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And we should let them all in - the people who are leaving Russia now have an ardent desire to escape what is fast becoming a totalitarian state, while the Ukrainians are, of cours…

It's worth replying specifically to highlight how wrong the original comment is, but the evidence that was cited by the Russian government to justify their invasion was clearly fab…

I think the key distinction is that, for the most part, the current generation of cruise missiles are targeted and launched with a "human in the loop" - that is, a person actively …

"Omicron" also has the advantage of being easier to hear and understand in english - "Nu" can cause confusion because it sounds so much like "New".

This is an intriguing concept, but given that the submarine is small and suitable for mostly high-value cargo (whisky is the example cargo given in the article) I'm not sure how it…

I think that a lot of this makes sense from Google's legal perspective, where antitrust litigation is a constant consideration and any internal document mentioning market share or …

I think it'd be risky for Carvana if they tried "cornering the market" on used cars - unlike houses, used cars fall in price pretty quickly and new-car production has the potential…

I think the challenge is that if the rewards were high, Twitter employees (with the advantage of inside information) might be tempted to "tip off" an outsider in exchange for a cut…

I think this is a really good point, and I think that if anyone is really committed to promoting free-speech-maximalist approach to the web they should be focused on building tools…

The critical thing is that this also requires a growing population - which is not guaranteed in all places/timeframes!

I think the most concerning element in the ProPublica piece is that there might be individuals inside the government who are willing to exfiltrate extremely sensitive private infor…

Having the pay ratio be relative to the "Median San Francisco worker" might have some interesting effects - for financial/tech firms who want to avoid the tax they might just shift…

I'm a big fan of ISL - one of the best intro machine-learning oriented textbooks out there IMO. If you're looking for book that still offers a broad survey while going a bit deeper…

I'll add that my main hope is that the scale required for launching large satellite constellations will also make it cheaper to launch space-based telescopes, but it's far from cle…

I'd note that while a broken unemployment system would affect statistics on the number of claims made, the official unemployment rate is calculated differently, using the Current P…

You can't extract any more information from the image than what the satellite originally acquired - you could make an "error correcting" model that creates an image that appears to…

Possibly still a reasonable buy for him even at 3-6x what was expected if the higher price generates enough extra press coverage.

I didn’t quite get that paragraph, because flexibility of schedule is an important criteria for determining if someone is an employee or a contractor in most of the the US! (In Cal…

The real risk there is that it would incentivize landlords to select the highest-income tenants possible (more so than they currently do).

It's worth noting that printing money and giving it to the banks is effectively the same as taxing cash - it causes inflation and reduces the value of Yuan-denominated assets (thou…

I'm really interested in seeing how this will play out if solar continues to get cheaper. I'd imagine that at a certain point, the panels themselves will be cheap(er) compared to t…

The MTA is comparing single-ride fares with "effective" cost per ride of a then-$81 30 day pass, which they amortize over around 70 rides, which is a bit high for the average perso…

The most frustrating thing about this is that these aren't even official government cards (they're issued by the union instead), so it's harder to crack down on them through your e…

I'm struck by how significantly the effect varies between states - according to table 2, 25% of the transfers (around $1.55 billion) are accounted for by Connecticut and Delaware a…

Same here, though that is conditional on a friendly environment for financing to reach the longer term. And it also assumes that skill in the (relatively) low volume production of …