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By "cocky" you basically mean not completely paranoid? It is a strange word to use in this context.

By "cocky" you basically mean not completely paranoid?

Rational expectations? I mean I can list a 100 points to prove what a stupid article this is but I am too busy picking out parts to build this super computer for like $1200... Peop…

Ya'll can put your money in exotic parrot stores and funeral homes. I will stick with the Nasdaq 100.

It just makes me sad how the country united when 9/11 happened and this has completely shredded us. I mean I am sure these were completely unbiased studies....I would think any thi…

These were not special hotels, this was a feature like getting free breakfast today. This is how crazy the 1920s thirst for stock speculation was. Not just betting on stocks but be…

You realize in the 1920s many hotels had a bucket shop in the lobby that you could place a bet on stocks? Pretending this is something new is really laughable when things were 100X…

Absurd article. I first traded stocks during the dot com bubble. People have barely caught even the smallest amount of speculative frenzy the past 20 years since. I don't think we …

What am I signaling if I say I don't believe in Santa Claus?

Totally agree. This is just peeling the skin of an onion. Who are the people in Russia that help Snoden live his day to day life anyway? Of course you can make the argument that of…

What about if I just don't care? I totally understand if you think less of me for this perspective but at least I am honest. I legitimately do not care.

I just don't get how Youtube recommendations are so bad. So often it recommends me things I have already watched. Or the algorithm knows I like David Bowie so recommends me "Change…

We need to just start with getting rid of being ruled by ridiculously old people. Bill Pascrell almost certainly remembers where he was as a kid when he found out Hitler had been k…

Not to mention they lucked out that DuckDuckGo is called DuckDuckGo. I just can't believe such smart people could believe that is good branding. What exactly were the brand names t…

I am overweight, love candy, chocolate, ice cream, both sides of my family have a history of diabetes. How could you possibly tease out that covid triggered diabetes in me when I a…

I hope the professors and phd student all get arrested when the algorithm classifies their face.

Facebook obviously posses some interesting questions on various topics but framing the debate as Facebook collecting "monopoly rents" is ridiculous. I haven't used Facebook since 2…

I don't know how you really measure that though. I am white and I have never once had a "good" interaction with a cop. Quite the opposite. Actually, I am pretty sure there is a mas…

I don't remember where I read it or if it is even true but I just remind myself that people had to resort to eating bird shit during the black death. People had no idea what was ki…

IMO we need some kind of data driven media/data driven reporting/data driven newspaper type thing. Then we can have reporting/debate/conversation on the meaning of the data but wit…

How do you show how nice your house is that way though?

Just to piggy back off basketball and practice, this video of Steph Curry practicing shooting 3s for an hour from a few months ago just puts things in perspective for me. https://w…

To Catch A Predator guy saying almost anything for $50 sounds like the greatest service ever.

hah love the sarcasm.

I think it depends on how much you like being social too. Not interacting with people, not having a place to go, just being in the house all day is absolutely terrible for my long …