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The one thing AI has done really well is generate all the signals of "intelligence" that SV tech folks care about. It's verbose and meaningless, confidently-asserted bullshit wrapp…

I would argue the biggest issue for talented musicians is economic inequality and the rapid increase in the cost of living. If you want to do music as a main job you need to surviv…

Hormonal birth control is extremely common and generally presents minor issues. This is a relatively uncommon anti-seizure drug that has extremely high risks of causing development…

You can file in small claims without a lawyer.

What's the GDP of the Ute nation? It's probably quite a significant investment for them as well.

There is no "removing Hamas from Palestine". The only way to remove the desire of the Palestinian people for freedom is to remove the Palestinian people themselves. And that is wha…

In every startup I've been in, there was undue deference to long-time ICs. They didn't normally stir up public fights with execs but they would openly undercut line managers and th…

In "The Population Bomb" (1968) Robert Ehrlich claimed that within 10 years there would be catastrophic famines because of exponential population growth. A lot of people have blind…

> I didn't get along well with this manager,The resulting conflict lead to a "performance enablement plan" Respectfully, in your post you literally say you got a new manager who PI…

My read is that he was one of those early employees that is a huge pain to manage. They want to do what they think is fun and interesting and they have strong opinions about shit t…

Do you think the American government can't already find Russian ships? America gets their ass beat consistently in unwinnable wars against guerilla armies, but in terms of identify…

Chevron Reference is the idea that when a statute is ambiguous the agencies can interpret it according to their expert opinion. The alternative is requiring Congress to write every…

Honestly in this day and age rolling your own k8s cluster is negligent. I've worked at multiple companies using EKS, AKS, GKE, and we haven't had 10% of the issues I see people com…

IME EKS version upgrades are pretty painless - AWS has a tool that tells you if any of your resources would be affected by an upcoming change even.

As other people have pointed out, biological passports track markers across time. If you suddenly recieved a transfusion of your own blood it would be obvious from the sudden incre…

It's incredible to me that anyone can defend the actions of the Israeli government and settlers at this point. They've murdered tens of thousands of civilians in the name of "fight…

The difference is that Tesla's hardware is simpler in a way that's harder to use. Moving from indirect control to touch screens was great and intuitive for phones. Moving to touch …

Would the world be better if there were incentives to promote skilled crafts instead of racing to the bottom to produce cheap shit at scale? I'm not saying to go back to the stone …

People in the thread are dropping all kinds of trivia about Pixar and BSD but possibly the biggest news about the subject of the article in the last 5 years is that he was ousted f…

He's been credibly accused by many people, it's an open secret in the industry, and he took a 6 month leave of absence and then never came back and started a new studio. Oh and he …

I can drive my car over the land border between two countries and have to switch sides of the road. Or the speed limit can go up/down. Or they can mandate different safety equipmen…

Some countries have roundabouts. Some countries let you make a right turn on a red light. Traffic law isn't any more universal than copyright law. All law is made up but that doesn…

John Lasseter is a creep who was ousted from Pixar after a long history of sexually harassing employees: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/john-las...

Stop signs are made up too. See how far you get driving through all of them without stopping.

You can't just write an unlicensed harry potter book, or make an unlicensed sequel to Fast and Furious. Why would you think it's broadly permissible to rip off someone's comics (wh…