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Canva has a great presence in China.

ComfyUI now natively supports masking and scheduling of LoRA and model weights. This works for all LoRAs and models - as long as the LoRAs and models are not of conflicting archite…

Chat GPT4 does do internet searches now.

Dependency injection is still tremendously helpful in writing unit tests.

Many years ago I considered being a novelist. Until I read this quote by an acting professor at Yale that I’m now paraphrasing: you should only act, if acting is the only thing you…

I was in Colombia recently, where Uber is officially illegal. That didn't stop most of the gringos from using it. Crazy how this is still how Uber works in many countries.

Rat poison squared. Buffet was right.

This might have been mentioned already, but the more accurate comparison would be to stock brokers. Robinhood has SIPC insurance up to $500k in case they go bankrupt. Crypto has no…

I think this might be true. But the USA is not simply a democracy. It’s a liberal hegemony, and that brings a whole set of other problems. I believe that an objective look at US fo…

When’s the last time you were back in China? That used to be the case, but increasingly less so. Especially after Trump’s trade war. Chinese people I know proudly buy Huawei and Ni…

Oil gas pipelines? Sure. The reason I say this is because it seems to me that democracy is a system designed to favor the majority over the minority. So why not for public projects…

I think this is a question worth asking. Should we let a small number of people hold hostage over public projects?

"A dozen lawsuits have targeted environmental aspects of the projects, including another suit by the town of Atherton that argued, among other things, that the rail authority had c…

Having lived in Shanghai during 2005-2012 and seeing the construction boom there, I noticed some differences immediately after arriving in the US. It's common to hear about transpo…

I don’t think blaming the supply chain is fair. Big transportation projects, big city’s housing problems all existed way before our current supply chain problems. Clearly consideri…

This is an amazing takedown by one of Columbia’s own professors. Wow

I like what Kevin Systrom said on a podcast about being competitive. (Paraphrasing) He said he was not the type of person to need to beat someone else in everything. He doesn't nee…