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This is no different than saying that the street sweepers were left behind by street sweeping machines. Or that accountants got left behind by the invention of accounting software.…

More productivity allows the work to get done with fewer workers, which is generally a good thing in normal economic conditions.

The browser casting method works for me: https://support.google.com/chromecast/answer/6279402?hl=en

Without wading into the larger debate, is it possible that low stable interest rates are expected in a successful society? In a chaotic world where the government and property righ…

You could cut more people's hair by getting it done faster, or do a better job cutting each person's hair. The point is that jobs where productivity improvement is possible are ver…

I don't think any of the jobs I listed are retail. I went out of my way to include a variety of industries, including knowledge work. "Demonstrating value to your boss" could inclu…

While many industries have an element of zero-sum competition, that's not the default. Whether you're designing a car, doing a surgery, giving a haircut, cooking a hamburger, etc. …

Sports is a zero-sum game. Productive labor is not. The mathematician Paul Erdos used amphetamines to make many major breakthroughs. This was a great benefit for society, regardles…

I've used Eaze. You pick an item from a menu in the website or app (although the Android app doesn't work for me), then someone drives up 20 minutes later and hands the item over. …

How can a bunch of no fee transaction attempts cause a $20 market price? It seems like the block would need to be full of transactions with high fees.

Having the stock after IPO trade at the old preferred price represents a significant increase of the actual value of the company, even though it's not usually reported as such.

Agreed that the press does go around using this $70B number as a valuation. If the company IPO'd at less than $70B it would similarly be reported as a dud. Recruiters also use the …

Common stock is worth less than preferred. Most stock is not preferred. Therefore there was never $70B worth of Uber stock in existence.

If the valuation didn't change, and the common stock is fairly priced, then we should stop calling the valuation $70B. Under that model, Uber was never worth $70B.

While Uber and Lyft raise prices in periods of high demand, they also subsidize rides in periods of low demand to keep a consistent quality of service. You'd have a hard time getti…

I'm sympathetic to your situation. But being locked out of selling your bitcoin for a few years might have resulted in you earning a lot of extra money! Hopefully you can regain ac…

If lightning network includes tech that can support billions of transactions, can it be used without bitcoin? Why not use lighting with an uncongested coin?

It's just the way the antidiscrimination law is written. I have a visceral "that should be unconstitutional or something" reaction when thinking about it, but then I remember we ha…

Microsoft failed because they had few developers for either the desktop or mobile version of the framework. The countless Windows apps did not become buildable on mobile. If Apple …

This is so true. A friend on Medicaid needed some medical care which the state was legally obligated to provide him. He was told by his primary care physician that the care was not…

Multiple manufacturers are already selling cars that can self-drive on the highway, to varying degrees.

Are the "on the side" dealers selling the same stuff as the semi-legal dealers? Why does anyone not use the semi-legal dealers?

Believe it or not, I experienced the non-self-driving version of that scene. It was the mass of vehicles heading from the eclipse festival to Burning Man a few months ago, a block …

I don't think our roads have the capacity to allow everyone to be sitting on them in their own personal automobiles all day. And even if they do, the roads won't actually function …