IDK, that's complicated and it has a lot of moving parts. Starting with, you don't just have to persuade Sonia Sotomayor to retire, and Kamala Harris to agree to take the job instead of taking her ch… (View Post)

If I was Biden and I didn't think I was up to a run, but I wanted to maximize the Dems' chances, I think what I'd do would be to wait until around April/May then stand down *as president*. Whatever y… (View Post)

Yes, I think the real problem for most software is that a team following the kind of practices you need to make their work bug-free wouldn't be competitive. You have to go much slower, produce much l… (View Post)

It's not exactly that it *needs* to be Kamala Harris who would replace him but the problem is that you need a process to pick someone else that doesn't leave important parts of the party thinking the… (View Post)

Worth adding that another thing that could happen here is an *acquittal* Good Odd Lots podcast yesterday on Dark Brandon's shale oil boom: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-18/us-oil-pr… (View Post)