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I’ve worked at many startups and consulted at many more over the last 20 years. I’ve never seen 2 million lines of code happen that fast at a small startup. 15 devs putting out 400…

Definitely possible, but up thread they wrote: >”Have you worked at many startups?” In response to a question about a legacy codebase at a startup. That implies that they think wha…

How long has your startup been around? I’ve worked at plenty of startups over the past 20 years. Including one that was still calling themselves a startup 10 years out. The org I w…

To continue the analogy, it’s like writing answers that are so convoluted that no one can understand them.

> 1 day turnaround build permits, to any proposed off-the-grid data centers. Utility planning is one tiny part of approving a building permit. You still need to look at storm water…

That wasn’t the US supporting liberal democracies. A full 20% of Lend-Lease went to the Soviet Union, and the US provided plenty of support to Nationalist (and very authoritarian) …

> That's why we entered WWII The US entered World War II in the pacific after Pearl Harbor and in Europe after Germany declared war. Before those 2 events, there was still a strong…

Yes they could starve them out and maybe they will. But China is certainly preparing for an amphibious invasion, so they think it might be necessary.

> is to just win Taiwan over politically over the long term. That was their plan until Xi became ruler for life and decided that he wanted Taiwan sooner rather than later.

You can’t run expensive, time consuming, and potentially harmful tests on every patient. Someone comes in with a headache, you tell them to go home and take an aspirin. You don’t s…

There’s a fair amount of viruses that have no animal reservoir. Either they evolved from a different human virus, or from an animal virus. Measles for example evolved from a livest…

Are you just going to hop around every thread on this article and be snarky?

Humans are the only reservoir for polio, so that’s not true. We could theoretically wipe out polio just like smallpox because there are no animal reservoirs.

We haven’t even managed to wipe out polio, and that is a cheap, lifelong vaccine.

Microservices mostly exist to solve the problem of over hiring that existed during the era of cheap money.

You’re the one that said it’s a 100x productivity increase, so I assume you meant compared to a software developer writing without AI. What else are you using as a benchmark? So it…

Yeah 100x is definitely still controversial. 100x means you should be able to whip up a new OS in a week. Looking at something like Anthropic's attempt to write a C compiler in rus…

I haven’t checked in recently but a couple months ago there was an increase on the Apple App Store, but not on Android. And when I did a spot check, most new apps were just wrapper…

The reason we have data is because of all the biases that come with “just looking around”. Confirmation bias and selection bias are very powerful. I strongly dislike Donald Trump, …

> The Republicans have utterly failed to offer any alternative at all to Obamacare after 16 years That’s because before Obama picked it up, it was the Republican free market compro…

I agree we need to do more. I do wonder if just providing a public option to compete against private insurance is the way to go though. >profit caps We have profit caps on health i…

You can deduct some of your medical expenses. I think it’s over 7.5% of your AGI. But tax deduction or not isn’t what makes individual health insurance so expensive. When you have …

I’m not making any argument about what China should do. I’m saying that the argument that China is ruled by an enlightened despot who “believes in science” and believes in the exis…

> but its a little rich to hear from westerners, who emit more CO2 per person, that the Chinese 1. Most western countries don’t emit more per capita than China. 2. I’m not saying w…

> Xi could theoretically reduce GDP and associated emissions with the stroke of a pen He showed he was willing to do that during Covid. If he was really convinced climate change wa…