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I honestly thought concubine would fit in here to make the joke but without other clues, dismissed the idea. I wonder why the writer picked this as an example of the author’s suppo…

I got the second one. Jack’s saying that since he’s a seafarer, navigating by the moon is important. It’s standard British-understatement-as-comedy trope.

Just up thread from your comment, someone commented in a positive way on the infinite customisability of vi. So which is preferable - customisability or very limited feature set?

I think you’re trying to ask the person you are replying to not to use medical terminology to make a point in a catchy way but I honestly have no idea what the Michael Scott segue …

In my circle, some people certainly thought computers were basically magic.

What does saving face as a collective mean, in your estimation? When Americans apologise to non-Americans for the behaviour of American tourists abroad, is that collective face sav…

What, in your estimation, is the difference between saving face in China versus keeping-up-with-the-Joneses in America?

How is the existence of a PR/spin industry, the fact that many Americans live way beyond their means, or the proliferation of influencers whose job is to show a specific story not …

The demand for Internet was an economic event where the efficiencies it afforded - quick, low cost communication, scale etc - made it attractive. Other countries had invented the I…

Nowhere did I say that economics = greed is good capitalism. Economics is fundamentally a study of how human and human society processes self interest. It tries to find broad patte…

> obsolete sci-fi Well, living in an AGI world was sci-fi until arguably, we found ourselves in one post 2022.

If it were all BS, how do you explain success stories like the Internet and the notion that countries on Dell’s supply chain won’t go to war with each other? Fundamentally, economi…

7 - what if bots want to fcuk humans? You’re probably right that many jobs can eventually be done by AI but not on day 1. Between Day 1 of the brave new AI world and Day N, humans …

1. AI weights managers - people whose job is to optimize model weights to yield highly specific outcomes 2. Agentic tourism - maybe you’ll be able to send your AI agent/robot to vi…

On the iPhone at least, following your instructions, I got anything from ‘feel’ to ‘fell’ to ‘grok’ to ‘felt’. Is it possible that your keyboard’s particular dictionary knows the w…

fine. Place a log on your own property - equivalent of posting a prompt on your own blog - then leave the gate open (equivalent of posting on the internet) only to have someone dri…

Shouldn’t that extra population in a limited amount of land lead to more demand and better outcomes for rail and roads?

Say I loosen the bolts of your car tires which causes a crash, that’s malware. Say I lay a log on a road which you can clearly see and avoid but choose to drive over and crash your…

> won’t work A datacenter (earthbound or space) itself is a fantastical idea until a mix of events and inventions made it feasible to build them to sell compute.

Sounds to some extent like advertising and marketing in a market like India which is still predominantly offline and driven by visibility.

Not just undergrads. Even folks who believe in astrology or numerology depend on finding patterns in unrelated events to explain human behaviours.

The comment you were replying to was about school kids, not foreign students in post secondary programs looking for work/immigrant visas. Also, foreign students enrolling in Americ…

What would this new system look like that doesn’t involve the trade offs between having cabs on demand if you need them and having a walkable city if you don’t that the person you …

I blame apps and products like WhatsApp and Nextdoor. We've created these online means of connection (and conflict) which allows us to communicate without having to actually meet a…

FD - I pay Insta to advertise a product for parents. The results of above mentioned advertising have been great. I get inbound enquiries, parents get their curiosity about the usef…