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Sometimes VCs and accelerators make a “call for startups”. These requests usually target a particular problem or market need. Have you ever responded? Did you create the startup specifically for the call? How did it pan…

It seems that the companies working on “AI Safety” are really just trying to build and monetize AI models, particularly LLMs. Is AI Safety a grift?

How do you make money on the side? I'm talking about work that can be done one day per week on a weekend, or perhaps across a few evenings whilst maintaining a regular job. Im interested in things that leverage a SWE…

After a meal, people conventionally stack plates. This makes no sense to me. By stacking the plates, food gets on the bottom of each plate (except the first one) which before was mostly clean. Now there is more surface…

Asking here since I don’t know here else to start. Western governments all seem to target 2% annual inflation. Why is this? Why not target 0% to make financial projections simpler for businesses and households?

I need to have a laptop battery replaced and I don’t have the time to do the work myself. However, the idea of handing my machine (used for personal and contract work) to a stranger makes me uncomfortable. I do not want…

In any domain where you think you have some insight: what do you think is the next big thing?

As new functional languages get made and gain wider appeal (e.g. Elm) and existing mainstream languages move in a function programming direction (e.g. records in Java), it seems that functional programming is ascendant.…