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The issue is basically this: If you have issues with impulse control you are likely to become poor because you will slowly bleed out money and opportunities from bad decision makin…

So what is stopping anyone in principle just reselling API access through a middleman? Should I set up the company now and rake in the billions?

Because there are significant privacy benefits and benefits in removing the middlemen etc. If you don’t care, you don’t care. I gave up a long time ago too. In that case it would b…

Sure. I suppose my argument is along the following lines - books are too cumbersome so let's scroll Instagram instead. It's a fake argument, it's not that big a deal, you just didn…

Budgeting with the data trail of a card is significantly easier if you have a lot of transactions. It's also generally cheaper due to cashback and other incentives. Other than that…

This is to some extent a kind of tautology, though. There is more money available to chase housing in urban areas because it's where most of the jobs are due to network effects, so…

"That's just like, your opinion, man." The car is clearly not the best way to navigate a dense city. It is impractical to have, say, tower block apartments and also have a car for …

The issue with this is that inevitably the locked down devices, which will end up being 98%+ of the market, become required for ordinary living, because no-one will develop for the…

Classic cars being refit to be electric is like using strawberry flavoured candy to replace fruit, or GPU shaders to replace a Trinitron. Modern cars already exist, you can just us…

I feel as if I've been reading some variant of this for the last 30 years (not just American, UK too). But then what of it? I had more money at age 20 than I did at 15, more at 25 …

If you're disciplined enough to put something in your calendar and do it over a period of months, without someone breathing down your neck to do so, whether you feel like doing it …

Well, new things are generally more expensive than second hand and retrofitting older things is more expensive than doing nothing. So, water is wet. I would also argue that it isn’…

They are both force multipliers. The issue of course is that technology almost always disproportionately benefits the more intelligent / ruthless.

The whole stranger danger thing in my view as an adult feels like a downward spiral. It's not like this in many countries. In the UK it's kind of like - kids don't wander about alo…

As a Brit my feeling is that the state has basically given up on the concept of doing the right thing (not even from an ivory tower moral perspective, but from a realpolitik grow t…

I think that's the point, showing vulnerability in front of others helps them to trust you.

If I offer to sell you a copy of Mein Kampf, should the dollar you try to hand me spawn a force field and prevent you from handing it to me?

I’m not really sure what cutthroat and cooperative mean in this context. I see society as being cutthroat at the larger and more economic scales (e.g. global, obtaining / keeping y…

You’re just seeing division. The blue haired woman won’t date the fisherman and the farmer girl won’t date the metrosexual city boy. Somehow you’re getting stuck on one side being …

If you are overweight enough that running carries a significant risk of joint issues then just walking at speed is likely to be enough cardio for you.

They are just being daft. Most of the UK has laws or bylaws at least against antisocial drinking e.g. if you're being a twat, violent, homeless, etc you will be asked to pour it ou…

These editorials all have a common fault which is that they fail the sniff test of “would you actually do this”. I don’t know if you would call it classism, or an attempt at manipu…

It seems that you agree that they are wealthier than they would otherwise be because they try to minimise taxes. The rest of your comment seems to be a political commentary on whet…