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Mark Twain himself wrote a story about a sure thing, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County : https://readmeastoryink.com/wp-content/uploads/stories/the_c...

Vision Pro: when you're done sitting in the dark on your couch looking at photos of the family who left you, you can use AR to remodel your apartment. It even has textures .

You seem to have independently discovered the market failure commonly know as the Free-rider problem, for which there are many solutions, and which is not a dispositive preemptive …

It is interesting that the output of code is associated with sight and taste, while the quality of the code itself is associated with smell . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_sme…

Also, thank you for including the passage about Elinor Ostrom's work. The conditions outlined as necessary for an enduring public commons go a long way toward explaining why the ex…

A similar appropriative-use vs. public-trust evaluation is playing out this year as the California State Water Resources Control Board reevaluates Los Angeles’ right to divert wate…

This post brought to mind a post by Bret Victor titled Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction [1] where he frames working on and understanding problems at different layers of focus …

> Enterprise sales isn’t about ovens. The handshake comes first. The requirements come later.

A pretty incredible answer to your question comes from a perhaps wholly unexpected source: Hunter S. Thompson, in a letter responding to a friend's request for life advice: https:/…

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens https://theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-nation...

I read "widespread flourishing" as referring to a scope of influence and "at a level that is difficult to imagine" as referring to an amount of accumulated wealth. But surely the p…

I recently discovered Practical Typography [1] and Typography for Lawyers [2] by Matthew Butterick which have changed the way I've approached presenting information. I would highly…

It was exactly a game theory question, and a perfect exercise in real world betting markets. You’ll never have the most information and you’ll never be the biggest fish. I learned …

Because there are societal costs to poverty, regardless of how people arrive there. Gambling can be as addictive and personally and societally destructive as any drug.

Same. I consider myself extremely fortunate to have been able to take a course on the Economics of Gaming from William Eadington [1] , who was the founder of Gambling Studies. Our …

Or another kind of take: Land of Little Rain by Mary Hunter Austin https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/91707.The_Land_of_Little...

> the desert shall rejoice / and blossom as the rose Or, rewritten for the Los Angeles Aqueduct: the desert shall wither / and blossom in a plume of dust [1] [1] https://www.latime…

Why would credit card companies release data showing that consumption indicates a recession? Surely they’re in the business of sustaining exuberance.

Yeah, and make sure you cut out letters from magazines and paste them onto the note so you can't be identified by your handwriting.

Lake Powell behind Glen Canyon Dam is currently at 23.6% of capacity. Lake Mead behind Hoover Dam is currently at 29.7% of capacity. Given the current state of the Upper Colorado R…

How long until YCombinator stops listing Flock "Safety" on their website as one of their proud VC success stories? [1] https://www.ycombinator.com

I'll name a specific highly developed country in the western hemisphere: The United States. There's no need to bend over backward trying to blame some perceived degradation in qual…

You're right. I didn't think that through. The stack doesn't imply that a local network is somehow exposed to those concerns.

Perhaps, but it also, by default, excludes that entire class of authentication problems that are only manifested in a non-local network. I love the idea. It's also interesting in t…

Non-privacy of this person is currently sleeping data is very bad as well, for different reasons. You know, now that I'm thinking about it, I'm beginning to wonder if poor data pri…