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> “Oh, yeah?” says SBF. “I would never read a book.” If he had ever read Atlas Shrugged none of this would have happened :)
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Wonder why the Internet Archive never tried to build a web search engine - their crawls of the entire web could be more comprehensive than Google (assuming Google doesn't archive old copies of we…
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This is absolutely necessary to stop scammers, like when the former PM of Somalia's 'verified' account was hacked, its display name was changed to "vitalik.eth", and a tweet a…
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Don't have much faith in UATX being a success (think they should've begun with STEM instead of liberal arts), but this is a really interesting idea: "In place of large, on-campus admini…
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Looking forward to when 3D printing reduces upfront capital costs enough that it is feasible for a single engineer to bootstrap a profitable hardware business. The 'GitHub for hardware' of t…
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If you could integrate relevant features of Google Docs into, say, Twitter Ad Manager, enabling an ad agency and the CMO of the corporate advertiser to collaborate (multiplayer edit, comments, real-ti…
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Did demand for programmers go down in the transitions from pure binary to assembly language, and from low-level languages to high-level languages? It just became more feasible to build profitable prod…
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Programmers are highly paid because of the value they bring to their employer, like every other profession, not by how much effort they put into their work. This is also why stuff like the lawsuit aga…
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Here's a conversation I just had: I want office hours with a
hardware engineering
professor. Hey! Welcome to office hours, how can I help? What is the most cost-efficient architecture for an In…
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Think Replit Ghostwriter fits the bill best.
https://replit.com/site/ghostwriter With the right prompts, it's pretty easy to get GPT-3 or its open source clones to explain c…
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In a March meeting, Laura Dehmlow, an FBI official, warned that the threat of subversive information on social media could undermine support for the U.S. government. Dehmlow, according to notes of th…
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To me it looks like Musk always intended to complete the Twitter deal and the entire bot saga was a feint to protect the deal from governments and internal actors. They had the power to do a lot of da…
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Are we sure this isn't Ligma Johnson 2.0 though?
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Just read my first PKD work today (Paycheck), loved it.
https://archive.org/details/paycheck0000dick …
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By the same author: http://www.daviddfriedman.com/The_Machinery_of_Freedom_.pdf
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Beta launched in February 2021: https://twitter.com/jbfja/status/1357129881683918848 Sometime at the beginning of this year (iirc) the upload image button started to throw a…
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Elon could assert dominate by banning Breton for "repeated use of violent threats". Private property after all :)