kevinmchugh

It's an anonymous source. Someone who knows something and isn't supposed to say it, so figure someone at the FBI or Cellebrite most likely. Anonymous sourcing is a fraught practice, but often a necessary one if a journalist doesn't want to be restricted by what an organization will officially allow. You have to evaluate the publication, the journalist, and whatever details are available to decide if you want to trust them.

The better publications will have policies on when anonymous sources can be used and may have those policies or an explainer of same available to readers. Eg here's Wapo's write-up on it: https://www.washingtonpost.com/policies-and-standards/#sourc...

They've paused offering it while they can't fulfill it?

Wow, I never knew that could happen! Are there other examples or a name for this phenomenon?

A bit before Bitcoin was NESARA: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NESARA

I learned of NESARA through Will Sommer's TRUST THE PLAN, which is about qanon. The MOASS, NESARA, and qanon conspiracy theories all share some interesting characteristics, like there's something necessary for a conspiracy theory to start resembling the distributed cataclysm-utopia cults we're discussing

Sure, but depending on another single point of failure - as opposed to linking to a url you actually own - is what distresses me

I see people using "linktree" to crosslink all their different social media accounts together and it really bums me out in a way I can't describe.

> if it's an actual, viable business

Maybe one in ten vc backed startups will find a viable business model eventually.

If you don't take vc money maybe it's easier to find a smaller viable business, but then it's harder to pay yourself.

Or have a giant scale, show people loading all this stuff into one side of the scale, and then placing the iPad on the other side, and the iPad side sinks. There's a million ways to do this idea

Health insurers, who buy quite a lot of diabetes treatment, would much rather buy a cure. And they really don't want to pay for untreated diabetes. I've heard from an insurance CEO who wishes their plan could pay the electric bill for diabetes patients to ensure they don't lose power and refrigeration, which would make their insulin get too warm

An occasional pop, sugar or no, isn't going to cause diabetes.

They did not. The one you linked is from March 2008.

https://www.theonion.com/black-man-given-nations-worst-job-1...

The point/counterpoint that I have thought about at least once a month for at least fifteen years: https://www.theonion.com/this-war-will-destabilize-the-entir...

This seems like an uncharitable reading. I don't think there was a comparison made.

Any justice system with a very high conviction rate is either unjust or extremely selective. The American federal government is also extremely selective in prosecution, and for the same reason. Losing makes the prosecutor look bad.

You can also buy an outdoor wok burner, but home cooks are generally not getting much wok hei.

Wok hei isn't a home cook technique

Sorry, you didn't say this: were they advertising openings the whole time you were there, but not interviewing?

It seems like the ruse would depend on there being interviews for the role, but interviews are so expensive and disruptive that I don't see someone scheduling them if they're not going to hire

I've been in a lot of from arguments but never had one where I was later proven right by the federal government. That's quite the feather in your cap.

The one change that has happened is that animal fighting and baiting has become unpopular and unacceptable over the course of the last ~200 or so years. It's not 0 but there's much less dogfighting, cockfighting, bear-baiting etc

The stoppages in American football also mean bigger players with worse stamina are viable, since they get a break after even short plays.

I think people have different thresholds to watching violence, and there's a spectrum from cartoon violence to street fights to war footage. My mom doesn't like to see punching, even in cartoon form. I enjoy everything as long as it's consensual, fair, and well compensated (so not street fights).

The most common preference is somewhere between a Captain America movie and a John Wick movie, I think.

Folks who can't stand to see real violence wish it just didn't happen, the way I wish street fights didn't happen. But you're not gonna get anywhere offering what an MMA fan understand as an inferior product. And the MMA fans know there's karate and wrestling and BJJ to watch, they just aren't as interested in it.

I don't try to rationalize it much. I know most people, especially in the circles I'm in, can't stand to look at it. I don't mind that.

The idea that society has moved past the need for violent spectacle or something just doesn't work for me, because I enjoy the sport. And plenty of other people do, too

Fighters for the most part are going to do what will make them the most money. If the fans are there for knockouts, they're gonna go for knockouts. If BJJ tournaments offered the same money making opportunities that MMA does, a bunch of fighters would very happily switch

Ronda Rousey won eight fights in a row with the same technique. In five of those, it took less than a minute.

Imagine a soccer player saying she was going to take the ball from midfield, go straight down the middle, and then drill it into the top left corner of the goal, and it working eight times in a row.

Then she won four more fights, all very quickly and with more diverse skill set. It was shocking.

Headgear is used in some combat sports, including Olympic boxing. It makes the head a bigger target, which means the head gets hit more. Those strikes may be less severe, since they're cushioned. But taking more hits is bad.

There certainly are sports that ban head strikes. Certain forms of karate, for instance. Fight fans _like_ seeing heads get punched, and they like seeing knock outs. There's not currently a very big market that wants to see fighting without head strikes.

Bigger gloves are useful for defense. You can catch a lot with big gloves that you can't with little ones.

What's gonna matter most is how the athletes train, how hard they get hit in sparring. A very long professional career might be 30-50 fights, but that's thousands of hours of training. If you're spending much of that sparring hard, even if you don't get many concussions, the cte is going to build up

This makes sense as an answer but seems like an incredible indictment of venture capitalism, right? If they can't bring about a better, safer, healthier, science fiction future because it's less profitable than crypto, who can? If that essay had been a mea culpa, I'd like it a lot more

Nobody's claiming that he was a programmer. From what I've read, though, he had a very keen sense of design and product. Here's an anecdote: https://www.folklore.org/Calculator_Construction_Set.html

I think "ideas guy" doesn't capture this. He had big ideas but also was super particular about details.

(Which doesn't justify being a prick, to be certain)

About four years ago Andreesen published this: https://a16z.com/its-time-to-build/

They were and remain big crypto investors and it's pretty weird that the essay doesn't acknowledge how much talent and money crypto sucked up. He asks where the supersonic aircraft are and - ignoring that they have awful externalities - there is actually a supersonic jet startup. A16Z hasn't invested in Boom, though, near as I can tell.

A16Z is a leading venture fund - if anyone's gonna build the future, they could use A16Z's money. So why is so much of what Andreesen wants from the future not what they've invested in?

The extremely dangerous zipline never killed anyone because armchair critics correctly pointed out the danger!

This story only exists because the guy can constantly post for all to see everything that he's done or is trying to deal with and all his grand plans

The individual with the bad window placements was actually a Something Awful user (not a redditor) and he was actually well advised not to do what he was doing. Folks who'd like to know more can search for "Groverhaus" or the more evocative "load-bearing drywall".