstream views cryptos as elitist silicon valley stuff, whi…

Just noticed that Doge isn't available on Coinbase and have to really wonder why.... While it started as a meme it does have a real team building it out into a real crypto. You can…

Elon is not the only high profile figure championing dogecoin, e.g. Mark Cuban, who arguably has a larger fan base.

The name is a clear satire/parody, they would be fine at least under US law.

Yes, Dogecoin's inflation rate decreases with time and eventually hits zero. The crypto community thinks Dogecoin embarrasses them and it's become cringey watching them react so se…

Wealthy people minus a few eccentrics are most certainly not parking their money in NFTs. The crazy $69MM Beeple headline was actually a purchase by an NFT related company from wha…

I don't think Feynman was that different in this masculine or promiscuous respect from many of that era's greats... Schrödinger, von Neumann, Einstein, to name a few. Feynman at le…

Not sure it’s about cynicism as much as about understanding what's going on. The amount of CO2 sequestered is about 80 cars/year worth, and I’m not sure if that accounts for the th…

I do not know what textbooks you read or economic history lectures you took to reach your conclusion. This is the second half of the 19th C, the US was absolutely dominating the in…

This is a general misconception you hear that America's dominance in the world (and universities) was due to the "old world" imploding in WWII. It obviously helped the US but alrea…

> A coding camp is the opposite of hustling Right on. I'm self taught before bootcamps were a thing. I learned by doing by launching a bunch of startup prototypes. Then I ran out o…

Intriguing that the motivation for coinbase was: "Credit card fees are too high. In the next five years merchants are going to start moving away from..." I think it's fair to say h…