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How many providers do you have to pay for to watch your favorite teams play in all their competitions now vs 20 years ago? How different is the experience booking an economy flight…

"Truly capable engineers are able to achieve more business outcomes with less code / fewer moving parts" I'd simplify to "Truly capable engineers are able to achieve more positive …

I've been screenshotting twitter since 2016 when Brexit happened and with the goal of one day putting together some kind of art piece. The world and our discourse around it has cha…

The most interesting point here is to look at Women's Soccer. Soccer has always included lots of psuedo-nationalist reasons why different countries are better (or why the dive, why…

I'm a recently laid-off engineer, I've been playing around with AI to create apps, (vibe and not-vibe coding), and am blown away with how productive I can be. It feels like that fe…

I think the better analogy is "you could give me an afternoon in the studio with Jimi Hendrix's sound engineer and the record we create would sound very different from Jimi's album…

After Snowden's leaks don't we know the levels of spying that's already happening today? That was a decade ago, what has changed?

And (with a heavy dose of purposeful suspension of disbelief), if ICE does deport those people they've determined are "illegal", does anyone believe that the agency will scale down…

Isn't this the intent of a prediction markets? IIRC the original prediction markets existed to try and get as close as possible to finding the true answer to open questions. Someon…

A missed aspect of "are right, a lot" LP is that the great leaders are able to quickly realize when they're wrong and get on the right side of the argument. It's not "are right fro…

It's actually very straight-forward. UBI still means that most people's money eventually flows to the rent-seekers (Billionaires). Socialism (and I know this is not the Socialism M…

I toured Stanford Bridge in the middle 2010s, they actually found uncomfortable away dressing rooms weren't the most effective as it either got the other team to go out and start w…

If Google just copied and pasted the content from my blog and put it on their own website which had ads that paid them, preventing customers from going to my blog (and thus seeing …

I think the cruelty is the point

Reminds me of a joke: Bill: "I used to think Correlation implied Causation, but I took a statistics class and I now know that's not true" Bob: "Oh wow, sounds like that class helpe…

My favorite feature is that the little mic next to someone's name on the roster goes red when their internet is spotty. No ambiguity on who's internet is spotty ;)

These kinds of articles always make me feel like I'm living in Bizarro Land. The Snowden revelations were over a decade ago, we know the capabilities the US Govt has, how is this e…

Because the US has a constitution. Congress (not the Executive branch) allocates funding and the Executive Branch (in this case a Billionaire who's friendly with the President) can…

I was an intern at eBay in 2012, I was at an on-campus event and chatting with the VP who was our college sponsor. At one point he shows me his phone, someone had bought a $100K Po…

I am riding the Caltrain south, we slowed to a snail's pace and they said it would take 2hr+ to get to Palo Alto (from SF). A bunch of people got off, and then the conductor comes …

I wonder how much of a relief the belief that when you sit on your deathbed you will be woken up again would provide. Even if the tech doesn't work, I wonder how much relief from s…

It's because he's not a "free speech absolutist", does he think felons should be able to vote? Of course he doesn't. His "free speech absolutism" is a way of signaling the kinda gu…

As a T1D I empathize so strongly with this comment. There was a promising example in China where Scientists cured a single woman who had T1D. It's n=1, but the first step to a cure…

If anyone is curious, a Meta Data Scientist published a great piece about how the facts about what LLMs are actually doing (and therefore able to do) and how it's papered over by u…

It's the local, when you drive you don't stop every 5 miles and pick-up/drop-off a couple dozen people :) The bullets (limited stops) is actually really fast (~45 minutes MTV to SF…