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I was buying a used book through Amazon this evening. Three resellers offered the book at essentially the same price. Here were their ratings: 94% positive out of 85,193 reviews 98% positive out of 20,785 reviews 99% positive out of 840 reviews Which reseller is likely to give the best service? Before you assume it's
"I’ll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one." The now-famous quip from Robert Reich cuts to the bone of corporate personhood. Corporations are people with speech rights. They are heat-shields that absorb liability on behalf of their owners and managers.
Central Bank obsession with holding down wages has consequences for fin stability
I’ve noticed that AI twitter is talking a lot about evolution lately, and for good reason. Comparing AI development to an evolutionary system lets
I’m pretty sure how the first meetings went almost a decade ago: “Well, we’re paying our affiliates 5% for referrals. If we pay charities a tenth of that and call it a donation, i…
“A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.” —Lao Tzu
SemiAnalysis published something of a bombshell leaked document this morning: Google “We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI”. The source of the document is vague: The text below is …
On the mechanics of totalitarian terror in Mao's China.
For the first time in modern history, the Fed is operating at a loss. This article explores what that means for savers and investors.
Meta's Threads.net sure looks a lot like App.net. Is Meta due for a pivot? The legislation the company supports suggests yes.
Lessons learned in my first year as a platform engineer.
Welcome to the Rise of Steel part II.
One of the defining characteristics of the modern world is the ubiquity of steel.
Bank transfers have exploded as a payment method in India and may become more common in much of the world.
You’re reading Age of Invention, my newsletter on the causes of the British Industrial Revolution and the history of innovation.
It was a happy time for PC users. Microsoft had just delivered Windows 95, an incredibly vast improvement over windows 3.1 and DOS.
While most of the attention regarding artificial intelligence and copyright has been centred in the United States, it’s useful to remember that one of the main pieces of litigation is taking …
Will OpenAI’s Q* change the world?
Anything that can't go on forever will eventually stop. 40 years of declining worker power shattered the American Dream (TM), producing multiple generations whose children fared worse than their parents, cratering faith in institutions and hope for a better future.
Some days, I just can’t decide if Strava tries hard to hurt their reputation, or, if it just comes naturally. Today, however, I’m left flabbergasted.
Is the Open Core model really all it's cracked up to be? Can we really trust Open Core companies?
Microsoft GitHub released CoPilot last year, a tool for generating code and auto-completion, that’s been trained on vast amount of open source code, notably all open source code hosted on Git…
A couple of things I learned and one reasonable guess.
Please let's stop predicting the future of A.I.
I was walking to a team meeting where I was going to announce that we would likely have to lay off nearly all of our employees because we unexpectedly had almost no money left, and that it was all my fault.
