@mattyglesias I guess markets do know stuff that Twitter pundits don't
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Mark Hudson
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Voters are understandably angry that Trump is taking steps to push the cost of living up rather than down, but in his defense (?) the impact of the Strait closure has genuinely been much milder than most experts thought it would.
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@ModeledBehavior They have a lot less spam/scams than Marketplace
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Do we regard the Craiglist experimental business model to be failed at this point? Is there anything you go there for rather than FB marketplace or some other dedicated platform?
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@AgnesGueco @LorentLouise You are very lucky your ancestors did not apply this kind of absurd standard to their child bearing decisions
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@LorentLouise Consider that your husband’s classmates in graduate school were much more responsible than you for not having children when money was tight, no support system and daycare was more than rent.
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We had our first child when my husband was in grad school. Money was tight, time too, daycare cost more than our rent (yes I had to work FT), "support system" inexistent.
None of that really mattered.
What made it *really* hard was that all the young people around us
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Think what you will about me, but I did not have a fancy internship when I got into this racket, I had a twitter account and opinions, and the Baffler was one of the earliest places that was willing to just publish me. If there are no places like that, it's just corporate media
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@Brady_H Is this based on anything or are you kinda just saying any slow time is the same to you?
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If you are running a marathon in 4+ hours, you don’t need (nor do you benefit) from super shoes.
Certainly not a 4% economy gain.
I’d argue 3:30+ marathon pace probably gets limited benefits vs. standard trainer.
Dave@UnFatDavid
@Brady_H @Mark_Sisson I am of the opinion that there is a certain point where they are no longer worth it. I have no scientific data, but I don’t see the benefit to wearing them if your marathon time is 4 hours plus.
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@NathanpmYoung Poorly phrased, what happens if split decision?
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For every Math Olympiad team member, I'm curious how many kids are there with as much capability, but never had a chance to take advanced math, went to a school without a math/club team, never even knew doing harder math at their age was a possibility. Is it 10? 100?
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@Brady_H Glad you acknowledge this after how excited you were about that idiot running 2:35 or something in jeans
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For button pressing, who's got a good mental coin flip? Mine is: pick a small-ish integer n, pick a quote I know by heart, find the nth word in the quote, the coin lands heads if that word has an even number of letters.
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@vincempls @MetroTransitMN Yes apparently it randomly doesn't have signal priority at some lights. Please keep digging/advocating on this! It should be much faster.
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This afternoon, as with most afternoons, the busy @MetroTransitMN E Line is maintaining planned 10 minute frequency by running 2 buses every 20 minutes. Not ideal. The bottlenecks are definitely due to the lack of dedicated lanes, esp in Uptown, but maybe also signal priority?
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@NortonMpls @PatrickFIanagan “You’re putting a lot of work into this” is a real loser thing to say in an argument. Sounds like his position might indeed have more support than yours?
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@PatrickFIanagan You’re really putting a lot of work into this.
I agree that the quote doesn’t specifically say cops aren’t attempting to make arrests, but we exist in the context. Arrests ultimately aren’t being made, just excuses.
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This is such an insane excuse for Minneapolis police officers to give for not doing their jobs and arresting the people who have been breaking into cars all over the city for months.
Pat Garofalo 🇺🇸@PatGarofalo
I’ve spoken to multiple Minneapolis cops about this. If teens get caught, they know nothing will happen to them. One quote summed it up best… “Pat - they saw a classmate get arrested for stabbing someone and he didn’t even miss a day of school. You think they worry about getting caught doing this?”
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@NortonMpls It is insane but is it wrong? Seems the prosecutors might be kind of insane.
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@Amonahan I didn't get interviewed at most trading firms. Got the (internship) offer at JS. 😂 So it goes for math PhDs....
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@W98AB Yup the largest eigenvalue of the Fibonacci sequence is the golden ratio which happens to be pretty close to the mile/km ratio
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@Predamame In fairness to him, he wrote this right before the shoe technology breakthroughs and it still didn’t happen before he was 50 (though it did before 65).
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@janecoaston It was likely higher than that (though absolute HR is pretty meaningless between different people). Elites tend to have pretty compressed HR zones — e.g. John Korir apparently hit 190 when he won Boston in 2025 x.com/CitiusMag/stat…
CITIUS MAG@CitiusMag
These splits by John Korir to win the 2025 Boston Marathon are a thing of beauty. 🧑🍳 💋
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what gets me is that this means he can stay in zone 3 while running at that pace. like, he can keep a heart rate of 155-160 while running 4:30 repeats for two hours.
Ev@EvanMadders
@janecoaston I am a pretty damn good runner compared to the average person, when I started running I ran a 5k in 30 minutes, after years of work I can run a 5k in 21:05 Sawe just AVERAGED a 14:10 5k.
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@MTabarrok bad take man. You're just gonna let half of all babies/small children die?
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blue is the selfish choice here
if you throw yourself into danger and rely on the sacrifice of others to help you escape even though you could have easily saved yourself, that is extremely selfish
Tim Urban@waitbutwhy
Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?
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@lymanstoneky There is no "murder" involved in pressing blue. You can ungenerously call it "suicide" but how could it possibly bring about the death of anyone else? I'm not sure you understand the scenario.
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PRESSING THE BLUE BUTTON IS NOT COOPERATING!!
Pressing the blue button is defecting in an attempt to a murder-suicide pact for half of humans!
Derek Pederson 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇻🇪@DerekPederson3
Honestly this survey is an enormously strong cutting point against both right-libertarian economic views and "offensive realist" foreign policy views. The world just does not correspond to their beliefs about how it "should" work from theory. People are too damn cooperative!
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@lymanstoneky Button A is supposed to represent Blue? No one who "chose to live" dies; pressing blue can only kill yourself -- no one else.
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Button A: many people die who chose to live
Button B: only people who chose to die die
Adso Øvbelk@AdsoOfBelk
Two buttons lie before you Button A - if you can get 50%+1 of people to agree with you, no one dies Button B - if you can get 100% of people to agree with you, no one dies
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@LinkofSunshine There is actually not enough information in the stated question to determine an answer and the 99% answer is technically possible.
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The most worrying poll I’ve ever seen is one when they asked doctors
“1% of the population had disease X. The test has a 99% accuracy rate.
If someone tests positive for disease X, what are the odds they’re have disease X”
And like 95% of doctors said ~99%. This is their job.
Mary Radcliffe@marywitha4
Sigh.
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