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300k in 3-5 years? You can get that much in RSUs from a publicly traded company, and you can sell those for cash every quarter and buy a house before the 4 years are up. For me to …

I think the surplus from self-driving tech is going to go to the owners of self-driving IP and consumers.

I’ll gladly give my house to the bank and rent again if it means everyone can afford a place to stay.

International tax law doesn’t seem very relevant to the housing crisis.

I don’t believe it’s true that rich people are getting to write off college costs as a donation. They might be paying them out of a tax advantaged 529 account. The magnitude of thi…

The big ticket items are Medicaid and teachers.

I wonder if people assume Siri failed to understand the query when they hear its request for clarification. I think it should include some context, eg: “Which x do you want opening…

I think it’s interesting to look at the patterns of historical usage mentioned in the wiki. The phrase always originates with an accusation by party A that party B calls party C us…

If you see people expressing an opinion that’s useful for the rich and powerful, it’s appealing to imagine that the people expressing that opinion are shills. But I think saying su…

Facebook, Google, and Netflix are known to make better offers than Apple and Amazon (although those two are capable of great offers and have both employed thousands of engineers wh…

Google seems to have no trouble playing music from Spotify for me. It can even manage it while I yell my song requests from the shower.

Maybe they can’t be bribed with cash, but could they be bribed with a nice contract for the company they founded? Or threatened for access to a market?

I don’t know, in the Bay Area 150k is entry level and big companies pay 250k or much higher to senior engineers. Whenever I hear about pay in Europe it’s a fraction of that. It may…

When heating you usually turn some energy into heat. When air conditioning you use energy to move heat out of the conditioned space, emitting waste heat somewhere else. If you’re d…

I wonder if we’ll see independently-owned drones doing deliveries ala Amazon’s driver-partner contractors. I suppose it depends on how much drones cost in capital and how much liab…

Sure, but why do I need a blockchain for that? Can’t the service trusted by the government to enforce KYC regulation also run a normal commodity server to process transactions, wit…

Titles can be worth a lot to employees, but employers get to provide them for free. I think helps answer many questions: 1. Why do most of the programmers at my job have a title of…

There are way more doctors than CEOs. If you’re gonna claim that CEO pay is a more significant factor than doctor pay you should do the math on that.

Don’t companies like TransferWise already do international payments electronically without the need for a blockchain? I definitely support lowering the amount of human labor requir…

There’s no indication I’m aware of that Bitcoin is removing any labor or equipment from the banking system. So far all I’ve seen is traditional banking layering crypto on top.

In my BS mental model of how brains work, I imagine that we estimate the probability of a risk not through some analytical method, but instead with a sampling-based approach where …

I’m pretty sure it was a joke.

I don’t have any opinion about Lambda School, but I believe it’s normal for schools to charge tuition before classes are completed. I believe the drop deadline at my college (after…

The new iPhones come with a USB-C wall wart and a USB-C-to-lightning cable.

You really don’t think that a chemical company dumping waste into a river is worse than using phone numbers to target ads? Deep in your heart of hearts? Are you sure you don’t have…