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Man, that's really sad. Goes to show you how much of life is outside of your control.

I really prefer working with functional transformations over containers (including iterators).

The recent CDC study [1] suggests that vaccine efficacy against hospitalization for people 65+ is ~80% in the US. If we have reason to believe that a third vaccine dose would incre…

Monero looks like the best crypto for crime, so probably the most valuable crypto in the long run.

As long as the real rate of return is positive and wealthy people have a higher income or save a higher percentage of their income, inequality will increase. Hence inequality almos…

T bond yields are determined by auction, so the Fed does not have full discretion over long term interest rates. That's why the 30yr yield has fluctuated between 1.6-2.5% this year…

In case anyone wants to take a look at the actual data, I unrolled the weird summary files into CSVs: https://github.com/henrydavidge/redistricting-data-2020

It is so sketchy that one of the biggest crypto exchanges and one of the biggest trading shops are run by the same people.

My mental model is that in the next decade or so mRNA treatments could be effective if a disease can be treated through the expression of a small number of proteins. These proteins…

I'm not a fan of crypto as it exists today, but setting that aside, I feel like coinbase is at an unstable equilibrium as a business. If bitcoin becomes more mainstream, the high f…

See the founder of Coinbase fail to name a single specific way that bitcoin makes anyone better off: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1073&v=Iiny6KBekSc .

This technique of using distributed storage for large joins instead of shuffling between compute nodes also helps make your job robust to spot instance kills. Until disaggregated s…

There are enough people who were PCR positive that antibody tests aren't necessary for this kind of study.

I agree with many of the observations in the deck, but how would you go about prioritizing the most impactful improvements? Is there a best in class method of quantifying how UX hu…

Often people find it easier to reason about real life situations than equivalent formal abstractions. This passage from a novel I read recently demonstrated this principle well. No…

No book has made me question the reality of my surroundings like Ubik by Philip K Dick.

The problem is that no direct to consumer fintech company has found a legal way to make money other than 1) processing transactions 2) holding savings. The examples of struggling c…

I support Quillette's fight for free speech and wholeheartedly agree that it's important that we can debate any idea put forth in "good faith" (subjective, of course, but a necessa…

This is really moving stuff. In a similar vein, I found Joan Didion's "The Year of Magical Thinking" to be a deeply personal and illuminating exploration of grief and loss.