mjfern

You’re just regurgitating conservative talking points that don’t align with reality. The California economy is the largest in the USA, by a significant margin, and its economic growth over the last 15 years far outpaced the U.S national average. California is on track to overtake Germany as the world’s 4th largest economy.

I find it fascinating that humans have been unintentionally terraforming the planet — land, sea, and atmosphere — at an accelerating rate for the past several thousand years, with even more dramatic impact over the past 100 years as the world’s population increased from 2 to 8B. It’s now too late to stop further change due to crossing tipping points and runaway effects. Soon we will forced to terraform further and faster but with specific targets in mind. How will we develop sufficient science and understanding in this space before it’s too late?

It sounds like you’ve had success with this approach. Is this what you do for a living or just invest on the side? My issue is that I have a day job and have limited time to do sufficient research to feel confident with any investment decision aside from using index funds and the like.

Yes, the people who disagree are those pumping and dumping and the bag holders.

And cryptocurrency mining consumes as much electricity annually as the country of Argentina. Country scale emissions is not at all negligible, particularly in light of catastrophic global warming.

I respectfully disagree. When a politician and party are inciting violence, encouraging a coup, and undermining the foundations of democracy then I think we’ve crossed over the line from needing to be accepting of different views.

Privacy aligns with Apple’s revenue model (selling hardware) but not with Facebook’s (selling ads). This is the only reason you should have faith that Apple will work to protect your privacy, while Facebook will work to undermine it.

I don't see much of a difference between these companies and the person in the article. Both are taking advantage of a vulnerable population for some personal benefit.

WeWork had its valuation cut and the founder walked away with $1B+. Where can I sign up for this reckoning?

Like pets.com. It turns out shipping 30 lb bags of dog food via FedEx isn't such a good idea.

Edit: Not such a good idea in 1999, when operating without economies of scale and scope, and with high transportation costs.

I provided several top of mind examples. It doesn't take long to think of entire industries that are shady, from payday lenders to cigarette companies.

The housing mortgage crisis, dot com boom and bust, payday loan industry, for-profit universities, fad diet companies, supplements with no scientific basis, cigarette manufacturers... There are whole industries and periods of time where large numbers of shady companies are rising and falling.

Tell that to Theranos, Fyre Festival, WeWork, the counterfeiters on Amazon, the myriad of shady ICOs, and on and on. Unfortunately, scammers are rife in industry. Let's not fool ourselves.

What underlying tech does Algolia use? Elastic search?

As an aside, why does nearly every Twitter link take you to a page not found thus requiring a reload? This is a terrible user experience that should be easy to fix.

Does anyone know why cable companies are able to tack on all these fees to TV service but not to broadband service?

Ah, yes. Thank you!

As someone pointed out in another thread, a campaign already exists at https://www.trilliontreecampaign.org. That said, this isn't providing the information that I'm looking for.

Weird. I visited this url earlier today and took me to a godaddy parking page. Maybe I mistyped or tried the .com.

Ha! Yes.

How about creating a simple campaign website, trilliontrees.org, that serves as a rallying call to plant trees and that compares and provides guidance on the myriad of nonprofits involved in planting trees?

Anyone interested to partner on this?

Who/what is XR?

Amazing work! Just curious -- what's your revenue model?

Wouldn't this theory rule out dark energy since I believe dark energy is used to explain an accelerating, expanding universe?