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Meta saw the grave premonitions from ai firms as a means of edging out legacy firms through regulatory capture.

tell me more? I used to live in Albuquerque and always wondered what happened.

On general magic and their 90s smartphone efforts and the constraints they worked within.

Own a significant chunk of a rapidly growing large company, or be LeBron james.

Stalin's demographic researchers kept disappearing until they came up with the numbers he wanted.

The only thing that doesn't make sense: these companies are more profitable than ever. Google stock rocketed up last year. AI spend per employee is also up, many companies with a s…

I think the designation of the US as a flawed democracy is fair. We have free elections, yet (particularly at higher levels of government) rarely see popular mandates translate to …

A family member at a large tech has stated that their has been an effective hiring freeze for the last three-ish years in their department. To the point that they're letting major …

There are extractive and inclusive economic institutions. democracies tend to guarantee the latter, we are rapidly pursuing the former.

I definitely struggled with feeling hyper engaged in the classroom setting, and then the jarring transition to the next class. By the time I switched between three and four subject…

Loved my time at Olaf.

Bloomberg is crazy expensive. They used to have citylab articles without a paywall, but looks like they've fixed that.

I think the stocks don't have a arbiter managing a discrete outcome between parties that don't have any KYC compliance.

"one word. Plastics" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaCHH5D74Fs

Clare Malone era of FIVE THIRTY EIGHT was among the most serious political journalism out there.

But in exchange we get to also waste vast energy and carbon while depleting job prospects for just about any college grad.

I would think Police unions would probably gladly accept. higher pay for more accountability. It feels like accountability sheltering is a deal with the devil that cities made.

Read "why nations fail". It essentially covers this. Markets and technologies are great but ultimately bound by the systems of power they inhabit.

For expensive high growth markets, rents have dropped in most. Part of this is from a freezing of the labor market meaning nobody is really moving to town.

I think it's more contractors were responsible for providing only their deliverables. The program design as a whole is done by the DoD when they bid out their requirements.

It seems like in the last number of years, VC has been prioritizing becoming the beneficiary of the whims of the regime. In short, I wonder if this has any implications about their…

I hate asking people what they do, but it's hard to know ahead of time what questions will get an excited answer, so it's sort of a fall back.