- I’m waiting to get an RTX 5090 on the cheap.
- Informative post, thank you.
- This is dumb. We are in the midst of an energy shortage that will only get worse.
Between MAGA blocking wind and Progressives blocking nuclear, the US is left with solar and carbon.
Solar is fine, but it needs a 24/7 base. Unfortunately it increasingly appears that base will remain carbon.
- It’s not pharma that’s driving rising medical costs, it’s hospitals:
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-cancer-drug-markups/
Another contributing factor is that Americans consume a LOT of healthcare, often well past the point of diminishing returns:
“Why conventional wisdom on health care is wrong (a primer)”
https://randomcriticalanalysis.com/why-conventional-wisdom-o...
Finally, basic preventative health care — at least for children — could save more than it costs when we take into account the overall economic effects of poor health outcomes. We should consider making it an entitlement.
- You realize it would cost a significant resources to make the “accommodations” you are suggesting? Money, despite what you may believe, doesn’t grow on trees. Given the range of worthy competing interests where the money could be spent, the university likely had no practical choice but to take it offline, lest it face the bad press and wrath of Progressives.
You remind me of people who insist every single new apartment must be ADA compliant instead of a reasonable percentage throughout the city. Another example is banning SROs on the grounds they are “inhumane”. The moral purity results in less housing and forcing people to live in the cars or on the street.
- Maybe Lina Khan blocking the sale to Amazon wasn’t such a great idea after all.
- Learning requires focus; cell phones destroy focus.
- For those of us who grew up before 2000, we somehow managed. I think younger people today will as well.
- A lot of you guys in the AI industry are going to lose your jobs. LLM and prompt ‘engineering’ experts won’t be able to score an AI job paying as well as a barista.
- Dissapointing. The X220 is built well and has a great keyboard. Any idea why the focus on the X200/201 instead of the X220/230?
- My 22 year old fresh out-of-school communications manager admin was able to figure all that out on her first day of work.
Don’t know what to tell you.
- Because outside of a handful of nerdy tech companies, all small businesses need to use Microsoft Office. From there, it’s a no brainer to stay in the MS ecosystem and use Sharepoint etc…
For a small business without a dedicated IT team, simply hire a IT contractor to harden the tenant (MFA etc…), have them review every six months and be done with it and focus your resources on running your business.
- This is blatant nonsense. The best security choice for any small business that doesn’t have a dedicated full time security staff is Microsoft 365.
- Just another confirmation that the majority of the IT industry depends on spying in order to be profitable and for developers to make a good living. It’s a disgrace really.
- I”m still waiting for the day when it’s easy for the consumer to sue a company in the event of a data breach.
- I left work late tonight and again saw in the parking lot a car with sheets inside the windows and the engine running. Someone who can’t afford Boston metro housing prices is sleeping in their car.
If I recall correctly, the strongest correlation with homelessness is housing prices. SROs used to be a way to keep people at the bottom of the market housed. Now it’s a Toyota Camry.
Progressive New Englanders hold their NIMBYism close to the heart and would rather someone sleep in a car (or worse) than allow sufficient amount of housing to keep prices down.
- No idea what you’re talking about. I’ve connected airpods easily to over a dozen devices without a hitch.
- Its ridiculous to compare human language to a programming language, even by analogy. They are entirely different domains.
- High housing costs is a key factor.
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/31/nx-s1-5551108/housing-costs-b...
The Boomer generation has perpetuated and intensified restrictive zoning. The lack of new homes where well-payong jobs are located has caused housing prices to soar.
The Boomer generation has also led the de-growth movement. I guess they are going to get their way by making it too expensive for their grandkids to have children and cause the population to plummet.
- The author’s examples are very prominent tech companies during a period of rapid growth in the industry and a single massive retailer (Walmart) with a big online presence. For comparison , I spot checked Target: revenue increased from $85B in 2020 to about 105B$ in 2024, about a ~20% increase. Headcount went from ~ 360,000 to 440,000 during that period, also a ~ 20% increase.
I think a better title might be the less catchy, ‘The decoupling of headcount and revenue at quasi-monopolistic tech companies that are scaling platform products and services.”
Also revenue and capital are not interchangeable terms. The author appears to be confused over this point.
- Once AI blows up in a spectacular unprofitable mess (as it will for 90% of the companies in this space), then what though?
- People are dunking on this guy, but as a founder I can say that if you’re a CTO at an early to early-mid stage company, you better be getting your hands dirty with your tech base, both the hardware and software.
- No need to ask him; ask ChatGPT. That’s what he did: “Please give me a latin phrase that says someone would seem more intelligent if they had remained silent.”
ChatGPT has lifted Latin putdowns from the province of Harvard classics major to computer programmers.
- What I am describing is something called wisdom.
- “Grow up do something useful with your time”?
No further comment is needed.
- As people get older, they often come to realize that any job that puts a roof over ones head, food on the table, and allows quality time with friends and family, is meaningful work.
- Here we have an article written by a Palestinian that has lived in Palestine his entire life, who has bern imprisoned and tortured by Hamas for simply criticizing the group, who is providing his first hand on-the-ground account that Hamas is sabotaging the peace process by engaging in violence against Palestinians, and your response is to deny his reality and claim that it’s Israel’s fault the way Hamas is behaving against fellow Palestinians?
There are reasons why the political Left has been accused of being unhelpful in the Middle East peace process and why some argue an underlying antisemitism is at play.
The gobbledygook you posted, “ properties get leveraged, instrumentalized, and securitized, with derivative products, speculation, and all sorts of incentives that you don't normally want operating in the arena of housing”, is just that, gobbledygook.
Just because a buyer as Inc. behind its name doesn’t give it magical powers to set market prices.
If you think it does, then please explain it to us like we are really slow.