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The national debt stands at $39.5 trillion. Interest payments on that debt exceed war department spending. Major recessions trigger massive stimulus payments, which would balloon t…

We are clearly living through a period of national autophagy. What's happening all around us is causing a great deal of confusion, so I thought it might help to look at this from a…

I didn't click the link. (My first guess is this was inspired by a Benny Hill joke.)

I think it's a good thing to not bake IEEE 754 too deeply into RISC-V. I really want to see hardware built around posits. This is not because they're necessarily superior to floats…

I have a home in Seattle, so I get to see intersections and signs that are so confusing that I can't understand what I'm supposed to do when I encounter them. On residential street…

The claim is that compilers were f(x) -> y, and LLMs are f(x) -> P(y | z1 | z2 | ... z3). But how were various combinations of popular programming languages, operating systems and …

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No. Just grow up, please.

It's telling that there isn't a single mention of surgery in the study or the interview. Facial feminization surgery (FFS) exists but is extremely rare in Finland. After puberty, h…

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When you're an adult and you can't afford surgery with skilled surgeons, you get shunned by the less accepting parts of society, which leads directly to increased morbidity. When y…

The point is to protect Apple's control over its APIs and business model. I'd be shocked if they're not busy figuring out how to use LLMs to shore up app review right now. The war …

Elon would sell a lot more cars if he'd make peace with Vivian his fear keeps him holding in tears I guess I'll just buy a Rivian

As long as it's not coupled with calls to tax and regulate those who do get in early and reap benefits from doing so, this is good and healthy. (I'm not the earliest adopter of cry…

This is so draconian it's worth leaving the United States to avoid this. The video is entirely correct: the true target is to help corporations maintain their monopolies on product…

A few weeks ago I got into our car. Without touching any controls other than the screen, it backed out of our garage and driveway, drove me to the grocery store, found a parking sp…

My first encounter with MBTI was at work, eight years ago. I resisted categorization because I dismissed it as being too geometric (like the four elements, or the four humors), and…

Talk to the people that helped you! Don't assume they don't need help from you now, because a lot of people put up a brave front

I didn't know it was gonna be the pandemic that did it. I was getting ready to get in because I saw the tiny yield curve inversion in like August or September of 2019 and was prepa…

I got out of your situation by getting interested in investing in 2020. I made smart bets in march that year and had 5X the money when I dumped all my tsla stock teo years ago I su…

I refused to buy the first one because it didn't have a round face. and since then I've decided that I don't want anything at all from Apple in my life, even if they one day do man…