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Accurately labeling a potentially infinite list is an interesting problem we humans seem to have created for ourselves.

In practice Greek letters are much like regular numbering and soon become unintelligible. There’s a reason they still include India in the title here.

Maybe we should switch to naming hurricanes after desserts.

My understanding is that many in the Native American community self identify as ‘Indian’. Or have historically, I’m sure the younger generation is moving away from it.

The FT quotes: ‘120,000 a year for bat surveillance’.

Seems negligible as an outsider.

I sat at a lunch table with Eric at an Event Apart SF a couple years ago, super friendly guy. Really recommend that conference I had a great time.

I have to tell you as an American and kinda grumpy one at that, if you get a smile and hi on the sidewalk as we pass each other it’s purely out of love for mankind.

CSS actually does have functions. ‘linear-gradient()’ is one that returns a background image. You also have the choice of interacting with your style sheets via the css object model similar to the way you interact with the DOM, this is the basis of most css in js tech.

If you can’t tell, I’m a CSS shill.

I wonder, how exactly do we determine the ideal amount of biodiversity for the planet / a given region?

Outside of ideas like ‘we should not exterminate entire species’ and ‘we should not hunt so much that we ruin hunting grounds for future generations’ it does not seem obvious to me.

I guess maybe we are so far gone that the only thought is to damage control.

It’s mind blowing the author chose to include that phrase given the rest of the article is pretty well written.

I know three people who separately just moved to sac from the east bay. And a couple who are thinking about it... didn’t realize this was a trend.

As someone who grew up in Sac, don’t do it guys! It might be a quick drive but it’s a different California.

While we do call them crypto currencies I don’t think crypto market is really comparable to the currency market. Maybe more like a precious metals etf or something.

This is exactly the reason the fed is ok with current inflation readings. Huge debt bubble in the American middle and working class, along with a low growth economy. The only way to get rid of the debt currently is to inflate it away.

You still have to make a literal phone call to unsubscribe from WSJ.

The last thing you wrote is something I indirectly think about quite a lot. Imagine a place (call it heaven if you want) where time and death don’t exist. What could you possibly care about?

Just want to say as someone who does a lot of hardware techno jamming this was SO FUN.

I think what you are noticing is the ‘fractal’ nature of growth patterns which exists all throughout nature. It’s a fascinating topic that I know almost nothing about. The Wikipedia mentions slime mold though :)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal

Tell that to all the active managers who bailed last spring instead of holding their tech stocks lol.

Keep in mind that the death rate still has to exist in a given time frame so only can only be extrapolated backwards and has to be recalculated annually.

Strikes me as similar to those who predict x% returns on their s&p index funds based on past stock market performance.

The future is always unknown.

I’ve seen this happen to a lot of my favorite shortcuts in the east bay since the introduction of waze.

I became a software engineer because I am a Bay Area native that got priced out of the market by software engineers.

I think the idea is that a lot of these come with publishing contracts built in so the artist receives a royalty if the token changes hands and the current owner has the rights to license the art.

For example if I sell you a song as an nft you could then license the song to Budweiser to use in a commercial and we both get paid. Think about how difficult this would be to arrange without the nft to handle the contract.

This reminds me of secretly installing the metal slug emulator on computers when I was in high school so me and my friends could play before band class lol.

Replace ‘stocks only go up’ with ‘fiat only goes down’.

But I can buy a gun now and that police reform thing keeps not actually existing.

Underrepresented POV I think. ‘Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity’.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor

Man that clip is so old time hockey I love it. Best part is the ref giving him the attaboy after. I remember thinking that Hasek wearing the cage instead of a modern goalie mask was so cool as a kid.

I do live electronic music on analog synths (kinda dnb / ukg vibe). Check out some hardware jams on my elektron gear mostly here:

https://www.instagram.com/middlestates/

In my experience all true bullshitters drink their own brew. What came first the self or external delusion?

It seems like your argument is more agains collectibles in general. I also can go online and look at the art for various rare Pokémon cards for example. I think you underestimate the psychological component of ‘ownership’ and the extra satisfaction that might bring a collector.

An anecdote,

I am an avid jazz record collector (vinyl). Every record I own is available to me on Spotify and I actually frequently find new records to purchase on Spotify (they have a great jazz selection).

Interestingly, or maybe not, I find that I listen to the records I own more than those I don’t even though I have access to so many more.

I also find myself having significantly more patience with the records I buy blindly than I would a random thing that comes on algorithm radio.

The point being, ownership creates psychological attachment which in turn creates some intangible form of value that I can’t quite put a number on but I definitely feel.

I like your analogy but I’m not sure it’s perfect. In the finance world I don’t think anyone would presume to say more work === more success. There is a talent component that is not perfectly replicable across hedge funds. BUT in real life more work very often does equal more success because so many careers really do not require a high level of ‘talent’.