I timed the housing market and bought my place in San Jose for $365k. Or as a normal person would say, I got lucky and there is nothing that can be reproduced from my experience. Owning a home in the Bay Area is a kind of windfall for most people, and does not represent their hard work, intelligence, or skill at investing.

I wouldn't recommend a tech heavy portfolio right now. There is a time to ride the wave behind the biggest players in the market, which would be the bulge banks (like Goldman Sachs with around $2T) and not individual billionaires. And a time to step back and realize that most of us don't have an investment portfolio that can survive rash behvaior. So no, I don't care about billionaires, I'm not going to follow them anywhere. And white color compensation at tech companies has more to do with the money spilling down to create a petty bourgeoisie of professionals that think they are equals to their boss even though we fold like a cheap lawn chair when the return-to-office orders come in.

And good luck picking the AI company that is going to still be here in 5 years. The winner will be the one that buys up the bankruptcies and consolidates the data centers and hardware left behind after the bubble bursts.

What are we going to use to handwave all the 'officer involved shootings' now that the claim that you feared for your life in the face of an imminent threat is no longer plausible? We can't really put these to work until we've decided on suitable legal cover!

Modern "innovation" is scams all the way down. From B. S. crypto to taxis disguised as "ride sharing" with no employees, only gig contract workers. Some countries are calling the scams out, while the grift thrives in most places.

is why I'm sticking to just toggle switches and blinking lights.

Here's a little more detail.

Researchers a few years back ran tests. ADHDers and neurotypicals were asked to harvest berries and edible plants.

Neurotypicals tended to over-harvest and damage bushes to the point where recovery would be slow if possible at all, and tended to pick areas clean, wiping out local populations of edible plants.

ADHDers tended to move relatively quickly from area to area, harvesting a decent amount from each area but not excessively. The quantities tended to be at the sort of level that have long been established as a good balance, such that plants and populations would tend to actually do better the following year. Not only that, but they tended to gather more.

https://www.psychologytoday.co...

Crofts and small farms rapidly went to three-stage and four-stage crop rotation, but different fields would be with different crops. This meant that the failure of a single crop would be much less of a survival thing.

You'd see fields with a mutitude of diverse crops, because diversity was critical. Failure was highly likely, so you localised it. Failure in one area had no meaningful impact overall. Things like the Irish potato famine and the parsnip failures across France in the 1700s were relatively rare in history. Likewise, when industrialisation wiped out cottage industries, farms that had been very successful suddenly went bankrupt and mass starvation was common. The ability to task-switch and have a large number of small projects going was essential to life at the edges.

You're absolutely right, more ADHD would have indeed curbed the excesses. The industrial revolution caused huge problems by trying to do too much with too little diversity. Which eventually destroyed the economies built around the early mills, because the markets were too easy to undermine. There was no capacity to switch. But during the IR, the obsession with coal meant nobody really looked at alternative fuels or alternative activities. Economies became tightly constricted, which was devastating when it came to global warming, but equally devastating when it came to distributing metal-devouring bacteria (which did enormous damage to infrastructure) and radioactive particles (old mill areas are still unusually radioactive).

More ADHD wouldn't have eliminated the problem, but it would have diversified the solutions and would have diversified the markets, resulting in a much more robust, much healthier marketplace and a much more robust, much healthier population.

Uh, no. As in, 100% of gatherers would be ADHD. IF they weren't, you'd be extinct within the year. 20% of the hunters would also be ADHD, because over-harvesting was also going to wipe out your food source. 100% of your explorers would be ADHD, 100% of your experimenters would be AuDHD.

ADHD was essential to survival. If you didn't want to die out, you stuck the neurotypical outside so that the wolves and other nasties actually hunting (tigers wouldn't be present) would get them. Neurotypicals were the main threat to survival.

Free speech includes lying.

Also, add to the terms of service policy that after N minutes grace period, there will be a per minute fee while occupying the vehicle.

Calling 911 for a non-emergency because the robotaxi can't figure out how to run its own business is just a way for a wealthy corporation to burn taxpayer money. I shouldn't have to pay more taxes (or get less services) because Waymo is incompetent.

I don't really care what happens to billionaires.

Here's some example code of a "wrong" program that is 100% valid:

// well-formed code; no compiler will flag an error
int sum_two_numbers(int a, int b)
{
        return a-b;
}

Is it faster? It sounds really tedious and error-prone to me. If someone were to suggest I quit writing code and instead spend the rest of my career supervising the intern as he writes code for me to review and correct, I'd feel the same way about that.

The Commerce clause gives the federal government nearly limitless authority over the States despite what the rest of the Constitution says.

Not usually. You have to add so many plasticizers back in that it would be more economical to burn it in a modern waste-to-energy incinerator, if onlynthose weren't basically illegal in California