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Police robots and drones. You say no plausible path to automating - I beg to differ. It would get officers out of harms way. Not imminent but not zero risk either.

Maybe I’m missing the subtler geopolitical point here, but I don’t think it’s about oil. It’s about preventing Iran from getting nuclear weapons and threatening the region via thei…

Meh. No matter which side gets in power it’s almost certainly a narcissistic grifter. Who wasn’t over the last twenty years? The current one is a bit of a long term aberration, tha…

Give it two years more then it changes again.

Agreed, that’s a silly argument. You should worry more about your daily commute than a little ring. It’s plastic straws all over again.

It works on planes, ships, and in remote areas with no coverage. I live in Canada where the whole of Europe would fit many times over, nothing else would work in the remote areas a…

What is Microsoft rust? I’ve never heard of such a thing. Or did I miss the joke?

Waste heat into the atmosphere is hardly pollution. I think you don’t understand the scales involved

Very surprising! Thanks for sharing

It is when you have a billion dollars. It’s all relative.

That’s crazy. I thought maybe some of the other elements used in modern semiconductors might melt first. The wiring seems like a potential problem. But before that even the element…

Pure silicon melts at 1400 C You must be thinking of something else

They can use it at home. Using it school is likely undermining their learning.

> Pretty humble/modest for a guy like that . Modest was qualified. The statement is accurate. Your objection doesn’t make sense.

If that were to become reality, and I won’t guess at the odds of that, is because it grew the world economic pie. Thinking about it in terms of the size of the pie today is treatin…

Over what period of time? By 2030? No way By 2050? Maybe? Obviously during an IPO you’re trying to make the bull case (unhinged or not). What does it look like in the best case sce…

That’s way too simplistic. Not all immigrants are good. Many cost society more than they contribute. The right kind of immigrants are good.

That’s a very simplistic take on a complex problem. Unrestricted immigration destroys democratic high trust societies. There is a balance to be found, as in all things. It isn’t si…

We can see a little of that in California and also Norway. So, yes, there is some of that going on.

Suppose you add a very high tax (it would have to be a wealth tax, not income, because they don’t have much income.) Zuckerberg just moved to Florida for a tiny wealth tax in Calif…

This sounds a lot like taxing unrealized gains on illiquid assets. A very dangerous idea that would kill innovation and job creation.

Instagram, YouTube, WhatsApp seemed to work out well. It’s always more complex than you think

No, most of the rest of the large developed economies have some standards (e.g. against buying conflict minerals) and sanctions against certain regimes. China is quite happy to ign…

This is exactly my experience as well. If it were up to me, I'd start out by using the AI to port a Python web app to a compiled language like Go. Then we could maintain that going…

I was there, I was one of the dynamic zealots. But at least I can't imagine how this trend reverses course now.