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I guess there’s two ways this post could have gone, and it went the way of “you know that sinking feeling that you’re not good enough, you’re right!” I wrote a book last year for m…

Why?

It’s very confusing me to try and remember which numbers are measured in years vs decades. “Cost of 5 to 11 trillion dollars” without context is confusing. Also lol good thing he f…

I seem to recall a lot of expectation that Trump would usher in the era of post-neoliberalism and we would be focusing more on improving the lives of everyday Americans and not fig…

It’s funny I know two people who did startups, I think I think most fail the way one did, failed to get traction, slowly dissipated and after closing up shop, ended with an offer t…

Trump’s funny in that he has a habit of advocating for fairly progressive things and then being corrected by the Republicans around him. I’m pretty sure he ran on universal healthc…

This surprises me. It seems like there’s some level of acknowledgement that this may get in the way of the government being effective, but didn’t Musk sort of literally take a stan…

I don’t understand your argument, isn’t the whole point of electing an outsider like Musk or Trump that they won’t ask why the fence is there, they’ll just remove it?

I love this question, but the unfortunate sort of boring answer is that the internet sort of granulized culture so much. This is in general like the shared culture debate of why do…

Just to play devil’s advocate because why the heck not lol, isn’t the theory here that people are tired of waiting for all the analysis of every chesterton’s fence and we should ju…

This guy says he works remotely from a van, who can gets me back to a previous question, are there any concrete case studies of companies that are actually using AI to replace swat…

How does something like this get enforced?

I guess this depends on the kind of CEO, but I think a lot of the CEO’s job is to be a human being / celebrity with a perspective. Is Elon Musk a better CEO because of the decision…

Didn’t the CEO of the parent company of Politico recently call on all the executives to pray for president Trump? https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/politico...

Two things concern me: First thing that Trump did was fire the inspector generals whose job it is to provide over site. https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/25/politics/trump-fires-inspecto…

Something I’ve noticed in these headlines is a lack of clarity when saying “because of AI” between “retooling the workforce towards an AI strategy” and “AI is doing the work people…

Interesting, though app downloads I’d kind of a weird metric because new things would expect to have more downloads then old things.

I would more likely say that the qualities that make one popular or wanting to deal with the bullshit of managing Americans disputes are in opposition to the qualities that make on…

A thing I wonder about like the nature of government and power is why does it feel like going back and forth between ridiculous policies. Like I’m sure 10 years from now, we’ll be …

Interesting they say their goal is 5-10% when normal attrition is six percent, that means essentially their goal is -6 to 4%

Except the way I read this is that it’s not that AI is taking jobs (at least not in the way that most people mean) it’s that they’re laying people off to invest in AI. So, I have a…