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To make this proposal make sense, we need to rephrase it in financial terms that Sam and HN readers would understand. GDP is a revenue number. Roughly speaking, it's the aggregate …

Sure. I mean, the language ability disparity is one of about ten implausible things in the original piece: http://archive.is/GE0he Why doesn't anyone respond directly to this blogp…

I watched that video. I saw a young Chinese woman with limited English skills buying electrical parts in Shenzhen. Maybe I skipped the wrong parts? Then, I am asked to believe that…

This seems absolutely typical of the modern world's approach to truth. Increasingly, the question is not what is true, but what should be true. For the record, here is the original…

Calico probably thinks of itself as the Manhattan Project. Organizationally, Calico seems to be built in the exact opposite way from the Manhattan Project. Imagine you were buildin…

[using a throwaway so I can say this] It always bugs me when I hear someone who I know knows better use a line like: "Just do it legally, for Pete's sake! Go to the SEC" -- as thou…