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Marshmallow tests are more a test of the child’s priors about adult reliability. If the child has reliable parents they tend to pass the test. The children of reliable parents do b…

Our Man in Havana is a very good book about the topic. Secrets are a dark illiquid market where there’s high demand for things that don’t exist. So naturally there’s a lot of suppl…

Might not be the same, but reading computer code and Ancient Greek or Latin are remarkably similar skills. I could be convinced that parsing a language at that resolution isn’t how…

This is Google saying “if anyone is going to monetize your site’s reputation it’s us.”

Orders should have some durability and it would probably change behaviors enough to make hft go away. If you list a buy or sell order it just has to be in force for some period of …

It is a little curious that the skin was applied with consent, but not removed with it. I was lead to believe that Harvard was where smart people were. The simple thing to do would…

This is essentially the purpose of money laundering, so a lot.

The fact that there's no formal difference between tax payments and scam payments should be tickling the part of your brain; this means something.

The Dead Internet Theory was only slightly ahead of its time. Used to be real people pretended to be girls on the internet. These days I can’t even get an honest real fake person p…

This has the same pattern as the Vivendi deal with Blizzard back in 2007. In both instances, the game end of the deal had peaked already, and there was nowhere to go but down. Noth…

It's amusing watching streaming turn into cable, but somehow worse. At least we got some public access programming out of cable. Piracy is a service problem. Valve proved digital p…

As a member of the collectible asset class, Jordans are not falling like the rest of the cohort. Most collectibles are -90% these days. Jordans selling at humble discounts isn’t a …

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Huh I wonder if I could setup a local police force to do keyword research now for cheap with a few overbroad warrants.

Destroy the cameras.

With any sufficiently large industry if that industry produces externalities powerful lobbies will emerge to make the harms as unclear and detached from the industry as possible. W…

Globalism is an economic system so fragile marginal increases in shipping costs produce existential threats. This is either an unserious article or the entire notion of global econ…

This is a significant omission from the article. The other part is how do you really measure efficacy of these systems? Unless you did some secret shopping, which in this case woul…

The first order problem with spam calls/sms is you probably opted in to something. Most spam, like it or not, you asked for, and they can almost certainly prove it. The TCPA lawsui…

One key problem is nobody, none of the suits anyway, want to believe that there are essential, hard problems that can't be outsourced, can't be commodified, can't be shortcut in an…

Good for what? Analytics are an instrument panel, it’s a set of gauges. How it looks depends on what you’re trying to accomplish and the conditions of the system.

LEOs are ideal enterprise clients. Predictable, high budgets, very easy lock in, one success will create many other opportunities. Eventually the surveillance drone will identify t…

Perhaps we should modify our schedules rather than altering the time the clock shows. The time doesn’t really change. We should abolish savings time and stick to standard time year…

Put yourself into the oncall rotation for starters. For a US exempt employee it would be fairly straightforward to push oncall expectations into a role. But in other countries with…

It’s unlikely this is as interesting as the headline suggests. Maintaining a list of professionals is challenging. There are very simple input problems with this kind of data. The …