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They could not have bought better advertising

Might as well get while the getting is good and Anthropic is subsidizing the cost of compute

We had this (thankfully an optional addition to physical keys) at one of my previous buildings. The failure rate was maybe 2% but still way too high to trust for regular use. The l…

Airbnb vs. hotels is like Mom and Pop restaurants vs. fast food to me. You might have a better experience at the former, but you know exactly what you're going to get at the latter…

Note that the Forbes list doesn't necessarily reflect how people are getting rich at the moment, but how people in the more recent past have gotten rich. The catalyzing events that…

RobinHood has served the purpose of getting the other "real" brokerages to eliminate fees on trades. Now that they're not the only discount show in town, and given their track reco…

Uh... Mississippi has the highest adult obesity rate in the country at 40.8 percent and Colorado has the lowest at 23.8 percent. Seems like this must be different (or old) data by …

I think it was Dan Carlin who suggested it might be a good idea to (every decade or so) conduct a live nuclear test above ground and publicize it widely. Not to make sure the bomb …

Ok this is bad but maybe shitty customer service and slow processes are the price of a functioning financial system. Say what you will about the dated technology and opaque process…

If divination by bird augury is so wise, why don't we still use that to plan agricultural layouts? /s But that sort of underscores the main argument against this stuff. Is it possi…

"[Women] make up 13.8% of mining and logging jobs, up from 12.6% a year earlier..." That seems like a huge recomposition in a single year. What caused this?

It's not really about the leverage on its own. As Levine points out in his take on it [1], it's about finding ways to "hack the system". And, in no small part, entertain the merry …

My phone crapped out during my first day at Oktoberferst in Germany. I figured it was the perfect excuse to "live in the real world" for the experience. I certainly did live in the…

Once I overheard a guy ranting about how iPods were bad because if you carried your music with you everywhere, you could feel whatever you wanted at any time, which was unnatural a…

The company didn't sell a product that people wanted and its investors lost money; sometimes that's how things are supposed to work.

From Matt Levine of Bloomberg: Here is a New York Times story about the “McKinsey Investment Office, or MIO Partners,” the in-house hedge fund of consulting firm McKinsey & Co., wh…

1. $3B in "incentives" sounds like a lot, but would this have been a good investment? i.e. would the city and State have gotten a reasonable return in the long run? 2. New York alr…

It's hinted at in the article, but it's worth noting that Mandarin Chinese numbers are much simpler than their counterparts in most other languages. 1-10 are all monosyllabic and t…

The chart showing USG spending / GDP excludes transfer payments, which strikes me as misleading. Transfer payments have ballooned in the time period shown and are still transfers o…

Not sure why you got downvoted, this is correct. If you, for example, overhear an executive on the street discussing how his company is going to bomb their earnings report, you wou…