TearsInTheRain

Is there a "state of ..." survey for other fields? Would be super interested in crypto and ML surveys.

> In startups with real products and real users and actual growth

Thats a big caveat. Tons of startups dont have that and still consume billions in capital.

Thats a good way to lose half your games

Spotify directly says that they are not a publisher. Platforms that mute certain voices are censors

You either believe in free speech or you dont. It shouldn't matter who is infringing on it

Is it really an issue to just always have the car obey the lower speed limit?

Im sure its a multitude of factors but it is definitely the increase spending due to government intervention. Aggregate demand is several years above trend.

3x larger in people is not 3x larger in wealth. I think US and China are comparable in that regard. And I dont know if the opportunity going forward is so incredible given China's debt levels and impending population bust.

If you have two people in a system, subsidizing person A and keeping B the same is exactly the same as keeping A the same and taxing person B. Your changing everyone's relative place in society and whats more you are elevating the people that have behaved less responsibly

A crash in China's housing market would probably be deflationary for the US which would be quite welcome imho.

Please let us know how large is large enough to feel pain. Is a bird brain large enough? A mouse? A dog?

They are also an innovation engine. You have to value all of the things they havent created yet but will.

Being the first recorded person to die from a falling meteor is one of my biggest fears.

I thought that going into the article but after reading it it provided some interesting analogies to luxury goods that expanded my perspective a bit.

It would probably take over a decade to reshore enough semi-conductor manufacturing to replace TSMC. Chips are incredibly complex to make

Sounds military

You can always just have it as a feature for super users.

It is common practice for PE firms to buy insurance companies in order to better manage the investment side of the business.

I think Tesla should definitely be accountable for their software and damage that it causes but involving overly risk adverse regulations will push out self driving cars by a decade, maybe indefinitely.

I think some tech health platforms like Capsule will even have a pharmacist call your doctor for a refill for you.

Idk why any politicians arent picking up on foreign price controls as a means of lowering costs in the US. It should be a part of the discussion during any trade talks with Europe.

Did you know him personally to be able to make that judgement. To me it sounds like lying on his taxes destroyed his life, or to be more charitable to him, the government destroyed his life

The pentagon literally have lawyers that designate an acceptable amount of civilian casualties a general can risk to take out a given target. With more precise weaponry theyll be able to get under the threshold much more frequently.

It looked like his first reaction was exactly that, he even pitched him on a job. It was the second and third reaction where he started bringing up issues with copying

> If earning a million dollars is too hard, you can just jet around impoverished countries where the dollar is strong (a legacy of colonialism) while running businesses online.

This is just fundamentally wrong and reeks of blind socialist griping at the whichever current societal structure exists

> Government is made out of people.

Maybe in theory but in actuality it is comprised of moneyed interests which is why it needs to be limited to preserve the freedom of the people.

Imho calling the lab leak theory a conspiracy theory is a form of gas lighting. It is telling people that it isnt legitimate to use basic common sense to question why the bat coronavirus outbreak happened down the street from the lab studying bat coronaviruses. You must deny what is plainly in front of your eyes.

Buying and breaking solar panels still produces a signal for manufacturers to make more solar panels. Buying and breaking the most performant solar panels will produce a signal and selective pressure to create more performant solar panels. It doesnt matter what the demand is for as long as it isnt going away and is selecting for a given outcome.

Bitcoin should still reduce energy consumption but in the short term it can still have a positive effect on renewable investment.

Maybe this is a naive question, but your immune system works by identifying foreign proteins and killing those cells. Is there no way for your immune system to target cells contaminated with prions?

I think we are at about 10% right now in a department of a bit less than 100 engineers. A quick google search shows the industry is at 25%. I would be curious to know what the current graduating classes of engineers is at. My guess would be 30%? Requiring our recruiters to hit 40% means more work for fewer candidates for a marginal benefit for our company.

To be fair I would expect more female engineers to show a benefit in the retention rates of female engineers so I think this initiative could be net positive for the company but I also doubt the people pushing for this are being data driven.