DoubleDerper

animated gifs. lots of free tools available. substack probably has staff designers to make it extra pretty.

Holy crap those images are fantastically realistic. Thankfully we have Twitter CommunityNotes as a source of truth :-|

ranked choice voting can chip away at polarization.

I disagree with the author. I know he's incredibly successful and right about pretty much everything he's ever said, but I've had some experience in this area and just finished reading through some of the archives and I think his focus is wrong. I'm going to ignore the technical issue and talk about the bigger picture and higher level things than what was said in the blog post. If the OP thinks that the process is most important, it's really about end results. But if he thinks it should be about the end results then he's an idiot for not thinking about the process. I'll weasel in a reference the startup I co-founded even though it's not directly relevant.

Paging Dr Brad Stanfield. Paging Dr David Sinclair.

Lots of NR and Niacin boosterism that should be treated with skepticism.

The timing of this post is interesting as the FDA has just banned NMN in the US... which seems fortuitous to certain biotech companies & promoters. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aalylAdIxS4

i've lost interest in the qubit race.

what can this machine do productively?

^^^ Thank you! ^^^ Came here to reccommend Connections by James Burke and glad to see someone else has mentioned it. It's a masterpiece of popular science production made better with the grainy film patina of the 70s and 80s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XetplHcM7aQ

Major change in the US begins with ranked-choice voting.

Coinbase is notoriously poor at customer service, so this doesn't make sense.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27653022

A certain "smart" speaker company replaced their expensive device's single functional button with capacitive touch. The product is worse, now less accessible.

Seems more like a lucrative "job" than a "business"

Relative to which assets?

Stocks? Cars? Forex? IP? Crypto?

Genuinely curious because everything is more expensive than it was before.

If everything is overvalued, then nothing is overvalued [relatively]

Don't fire for the mistake. Fire for the inability of someone to own it, cover it up, or point fingers at others.

"Luxury" buyers are less sensitive to interest rate increases due to the amount of cash they can deploy.

If more housing stock isn't injected amidst a housing shortage, raising interest rates will disproportionately affects Buyers who really need affordability. Crappy deal.

In cities like Seattle or Austin or Denver, 5% mortgage rates are unlikely to cool the market off in any meaningful way.

Solidarity needs to be visible. Some here will chastise you for virtue signaling and not doing anything else. Choosing a side is a political statement, though, with a value greater than zero.

"...anything related to the human body is super-heavily regulated"

In the Western world this is true. Countries with less oversight stand to benefit from regulation arbitrage.

There's no denying that Sinclair has propelled longevity research, but his promotion of certain molecular systems is generating some valid skepticism... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7u6esW3qVw

The converse is equally true: most people don’t use RSS because the largest content platforms prefer to deliver monetizable algorithmic suggestions.

Is DST a states rights issue in the US? What is the argument FOR keeping DST?

One of the luxuries of train travel IS the extra time it takes. Take your time and settle in for a journey versus a cattle-call airport where everyone is angry and cramped inside of a tube 30k feet in the air.

Prediction markets will exacerbate the "war on truth," and are illegal in the US, thankfully. "Shorting" is frequently accompanied by disinformation campaigns against a target. It's scary to think about what this will lead to.

Ranked-choice voting could be make the most meaningfully positive impact on US democracy in decades. Regardless of your politics.

More messaging, coverage, and support for ranked-choice voting is necessary, and we should all hope to see more of it in coming months/years.

Consumers relied upon ProtonMail's prominent and concise marketing claim. Consumers who signed up for the service are now in jeopardy, perhaps facing real [legal] injury based on reasonable expectation of not having their IP logged.

The privacy-centric nature of this abuse is unlikely to result in a class-action-type of response, but Caveat Emptor abuses can be dealt with by the marketplace, too.

"Studies have shown over and over again that investors aren't causing the price increases in the Netherlands"

Source(s), please.

How would this work in modern western society?

The AirBnb "effect" has directly led to increased home prices. A home turning a profit thus becomes more important than how its guests impact a neighborhood and community. Ignoring or spinning the social costs is a primary goal of Airbnb's PR machine. It has made many neighborhoods more transitory (i.e. less homesteading, more short term rentals). Acknowledge the social costs to community and it's not surprising to read that violent crime rates are trending up where AirBnbs thrive.

From an early age more public investment in STEM, financial literacy, empathic education.

Twitter response from Darren Woods, Chairman and CEO of ExxonMobil... “The individuals interviewed were never involved in developing the company’s policy positions on the issues discussed. We condemn the statements and are deeply apologetic for them, including comments regarding interactions with elected officials.”…

https://twitter.com/exxonmobil/status/1410389477214801922

Shortcut to the source of the technology...

https://grail.com/

"EK is a consultant for Google Health. PAK has received speaker fees from Heidelberg Engineering, Topcon, Haag-Streit, Allergan, Novartis and Bayer. PAK has served on advisory boards for Novartis and Bayer, and is a consultant for DeepMind, Roche, Novartis and Apellis. KB has received research grants from Novartis, Bayer. Heidelberg and Roche. KB has received speaker fees from Novartis, Bayer, TopCon, Heidelberg, Allergan, Alimera. KB is a consultant for Novartis, Bayer and Roche. AK is a consultant to Aerie, Allergan, Novartis, Google Health, Reichert and Santen. All other co-authors have no competing interests to declare."

Worth noting.