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The American values of economic liberty, private property rights, and innovation are in the DNA of the DeFi, or Decentralized Finance, movement.

1/ On Infinite Inference I used to be a good amateur photographer. A long time ago, a friend was worried that the cycle of growth in hard drives was coming to an end. I asked him why? "Well, my business documents are only 5 GB or whatever - isn't my 30 GB drive enough?"

@evan_van_ness 16 days and round up

If you say you've "quit something for a month" or "doing a month long fast," what is the required time?

@Timccopeland Upside risk is risk

this is truly wild

@BowTiedOctopod Rye perfect manhattan, down

What’s your cocktail of choice? 🍸 🍹

@Noahpinion Nice writeup, but 3 big missing drivers: market makers, option hedges, and equity long-short/relative value plays. These are all probably bigger than regular "naked" shorts that get all the press, consistent with the empirical evidence you cite.

Everyone is yelling about short-sellers, so I decided to write a post about what short-sellers really do, and how they really affect the economy. noahpinion.substack.com/p/what-do-shor…

@eric_ruleman @devonzuegel The desire to make a joke about the definition of "allusion" is strong.

@devonzuegel in our quest to "define" words, we forget that ultimately words are a tool to convey information to other people - dictionaries are an allusion that words are static and have a global consensus

Language is like choosing which side of the street to drive on. I recently (finally!) learned a name for this category: "intersubjective", something that is not an objective nor subjective truth but rather a shared one New post exploring the concept! 🎉 devonzuegel.com/post/language-…