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B1 German is about 1 year of intensive studying from zero. With immersion and part-time commitment, I'd say ~3 years is a comfortable timeline to learn B1 German. I am basing this …

Ah yes, the nation's most influential sex-trafficker/pimp was a Mossad asset and the $100b budget CIA knew anything about it. They set up the world's most advanced domestic spying …

It's hilarious listening to CIA insiders talk about spying. John Kiriakou [1] will spend 3 hours talking about the CIA's torture program (illegal) and NSA spying on Americans (ille…

How can a vassal state with 1/60th your GDP 'influence' your nation into a war ? It's a rhetorical question. It can't. Makes the MAGA military look incompetent. The US has a histor…

Nations do not apply a standard of 'total freedom' for most other vices. It is known that grown consenting adults can't compete against an algorithmic assault on their self-control…

Aren't we ignoring the elephant in the room ? Garry Tan has been the primary crusader for AI driven decision making. I'm sure his position is more nuanced, but his twitter driven c…

Google makes money on ads, because its products span the entire internet. Youtube, Gmail, Search, Maps, Android, Devices, Photos and Drive are how they get the data to make money o…

Meta has 4 identical products, most of which have reached feature complete. They do few things, and make absurd amounts of money from it. Google, MSFT and Apple do a lot more and m…

If AI winning means that data center companies win out, then the wins for Azure will more than make up for the death of Office. I am surprised that Microsoft's own copilot product …

I can only describe it being overcome with a sense of love and harmony. I was giggling ear-to-ear the whole time I was there. Great works of art are meant to be religious experienc…

TBPN, OpenClaw and Astral - that's 3 high profile acquisitions in a month. I smell a PR push to be seen as the 'good guys'. I don't buy it. The leaked emails and actions of OpenAI'…

UV is arguably this decade's most important addition to the python ecosystem. They are a small, but they are important.

What core capabilities of a car need to be improved anyway ?

It's the reverse. Every Waymo on the road saves more lives. The average driver is a bufoon

> The narrative/life of the artist becomes a lot more important We are 50 years into post-modernism. Can't imagine it can get any more important. I predict emergent design will be …

Yep. Especially when one of the brands is Tesla. Once Elon put himself at the epicenter of American political life, Tesla stopped being treated as a brand, and more a placeholder f…

Surprised Canadians would pick the US as a tourist destination to begin with. Europe is cheaper and more fun. America's one advantage: nature, is matched and at times exceeded by C…

2 reasons Electronics and code ruined replaced pure mechanics. Components aren't physically maintainable or hot-swappable, because they aren't just physically connected. Second is …

NYC's city budget is larger than every state apart from California, Texas, NY. At $115B, it equals Florida. By numbers alone, he's very influential. Now NYC is a over-regulated mes…

It's important in these cases to preserve the lineage of where they came from. There's a tendency to start calling them 'western medicine' and crediting it to the person who formal…

It's been a bizarre watch. The automotive industry (and nations that rely on it) has sabotaged itself for a good decade. Unsurprisingly, China has caught up. Classic case of 'we've…

This is out of date by about 15 years. Top engineering grads are excellent and are being paid high wages. Work culture is cut-throat, but talent is comparable to the US. India's ta…

Not quite. Chinese rivers are fed by the eastern tibetan plateau while South Asia is fed by the western glaciers by the tallest mountains. Bangladesh would be at risk because the B…

The world will become unevenly greener. Population density and recent population rise is inversely correlated with places that will get greener. Polar and Continental regions will …

Not sure if 'aware' is the right word. More like anxious. Kidnappings and murders are exceedingly rare, even more so by strangers. Abuse primarily occurs at home, with acquaintance…