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I don’t know what Iran expected for trying to assassinate Trump back in 2024: https://www.nbcnews.com/investigations/iran-assassination-pl... . Of all the people who weren’t just g…

Yes, building public infrastructure generally involves paying private contractors to do it. Who do you think builds government buildings?

That’s the opposite of NIMBYism. Public infrastructure getting built despite inconvenience to affected landowners.

People need infrastructure. Data centers are infrastructure.

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Building stuff is good stewardship. We complain about NIMBYs. But with a few relatively modest regulations data centers can be quite friendly. They don’t generate traffic, congesti…

Interesting. That usage is the opposite of “forever chemicals” though. Isn’t it a good thing GLP-1s don’t permanently change your body?

I love the block diagram lol.

GLP-1s aren’t “forever drugs.” They’re eliminated so fast from your system you need to keep taking them to keep the effect. That’s the opposite of a forever drug. If you go off the…

The article has a bunch of speculation that’s not in the paper: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w35387/w353... One key point: > Nor do I find evidence of upward jo…

Economically, it’s to avoid free-rider effects. This benefit largely seems alien to tech people because the industry inherently has other moats: network effects, data and code in a…

Man, I loved reading Tom’s articles in BYTE.

The article even addresses that: > The yacht crew had been operating on a different radio channel, Baker told Forbes. “The assist was already under way” by the time they reviewed t…

> Even if he was not on his ship, the report is unlikely to boost public opinion of Zuckerberg It’s rare that a paper just admits that it’s slinging mud at someone for something it…

What you’re describing is “pretext” and it’s a different thing than disparate impact. You can find liability for pretext even when something is facially race neutral. You have to s…

> which is what seems to be simply necessary to actually make progress against the endlessly inventive evil of racism/sexism Can you give examples of how you think there are “inven…

> It’s better now by roughly a factor of two per passenger mile. Which is just not that big of a deal for 50+ years of technological development. It doesn't allow you to do anythin…

Was it a contested proceeding where the person was facing homelessness as the alternative?

What does “can be” mean? What percentage of the time does eviction result in homelessness?

> It's called common sense. Is it common sense, or your preconceptions? > Doesn't really matter, your own link provides the average. The “average” eviction doesn’t result in homele…

> My family has owned brownstones in new york my entire life and their experiences are quite different than yours. So because you have an anecdote, I must be lying? > Your own link…

Why would you accuse me of making it up? E.g. , https://www.evictpro.us/blog/how-long-does-eviction-take-in-... . This says that in Maryland, a typical timeline for a contested evi…

That’s not how technology works. We went from first flight in 1903 to a man on the moon in 1969. Then we basically did almost nothing in aerospace for the next 50 years. We never g…