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This tool helps you avoid going over your weekly and session Claude subscription limits with a monitor right in the MacOS menubar. It's like a battery indicator but for your Claude…

This is a fair point, but as of their most recent financials merchandise (excluding merchandise sold inside the parks) only made up $5bn of the $28bn in the "Parks, Experiences and…

It's interesting that Disney today almost the entire profits of the company come from the parks division (which also includes cruises, resorts and "experiences"). The media divisio…

> All of which still fails to add up to anything actually working and useful, 15 years in. The first packet switched network came online in 1969. Fifteen years by 1984 almost all t…

I guess what exactly do you define as scamming? In terms of outright fraud, I agree there's a lot. It shouldn't be super surprising that scammers tend to prefer decentralized permi…

I think it's easy to be cynical. But one major reason I'm a believer in decentralized consensus is because I think it can make the silo'd financial systems of the world as seamless…

Generally I would expect a higher degree of security from an agency with a $2bn budget whose primary purpose is the integrity of communications about financial markets than an aver…

Bitcoin futures are correlated but nowhere near a 1:1 proxy for spot markets. Crypto markets are known for very steep "contango" in the curve, and it's not unusual for the price of…

The price of BTC initially jumped 3% on the hacked tweet. That's $25bn+ of market cap. The irony is the SEC itself is probably now responsible for the largest crypto pump and dump …

Michael Cera should play all the roles in the movie, like Eddie Murphy in the Nutty Professor.

The large majority of Americans live within 50 miles of where they grew up. And this number has been steadily ticking up. Geographic mobility is the lowest it’s ever been in the po…

> When I purchase a baseball card, I do not have the expectation that there is any additional value attached to the baseball card beyond what the collector's market will pay. What …

Good thing housing prices have at least come down with these high interest rates!

There's literally nothing in existing law that identifies tangibility as a specific criteria for what constitutes a security and what constitutes a commodity. In fact both the CFTC…

Any speculative profit you hope to make on buying a limited edition Rolex is entirely reliant on the business of Rolex continuing to market the brand of Rolex. But if you don't hav…

Should be noted this decision came from an Obama appointee judge in a fairly liberal district (SDNY). The Second Circuit is half Federalist Society judges, and six out of the nine …

The holder of a stock certificate has a formal legal contractual relationship with the corporation that issued the stock. The holder of a token does not have a contractual relation…

It only leads to housing prices rising (in the long-term), if NIMBY politics makes building new housing essentially illegal. There are plenty of examples of "boom towns" throughout…

Just because China does something to their citizens (denies them access to foreign tech products that they'd otherwise enjoy), doesn't mean its rational for the US to do the same s…

GPT is a very impressive technical achievement. But that technical achievement is more in the field of compression rather than intelligence.

I'd also add that the almost all standardized tests are designed for introductory material across millions of people. That kind of information is likely to be highly represented in…

The Sapir-Wharf hypothesis (that human thought reduces to languages) has been consistently refuted again and again. Language is very clearly just a facade over thought, and not tho…

The problem is that First Republic has $24 billion of off-balance sheet fair value losses, but only $4 billion of that is in securities eligible for the BTFP. $20 billion of losses…

But this isn't just a case of politicians arbitrarily shackling teachers. Research has shown time and time again that standardizing curriculum results in better educational outcome…