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Thank you for the kind words.

btw we turned off auth for now - you can just hit Play

We made him with a short fuse :)

I guess in our minds the doctor has already inspected the body before you get there (that's why it's at their house).

> Someone, when questioned vaguely about the "night of the party" first said the deceased died and then when questioned more closely said collapsed.

Can you elaborate why you think this is suboptimal? In my mind, this seems consistent with how interrogations go - people make assumptions (he died) until you press them further (oh, I only saw him collapse).

> There's a component of information discovery here that should be rolled out to each character. The doctor should not have information before the discovery of the information.

We're actively working on this as part of the framework :)

Thank you for the feedback.

The only details we're asking for is your email so we don't get spammed/botted by people taking advantage of a publicly hosted LLM endpoint. We're not using your personal details for anything.

tl;dr

Population is at all time high, yet a building boom has seen rents in inflation-adjusted dollars is below 2016.

The chart shows that Walmart revenue has grown 18% in 7 years, well below US GDP growth. Maybe they haven't dented revenue, but it's entirely possible they've dented revenue growth.

It also important to note that a corollary of this argument is that incumbents will still dominate their own sector - IBM still dominates mainframes. What matters to incumbents is whether or not those sectors are still relevant after disruption - mainframes less so, in-person grocery and shopping maybe more so.

This is very similar to Ben Thompson's The End of the Beginning article: https://stratechery.com/2020/the-end-of-the-beginning/

What I took from this article is that you can never beat incumbents by trying to offer a better version of their product. They already have immense institutionalized knowledge and economies of scale. You can only beat them by offering a different product that meets their needs better. Think Walmart vs Amazon. Online shopping is actually a completely different product.

An example today is the iPhone. There are a ton of competitors trying to offer a better version of the same thing, but iPhone share is only growing in the US. Is it possible to offer a product that better suits its niche of mobile general purpose computing? Maybe! But technology today is so capital and knowledge intensive that the kind of organization that can try is probably already about Apple-sized (Vision Pro?).

Very cool! For people on visa who might be interested in founding, someone told me about this lately: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_entrepreneur_rul...

The requirements are that you raise 250k+ though, but that's the size of a decent seed round these days.

There was an interesting article about how the US convicted a Chinese spy largely because he did some spy work on his personal iCloud and Gmail accounts.

Not a fan at all of banning this sort of thing for private citizens, but I think banning it on government-owned devices is a decent trade-off between liberty and public interest.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-09-15/china-wan...

Doesn't this depend heavily on the scale of the company you're at?

At Google taking this is a no-brainer since for a myriad of reasons, feature development is slow.

At a 6-mo startup this much tech debt this early on might just kill it.

I have been traveling a lot and have had good luck with the following tips:

1. Carry on size pack like an Osprey Farpoint 40L and packing cubes. It's incredible how much clothing you can actually fit on. Hard to lose a carry-on. Obviously doesn't work for this story but should work for most travelers.

2. Less sure about this, but putting stuff in cardboard boxes. Seriously. You go through the oversized baggage route where it's hand-carried on and off the plane.

It's very strange to me how sentiment on the American economy is still so poor. Yes, the economy is worse than the bubble fueled mania of 2021, or the 2012-2019 years, but guess what? There were massive economic dislocations due to COVID and the related supply chain issues. I don't think that's the reasonable baseline to compare to. If you compare to similar high GDP countries (UK, Germany, France, etc) or high growth countries (mostly China), we are doing amazing.

This country has unique economic advantages due to natural resources, geography, and the ability to integrate both skilled and unskilled workers. I think it's hard to form a consistent Doomer thesis about America being a laggard when it comes to economic growth - unless you are comparing only to America's own best years.