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@pmarca All firms want to grow, but the marginal contribution of the average new employee decreases with firm size. Technology helps firms grow faster & stay larger. Hiring is relatively easy and firing is too difficult for legal/emotional/political reasons.

Suppose that “bullshit jobs” are real, but not for the reason Graeber says. What are the actual reasons? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_…

@mattsheehan88 matt levine probably a bit better as first thing to read

@mattsheehan88 milkyeggs.com/?p=175

Any recommendations for a good read on the Sam Bankman-Fried / FTX thing?

The misconception that there is no sound in space originates because most space is a ~vacuum, providing no way for sound waves to travel. A galaxy cluster has so much gas that we've picked up actual sound. Here it's amplified, and mixed with other data, to hear a black hole!

Absolutely based ergonomics twitter.com/rbranson/statu…

@jdmaturen you can buy spam stateside

@skgBanga @GarrettPetersen Instead of going on adventures that should make me wildly rich and powerful, i get sidetracked trying to raise venture capital based on our magical artifacts.

Guy who is homeless, has no income, and somehow inexplicably collects Faberge eggs.

@GarrettPetersen I have a hard time playing those games without wondering why magic hasn't caused an industrial revolution yet--you can magically make fire, no coal needed!

That guy is my D&D character, whose backstory includes book collecting but no obvious sources of income. (Books ought to be insanely expensive in the medieval setting of D&D.)

@bashrw @jdmaturen Would be more natural to sing the nth harmonic (you can hear here) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic_…

@jdmaturen Ooh, it's possible to sing the sieve of eratosthenes if one modulates the primes based on a 12 note chromatic scale (like we use in western music).

It's really fun to look back at my college transcripts and recall all the funny stories about certain classes and grades. I'll never forget the time I received a B+ in music theory because I couldn't sing the correct intervals when site reading music. I'm still salty about that

If you've ever wondered what it looks like to think in music--this is what it really looks like.

An all time great and an amazing teacher youtube.com/watch?v=GQ5Co1… RIP

Some day, we'll realize that our real identities were the computations we performed along the way

Gauntlet helps Balancer Protocol manage both swap fees and amplification factors which increase LP returns, boost volumes, and maximize capital efficiency 🚀 Read more about the impact @gauntletnetwork has had here: medium.com/balancer-proto…

How Gauntlet Helped Balancer 10x their Liquidity Utilization and Double their LP Revenue! link.medium.com/2DFb0Rf2Skb