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Waiting for the inevitable "it was contractors" cop out. I'm surprised it wasn't in this Forbes story as these events happened over a year ago; they've had plenty of time to work u…

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I've reached the conclusion that the Internet is unworkable in Europe. Change my mind.

"Imagine a dark forest at night. It’s deathly quiet. Nothing moves. Nothing stirs. This could lead one to assume that the forest is devoid of life. But of course, it’s not. The dar…

And yet the MIT imprimatur is slathered all over this... whatever it is. Since the Boeing fiasco is cited here a question occurs to me; how, exactly, would licensing the programmer…

And then there is Trudeau... pure charisma, arrogantly certain of his establishment group-think and almost entirely incompetent.

> I get the sense that this kind of right-shifting after a few years in SF is not uncommon. I'll believe it when it shows up in voting behavior. Nothing is going to improve until y…

Literal whataboutism. Automated systems are held to a higher standard. Telsa's Autopilot apparently has trouble spotting trailers and decapitates the occupants. Cite all the accide…

In before the delete.

Eight days after the leak the guy is fired... The takeaway is; don't interfere with the PLA/Huawei.

>> but in the US Thanks for pivoting the thread to criticism of the US. These stories about controversies in non-US countries are unwelcome and cause a lot of anxiety, and the soon…

> So, if someone falls for a pyramid scheme they should be ashamed of themselves? A little, yes. Detecting 'too good to be true' is an important aspect of judgement. Blithely incul…

> As a former owner of 2 TDI dirty diesels Sounds like you enjoyed your diesel hot rods for a good long while. You really should consider foregoing your martyrdom at some point; th…

You don't. The indirection designed into the EU to isolate the government from the governed is deliberate and there is no recourse.

"mistakes" LOL

"As a thought experiment, how could this have been avoided?" We have good models for this. Many nations have employed highly effective GULAG systems that have achieved excellent re…

1800 word exercise in navel gazing, and it attract 200+ comments and growing. If you read this wall of text and then spent a good chunk of Friday writing one or more lengthy commen…

The SALT deduction cap removes an important incentive for perusing (using mortgage leverage) high value residential properties. Now we just need to cap mortgage interest deduction …

I believe the last time anyone outside of Austin heard anything about transportation in Austin -- public or otherwise -- it was that they had banned Uber for some reason. What's th…

>> anyone can get a website and domain name. Except they can't. The outrage brigades come after the registrars and the hosting services and the payment processors and anyone else t…

> Normal economic theory says protectionism makes the pie smaller for everyone And when those theories are discussed by serious minded people they are frequently forced to qualify …

When will the launch happen?

Has it been 24 hours since Newsom put a stake through the heart of California HSR? If trains aren't feasible in CA -- where it's (D)s all the way down -- who are we kidding? We hav…

"Colleges already provide an entire department or two of professionals" I don't think we've actually run out that string however; you have to go a long, long way before academe rec…