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@GtcTraders @__paleologo @hollywoodscifi Dude I love Andor… because it’s not old school Star Wars. It’s maybe my favorite piece of fiction in the past decade.

Ok ... and? Hamlet has never been re-imagined (The Death I Gave Him) ? Chauncey has never been re-imagined ( Hyperion ) ? Beowulf has never been re-imagined (The 13th warrior) ?

A friend brought up an interesting point about the Mandalorian and Grogu movie: "It's hard to get invested in a film, where 98% of it is a guy in a mask, you can't see his face or expression, and his voice is monotone." Do you agree?

@MRobles1996 @KillaDirk @mattyglesias You are not the gifted child you were told you were, and no amount of bow ties will fix that.

@ls_fin @KillaDirk @mattyglesias No one cares about having reasoned, evidence-based opinions anymore? Yeah, that sounds about right actually.

Just don’t ask too many questions about what “America First” is a reference to

@GtcTraders @__paleologo @hollywoodscifi Like if a movie has good writing and deep characters, it’s fundamentally not Star Wars as george Lucas envisioned it.

@GtcTraders @__paleologo @hollywoodscifi Yes, and that is all against the original Star Wars concept, which is space western heavily borrowing from various lesser known but lauded original works.

@nsaphra @deepcohen I know people like this and the work involved in hiring a maid is actually harder than just not doing any basic self care.

@deepcohen he could have hired a maid. traveling constantly isn't actually the most convenient way to get your laundry done

ok the thing about erdos is he obviously loved collaborating with humans. he could have done a lot on his own, but math was how he chose to connect. I'm not sure he would have been very into chatbots?

@MRobles1996 @KillaDirk @mattyglesias Lmao. No one takes this kind of rhetorical style seriously anymore man. You need to upgrade from 2016 style posting

@KillaDirk @mattyglesias Can you give some evidence that those people are white nationalists?

@omarshaikdev @scottastevenson That arbitrage closed. Ubers cost a TON more than in 2018

@scottastevenson Noticed this about Uber drivers

The golden years of AirBNB were a temporary arbitrage on depreciation. There was a universe of beautiful well-maintained properties and hosts that had not been worn down by short term guests. And the AirBNB hosts didn’t properly estimate the cost of depreciation to maintain that standard, so costs were irrationally low That era fundamentally cant return, it was a temporary arbitrage opportunity There was once a supply of fairly pristine unused space and now there’s not If a space does manage to hit the 2014 standard, it must charge a lot more to fight depreciation And at that point a hotel is generally better

@ashleyschendel Tbh, I do think it’s a useless skill now, but hey everything can’t be hyper optimized for learning.

@ls_fin That is really neat that her preschool taught her that. I always enjoy having a fake phone or even a real one to use as a toy when I was little.

Rotary phones feel ancient until you remember every generation has some basic piece of technology that makes them look ridiculous. Kids don’t know how to dial a number on a wall phone. Plenty of adults can’t rotate a PDF, find a download, or work the TV remote at someone else’s house.

@humantransit @DAMendelsohnNYC This is completely unrelated but the similarities of your profile pics made me think this was one person talking to themselves

@DAMendelsohnNYC Actually, I'm reading you side-by-side with Fitzgerald and Fagles. The intergenerational conversation is fascinating.

Another Homeric epithet that’s fun to think about is the one that Anglophones know as “the wine-dark sea”—which, like “wingèd words,” has by now entered the English language so forcefully that it’s hard to see what image H was actually thinking of. The Greek adjective “oinôps”…

@SojuConnoisseur @mayurekbote @RichardHanania Lmao dude “You’re using non sequiturs… and what about foreign lobbies influencing our elections?” Hahahahhahahaha

@mayurekbote @RichardHanania Oh please don't bring schizophrenic groyper nonsense into this. Who talked about H1Bs voting? Do our votes even matter? Or do the powerful foreign lobbies have an influence?

These people would be the ones curing cancer if it wasn’t for H1B visas.

I don’t often agree with Kagan but he seems to be right that this is what Trump is hoping for. He started a war without a plan, wasted billions of dollars in equipment, failed to prepare obvious targets for defense, which resulted in unnecessary deaths of American soldiers, hollowed out the Pentagon’s ability to assess targets, which resulted in us murdering over 150 civilians, mostly girls, when we bombed their elementary school in Minab, handed Iran incredible strategic victory by allowing them to take de facto control of the Strait of Hormuz and show that we are powerless to stop it, exposed the strategic isolation of the U.S. that his antagonism to our allies has brought us in, and now he’s trying to slink away with some cockamamie cover that he’s going to use to claim victory. The Iran hawks are clamoring for him to “finish the job” but he’s already finished, and Iran knows it. He doesn’t have a mandate to send ground troops, and even he he orders more bombing, it will be a cosmetic tactic designed to disguise the defeat. What can you possibly accomplish by trying the exact same thing after it failed the first time except now you have depleted a lot of the ammo and Congress has gotten more assertive about not expanding the war?

@eddie_oreily @Noahpinion At 30c here in NJ I don’t really need the AC much and I live in a wood built house. We average 50 days a year over 30c though, which is not common in Europe.

@Noahpinion Nah, you see, I Europe houses are not built out of wood and are built in a way for proper airflow. They also stay quite cool even in 30c weather. Whereas wooden houses in America roast you in 20c weather. Fans are more than enough over here on the hottest days.

Can't wait for Europeans to discover modern technology

@orrdavid @skyquake_1 @vijucat Lmao I thought you had some good points until here

@skyquake_1 @vijucat This is straight psychopath behavior.

So much jargon. It's so overcomplicated it's hard to even comprehend what he's saying here. 28% drawdown for a supposed multistraegy... that isn't a multistrategy at all.

@macrocephalopod I turned 40 recently and this makes me feel older more than that

@ls_fin x.com/macrocephalopo…

Objective ranking, in order of most sophisticated to least sophisticated: - ES - E-minis - Spoos - SPX - S&P 500 - SPY

@rossium @macrocephalopod Yes

@ls_fin @macrocephalopod have you ever got into interview?

This question is asked at Citadel for $650k/year roles: > A family has 2 children. > At least one is a boy born on a Tuesday. > What's the probability the other child is also a boy? if you answered 50%, you just failed. drop your answer below. I'll reply to the right ones.

@rossium @macrocephalopod There’s no way in hell this is an actual question in a citadel interview.

@macrocephalopod how is it stupid slop?

@elektrotimmy @quirkyllama @zagrebbi Actually US has higher mortality in winter so wouldn’t work. Ofc we have much harsher summers and winters than Europe, so there aren’t many ways that Europeans could freeze to death. Happens much more in States where temps go well below freezing regularly.

@quirkyllama @zagrebbi If the US used the same excess-mortality modeling as Europe, its heat toll would likely be higher. The whole comparison is fundamentally flawed.

As summer comes into view, always remember that more Europeans regularly die in heat waves than Americans die in guns violence.

@__paleologo Feels like maybe we shouldn’t be putting a private citizen into the spotlight like that.