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James Webb Space Telescope cleared for late December launch(arstechnica.com)
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The US Supreme Court is within spitting distance of wading into these waters. See Justice Thomas' concurrence in the grant of cert for Biden v. Knight First Amendment Institute[1]. "The similarities between some digital platform
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Brother HL-2070N black and white laser printer. 14 years and still going strong.
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I have a 2.5 year old who we occasionally let play an ABC/123 game on an iPad or phone with Guided Access mode on, so he can't access anything else. Usually 30 minutes max or longer in the car. The only thing I have to say about
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The only thing I remember about OKRs during my 10 years as a software engineer is zoning out when they talked about them at some length at company meetings.
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None of those credentials translate into an understanding of the current state of patent law. Like all other areas of US law, its a heaping pile of high-court precedent built on longstanding traditions and understandings of what the Founder
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I disagree that this is exactly the same as the stock market or the lottery. I think the fact that it is a technology that many in the tech sector missed the value of, during a time that they and only they (ie. pre-Coinbase) could have got
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I suspect that there is a strong relationship between distaste for anything crypto and lack of any crypto substantial assets. The problem is that just about everyone here could be a multi-millionaire if they had just taken a few minutes to
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I've very little exposure to this tech but my instinct tells me that it is no more than a curiosity for tech folks so long as you are required to wear a large, uncomfortable, expensive thing on your head. I don't know what the nex
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In fact, the Spotify recommendation for podcasts seems weirdly out of place in this post. So much so that I find myself wondering if the entire post is actually a Spotify/Joe Rogan promotion (or maybe gaslighting). Want a strong, open,
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Also consider hiding the font names. Too much bias from certain familiar keywords (JetBrains, IBM, courier, etc.).
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Many of the responses here are missing the real reason that Twitter is preferred: time. The amount of reading to do is vast, the number of minutes in the day are few. We can bemoan the extinction of blogs, long form journalism, etc. all d
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While some of these observations are literally true to the first approximation, I'll just respond by pointing out that we wouldn't be talking about this were it not for the unthinkable suffering that really did take place (and a
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So much hand-wringing as the nature of power mutates and changes hands. I generally agree that the outcomes of "cancel culture" are undesirable, but I am glad to see that in our little democratic experiment, a new form of power ha
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These are the only sci-fi books I'm aware of that include a believable, fleshed-out secular explanation for the existence of supernatural, god-like beings in the Transcend. As an atheist who usually can't say out loud what I reall
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Just take care not to touch it…
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The real story here is that cheating is rampant, everyone knows it, and that the universities (as opposed to individual professors) are not prepared to do what is necessary to stop it. I'm speaking, of course, of measures like expuls
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The inability of seasteaders to see how the scope and might of modern Naval power is going to get in the way of this little fantasy is breathtaking.
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It's hard not to see this as ultimately a good thing for the world. The market will not spend one dime more on security than is needed to maintain lines of business, and that includes things like perception of risk and mitigation. If t
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Where is auto-renew by default?
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This tells me more about the psychology of rich people than anything else. How pathetically desperate for validation you must be to pay this much for a unique thing, and to deprive others of access to it.
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I agree about the magnitude of the risk, but it is not obvious to me that risk magnitude is proportional to compensation. Clearly there is some relationship between the two, but I don't see why it would be directly proportional. If we
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Thank you for positing something other than the brilliance and talent of executives! :) However, while I understand the idea of de-risking to minimize financial and legal risk by hiring certain executives and consultants, it still doesn&#x
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It reminds me of the immortal line from The Usual Suspects: "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist."
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Are you saying that, as a result of being so incredibly talented, by definition, executives are already rich and therefore have to be paid more to keep them around for their valuable services and wisdom?
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You're just reiterating the premise that higher-paid CEOs are more talented. I'm saying I doubt that that's actually true. I think higher-paid CEOs bring something to the table, but it isn't talent. It's something
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Right, lots of wins are good, but why does the coach need to get paid $100M? Why is $1M not good enough? Let me guess: because being a coach is so hard, and requires so incredibly much smarts and talent that only a precious few people hav
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I don't agree that they are the "best of the best." Or at least it's not obvious to me that they are, in the same way a talented musician or athlete is. The supply/demand theory only explains the high cost of CEOs
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I would love it if someone could explain to me like I'm 5, why it is exactly, that CEOs are so highly paid. I get that it's hard. I get that there are long hours. I get that it requires long-term strategic thinking. None of tha
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by jordanpg 6y ago
I would also add that the "best" label is so overused by marketing best-of list sites on the internet these days that its very presence is a little suspicious. I would consider different wording. Perhaps "richest," &qu

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