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From personal experience making the same comparisons during undergrad, I think it just comes down to the availability of conceptual models. If the brain does X, there's a good chan…

It's incredible just how long the Iberian fascist regimes lasted. I imagine that if you polled a set of random people from the street, and asked when they thought the last war for …

Only a bit related, but I recently learned that André Weil's sister Simone was a noted philosopher and fought in the Spanish Civil War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_Weil

All of which occurred under the management of Toshiba, no? And Westinghouse is now owned by Cameco, as a more vertically-integrated uranium & nuclear company

Depends how insolvent it is

Location: Vancouver, BC, CA Remote: Much preferred Willing to relocate: For the right opportunity Résumé/CV: https://extendedmind.notion.site/prior-work-eb010114b61c4fba... Technol…

Here's a few: * Matthew Klein & Michael Pettis - Trade Wars Are Class Wars * Bruno Latour - We Have Never Been Modern * Thomas Kuhn - The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (had n…

Afaik the bonds are issued by the PE firms executing the deal, and it's taken many months to close. The debt has sat on bank books for a significant portion of time, so the yields …

I've become more and more fond of Notion over the last few months. The composition of "blocks" is very nice, and even things like how indentation is done makes a huge difference in…

Location: Vancouver, CA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Preferably no Technologies: Typescript, Go, React, AWS/GCP CV: https://oikonomia.notion.site/cv-eb010114b61c4fba995a90635cb…

Most surprising part of this FOMC had to be when Powell said "we would like to slow demand" during the press conference, you don't usually hear the quiet part out loud like that fr…

I think the reason is that LibraryThing is significantly less UX-friendly than Goodreads. I use both; I use Goodreads to track what I consider "personal" reading, and I use Library…

This is something I've seen with copilot with market data. I was creating a unit test in a Go codebase and I had dumped the JSON that I was going to be decoding at the top of the f…

tachyons is excellent, nice to have a small library and build from there

Event page on USGS https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000fd9v...

> Once you have a developer [who does everything], development time to get a superior product will drop massively I feel like you're just going to get stressed engineers who are st…

They didn't announce it. The projected rate increase is the result of the dot plots, which is the assessment of both governors and regional members of the FOMC. It is not binding a…

I started a job recently where I'm working for a company in a time zone 3 hours ahead of me. I bought some of the Hue bulbs and replaced my alarm with a gentle synthetic sunrise. M…

> Okta will issue shares to Auth0 shareholders at share price of $276.21, close to 20% less than the current share price (at the time of writing). The screenshot immediately under …

core CPI last month was 1.4% and has consistently been under 2% for a long time

Citation?

It was my understanding that this is more of a seasonal thing than on a day to day basis. That is, during the summer, southern California uses a large amount of electricity for cli…