Sar Haribhakti
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The antitrust populists are not serious thinkers and people should stop pretending like they are.
In which @ATabarrok utterly destroys the Zephyr Teachout op-ed on grocery prices: marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…
1/ Can AI file your taxes? Not yet. We tested the latest frontier models and the results were full of catastrophic errors. Letting AI do your taxes would mean IRS rejections, audits, and penalties:
AI Mode already has over 100 million MAUs and is not yet fully rolled out. I have been been using it and quite like it! Found it interesting that Google rolled it out in India before rest of the world and called it out in that stat
Late night tv shows with 100 million annual budget and still losing millions while there are podcasts today with 10x reach and 1/10th costs
Really excellent Peter Fenton on @jaltma pod: youtube.com/watch?v=vRiblw…
"Sometimes, our inventions turn out to be our best science experiments. One of my favorite pieces of tech history is that the men who built the first steam engines didn’t actually understand how their machines worked. If the steam engine was the little machine that accidentally…
Today's newsletter: WHY DO GLP-1 DRUGS SEEM TO BE GOOD AT EVERYTHING? Studies show GLP-1s for may also: - curb alcohol, cocaine, and tobacco use among addicts - prevent strokes, heart attacks, chronic kidney disease, sleep apnea, and Parkinson's disease - reduce the risk of…
"Singapore is the world’s most expensive place to buy a car...Policymakers in the land-scarce city aim to curb congestion and encourage the use of public transport through a quota system where people bid for the right to own and use a vehicle for 10 years. The price for such a…
🇺🇸 Today is a day we have been working towards for six months. We are announcing America’s AI action plan putting us on the road to continued AI dominance. The three core themes: - Accelerate AI innovation - Build American AI infrastructure - Lead in international AI…
We are so back Struggling coffee sales and bitcoin treasuries are perfect synergies
Apple is launching a bundled insurance plan for 20 bucks a month covering 3 devices for drops, spills, and theft
I can’t believe Robinhood named its credit card app credit card. Everyone else names it after their brand and here’s Robinhood just owning the categorical name
The unhinged are now coming for Costco with predictably stupid, incoherent logic
Would Americans be better off without Costco? Zephyr Teachout says yes. I say no. marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…
"....the op-ed veers from claiming large retailers charge prices that are unfairly low to blaming them for charging prices that are too high. I’m surprised she didn’t go for the trifecta and accuse them of colluding to charge the same price." 🤣
Would Americans be better off without Costco? Zephyr Teachout says yes. I say no. marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…
Low cost goods getting more expensive and high cost goods becoming less expensive Something for everyone's ideological bias
Predictably fascinating and wide ranging conversation between @benedictevans and @balajis pca.st/episode/da997f…
.@ashleevance with Priscilla Chan on investing billions in pushing the scientific frontier and curing diseases: youtube.com/watch?v=F1-MFb…
The economic value of the H-1B program could be increased by 88% without changing the number of visas if we stopped giving them away at random.
"A private company built a 235-mile high-speed train from Orlando to Miami in 11 years for about $6 billion. Yet it has taken California more than a decade merely to bulldoze permitting barriers and clear lawsuits." "If Democrats in Sacramento won’t pay for their vanity…
Employees when the founding team leaves the startup for big tech:
