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I frequently create a new account so that I can post freely. I always try to post substantively, though of course a reader may disagree with this self-assessment. Were new accounts…

It’s weird that individuals are taxed on revenue but corporations are (usually?) taxed on profit.

If you model it as a lifetime annuity with inflation adjustment you are looking at more like 50k/year income at the outset were you to buy today. My understanding is that annuities…

I can’t conceive of working in an environment where coworkers are enraged by minor communication differences. Like wow you just work with a bunch of assholes. Probably that’s the t…

If it costs 1 extra human to build everything you’re losing money leaving Stripe.

They use pass by value but objects are reference valued.

This conversation is good evidence that ChatGPT does have a more or less average ability to reason. We’ve got humans making similar mistakes with 1 digit numbers. (Or… are they hum…

Why spend a few hundred dollars when you can spend tens of thousands!

While there’s perhaps a “clear and present danger” distinction, I think this analogy is a good one because we are talking about similar interventions: nonviolent, easily overcome. …

I have no ADD whatsoever, but similarly find it difficult not to focus entirely on subtitles to the exclusion of all else.

I don’t know that this is a reasonable generalization. Certainly in my CS department one could write a thesis to receive an MS, and no MAs were offered. Just one data point, from a…

In what way is it “greed” and not “how much houses cost”?