Stories by silexia
I grew up poor, started a business, and slowly built up wealth. This is the basic logic of America: you get rich by making things people want. If you solve problems for others or make things cheaper, you create riches. It is a simple, honest machine that works for anyone. The only way to break it is...
When you let the market rip, you are tapping into the most powerful distributed computing system in the universe: the collective desires and needs of billions of people. No central planner, no matter how many degrees they have or how many supercomputers they run, can ever hope to outsmart the swarm ...
Why do people have to go through an entire architectural drawing and engineering process for every single building we create? Maybe we would require a soils test to make sure the ground has the same bearing capacity. If a building plan is approved by government officials, that plan should be availab...
We all have watched so many TV shows and movies, and read so many books, that we look at real life like it is a storybook. The main character always wins in the end.<p>These stories are fun, but wildly misleading. We have basically brainwashed ourselves through our entertainment into thinking life i...
I have noticed that I very rarely see Fox News on HN. I commonly see sites with similar middle brow journalism quality from the left on here, especially The Guardian and NY Times (which used to be high brow but has fallen way off).<p>HN used to be mostly libertarian entrepreneurs, but the far left h...
My name is Joel Gross and I am a Washington state resident who founded a tech company in 2009 that now has over 250 full-time employees.<p>Improvements in artificial intelligence have reached the takeoff point and are increasing exponentially. AI has already exceeded human intelligence by most measu...
I am a business owner so I have a number of ways to expense things and reduce my taxes already. I am looking for methods I have not heard of to reduce my taxes further. Some ideas I have heard of:<p>-Keep your salary low if you own the business. Bezos paid himself $80k a year.
-Expense personal stuf...
A serious problem with public schools, and to a lesser extent private schools, is that they are built around the lowest common denominator. The whole goal is to get kids who can just barely pass over a minimum bar to graduate. There are no tiers above that. There is no differentiation for those who ...
Humanity's Last Exam is a new measure of Artificial Intelligence that has been developed since various AIs have blown away all previous measures. The idea is to take cutting edge problems from many areas of study with definite answers to measure AI progress. In the last year, AI has gone from a...
Real estate agent friend said 7 high income people have listed their homes due to new income tax here, thoughts?<p>I was told today by a real estate agent buddy in Gig Harbor that he has seven new clients who have listed their homes due to the new WA income tax.<p>Howard Schultz is also moving his f...