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It was also always "not cool" to say the label actually helped you. I remember a piece on NPR that talked about this. Many bands use to love their labels privately but in the press…

Of course streaming strengthens the power law distribution of the payouts in this space. Podcast, youtube channel, music, it is all the same process and payout structure. Since the…

It reminds me of non-developers with ideas for apps/software. As if the idea of getting all our energy from the Sun is an original thought. How do we accomplish this? "I don't know…

Even worse to me is so many orchestras have to pay the bills with performances of Christmas music or orchestral versions of Motley Crue. Imagine putting in that many hours of pract…

I don't think this is rocket science. "The latest statistics show that 18.4% of women and 7.8% of men on the continent live with obesity " Couple low BMI with a much lower life exp…

I don't think this is rocket science. "The latest statistics show that 18.4% of women and 7.8% of men on the continent live with obesity "

In the abstract, centralization bad, decentralization good. There is no deeper thought going on here than the above. These are barely thought out, quasi religious beliefs as moral …

IMO after Greenspan, the Fed was basically captured by Wall Street. I just don't know how anyone at this point can not say the Fed's job is to write puts under the equity markets w…

It is hysterical Greenspan gets blamed for this when we have barely been able to keep rates off the floor the past 13 years since he left. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FEDFUN…

"Cigarette smoking: an underused tool in high-performance endurance training" is pretty classic https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3001541/

That sounds crazy to me. In the US, an ambulance with its siren and lights flashing has the right-of-way. The driver that hit the ambulance would be charged. Do they not want ambul…

We need to just all stay inside forever. Be safe my friend.

I mean you could have hired a hyperrealist oil painter to paint porn characters 30 years ago but it is so much more work and expense compared to people. I don't see how a game engi…

What makes R interesting is the amazing libraries for statistical ideas that are not completely run of the mill. You almost literally can't come up empty on CRAN.

Dalio said without reservation or probability that at the start of COVID we were in a global depression. Oops, 100% wrong but no one cares. IMO the entire narrative that Americans …

Phlogiston theory always comes to mind for me. I think we will see these fields as attempts at science while completely lacking the instruments to properly study the field so all k…

I doubt anyone is as worried about the 4th Reich as much Germans. I am pretty sure anyone expressing these worries outside of Germany is either a troll, completely ignorant or a co…

This is a mistake we make over and over and over. It practically seems like a type of cognitive bias based around technology. We use some similar technology from the past to model …

I know people at family events who will complain about Facebook spying on them and then almost immediately after the event post pictures of the family event on Facebook. It is even…

Yea because there is such correlation between being an expert in a field and being a great teacher. Come on. Most professors are not Feynman. This is exactly the problem if anythin…

You can't make an inflation argument when it comes to State school tuition cost. That is absurd. State school tuition cost have crushed the general level of inflation increases bec…

I would look at it more as what would Einstein, Bohr or Feynman be doing right now? There is a really good chance they would be lured away to Wallstreet to work at a hedge fund or …