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The SEC (Southeastern Conference) arguably the leader in football, basketball, baseball and softball and apart from those sponsors 18 other sports. They do not sponsor soccer.

As long as that’s case I’ll have trouble believing we’re gonna be great.

Soccer is like the metric system of sports. Everyone else uses it. It makes sense and we should like it, but we’re culturally suspicious of it.

Socializing != socialization.

The first is enjoying the company of friends, while the second is a sociological process of internalizing cultural norms and appropriate behavior. How to behave in a group, how to approach a stranger, how to respond to someone who irritates you, etc.

> If they really wanted to fleece you

Tip: Bald people the worst to fleece.

I not sure what crap casino you're going to, but there are no penny slots in Vegas.

https://www.casino.org/news/vegas-myths-re-busted-the-end-of...

Path to X happiness:

- Eschew the "For You", Read tweets only from people you have chosen to follow.

- Only follow people who have a bona fide livelihood outside social media, avoid anyone for whom income is largely driven by "engagement".

Obligatory Asimov: 'The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!" but 'That's funny...”'

Ignore the downvotes -- that is an insane system.

You might be surprised how the gov't threatening to take your house every year affects prices. And the ability to get mortgages. And new construction.

> these deeply immoral rich fucks

If that is your starting point, I don't think you're going to approach tax policy rationally.

Ken Griffin may be deeply immoral -- I don't know -- but it's not a condition of being rich.

It's a revenue policy. It's effectively a wealth tax, cleverly implemented largely within the existing tax regime.

Ken Griffin spend 183 days a year in Florida, so he pays no NY state or NYC income tax. He does pay ~1.8% income tax on his $238 million home though. Now he will pay significantly more. (His property is also assessed at a far lower number.)

“Passionate? Jethro Tull should be in the rock and roll hall of fame.”

> Church and any kind of believe system hurts our society and divides us.

Any belief system? And yet I bet you value freedom over slavery, wisdom over ignorance and compassion over brutality. That’s a belief system, despite not being a religion.

> Like, it gets used a lot in SQL

Except it explicitly is not strictly Boolean in SQL because of nulls.

X = Y can take the value true, false or null if either or both X and Y are null.

Am I the only one who is bothered by “Choose the worst” with only two options? It should be “Choose the worse”.

I think it’s tough to stay grounded when you’re as rich as he is. (To be clear, my intent is to explain and not excuse the path he’s taken.)

As someone who has shopped at Costco using public transportation, that’s where your IKEA bags come into play. And you avoid bulk liquids at all costs.

> But I feel like being a "PC user" was never a coherent social identity.

But there were people who were vocally non-Mac, dismissing it as “great for students and graphic designers”, but not a computer for real work.

(That was me in the 90’s. Of course eventually I began working on a Mac professionally.)

I have lived in the United States for all of my 59 years and have never heard or seen it used as meaning anything other than glutton.

Which is really no better evidence than you offer.

You're simply not using the word 'fiduciary' correctly. You seem to have expanded it to mean any sort of legal or ethical obligation with respect to markets, and that's not what it means.

So disappointing. People are garbage.

The right against self-incrimination is limited in civil trials. Additionally, unlike criminal trials where a jury will be instructed that a defendant's refusal to answer cannot be construed as evidence, there is no such instruction in civil trials, and it is common to argue that a refusal to answer indicates hiding something.

But the customers and employees don’t actually put up the money for the enterprise.

If you assume there is an airplane — great, run the airline for the customers and employees. But the cost of the airplane can’t be handwaved away.

> Not just any math: Matrix multiplication. Can matrix multiplication be conscious? And, I don't see how it can be.

Assuming your brain and the GPUs are both real physical things, where’s the magic part in your brain that makes you conscious?

(Roger Penrose knows, but no one believes him.)

“Be he alive or be he dead, I’ll grind his bones to make my bread.”

> My wife and I both have a chaos monkey that emits impulses to do the most destructive and disruptive things, which we sometimes talk about in jest.

Often called “the imp of the perverse” from the Poe story of the same name.

My mom fell (88 yo) X-rayed, nothing broken but ignored her history of ulcerative colitis (tough to do, given the colostomy bag she’s worn for 50 years). Sent her home with Motrin. Ended up in the hospital for two weeks with bleeding ulcers.

1) Reading the original article as far as I understand, indicates that the dose given the fish is 1000x than is seen in the wild.

2) From a public policy standpoint, OMG, this more than useless. Cocaine is already illegal everywhere.

And yet I know there used to be a business (when the Concorde was flying), where they would offer very cheap tickets on the Concorde from New York to London and back, the hitch being that you agreed to take no luggage, and your luggage allowance was taken up by the brokering company, who provided a rush courier service largely for legal/business documents and the like.

I guess this company is slightly different, I think it could be made legal.

I think the Dutch would take issue with you throwing around "orange" like that.

More importantly in the United States we have certain rights which cannot be abridged, even by a majority of the electorate though the government.