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Almost everything we consume is downstream of RAM pricing. I don’t buy a phone every year, but corporate workforces, streaming servers, cars, factories, etc. will all cost more nex…

I think you’ve misunderstood the article. It’s about how Databricks reduced their own costs, not about how adopting Databricks will reduce anyone else’s costs.

A decent guy would have quit when Musk bought it

You can sideload Uber if your phone allows that

Credit cards are an interest-free loan of 1-2 months. That’s literally free money. The rewards are also free to me in the sense that the merchant pays them. If the merchant has pri…

Uber app only requires an email address

SFC costs don’t scale linearly with volume or number of seats. The cameras, LIDAR, and sensors are all fixed costs. You need them on even a single-person car. And they’re extremely…

What reason would someone have not to have a credit or debit card? Credit cards are literally free money, as long as you pay the balance off on time

I doubt this is correct. “It’s expensive to be poor” — a lot of people who can’t afford cars (or have bad credit) end up Ubering to/from work every day

The headline literally says they lived in 3% of the forest area, which implies that the vast majority of the rest of the forest actually was untouched

F# does, I think

FYI, your sleep hygiene sounds good, but doctors have started to agree that primary, idiopathic insomnia doesn’t exist. It’s either anxiety or evidence of some severe disease or ph…

That’s a problem with AI music in general. I don’t see how piracy is better for that.

Spotify popularity doesn’t bring in cash directly, but it leads to increased ticket sales for live shows. And Spotify will recommend you to new listeners in a way that piracy won’t…

The aviation pricing will be passed to consumers either way, as increased fares or in-flight fees.

Would Bezos have made Amazon if he hadn’t married Scott? The answer seems to be no. She was an instrumental early contributor, and she supported him while he lost enormous amounts …

She wasn’t a passive housewife who inherited money in a divorce. She was an early Amazon investor and helped build the first stage of the company. She’d be a billionaire even witho…

Along these lines, I’d almost rather she’d bought major media outlets and newspapers and set them up under nonprofits with strict governance against taking corrupting donations.

I agree. There’s no chance Grok is better than Claude Code for this. And Claude is never so badly misaligned that it gives up and switches stacks.

I don’t know what person reads The Economist to learn about trans topics (whatever you mean by that)

Can’t think of a worse time to go into beef production anyway

Why is this an exciting time for aviation? Or more specifically, why should I (a person who never spends more than $2,000 on air travel) be excited?

I had no agency in being born and raised here. Are you saying that by staying in this country, I’m now responsible for stealing land 200 years ago? And my responsibility for steali…

My parents immigrated to the US in the 80s. They didn't steal anyone's land. Can I complain about rich people wasting fuel, polluting the air, and creating peace-shattering sounds?…

> no one should have anything other than labor as their main income until they retire No one should start a business and pay salaries to their employees instead of themselves? What…