The social science and medical replication crisis seems like it would be far more impactful than a mathematics crisis, right? Politicians, policy-makers, doctors, etc. all make decisions based on potentially flawed or outright incorrect studies in a way that I don't think is true for the equivalents in math, simply because there aren't decisions and policies up for debate related to much of them (if I am wrong about this, please correct me).
Annoyance 4 is the one that really bothers me (although to be fair, I have Beats Studio Buds that have exactly the same issue). Also, they get _really_ dirty and are very irritating to clean. Really not sure how Apple hasn't produced a good cleaning tool (or at least identified one and listed it in the store).
I had to use ID.me for something earlier this year (I forget what), and while it was not a terrible experience technically, I literally had to shave off my beard to complete it, as my drivers license photo is me with a freshly shaved face.
I discovered Codecademy in late fall 2011, while miserable in my first semester of law school. I had no idea how to code, and had only found it after stumbling on PG's essays for the first time (which led me to google "learn to program"). I dropped out of law school after a year and ended up a self-taught data scientist. Codecademy was only a part of my journey, but you kicked it off. Congrats, and thank you.
I recently read Cryptonomicon, and there's a moment in the book where a Japanese (IIRC) soldier is instantly able to tell that someone is new to the south Pacific because they're standing under a coconut tree.
Byrne Hobart noted recently that SPACs are interesting for spinouts, which matches their history as a vehicle designed to take something public that would have trouble in a traditional IPO process.
I'm find myself agreeing with this more and more. Packy McCormick's framing as "The Great Online Game" seems like the best way to approach crypto and web3, to me. Go in for enough to play, if you're interested (it's honestly pretty fun), but you better have pretty extreme conviction if you're risking anything you can't afford to lose (I don't).
This is pretty similar to my POV. The front light is huge for reading in bed (or anywhere dark, like a plane). Also, you carry essentially every book in print with you, everywhere. But the biggest reason I find myself reading on my Kindle despite preferring real books is that on a Kindle, I can start reading that new book now.
You should email him and ask him if he's considered this. Of all funders, he seems like one of the most likely to consider doing this (and given some of the people he funds, it may actually be possible to run some sort of experiment while minimizing moral hazard). I'm fairly certain he'd at least answer the question though.
While it's true he will give grants to accomplished people, he also makes far more grants to smart young people (often from non-Western, lower income nations) that are _not_ accomplished, for things like "general career development". People like Byrne Hobart and David Perell launched their writing careers via EM. And even in the list you linked to, there's a 15 year old and a high school junior.
Regarding success rate, his explicit goal is to fund extremely ambitious people and projects that would otherwise struggle or not get funding at all. This could mean funding the most speculative or risky (or highly societally beneficial but lower financial return) ideas from already accomplished people or funding talented people that would struggle to get funding otherwise (due to age, access to capital, etc). I believe (and I think TC agrees) that there are likely many people and projects whose course could be substantially altered for the better if given access to a reasonably small amount of money early enough to convince the person to work on it full time.
Yea, the first thing I learned was that nuts are an excellent snack if you stick to the serving size, but the serving size is shockingly small and easy to _blow_ past. I ended up just not buying them anymore, too easy to eat half a bag as a snack.
Minimizing added sugar/processed carbs while at home (mostly ate what I wanted when out to eat with spouse, made slightly healthier choices with friends), stopping all drinking outside of special occasions (weddings, anniversary's, birthdays), and exercising 3x/week (using Fitbod) led me to lose 25 pounds in ~8 weeks. My main cheats were dark chocolate and a weekly trip to In-N-Out.
I didn't need to lose a ton of weight but I had some elevated liver enzymes and my doctor was mildly concerned about fatty liver disease so I looked for the easiest changes for me to make. The biggest lifestyle changes were no more almond lattes (almost all non-dairy options are sweetened) and eating a ton of eggs instead of a daily breakfast sandwich.
I grew up within an easy drive of the Salton Sea and had the same reaction: it's a pretty sad and gross sea, and it's a tragedy for the people who live there, but it's not a Mad Max wasteland (seriously, Indio is a 20 minute drive away). I don't know much about Slab City though.
About a year ago, I stumbled on Substack's page that shows writers what they'd make, net of fees based on number of subscribers * price. 400 subscribers at $10/month works out to ~37,000/year. That's not a way to get rich, but it is almost exactly the US median income, and not far off the media journalist salary.[0] If you're willing to write well, reliably, the math of paid newsletters seems pretty friendly for making an ok living.
I was hoping this would be by Byrne Hobart! If you haven't checked it out, he writes daily at diff.substack.com and is up there with Ben Thompson and Matt Levine in terms of quality.
The government doesn't bankroll air travel, at least not in the same way. I believe the quoted statement is referring to propping up the prices of flights via the pre-deregulation era. The government no doubt supports airlines in plenty of other ways, but the mechanism has changed, as have the behaviors it incentivizes.
The same reason resellers exist in pretty much all industries: The buyer doesn't actually care who they purchase from. When you're a reseller, in many ways your true customer is the vendor you are reselling, who are simply purchasing the service of customer acquisition.
My reaction was basically "this is emblematic of a whole lot of the problems seemingly endemic to our current politics, but at the same time, this also accurately represents what our politics has become, and there's real value in holding up the mirror."
The only thing I use email tags/folders for is to tag recruiters. Last time I looked for a job (in September), I just ranked the companies in order of my interest, and went down the list. 80% of the recruiters were happy to hear from me (even those who I had ignored)
I disagree that this is a likely outcome. For many people, this is a worst of both worlds - still requires all the costs of living within commuting distance of your employer (particularly for SFBA and NYC) and likely shrinks the average size/perks of the office you commute to. Partial remote doesn't seem to solve any problem in a way that is any better than the status quo.