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My dad worked in a steel mill his entire life, and as a long term cancer survivor, would have been left for dead due to Koch's policies had they prevailed in his state of residence…

Good riddance

The bigger issue for us Olds is that we have serious financial and family responsibilities that make us highly undesirable employees in today's modern "I've got mine! Fuck you!" so…

Ah, the magic of financial engineering. Mr. Neumann will cash out of his fictional decacorn in dribs and drabs and never have to work again. Everyone else will be left with a bit p…

This seems like a predictable outcome in a consumerist society driven by planned obsolescence and the need for infinite growth.

Pilot here. I predict that airlines are going to soft ground the Max while this gets sorted out. They might not take them out of service completely, but would not surprise me a bit…

I take the approach of telling people to call or text me if something is urgent (my number is in the company directory), because I likely won't notice an email quickly, and will ig…

Building the cockpit is fun, but you only have room for two. The next logical step is to buy interior panels and windows from a mothballed 737 (you can find them on eBay). I have b…

Actually 20% per year would be great for most businesses, which just shows what an outlier VC backed businesses have become.

I was assigned as an inventor for a bullshit patent application our legal team did not even understand. I did everything I could to undermine it. The whole system is fucked and is …

Maybe this is all not such a bad thing. The worst case scenario is a mass extinction that kills off large animals, clearing the way for whatever is next, not unlike the Cambrian ex…

But she wears a black turtleneck, just like Steve Jobs.

Somebody needs to write a Peter Thiel / Not Peter Thiel script, and cross reference the photos with his Friendster profile pic where he was shirtless on a boat advertising for twin…

A substantial percentage of the US population installed that "cow clicker" app at some point, and who knows what data they harvested. Even if they did not access your full profile,…

Just a friendly reminder, Gawker did not out Thiel. He had a public profile on Friendster that clearly described him as interested in men. Gawker's editor at the time remarked that…

This should give everyone serious pause. If this false alarm had been sent by NORAD (it has happened before, read Command and Control), it's very likely that several million people…

The internet really is an incredible cesspool. It would be interesting to see how the public reacted if YouTube and Facebook turned off their content moderation for a week. It woul…

If you want a forecast of how ridesharing companies will settle out, tear the route map out of an inflight magazine. There is no global airline, but many regional airlines that pro…

^^^ What he said. How about "eBay for car rides"

The author's basic problem is he does not understand the United States is comprised of over 3,000 counties. The differences among them are vast, and most of the country is sparsely…

I don't want to offend anyone, but could a high rate of suicides on farms have anything to do with the heavy use of pesticides in these places (which operate essentially as nerve a…

I would also expect a lot of disinformation around the subject, both about how these systems work, and about their failure modes.

A corrupt government that ran its economy into the ground backing a cryptocurrency. What could possibly go wrong? OTOH, if someone with centuries of banking experience were to laun…

This ^^^^. I have lived in San Francisco for 25 years now. While I could reduce my cost of living dramatically by moving, I have spent my entire post-college life here. Nearly all …

I bought some Bitcoin over five years ago, totally forgot about it, and then remembered I had bought some. I sold it and bought an SLR camera to photograph the total eclipse this s…