al3xandre

You should checkout Matt Stroller’s monopoly newsletter.

This is basically what he is doing except uncovering a monopoly in depth takes months, not a day. Amazing work.

E.g. here for cheerleading monopoly article he wrote

https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/how-a-cheerleading-monopo...

How many of you ticked this box, thinking it would enable you to reserve with Google instead of with Chope (or any third party)? But actually it would register your for more spam.

How have I never heard about his before. This is amazingly useful.

What about creating a chatroulette for deep conversations only?

Participants could rate willingness to engage in dee conversation and you would quickly only keep the right kind of people on the platform.

Makes you wonder why this was not properly done 10 years ago.

It’s like, on one side we pay taxes to people who build roads and maintain databases and maps of what they have built (the government)

On the other side, we (indirectly) pay for Google to run around with car to re-map everything as if the data did not exist in the first place.

Seems quite inefficient, no?

This. A thousand time. People need to understand this.

I think the video was accelerated (look at cars in the background or wind in trees/on grass or the occasional bird/insect).

Which means the drone may not have been as fast/manœuvrerabke as it looks.

It would explain the crazy Camera tracking skills.

Similarly, I really have to wonder about the externalities of having windows in office buildings.

While the view they provide can be nice, windows have a real cost to productivity and attention.

Edit: research actually points to the opposite of my teasing comment above. [1] But then again, maybe playing a mini game boosts productivity?

https://journalistsresource.org/environment/daylight-windows...

Everything you mention seems possible to replicate with 2 cameras, a few sensors (and a X years of AI/software dev). Which is the point of people saying cameras are good enough if human’s eyes are good enough.

Or am I missing something?

After some research, it is possible to short Tether for roughly 15% borrowing fee per year.

Who is with me ?

Some more of these fun photo ops: https://twitter.com/thainewsreports/status/13886984576579051...

You realize those « deep cleans » are mostly comms operations for governments to look like they are doing stuff, right? Virus live (mostly) in people, not on sidewalks.

One of the most ridiculous example: the Thai government went to the extent of spraying disinfectant in the forest next to the Burmese border, and got pictures published in newspaper to show their great work. Comical! [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/thainewsreports/status/13819185863488225...

The first nuclear explosions made us visible to alien civilizations 7 decades ago.

As someone who publishes a small software as a side-project, signing my bundles is a pain in the a*.

You not only need to shell out some 100$ to stupid companies like comodo who should not even exist, but also need to incorporate a company or do some crazy paper work to get it.

If any fellow small windows side project developer has a solution I’ll be happy to hear.

Three questions:

1. How easy would it be to pay a container ship’s captain to do that ? 2. Can you then bet on short term commodity futures to benefits from the event significantly? 3. Do you think this is what’s happening ?

Please. He obviously meant gold or gold-backed currencies. Which indeed ended in 1971 with Breton-Wood.

Let’s be kind and “assume the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize.”

Or more likely this is how synchronicity works: - we have 7B people on earth - at any point of time, all possible exciting among the moment are being worked on by someone - if something succeed, we look back and wonder at the synchronicity: how it is possible that 10 people worked independently on the same thing - they must have all have been guided by the superior intellect they had in common!

...

I’m sure there were great synchronicity of people working on squaring the circle in 18th century, and of people working on the philosopher stone earlier, except they were all misguided so we don’t talk about them.

There can be such a wide range of different wines within « chardonnay » and « Shiraz » that saying one of the two is you « favorite wine » is meaningless. Hence the outcome of this blind testing.

95% of people are also unable to tell the difference between a secure properly e2e encrypted chat, and an insecure chat.

Does that mean that there is no insecure and secure chat softwares?

It is not so much about having a team of bodyguards 24/7 with you, but about having a security team in the back office that will oversee all the details of your schedule so that you just are not in a scenario where this is possible. (Eg no appearance at predictable place and time etc )

If I was holding Jack Ma in captivity, I would definitely ask him to do this just for the benefits of doing insider trading on his appearances

YouTube is blocking this video if you are in Thailand....

Crazy how what we identify with historically depends more on what we decide to teach children in school than actual history, no?

This is basically to files, what gmail has done to emails. (If you can remember emails before the gmail era)

Because the procurement bureaucrat in charge of buying « secure usb storage » in some random corporate company can then tick a box on a checklist to cover his ass.

Shouldn’t this be an index fund with conditions to be included rather than a stock exchange ?

Those things are basically standard in other (developed ;) ) parts of the world. Like in Singapore you just skim through immigration in 30sc by flashing your passport and fingerprint/face. Never get any queue... quite enjoyable.

While I agree that entrusting this data to a third party provider is not ideal... I also don’t think that hiring people to look at your passport, and then your face before letting you in the country is the future... seems a bit archaic no?