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Yeah guess in hindsight that didn’t read as clear as it should have. The chat bot is only even correct because of obvious, authoritative, trustworthy sources like the CDC. Makes it…

It’s so unbelievably destructive. We had a kid recently and I was looking up vaccine research. Do we have to prod the kid with the Hepatitis B vaccine at birth? I looked it up and …

Yes, but not immediately. This is how it works: 1. There are a finite number of software engineers capable of competing with FAANG. 2. You outbid outsiders. At times, talk to your …

Tinfoil hat: the cuts have nothing to do with market fundamentals, but are rather collusion by the big players to drop tech salaries. Bytedance is outside the clique.

I didn't want to seem long winded, but the market structures you describe are common to many if not most markets we have for goods and services, at least here in the US. For exampl…

This is actually a great way of looking at it. Patagonia here is the exception , that's why we're all here talking about it! I didn't want to give my bit of power to my health insu…

In light of recent events, the only conclusion I can arrive at is that originalism as a legal theory was a decades-long project created with the express purpose of overturning the …

The counter-point would be the criminal legal system, which has spectacularly failed to resist the influence of injustice, and not just historically! I suppose if you have only spe…

It's a valid assumption to make. Most people live in suburbia, relatively few are truly rural. A little less than one in five, according to [1] [1] https://www.census.gov/library/s…

This is how I think of this. Think of the median income of a country that you might imagine is a "nice" place to live. I found a source that lists them all (in fictitious "internat…

In the case of SpaceX that person is probably actually Gwynne Shotwell.

Tesla wouldn't have been capitalized in the first place without Musk (and, by extension) without Musk's twitter. If anything, Musk should focus entirely on the influencing and stop…

I would like a Kerbal Space Program esque aircraft design + fly game. We already have very sophisticated dynamical models for how airplanes fly (which are deftly integrated into fl…

I see what you're saying, but the violin was designed for human hands.

Wow, I really like this line of thinking. Never thought about it from the perspective of a competitive feedback loop.

The hackers will not be far behind. You can run some of the v1 diffusion models on a local machine. I think it's fair to say that this is the way it's always been. In 1990, you cou…

I think he was using those examples because they're billionaires that everyone knows. The energy/construction/resource extraction sector is very closely tied with US foreign policy…

Huh? There is a very long and plainly wrong string of Supreme Court decisions which stretches all the way back to the nation's founding. The courts are very good at precisely the o…

I know it’s a rhetorical example, but given how stingy the copyright regime is: yes, yes they would. You maybe could manage a 20% off credit for the child’s listening rights.

Tether’s operators have said the token is backed by a basket of dollar-based assets equal to the size of the tokens outstanding, but it has not released granular details of these r…

We need something to invest in. Cryptocurrency is something, therefore we should invest in it.

The foundation of Musk's wealth, above all else, is that he operates as a one-man marketing machine. The funding for all of his ventures depends on Musk. The magnet for ravenous, l…

Well, that's not surprising, what with all these Covid supply chain issues and all. I'm sure it'll be resolved soon.

I don't particularly like cryptocurrency. It's clear that the utopian vision has not panned out: these aren't currencies, they're securities. But seeing people lose their life savi…

Sortition! I really do think it is the only way. Everything else gets distorted. People say, well, most people are stupid. But I'm not so sure. Juries are a sort of pseudo-sortitio…