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Ethics often fold under the face of commercial pressure. The pentagon is thinking [1] about severing ties with anthropic because of its terms of use, and in every prior case we've …

I think that stake is called taxes. As for the shares, they're supposed to come in the form of government services.

Thanks for clarifying! I misspoke there, but from my standpoint (portfolio manager/equities investor) that's better. Wafer fabs are capital intensive, complex, and need constant re…

The problem here isn't that the government gets involved in businesses. That has always been something they do. The problem is that these days they do it capriciously, without any …

the corporate credit rating scale is different from the sovereign one. That said, msft credit has traded through govt bonds multiple times. So arguably the market-based rating syst…

This is the way that foundations and endowments should operate. Too many well-intentioned organizations wind up milquetoast tax-exempt hedge funds aimed primarily at self-preservat…

I probably have terminal "investor brain," but whenever this stuff happens my first thought is "my favorite store is having a sale." Then I think about everyone that's getting hurt…

Honestly, the fact that J.P. Morgan employees are even pondering this credibly enough for it to get picked up by Barron's is a watershed moment for the labor rights movement in the…

Yeah, some places have an unwritten "just write us and we'll do it" policy. It's nice to know they're up for it, but the cognitive load of reaching out is like 100x higher than jus…

Does HN allow this? When I transitioned I made a new username and sort of started over. But it led to me disengaging from the platform.

This seems to happen a lot when one's experience is statistically unlikely, or when it doesn't neatly mesh with a commercial opportunity. For instance, I am a transgender woman and…