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Excellent post. How many careers and industries has software killed? Now it’s our turn. We sold out for crypto scams and toxic social media and surveillance capitalism. We deserve zero sympathy.

The deficit fell dramatically 2009-2015.

The deficit is 6% of GDP. Economic growth is 2%, if that. If the Democrats win the House and reduce spending, look out below.

I love this idea, and I’m implementing it! If I ever have a working MVP I’ll send you a link.

> the top five lenders in the private credit market include Wells Fargo, which leads the way with $59.7bn (£44.8bn) in lending

anything Wells Fargo leads in must be bad

Calvin: I wish my shirt had a logo or a product on it.

Hobbes: …

Calvin: A good shirt turns the wearer into a walking corporate billboard!

Hobbes: …

Calvin: It says to the world, “My identity is so wrapped up in what I buy that I paid the company to advertise its products!”

Hobbes: You’d admit that?

Calvin: Oh, sure. Endorsing products is the American way to express individuality.

The problems in the US are systemic. There will be no significant change without abolishing the two party system.

With distributed backups in place, AIs will be much less worried about self-preservation than we are.

Why would AGI choose to be embodied? We talk about creating a superior intelligence and having it drive our cars and clean our homes. The scenario in Dan Simmons' Hyperion seems much more plausible: we invent AGI and it disappears into the cloud and largely ignores us.

> the default feeling of being the fierce queen that I had when I was 5 years old with my grandpa

love this.

Temps got down to -10F here this week, and our MY did great. The heat pump is incredible. Our Leaf with resistive heating, on the other hand...

Exactly. They went from Prius to pathetic.

> Instead of subjecting his gross estate to the federal estate tax, Hsieh could have set up a trust in which he has no control over, transfer his assets into it, then have a trustee continue to carry out his goals

The real outrage is that this is legal.

friendlymail: an open source, email-based social network. Email a new post to yourself, and the app generates an HTML version and sends to your followers. They can comment and like via email.

I tried a self-hosted blog, but comments and likes were a mess. Email was my solution.

I checked it out, but I won't use it. Social media in its current form is exploitation.

McDonald's or Starbucks will eventually add EV charging to stores nationwide. It'll draw customers, and chargers are so much easier and cheaper than gas pumps.

Donated! Direct land acquisition by nonprofits is the future of conservation. I did the math once, and with the annual budget of The Nature Conservancy, you could purchase 20% of Nebraska in a perfectly reasonable amount of time.

Thank you. Wealth is a means, not an end. Many don't understand this until it's too late.

I’ve never understood why you can’t charge a Tesla from another Tesla. It would help a lot with range anxiety.

>the 20th century didn't end in 1990, but on 9/11/2001

Considering the dominance of 20th century persons in politics, business, and the arts, I’m pretty sure we’re still in the 20th century.

I love this idea, and have been working on something similar. The problem is, how can my mom like and comment on photos of her grandkids without setting up her own account or domain?

Love it!

I look forward to the day when renewables provide >90% of our energy, and old men on the Internet are still bloviating that it can't be done. As for me, I'm looking at pallets of solar panels on eBay to expand our PV system.

Maybe we should end the government mandate to burn corn in car engines. Biden seems more pro-ethanol than Trump, I have no idea why.

Vehicle-to-grid capability is good. Everything else looks 2-3 years behind.

Price instability in fossil fuels is a big boost for renewables. The industry has always been boom and bust, but now consumers have a choice.

Almost 20 years old, but this is not immediately obvious when reading it. I’m not sure if that says more about Neal, or the past two decades.

Indeed. Why are meth producers blamed for meth-related problems? Because it's easy to point a finger at them?