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Yeah I can’t decide whether the new song is ai slop or a banger

Have fun staying (in) prison?

One of the Feynman lectures in physics is about Yang, Lee, and Wu's discovery. I thought it was a great listen: https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/flptapes.html #52 Symmetry i…

Does that 16K/Year adjust for inflation?

One thing I only recently learned was that Stagecoaches also relied on subbing out teams of horses at stations.

I love how Wikipedia lists the budget of the film as one million pounds.

I’ve heard the 500 euro note referred to as “the Bin Laden”

I’ve heard “fur baby” which is similar

You also get a discount if you’re wearing Red Sox gear!

I think the idea is that anyone who’s seen his stupid interviews is a “tainted” juror, so if he’s tainted most potential jurors, it becomes more difficult to try him. Not sure how …

Very affordable at a price of 16 milliNEOMs!

If I’m understanding correctly, that makes the effective marginal tax rate between 100k and 125k higher than after 125k? Feels kind of crazy

Shannon was actually involved in the first wearable computer, so maybe he wouldn’t have found it so far-fetched! https://www.engadget.com/2013-09-18-edward-thorp-father-of-w...

Not an expert but this provably doesn’t add security. In your example, if sha1(foo)==sha1(bar), then foo, bar have a collision regardless of what you do afterwards. Maybe there’s s…

Henry Ford paid his workers more to reduce turnover, not so they could afford his cars. https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/03/04/the-stor...

According to this guy’s (possible wrong) view of market elasticity. More food stamps-> each person work more hours to survive-> more labor supply-> lower wages. (EDIT) Which would …

This seems to be the same concept as “the market for lemons” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons Parents of low-cost students can send their kids to the “high infor…

How does this even work? Police officer walks to within 7 feet of you: you’re not allowed to film. They tell you to stop filming and then suddenly you’re allowed to because they’re…

Your mental math is correct. If each temperature was sampled identically and independently, each place’s “time since hottest” should be flatly distributed between now and however l…

A bit of a counterpoint that got traction a few years ago on this site: https://www.thecut.com/2018/11/im-broke-and-friendless-and-i... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1856208…

I’m moderately disappointed that CNBC didn’t take advantage of such an obvious pun

I bet this dude talks a lot about alpha wolves too

I think the point was that it is true specifically when it comes to housing (also income and wealth for that matter)

Without "F" in the acronym, maybe Microsoft can be added to the list!

I would suspect the volume is simply too large. The “haircut” where you pour a mixer into your mouth, someone pours liquor into your mouth, and then you swallow in a way such that …