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presumably he opened a pdf with a zero-day from an untrusted source

A virus doesn’t “push” anyone to poverty. The reaction to the virus by the government does that. It would be more honest if predictions like this were mentioned alongside articles …

I am someone who went through (fully legal) immigration hell while building a company that in the end, employed 100s of US workers and had global competition (meaning, if we didn't…

> Government usually pays well-below-market salaries That may be true for base salaries, but if you take into account overtime and pension/health benefits that is not the case. If …

In my opinion, the well being of taxpayers should take precedence over a relatively small number of gov't workers. Government needs to be paying market salaries to its employees, p…

The subtitle starts like this: "Even the worst-run startup can beat competitors if investors prop it up." This is clearly written by someone that has little to no startup experienc…

The reason why extreme cases are showcased, is because it fits a certain narrative. We all know what that narrative is - that Covid prevention should take precedence over everythin…

What about non-drunk driving? You still have a non zero risk of killing pedestrians or other drivers/passengers. There's risk in everything we do, including for other people. What …

Did I understand correctly that MacBook Pro and Air will share the same M1 CPU? Previous models had a massive delta in CPU performance based on using low power (Air, no fan) or med…

GDPR FTW

Twitter has no influence on elections as much as the Russians didn't influence 2016 elections. All sides think we're stupid at this point.

The problem is, we don't have a definition nor a test for consciousness. So these discussions usually go in circles. i am aware of three definitions of consciousness, used often wi…

There are network and anti-trust concerns that make this problematic. In the old days, if you thought newspapers were biased you could publish your own and it would sit on the news…