"64% of Young Men Who Spend The Day Fantasizing Feel Like Failures" - James Wright
Metro North Capital@metronorthcapital.bsky.social · 6h agoWhat are the splits on young men who actually make money doing it?
alex williams
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macroeconomist and computer user at http://www.common-wealth.org, founder at www.continuousvariation.com, fellow at stanford, partisan of the republic of letters, "in this horrible age of abuse and decay / its good to know somebody's looking ok"
Metro North Capital@metronorthcapital.bsky.social · 6h ago
A lot of things that I'd learned were strategically necessary as a high level technical IC delivering evidence (being exceptionally warm, constantly placating egos with rapport building) suddenly flipped into severe penalties when I was a VP. It was interesting to observe
it’s pretty clear to me that the ceiling and the floor of software quality are going to start accelerating away from each other at the speed of light
✧⁺⋆🌘 Dream Rotator NPC Alex 🌒⋆.˚₊✩@lastnpcalex.agency · 5h agoya i don't think people have thought about this fully solutions to problems becoming more bespoke, and private, isolated, and illegible to others does seem to imply problems that show up at scale (beyond the level where any individual with an agent could solve) will be harder to solve, not easier
the UAE is what many Western democracies secretly salivate over
Mike Boylan-Kolchin@mbkplus.bsky.social · yesterdayA lot of the MAGA crowd wants the US to essentially become like the UAE, where there’s an enormous foreign workforce who have substantially fewer rights than citizens and are subject to awful working conditions. It’s a fever dream, but it’s their fever dream.
DSA-aligned Democrats are now the most pro-free-trade voting bloc in the United States, in an incredible turn of events www.theargumentmag.com/p/who-suppor...
one thing i put together recently is that the goons from "Down in the Tube Station at Midnight" would be like 67 now
imo the thing people always crave about trump and the thing they point to when they agree that he is funny despite not agreeing on the politics, is the experience of someone performing parrhesia
LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍@lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 3d agoI don't think there's some silent progressive majority out there in waiting, but I do think running candidates who are a lot less apollonian can move a significant number of feet, and the center is very bad at producing those
are people out there placing bets on the share of anthropic employees working for the paycheck vs the mission
Max P III@blackballer.bsky.social · 2d agoIts embarrassing how many grown ass adults live in these fantasies where people work for some nonsense like the artificial cultures oligarchs manufacture over survival.
Business investment in computer equipment has increased from 0.5% to 1.3% of GDP in less than 3 years. Higher than the Dot-Com peak.
American factory construction continued declining in official data released today as CHIPS Act projects finish, IRA projects get cancelled, and tariffs weigh on nearly all industries Total US factory construction is down 32% from its 2024 highs and 22% over the last year alone
I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.
Bumping this essay to note that the underlying article is now out for submission to journals: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Industrial Policy as Competition Policy
<p>Throughout U.S. history, and especially in the present era, the government has shaped markets by giving advantages to some firms over others<span>—a version
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Jeff Gordon@jeffgordon.bsky.social · last mo.Industrial policy is often in tension with competition - a problem I call "the dilemma of picking winners." In this essay and the associated working paper, I propose a framework for doing industrial policy without entrenching the winners. lpeproject.org/blog/the-dil...
god and i used to get dinged for using too much partial equillibrium reasoning, look at this guy
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoHassett: "One of the metrics of shelter costs that I find most interesting is that they're going down pretty rapidly in places like California because everybody is leaving. Even though there are high prices in California, it puts downward pressure on inflation because everybody is leaving the state"
Next up: CENTCOM to establish JWICS podcast, will "be really unconventional" and a "must listen" says J-3 staffer who organized it
Ian TB@iantb.bsky.social · 2d agoWell, crowdsourcing a war plan is certainly a first: www.cnn.com/2026/08/03/p...
they need to start putting solar panels on the best farmland like the meme people on facebook are worried about, simply because it will increase yields,
hoergen@hoergen.bsky.social · 3d ago*American farmers slid solar panels over 62,000 acres of farmland, and the biggest payoff had almost nothing to do with electricity* #Erneuerbare #Renewable #Solar #Photovoltaik energiesmedia.com/solar-panels…
not going to disambiguate mac miller and max miller, dont care how much people on this website post,
xenophon is so funny, its all podcast bros! "There is so much money in this idea, Socrates, and it is so easy to learn", about buying farms and flipping them, like ones father,
New paper in Nature Cities assesses the drivers of data center siting decisions to date, finds that the primary driver is capacity of local power plants. Others are broadband quality, retired coal plants, information technology employment and natural hazards.
Urban infrastructure and fossil fuel industrial legacy drive US data center siting - Nature Cities
Data centers predominantly occupy urban areas, influenced by local power capacity, information technology employment and broadband quality. This study highlights the impact of infrastructure and indus...
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goethe would of loved the no arbitrage condition fr fr
(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve@braak.bsky.social · 3d agoBack in graduate school I remember having a real issue with Faust, because the problem with the deal is that it only makes sense if you don't believe in the soul, or Hell, and so the very fact that the devil is willing to make it is proof that you won't come out ahead. "Unrealistic!" I said.