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I don’t think it’s true. I have been recently to a store here in Virginia that specializes in furniture made by Amish in USA, and while significantly more expensive than IKEA/Wayfa…

The point is that while power and water is scarce in space, the NY state has no jurisdiction there. It might literally be easier to build data center in space than it is to overcom…

Yes, the furniture became less durable as it became much cheaper. You can still buy durable furniture, but people just aren't interested in it for the most part.

I'm sure some smart people could come up with a SQL-esque language that is even more readable to non-technical folks than programming syntax. And somehow, none of the thousands of …

Gas prices have barely changed in inflation adjusted terms over last 50 years, and if anything, the trend is slightly downwards. At the same time, inflation adjusted incomes went u…

This is literally opposite of the truth. In almost all businesses, the wages constitutes higher share of revenues than profits.

It's probably easier to understand this concept if you forget about tech, and think about something like steel mill, or a mine. If you want to make money as a worker making steel, …

Dividing profits by employee count and calling this "fair share" is ludicrous. It exhibits a childish understanding of the world and the economy. If you believe that you're cheated…

We spend only 5% of our GDP on food, which is much lower than other OECD countries. Does it mean we are starving?

For the stuff I do, I rarely use signed types. I find the example of finding difference between two numbers to be really silly. I don’t recall ever having to do anything like that,…

Both of them have to be completely rewritten to make use of multiprocessing, so what exactly is the advantage?

What is creepy about Anduril? Anduril simply sells weapons. There's nothing mysterious or nefarious about it. European countries want to buy weapons too.

Yes, that's my point: if you're next to the ocean, disposing of brine is extremely easy.

Exactly. If you subsidize the abundance for everyone, the effect will just be raised expectations floor.

If you read the article you sent me, you'll learn that, just as I said, you don't use sodium chloride, aka table salt, aka sea salt, for these purposes.

It’s about thermal storage, you don’t use table/sea salt for that, and you don’t need a lot of salt, because the salt is in a closed loop; it’s not being consumed.

Brine might be bad to the place you dump into, but crystalline salt is even worse. Overall though, it’s just such a tiny concern. Ocean is huge. If we kill everything in a 100 foot…

Maybe, but dumping crystalline salt is even worse to the spot you’re dumping it on.

Brine is very easy to dispose of: you just pump it back to where it came from. Solid crystalline salt, on the other hand, is a hassle.

How are they “not obligated to be truthful”? Lying to investors is literally a crime.

It's very easy today to transcribe and summarize every call that you have.

Yes, and by shifting the labor supply curve you can make the laborers worse off, because it will often shift the supply curve of the product they’re making. If labor unions make yo…

None of what you said responds in any way to the arguments made in the post you are responding to.

Sorry, I’m not chilled at all by the prospect that the court can subpoena my data from Goole. It can already issue a warrant to arrest me, and to search my actual home.

I hate this change. I loved how the original Timeline worked, and now it's unusable. I don't care about courts subpoeaning my data. I'd love to opt in to previous status quo. I don…