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The balance of power is shifting as SpaceX is developing a cost effective way of building infrastructure in space. Russia probably is well aware of this and is re-aligning itself w…

> Antisemitism is such a tired strawman. Am I accused of sinophobia if I critique the CCP? Of course not. But critique of Israel is so often interpreted as 'antisemetic'. In one yo…

Interest rates will not go up like prior decades. The long-term trend is down-ward sloping. Only inflation can push rates up and that can only be achieved by reversing globalizatio…

Upstate New York is wealthy in water (a lot of it went unused). NYC is wealthy in economic activity that is taxed at a high rate to provide the State with resources. Are those reso…

This paper was surprisingly easy to read and understand.

I don't understand why Google is losing so much money on their cloud services.

$573M will be minimally felt at the organization level. It is less than 5% of global revenues.

I'm all for it but I feel like I'm missing how will they come up with the money to pay for this?

I think he is completely right. Journalism today looks more like advocacy. Free-speech liberalism are at odds with the political establishment. The liberal camp has been decimated …

Having them on the app platforms isn't good for business. Advertisers have threatened to boycott Apple and Google if they don't remove them.

International Red Machines - Sounds like the USSR

I would argue that these new regulations are in a way a breach of the Fourth Amendment, which is supposed to protect people from unreasonable searches. This seems like a search to …

My guess is that the gov't learned its lesson from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamdi_v._Rumsfeld by not declaring Kareem an enemy combatant...

How will the logistics work? Who gets access to this vaccine first?

I'm curious who his biggest customers will be?

Government's argument rests on the fact that Visa shouldn't acquire Plaid because of the potential technology they might create. This is a really dangerous argument. This is a dire…

I would be cool if you could analyze this from the peak of the bubble in 2000 to the bottom of the 2008-2009 financial crisis...

...to promote economic growth and upward mobility... I've always thought that upward mobility is what gives hope and hope is the fuel of persistence. Persistence coupled with patie…

Why tax buybacks? Just tax the individual benefiting from that buyback at the appropriate rate. Taxing buybacks essentially means that you are taxing poor shareholders and rich sha…

I'm not sympathetic. You're talking about a regime that essentially enslaves people. History will not be on his side.