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> The Guardian-Harris survey also found that 49% of respondents think the S&P 500 index is down for the year. In reality, stocks have been ripping: The S&P 500 is up 13% this year …

1. Flood the higher ed market with low-quality federally-guaranteed loans. 2. Witness the explosion of enrollment in low-quality colleges and universities. 3. Notice the spillover …

Nuclear weapons are all about posturing. Both sides know the consequences of detonation and do everything in their power to avoid it. Thus posturing.

> Microservices are the Wrong Answer The author never states the question. This makes it impossible to evaluate the answer, which presumably is stated in the title. The article wou…

Oddly enough, I predict the final destination for this train will be for moving images to fade into the background. Everything will have a dazzling sameness to it. It's not unlike …

A few points of note: 1. This doctor is widely-described as a pathologist. So it seems unlikely he would have developed any cancer treatments as a lead investigator. 2. It's much m…

Breast augmentation could be one case.

Google is an advertising company. Relying on them to do anything other than service that business seems risky at best given the abundant history of rug-pulling. Even then, at this …

The article hints at, but doesn't really nail the strong associations between music and our past that develop as we age. The older we get, the more listening to old music takes on …

Any insights into what makes this culturally acceptable?

Context: Bitcoin miners have just adopted a 50% pay cut for themselves. This pay cut was baked into Bitcoin protocol at the launch of the network (mostly, see "BIP 42" [1]). The OP…

For those complaining about the presentation, Safari's "Show Reader View" works well. Also supported on Firefox. On Chrome, it's complicated.

The irony is that when you know the result is on Reddit, it's far better to use the Reddit search bar. It's not even close. More than that, I've found myself just going to Reddit s…

So it served its purpose by trapping the OpenAI spider? If so, why post that message? As a flex?

I'm more interested in what that content farm is for. It looks pointless, but I suspect there's a bizarre economic incentive. There are affiliate links, but how much could that pos…

Every explanation of double entry accounting seems to do the same thing. If I'm trying to understand the double part of double-entry bookkeeping, what exactly does the "double" ref…

> It was not taken by surprise. But in spite of that, it was still unable to respond. This is even a major point of discussion in the book. The incumbents always see it coming a mi…

I was looking for something about how the company actually made money, but only found this: > It’s a dramatic exodus that comes less than 18 months after Stability’s 2022 fundraise…

This kind of gross imbalance is self-correcting. Those who have been through a few of these cycles know the warning signs. Those who don't get an expensive lesson at the school of …

The title doesn't match the article: > Last month, Deputy Attorney General John Fowler argued in state court that mere possession of a basic cellphone indicates criminal intent to …

> Facebook supremo Mark Zuckerberg is redirecting Meta-wide efforts to build artificial general intelligence and wants to secure a whopping 350,000 or more Nvidia H100 GPUs by the …