NoblePublius

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by NoblePublius 7mo ago
The round is still open, Amazon is funding in tranches, and Sam doesnt get all the cash until he hits unknown metrics. Sounds like a down round.
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by NoblePublius 1y ago
Why would Amazon want to invest in AI, which would help their customers find what they want to buy, when they make all their profit from showing their customers what they don’t want to buy with monetized search?
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by NoblePublius 1y ago
It’s funny to me that you think people were forced to by cars by “ripping out trolleys” when it was the buying of cars that did that.
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by NoblePublius 1y ago
America built train tracks at the same time and the rail Operators went bust post WW2 because Americans stopped taking trains.
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by NoblePublius 1y ago
Again, you have it backwards. Penn Station went bankrupt in the 1960s because rail passenger volume didn’t match the projections made in the 40s and 50s. Most American, even poor Americans, could afford cars, so they bought them. The only w
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by NoblePublius 1y ago
“Land use choices” are downstream of what residents want less what they can afford. You have it backwards.
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by NoblePublius 1y ago
“ I love Disney and I love Dolly Parton, but it says something deeply broken about our national priorities when their theme park trains outclass public infrastructure in billion-dollar economies. Be serious.” Europe has lots of train infras
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by NoblePublius 2y ago
Crazy idea: charge $1
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by NoblePublius 2y ago
A lot of words to say second place
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by NoblePublius 2y ago
No!
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by NoblePublius 2y ago
FSD is worse than autopilot, and makes autopilot worse. When you enable FSD, it turns on the cabin camera and applies the same driver attention standard to autopilot. Autopilot is really good! But if FSD is on, it becomes next to useless. Y
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by NoblePublius 3y ago
Ending Medicare would make EMTALA obsolete
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by NoblePublius 3y ago
Ban all health insurance. And Medicare. And Medicaid. Require all healthcare services be transparently and consistently priced in cash. Transform the IRS into an insurer of last resort by providing 100% tax credits for all medical care in e
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by NoblePublius 3y ago
Give me your checking account login and tax return and I will know who you owe money to
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by NoblePublius 3y ago
Plaid
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by NoblePublius 3y ago
Every financial institution has its own credit file on you. They don’t need the third party services at all. Credit profiles can be created easily from any number of public data sources. These companies exist because we wrote laws requiring
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by NoblePublius 3y ago
Old Facebook now exists in group chat
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by NoblePublius 3y ago
Yes the culprits are industry and not local government who giggled with piggish glee to set up meaningless and costly recycling and compliance regimes which generated them billions
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by NoblePublius 3y ago
“Self reported” is exactly the standard of evidence I expect from Covid researchers. Thank you for the thoughtful reply. Next up please control for vaccine status. Long vaccine anyone?
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by NoblePublius 3y ago
How do you distinguish the feeling of being less sharp from the psychological impact of lockdown?
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by NoblePublius 3y ago
This reminds me of 12 years ago at NY Tech Meetup when some whartonites debuted a carbon credit marketplace and the first audience question was “is this a scam?”
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by NoblePublius 3y ago
are we allowed to ask questions about his sister now or will that get flagged and deleted again?
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by NoblePublius 3y ago
Birds are not people.
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by NoblePublius 3y ago
Because of cats
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by NoblePublius 3y ago
wow long covid references and furry gifs. You must be fun at parties
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by NoblePublius 3y ago
Convicted of no crime. The fix is in.
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by NoblePublius 3y ago
Degrowth propaganda
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by NoblePublius 3y ago
We’ve completely lost the plot if we’re arguing about whether the government or private companies should maintain a system for filing taxes when ~80% of filers could be sent a bill or refund automatically based on info the IRS already has.
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by NoblePublius 4y ago
LOL they’re office workers who “label data”. Meanwhile the factory workers all have seven figure options grants and aren’t interested.
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by NoblePublius 4y ago
The scope of the study predetermines its outcome. The reality is there is no need for the vast majority of Americans to file anything. The IRS has all of their pay information and must merely send a bill or refund. The only thing a taxpayer

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