Real estate has the potential to be cheap in 20 years as the baby boomers die leaving smaller generations to buy their larger number of homes.

Any kind of asset can be a good investment. If you have a place to store it, classic cars only go up in price and some of them are under 10K. Bonus: you get to drive them. I know someone whose 401k is mostly collectable guns (rare, 100+ years old guns). You just need to choose something with lasting value. Don't repeat the Beanie Baby crash.

Most companies realize that the time to replace employees with AI is not here, and despite the hype, it isn't soon. What they're doing is putting a freeze on hiring and hoping the right thing to do becomes evident. In the mean time, attrition is reducing headcount to prepare for some level of layoffs.

They hear something, and turn in the direction of the noise to see what it was, in this case to their left.

As someone who walks the trails a lot, having someone say "on your left" every two minutes is annoying. Just don't hit me and let me enjoy the trail in silence. The people who are walking need to treat it like the sidewalk that it is and not suddenly jump out where people are biking and running. With half of the people wearing earbuds, they can't hear you anyway.

Timing the market usually fails. Dollar cost averaging can give you a small advantage.

Assuming that AI follows a similar path as the .com boom... A lot of companies will go under leaving a few companies who will benefit greatly. It's not that AI is going away. We're just pruning the dead wood.

Japan has a large percentage of the oldest people in the world. The country has been digging into this to understand what is special about Japan. The biggest reason people in Japan live so long is because their children lie about them still being alive.

No one has ever asked me for ID to vote. We just say our name and someone crossed our name off of the list in the big book of registered voters (it went electronic this year). There is nothing stopping someone from giving the name of any registered voter in our district and voting. Our judge of elections has had people come in and it turned out that their name had already been crossed off. They call the county who issues them a special ballot and they get to vote.

If you're storing appointments on your electronic calendar like Google's, they know too. Calendars are a wealth of private information: when is your home empty, what kind of vacations do you take, what conditions are you being treated for, etc.

I have a similar one. It's super power is that the handle is a bit thicker. It's amazing how much extra torque that is able to deliver. I've broken cheaper bits and extensions with it.

If you have a place to park it that will earn more or lose less, definitely. Putting into cash will lose at least 3% per year.

In the long run that makes sense. In the short term, they're linked. SpaceX doesn't have contracts to fill every launch, so they fill in the extra space with Starlilnk launches. Starlink doesn't exist without SpaceX.

In the middle of summer, we use 7kwh/day.

This feels similar to the shift from writing everything from scratch to the use of massive libraries and frameworks. We were shifting from a paradigm with a single developer likely knew every line of code to three years ago when developers wrote the glue that holds frameworks together, but relied on the framework devs to support and test a large amount of the code base.

The difference here is that the devs are still responsible for AI's code instead of the support of another company. What we're going to see are more tools to certify the safety of AI developed software. Not only will software be tested against requirements, but also a stringent default set of tests to certify it against security risks.

The next 3 years are going to be a paradigm shift in software development. Things will be a bit messy in the interim. On the other side will be a new type of developer working with very different tools.