Yes, exactly. Healthcare via taxation can be viewed as a some sort of public insurance. The problem there is that the level of resources needed has to be decided manually instead of letting the markets handle it "magically".

I don't know. Rust seems like a better C++ to me rather than a better C. Plain C is a very simple language.

Alexei Fedotov aka Lex Friedman is a researcher/teacher in MIT. An ultimate techbro.

If only logic worked for people without brains.

Never have I heard a better reason to waterboard somebody.

I think it's very important to note that Telegram was once banned in Russia, then Telegram and Russia reached some sort of an agreement, and Telegram has been allowed in Russia every since.

Is that in Spotify?

I suppose one might imagine the risk that if he doesn't have "enough" wealth personally, he will be more susceptible to bribes. The steelman version is that he doesn't care about money that much.

Well. Time to start learning russian I guess.

Cold is fine, you just wear more clothes. The darkness from November to February is worse. Nothing really fixes that.

Model Y is the best car I've ever had. I suppose in spite of, not thanks to the ketamine man. Probably not my next car if Tesla doesn't do something smart about Musk.

We'll have a Dyson Sphere that's able to retrieve all of the energy of the supernova. The energy will be used in an hour to mine some crypto.