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Longtermism reminds of Soviet version of communism where problems of today were justified in the name of “the bright future”.

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Still. The biggest hurdle is building what people want.

Sure, but if I can work from home in Malibu, it is a sweet deal too. But for most people in LA, it is not the case.

Lived in LA for a decade plus. The biggest problem in LA is the traffic, plus that you need a car to go anywhere. Try to go on average day from Griffith Park(Observatory in the pic…

Just wondering at what point it stops being business and becomes theft. 50% mark-up $100m painting seems excessive.

For starters there are two types of loans in the system, federal(92%) and private(8%). Federal is less of a loan, but more a subsidy that you have to repay at later date if you can…

Very on point. We have democracy on a government level and have 1 day in 2 years to select our representatives. For the rest of the time we have to please our boss, that we have no…

Lambda School run into the realities of education economics. As a society, we decided to subsidize high performers so they can actually focus on building/researching things and sec…

There are a lot of moving parts. Sculpting, UV Mapping, Rigging, Skinning, Animation, LODs, Baking, Texturing, engine import, lighting, materials. A lot of things can be done proce…

Look I don't mind that defence. But can we like all get such good defence. Where do I sign up or who to vote for so every American citizen gets a legal representation like this. No…

Somebody should do a startup that just confirms money in a bank account.

Love how they fight for drivers rights and working real hard to replace them with self driving fleet.

We don't know what is their risk profile. The goal should never be to beat the market, but to beat the market relative to risk exposure. I don’t doubt though that a lot of money is…

Just got this e-mail in my inbox. Just replaced my company name. Subject: What's Beta's post-COVID plan? Hey Tima, Looked into Beta today--pretty cool what you're doing. As a remot…

I didn’t know Uber is live in Syria.

For startes I do run a business, but it is irrelevant. To understand how economy works, algebra is enough. There is nothing wrong with government providing liquidity by purchasing …

I think the discussion here about online recurring payment services, where customers just churn if you ignore them long enough. One off projects, yep you better do everything what …

It is a resources allocation problem. Support is very linear in nature. More issues you have, more people you need to take in feedback and act on it. For early companies with very …

Bad customers provide value early on, because they basically do free QA. Also early there is not enough data to know who are the bad customers or who customers who are having real …

The situation with debt for average Americans is criminal. Why lifes and mental health are being ruined, while Fed is just pumping gazillion of free money into corporations? Not ta…

For any non-violent crimes we should not send people to prison. I don't even know why it became a criminal matter. Civil courts can do that job really well. If we prosecute everyon…