Jason McCandless

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@_Sowellsista_ Wild that Yeats asked for her hand in marriage four times

@_Sowellsista_ This is why I had to lose mine

@robinhanson @StefanFSchubert Even then the US is an outlier - @jburnmurdoch had a graph on that recently.

@StefanFSchubert Better to do that per mile or per hour of driving.

The differences in road deaths among developed countries are striking - more than 5x.

Really sad news. In the world of academia, he was a rare thing. Worldly, curious, human with wide impact beyond his field of research. Be took real pleasure in life and lived to to the full

I still think about the Alan Watts adage - "every problem is just a question, asked the wrong way" implies something interesting - that the real path, to a fulfilled life might just be learning to ask only the right questions, at the right time, in the right way simple as

@atroyn The Two Cultures.

Honestly I think it’s the horrendous driving more than the guns and drugs that would most put me off raising kids in America. You have far more control over your exposure to the latter two than the first.

Today we’ve lost a giant and a visionary: Prof. Daniel Kahneman has passed at the age of 90. The Princeton SPIA community shares our condolences with his family and all who knew him, learned from him, and loved him. bit.ly/4cy0arM

Claude Shannon (mathematician, electrical engineer, and cryptographer known as one of the fathers of information theory)

@fitzfromdublin There's only extremes in USA, so no drizzle.

I’ve never heard an American on a tv show describe the weather as “drizzling” , do they not use that word

How come I never see Americans ironing their clothes on tv, do they dry clean everything

@ShouldIBike Definitely not optimal

OPTIMAL. Today's pleasant temps/clear/no rain/15 mph NW wind. Morning 58°F/Evening 76°F/🚴👍 Wear: Whatever you want MTA: Delays:S. Good Svc:G/L. No Svc-Certain Lines:BDFM/JZ/NQRW. Part Suspended:7. #bikenyc

Computer history by Balenciaga

@visakanv Actually Nowadays there could be a good location - lots of space

or maybe this one rather than prospect since it’s along the L

ok so tues came and went lol oops but I want to definitely nail down monday and friday as public meetup days, mark ur calendars if you’re around and wanna meet! let’s say Central Park on Mon and… uh, Prospect Park on Fri? Idk yet, will update if change. I’ll stick around all day

@HistoryBoomer PUAs? Though it seems like it was already on the way out in the US. Still a fine sartorial choice in Europe though.

I want to know what nefarious force stopped everyone from wearing hats. Fedoras were cool!

Of course that's your contention. You're a first year grad student. You just got finished reading some pop science author, Michio Kaku probably, you’re gonna be convinced of that until next month when you get to Sean Carroll, then you’re gonna be talking about how anybody taking the wavefunction seriously automatically believes in the Everettian multiverse. That's gonna last until next year, you’re gonna be in here regurgitating Leonard Susskind, talkin’ about, you know, firewalls and Einstein-Rosen bridges.

@visakanv Dry air will be a consideration for you too. Even coming from Ireland it took me a few years to adapt to a -20c dew point.

ok so I’m a tropical island boy who’s never experienced anything colder than like a balmy “just add a hoodie” California weather and I’m going to New York in a few weeks… pls give me winter survival tips

the only thing that guarantees pain is not moving enough whether your day is too sedentary or you’re on your feet too much, this is for you try each thing in this sequence for at least 5-10 long slow breaths through your nose then rest on your back on the floor for 3-5 minutes

@iamdulma Conspicuous consumption

I’m all for no booze or low booze CPG options but can anyone explain to me why my mocktail needs to cost the same as an alcoholic one? This is where I draw the line unless you’ve put ashwaghanda harvested under the full moon by Tibetan monks in there

A cache of Polaroids from the set of HACKERS just dropped. I’m experiencing a lot of feelings about this. dazeddigital.com/fashion/galler…

@startingfromnix Taleb calls this convexity.

One mindset shift that helped me a lot the past 2 years socially/creatively is this concept of asymmetric bets being everywhere, we just need to act on them. what I mean by this: