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Did anyone else read that as revered _dictator_? Current political climate is clearly having an effect.

I can think of many cases where I prefer a text-based interface to a phone call. I can't think of any case where I specifically prefer a bot-driven text-based interface to a human-driven text-based interface, though. If chatbots let companies build more and more effective text-based interfaces to replace call centers, then I'm at least a little excited, but it's the result and not the process that has my interest.

Sometimes you eat the jellyfish. Sometimes the jellyfish eat you. I guess.

"Nighttime will be a different story. The brightness of Betelgeuse’s supernova is about the same as the quarter moon."

This will last maybe a couple of weeks, but we don't expect it for 100K years.

You reckon you could have guessed the input to this word cloud without being told what it was?

I applaud brave move to base this on (the slightly terrifying) Wordpress because you seem to have made an "eyes-open" trade off between best and fastest implementation.

John Calhoun would have wanted it this way.

"If we are right and it takes 5-6 years for search to mature globally (instead of 2 or 3 years)"

Hard for me to believe that search will 'mature' in even 6 years. Seems to me like there are at least 10 years of work and market expansion to do to address interaction (e.g. voices, gestures), personalization, socialization, and access points (e.g. cars).

Is there an avenue for a Joe Schmo investor like me to get some exposure to the marijuana market? I'd definitely put some dollars behind the future of that commodity.