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It seems noteworthy that they had also invested in: https://a16z.com/announcement/investing-in-axie-infinity/

Yeah I can’t decide whether the new song is ai slop or a banger

Have fun staying (in) prison?

One of the Feynman lectures in physics is about Yang, Lee, and Wu's discovery. I thought it was a great listen:

https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/flptapes.html

#52 Symmetry in physical laws

Does that 16K/Year adjust for inflation?

One thing I only recently learned was that Stagecoaches also relied on subbing out teams of horses at stations.

I love how Wikipedia lists the budget of the film as one million pounds.

I’ve heard the 500 euro note referred to as “the Bin Laden”

I’ve heard “fur baby” which is similar

You also get a discount if you’re wearing Red Sox gear!

I think the idea is that anyone who’s seen his stupid interviews is a “tainted” juror, so if he’s tainted most potential jurors, it becomes more difficult to try him. Not sure how true this actually is

Very affordable at a price of 16 milliNEOMs!

If I’m understanding correctly, that makes the effective marginal tax rate between 100k and 125k higher than after 125k? Feels kind of crazy

Shannon was actually involved in the first wearable computer, so maybe he wouldn’t have found it so far-fetched!

https://www.engadget.com/2013-09-18-edward-thorp-father-of-w...

Not an expert but this provably doesn’t add security.

In your example, if sha1(foo)==sha1(bar), then foo, bar have a collision regardless of what you do afterwards.

Maybe there’s some fancier layering scheme that adds security?

Henry Ford paid his workers more to reduce turnover, not so they could afford his cars.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/03/04/the-stor...

According to this guy’s (possible wrong) view of market elasticity.

More food stamps-> each person work more hours to survive-> more labor supply-> lower wages.

(EDIT) Which would make him not like food stamps.

There are other effects of food stamps, but in this guys view, that’s the dominant term. Maybe he’d like it for his own employees, but certainly not for the market as a whole. I guess it’s the opposite of “restaurants have to pay people more to compete with coronabucks” narrative that started a year or two back.

This seems to be the same concept as “the market for lemons”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons

Parents of low-cost students can send their kids to the “high information market” (the schools that can reject high-cost students). Parents of high-cost students have to send their kids to the “low-information market” (the public school that can’t reject high-cost students). Any school that can reject high-cost students can make themselves more attractive to low-cost students, which then feeds on itself, as the “low-information” school ends up with more and more high-cost students.

In this case, both schools have the same information, it’s just that one school isn’t allowed to act on it.

How does this even work? Police officer walks to within 7 feet of you: you’re not allowed to film. They tell you to stop filming and then suddenly you’re allowed to because they’re interacting with you?

Your mental math is correct.

If each temperature was sampled identically and independently, each place’s “time since hottest” should be flatly distributed between now and however long the recording goes back to.

A bit of a counterpoint that got traction a few years ago on this site:

https://www.thecut.com/2018/11/im-broke-and-friendless-and-i...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18562082

The person optimized for "interestingness" and feels they have very little to show for it. I'd bet that was also the case for quite a few "interesting" people in the first half of the 20th century.

Maybe I'd have a richer life if I'd spent 2 years as an animal tamer or whatever, but society isn't set up to reward that. Was it ever?

I’m moderately disappointed that CNBC didn’t take advantage of such an obvious pun

I bet this dude talks a lot about alpha wolves too

I think the point was that it is true specifically when it comes to housing (also income and wealth for that matter)

Without "F" in the acronym, maybe Microsoft can be added to the list!

I would suspect the volume is simply too large.

The “haircut” where you pour a mixer into your mouth, someone pours liquor into your mouth, and then you swallow in a way such that the liquor doesn’t touch your mouth or throat is the closest thing to an “alcohol pill” I can think of. Come to think of it, shots plus chasers are somewhat “pill like” too

Somewhat related, this town and its police/racial issues was featured on:

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/179/cicero

I peripherally know the author and that was my guess too

To be fair, pyramids are pretty tacky. Imagine how much more hate Bezos would get for spending half a billion on a tomb!

Spacex rideshare for those who are curious

https://www.spacex.com/rideshare/