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This is a comment for a rather niche audience, but Barth basically had two literary stages: in his mid to late-twenties, he wrote straightforward modernist fiction (The End of the …

Honestly, yes. I had a deep skepticism of a lot of VC-backed moonshots/SPACs in 2021. However, it’s hard to deny that these moonshots were at least aimed in the right direction — w…

Why do you think ZIRP won’t come back eventually?

How would you host the Bob’s Restaurant website?

What is your definition of a human right, and why does AI access meet it?

Do you give any credence to the reports that creatine can cause hair loss? It seems like one study found a link, but nobody has tried to directly replicate it since. Anecdotally, R…

I’d be worried about using ChatGPT for this given its tendency to hallucinate. Did you have to verify each response it gave you, or were you willing to trust the output?

This is such a strange take. From a legal standpoint, why is it a qualified use of government paternalism to outlaw gambling? We should not be asking the government to set laws bas…

Where are these leaked emails?

Not just any religion, it’s a Seventh Day Adventist Hospital (an offshoot of the Mennonites, who believed the end of the world was predicted in the Bible). This has all sorts of we…

My hot take is that this story is highly overrated. It’s boring, poorly written, and lacks nuance. The reason people remember it fondly is (1) everyone loves Vonnegut because he’s …

Vine, Yik Yak, and Google+ off the top of my head went the way of MySpace.

The counter argument is that a lot of those games reward “skill”. Through study/statistics your odds improve, in the same way that equity research can lead to a good stock pick. Th…

A revolver is a line of credit that companies use for financing. You can think of it almost like a credit card for a company — they make some general purpose agreement with a bank …

Completely agree. I think the prevalence of sequels in Hollywood underscores the point; successful content begets popular content at a higher rate than a complete unknown.

Spielman was my favorite CS professor as an undergrad! Glad to see his work getting some recognition. Funny anecdote — Spielman was awful at spelling. Every time he went to the boa…

Haven’t read Hoffman’s work, so I could be misinterpreting, but if you enjoy thinking about the self as ontological grounding I would recommend reading Kant. He pioneered a lot of …