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I have a 20 year old Lodge and I also use some of my grandmother's old Lodge/Griswold pans which were polished. My pan is well seasoned and pretty smooth after constant use. I've never noticed any practical difference except that mine can easily be replaced

People used to resharpen safety razor blades. Not worth their time. DE razors are fine as long as the blade is sharp, but you have to change it 50-100 times per year, and there's a decent chance of cutting yourself.

At least on the first few shaves, the three bladed ones have a lot of research behind them, and are technically superior to the single bladed ones; there's a lab in long island that pays men to test razors that has evaluated this.

Whether the increase in quality and reduced effort is worth it is a personal preference

I don't think that studying mostly theory is going to convince anyone that you are a good manager.

Different if you want to upskill as a programmer

The big arb is living with your parents. Bank high salaries and pay little or nothing in rent. Great way for coastal elites to effectively pass money to their kids

No actually. In my first year working, I felt like I was getting addicted to coffee, and I noticed a 22 year old who had a long commute who seemed to subsist on coffee in the morning, cigarettes in the afternoon, and beer at night.

He seemed ineffective and unable to concentrate, as if he was permanently sleep deprived, and the less he did at work, the longer he stayed working, and the less sleep he got, the more stimulants he took. Eventually he wound up getting nothing done while spinning his wheels, and got fired. I think he moved closer to his next job and did fine there, but I took the lesson and decided to short-circuit those tendencies by giving up caffeine, sugar, and alcohol for a month each year.

For the last twenty or so years, I've given it up for a month each year. I don't see much difference

A wise investor once told me that if you own one house, you are essentially flat on the housing market. If you own two or more, you are an investor, and if you own zero, you are short the housing market.

Most homeowners will not benefit from a higher nominal value in their (one) house, because short of selling it, they can't take advantage; most likely they'll simply pay higher property taxes.

The remedy for this situation is simple: build more housing, and relax building codes to make housing production cheaper

Costco employees are unionized. They are also insanely fast and very good. You cannot hire someone with those skills off the street, and the Costco wage scale reflects that -- a 5th year employee can easily earn double what an entry level worker makes.

That wage scale is carefully negotiated between the union and the company to divide the value created by lower labor turnover and increased specialization/experience. The cost of the union is relatively low compared to the value created by having well-trained workers. It is likely that equally skilled workers could attain the same (or better) pay working for an equally enlightened corporation, but that would be a rather unstable setup.

I kept stats for a couple of years on large numbers of quant financial interviews. Typically up to 15 roughly 30 minute interviews per hired candidate. The probability of getting hired seemed to go to up significantly by interview number until about #7. After that it was flat until the last guy, probably because nobody wanted to say no and contradict the first 10 people. The extra interviews were useful, however, as they helped establish consensus and buy in among the team

There was a Reddit thread a few months ago that gave a recipe for extracting 7k out of New York sports books with relatively low risk or bankroll. Whitney Tilson highlighted it. If you have a decent grasp of probability and the discipline to follow the model, it is easy

Nobody seems to have mentioned that you can probably learn as much in 4 years at MIT as in 5-6 years at Z. The courses at MIT are going to be more rigorous and likely cover more stuff, and the ancillary learning / problem set sessions / dining halls will have a core of really committed students, so you'll absorb a lot of stuff that you haven't formally studied.

The result is that you'll be highly qualified to work after 4 years, and you'll save two years of studying -- the economics of that are extremely positive, not to mention you get two more years in your twenties.

There was a lot of good literature that came out of the international brigades of the Spanish civil war

My experience with union guys is that the contractors know who is good and who isn't, and the bad or slow workers get a lot less work or get returned to the hiring hall in favor of a different worker.

I've blown up a number of them. Kind of reminds me of exploding a hard boiled egg- if you get unlucky, the inside turns to powder which is now all over your oven/ house

I got my current job through an internal company recruiter. He's the best I've ever seen in this business -- the introduction was extremely well targeted, the process was very low-pressure, and he's measured on the long-term success of the people he brings in.

He spent time explaining the role, the skills, and the goals, and offered feedback throughout the process.

The problem is that the politicians do not regulate the speed at which people can lose money. Gambling is exciting, but the level of excitement is relatively independent of the amount wagered.

I think Montana limits stakes to small amounts for this reason.

Pointsbet has a bet that pays a linear dollar amount * (winner -loser)^2 - some specified number. And yes, this can be negative and severely so.

E.g. $10* (winning margin squared - 225).

This is not a bet that needs to exist. Nobody is likely to have the data necessary to have a reasonable opinion on this, or to be able to calculate the risk and reward accurately in their head.

Probably worth reading about Asymmetric numeral systems first:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymmetric_numeral_systems

I think that the implication is that if each individual hunts individually, they mostly get nothing, and every so often get an entire animal which is too large for one person/family to eat, so the expected value of this strategy is low.

By pooling high risk strategies with big payoffs, the expected value of the whole is greater.

The objective function is weighted average number of guesses, with some penalty factor for >6 (aka losing), and optionally different weights for getting it in 1,2,3,4,5,6

And you can solve it in a tree- at least for the lower levels when the search space has been reduced

I'm curious how this will affect the price of nfts

Practice sound risk management! I still have a coffee cup and a a garment bag that I bought for 10$

I worked with a guy who collected stock certificates of dead startups that he'd worked at, and displayed then in frames on his wall. I think he called them good misspent youth.

The Lehman Brothers risk management/principles cube was a hot seller for a while, but I'm curious as to long term valuations. Thought the art collection didn't actually do that well on resale.

Life insurance is mostly a passthrough from the living to the families of the dead Most people never use the product.

Jamaica Ginger and the Jake Walk. A lot of people were crippled by bad booze adulterated with other bad things

I saw a video that suggested that the sriracha guys have an area roughly 1/3rd the size of manhattan under cultivation.

Nobody cares what those peppers look like, and the tilling, planting, and harvesting, washing, and crushing are all pretty automated. Vinegar and salt are also pretty cheap, as is bottling equipment.

I work with a 75 year olds who is on the road 100+ days each year. He's happy, company is happy, and the job isn't very physically demanding. This will become more common

I did something like this with jupyter and the census records.

I added filters for min and max popularity, gender ratio, scrabble score, number of syllables, length, etc.

I wrote a Python api for q 15 years ago. Look at c.h; there are only a few types that you need to translate

As a legislator, he'll have a very good reason to get a concealed carry permit...