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I have researched this in the past and I couldn’t find any good studies on therapeutic and recreational doses in relation to KBS. Everything I’ve read is similar to that study. 25m…

I work as a film prop master so this is fun to read and imagine my work being celebrated 30 years down the line. The art department will often lean heavily on me for tech-related s…

As my grandfather would say “being self employed is great - you get to work whichever 80 hours a week you want.”

That calls to mind this NYT article about the small time grifts that Eric Adams and associates were up to, including a small acting role in Godfather of Harlem in exchange for canc…

There is a common phenomenon where people claim proverbial quotes were originally longer. One I often hear is “Jack of all trades master of none” originally including the follow up…

Which use cases are TPUs superior for?

Moving read, what it does not touch on is having a moment of hype young and never reaching that level of success again. Plenty of people have one visible successful moment young in…

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I once hit one star by accident so I called back and navigated multiple transfers back to the same call center's manager to let them know it was intended to be five stars. Everyone…

I know you are asking genuinely but to a New Yorker it sounds like you’re making a joke. A few from facts from Wikipedia [1]. “It has long been the most affluent neighborhood in Ne…

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I hacked a running magazine’s online poll for “best high school runner of all time in $homeState” to have my friend (who was extremely talented and went on to run at Stanford) as #…

Sad to hear. I did CS at UNC and will always cherish those late nights coding in the Brooks building. I have my dad’s first edition of MMM as well. RIP.

Yes mayonnaise commercial is the go-to industry wide cheeky answer going back decades

They often use code names on those parking permit signs

You are right I checked my sources and I was quite mistaken. $100 million budget is it what it landed at.

The Severance budget was over $300 million and that shot in NYC so $350 in NZ after rebate makes sense. I had heard they were spending $1 billion on the new LOTR, maybe that’s incl…

>Dating apps tend to have two attachment styles - anxious attached, avoidant (majority for the men on these apps). Can you expand on and provide a source for this?

I know a few professional musicians who have them and you can look up a host of famous musicians who are known to use them: Diplo, Bon Iver, Deadmau5, Yasutaka Nakata, even Ariana …

Like a lot of these shows this scooped up a large crop of the New York film production workers for many months. I know a bunch of people that worked on it, including my roommate. F…

The stores don't like it. I know art directors who are banned from Ikea and Home Depot for returning ~$10,000 in a single month. At higher levels it's mostly Amazon returns. Mind y…

This is basically how all films are made now, even at the highest levels. I have worked on $100 million+ budget projects with Netflix and Apple. The amount of buying items to retur…

IRS agent Gary Alford found him first and was ignored. It’s detailed in American Kingpin and the following https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/27/business/dealbook/the-uns...