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When the music stops, this type of trade simply stops being profitable. It only works because of SpaceX's insane P/E.

A lot of people made money off the Iran war, through regular old publicly traded stocks.

A lot of environmentalists are just degrowthers and NIMBYs. During the Biden administration multiple groups sued to block high voltage transmission lines for clean energy.

Policies enacted elsewhere usually don't have the Brussels Effect.

The organization that publishes the WPFI also considers online harassment a major threat to press freedom and scores accordingly.

Sure, but fear has little basis in statistics. People still worry about plane crashes and instead opt to drive.

There’s a big difference between someone who happens to live in a city and someone who is reliant on public transit.

Ironically that's a domain where AI could be genuinely helpful and reduce MTTR.

That would not cross the line.

I don't think the union is corrupt. The union's job is to advocate for its members. The legislators' job is to say "no, you're asking for too much".

I set up Bitwarden for my dad who keeps forgetting his passwords. It seems to work well on his PC and Android phone.

That's not true. They also enrich the lawyers' preferred nonprofit organizations.

I wonder why US citizens aren't regularly exploiting this. Subscribe to the newspaper, apply to the job, and sue the company when they ignore you.

I miss the autistic reporter. That guy was my favorite.

Google doesn't exactly pay top of market.

By that logic, Mark Zuckerberg is a poor leader and should resign. I think most investors would disagree with that assessment.

That quote is actually attributed to Lavrentiy Beria, one of Stalin's top goons.

That explains the random names, but what's with the upper case lettering?

Why is it so common for Chinese sellers on Amazon to have uppercase company names?

The TSA isn't just annoying. Air travel is safer than driving, so by disincentivizing flight, they have arguably produced many traffic fatalities.

Golang. You build one fat binary per platform and generally don't need to worry about things like dependency bundling or setting up unit tests (for the most part it's done for you).

This reminds me of Enterprise Fizzbuzz! May I suggest a multi-cloud deployment with server-side rendering?

Would the F-35 actually show up on SAR or does the radar absorbent material distort the image somehow?

Insurance is regulated so maybe it's different, but plenty of companies rely on illegally obtained data. Websites like haveibeenpwned.com and identity theft protection services couldn't exist without hacked/stolen information. I guess the distinction is that they didn't commission it.

Not all of these are 1:1 replacements but here are a few options: archive.is/archive.today, ghost archive, save a webpage as html with assets, and taking a screenshot

Archive.org can and does accept takedown requests, even if the requester wants to avoid public scrutiny. If you're writing about a contentious topic and want to preserve your links (tweets or whatever), there are better options.

A more optimistic view of the situation is that Datadog is already in the monitoring business and wants to go after the rest of the SDLC. There's certainly some value in correlating code changes with incidents.

Aren't these students the ideal borrowers for student loans? The endowment can likely be invested elsewhere for greater profit.

I have a tab in Sublime Text for my todo list, which I created several years ago and never bothered to save. It's a great feature for indecisive procrastinators.

That wiki page is a little outdated. The pinned thread is a little more recent but still missing a lot of offshoots like TheMotte.org.

Ironically the only off-site that ever really took off is the snuff film site which has 2.3M users now.