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Can you make a pitch to a Python/R user to give this a try? What you’ve built looks very nice and heard nothing but good things about elixir elsewhere, but would take a lot to leav…

That's half the story. The other half is that it's under the influence under an antagonistic authoritarian government. If tiktok were a japanese app, this would play out very diffe…

If you take the thread's stated pros (low barrier to entry, experimental scripting workflow) and cons ([not] fast, compilable, no GIL) at face value, it's interesting evidence for …

This post mirrors why mad men isn’t nearly on the same level as the sopranos/breaking bad/the wire. For all the visual richness and unique period dynamics, the story wasn’t particu…

The nice thing about bogleheads is it starts pretty simple but scales into the minutia of various tax efficiency techniques, fund selection, real estate, and so on when you need it…

Tangential to the discussion in the thread, this is a nice reminder of some of the nice things from the blog era: - medium form essay that's not SEO optimized - simple, fast loadin…

Most of the answers here are pointing to things like inefficiencies, short-sightedness, and over engineering, but I'm not seeing the positive side. The web is an incredible distrib…

While I don't think centralization of media is a good thing, the anti-competitive argument doesn't make sense given the amount of viable competition. Microsoft is probably in 3rd p…

One of the things that always sort of annoys me about complaints that "management doesn't listen to data (science)" is the lack of awareness they consist of. It turns out that data…

Many thought it was not only possible but inevitable: The Schlieffen plan, French revanchism, general military buildup across Europe, and of course Biskmark's 1888 comment: "One da…

I started out thinking RDR2 was immersive, but the theme park ride on rails main plot missions absolutely killed it, and diminished all the cool world stuff they did.

This was a good survey. The nature of historical books (and especially grand macro books such as these) tends to lead to an acceptance/rejection debate on a particular perspective,…

The stock market does two things crypto doesn't: - generates consistent cash flows - produces real economic value

Another eclectic fractal not listed here is the novel Infinite Jest. David Foster Wallace specifically noted the plot structure as a Sierpinski Gasket. You could think of the tenni…

Hire a lawyer.

GE Honeywell was a huge one. https://www.rferl.org/a/1096891.html

The article says the old way was the cbs way (blue colors, stay out of the way)

Anything that moves away from the CBSness is a good thing. Their broadcasts have been second rate mediocrities since they’ve had the rights: - Completely bland theme music. - Half-…

I think the key to Kenji's success was bring Cook's Illustrated's scientific approach to a younger generation.

They really hit a sweet spot of ease/accessibility, flexibility, and efficiency (Jupyter lab for me specifically)

>for many of us, money is only experienced through our phones, as a number on a screen. You pay your rent with one app, you buy put options with another. The number goes up, it goe…

I agree with your point that companies should provide more room for individualism, but there have to be some kind of boundaries and recognition that you are part of a team. It seem…

I'm sure someone has done this before but Hemingway app ironically has a lot of feedback for this random passage I pulled from the Old Man and the Sea. https://imgur.com/a/5vheg0w

The overall point Taleb makes is a good one, but he out kicks his coverage here: > The (Protestant) Puritans who inhabited New England and the Salafis of Saudi Arabia and the Persi…

For paid options, the best is the ATK/CI site. The reason they're head and shoulders above anything else is quality control. You don't have to worry about a recipe being good or no…