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danjermaus··on Time to start de-Appling
De-appleing, not de-applying. Applying is already a word
danjermaus··on Warren Buffett's final shareholder letter [pdf]
> In 1958, I bought my first and only home.

He does also own holiday homes and farms but for the most part he doesn't go in for the typical billionaire lifestyle. On the surface it seems less awful than Musk or Zuckerberg but to hoard that kind of wealth while people suffer is unethical. He may have pledged to give away his wealth, but now he's giving it to his children to give away. What's stopped him from giving it away for the last 30 years?

danjermaus··on Warren Buffett's final shareholder letter [pdf]
He famously drives himself to work every day in a battered old car because he doesn't see the point in spending money where he can avoid it, so I'm sure he's timed it.
danjermaus··on Norway Leads Global EV Adoption
This is not news, it's been the case for a long time
danjermaus··on Tiny electric motor can produce more than 1,000 horsepower
Very curious about this because there are electric planes in testing, so how do they do it?
danjermaus··on Tiny electric motor can produce more than 1,000 horsepower
I have a trek ebike and it's fairly light if I take the battery off. Could easily carry it up stairs. I don't think the motor is the problem
danjermaus··on Elon Musk says he needs $1T to control Tesla's robot army
I was more talking about the one where the wealthiest man alive wants to build a robot army
danjermaus··on Euro cops take down cybercrime network with 49M fake accounts
I misinterpreted the title and thought the cops used 49M fake accounts to take down the network
danjermaus··on The Coming Clash of Civilizations
Peter Thiel is absolutely a fringe crank, just a very wealthy and successful one. He wants to be a cyborg
danjermaus··on 20,858 Public Domain Audio Books
Not to be that guy but if your community gets cut off from the Internet in an economic collapse maybe audiobooks of public domain works are not super important
danjermaus··on Elon Musk says he needs $1T to control Tesla's robot army
What weird universe have we ended up in.