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The music also gets talked about quite a bit. My immediate reaction to a "what is with this loud music, I can barely hear the actual audio" comment on YouTube was to assume the cha…

Eh, I'm not going to dispute the validity of Cleek's Law, but ~everything Trump, et al, are doing has been an extremely popular idea with different segments of the right for thirty…

I mean, even people who are guilty of many crimes shouldn't be summarily executed in the street. Stealing a television or driving a tractor trailer of illegal weed from coast to co…

So a good fraction of famous old math puzzles with no practical use are famous because they are in some way similar to problems people actually care about. If you can solve the toy…

My understanding is that an important consideration at the time was that it is very far from New Jersey. Edison had a lot of early patents for film, and wanted to monopolize the in…

Facebook is also kind of an outlier IMO. There will be a scandal where Facebook is caught doing something, and then you get a bunch of people talking about "tech companies", or "Fa…

I was recently told this by my vet when my cat needed some teeth removed -- there was no real impact on the cat's life because they don't really chew their food.

The smarter thing to do is to just wipe your phone of everything you don't want border patrol to see before going to an airport.

I mean, I object to cars with unreasonable acceleration on the roads. I'm looking at you, Tesla Plaid; a ten second car was a plot point in The Fast and the Furious, so this feels …

They were a thing in the previous 20's and the exchanges banned them in like the 40's (you could still have a dual-class corporate structure, you just wouldn't be listed on eg the …

So in terms of flexibility, Cambridge. Tons of companies will preferentially snatch up candidates with prestigious advanced degrees, and many of them will even pay you more. Heck, …

I really appreciate the attempt by Chris & Jack to make Julysixth Park a thing. I enjoyed Star Wars, but I kind of feel like a lot of my feelings towards it are just reflected nost…

N.b. that Cerf was mentioned in the Epstein Files in a list of scientists Epstein wanted to invite to an event. There is no evidence Cerf actually accepted any such invitation. Not…

Eh, not a lawyer, but my experience with internet PR problems is that the Internet is pretty lazy with a short attention span. Take something down and most of the Internet is too l…

And what could you get quality-wise if you poured an equivalent amount of money into improving ground based factories?

When the hubbub about phenylephrine first started, I decided I still felt less miserable taking DayQuil/NyQuil, and switched to the "High Blood Pressure" formulation, which drops t…

I would also like to take a moment to evangelize against the notion that all politicians are crooks. Some politicians are crooks. They should be voted out, investigated, prosecuted…

Also, even if you can't resist looking, not replying to every single person arguing against your position is a powerful tool on the internet. If you're right, or at least, not maki…

What I find mildly interesting is how the older money (eg, the Koch brothers) spent decades creating the current environment (between deregulation on business, cutting taxes on the…

If NYC lifts all its density restrictions, why do you need people commuting inward over a hundred mile radius?

You can sell scams -- LLMs may be dubious at many tasks, but they're probably good enough to use to write personalized email or texts convincing random people to send you money.

Is your suggestion "we should do the status quo, except the bridge and tunnel commuters should be confined to tiny high-rise enclaves clustered around train stations strung out ove…

I'm actually inclined to believe it was a typo for 10 mile radius.

Or, if you're scared of UBI: government work programs, like the good old Works Progress Administration. Tax, and hire millions of people for a good living wage to do things that ei…