As lots of people are liking a post I wrote that has the word "advice" in it, I need to issue my periodic reminder that my advice may in fact be terrible. I know very little, in general.

Love this so much

The # of leftists who have just shown us that they don’t understand, or worse pretend not to understand, economics is staggering. If you expropriated (stole) 5% of Elon’s stock you have to sell it, then use that cash to compete with other goods and services in the economy. We need to do less of something else (consumption) to do more of whatever it is you want to do. The funding source is irrelevant to the existence of this tradeoff. Oh, and because it’s still most of the consumption, most of the pain of this tradeoff would, as usual, not come from the super-rich, but from the people you pretend to care most about (or you’re just that dumb). Elon is not sitting on a pile of unused health care you can take and hand out.

And here I was told "football" players don't flop

Yes. Solve people's problems for them and they will happily pay you in exchange.

The next trillionaire will undoubtedly get there by solving some very important problems (like advancing electrification of global personal transportation by a decade or more, dramatically cutting the $/kg of taking stuff to orbit, or supplying wireless broadband internet to the entire planet). I want to live in the world that person will help create.

Americans are actually super kind people by and large and the fact that social media is filled with loudmouth assholes with very niche beliefs distracts from that is really sad and frustrating. More content of American normies meeting foreigners, please!

Life today is better than life yesterday part 8793274932875923

There should be a new vocab word for vibe coding drinking. Kind of like drunk dialing, but for research. Thoughts?

Nope it's Coco

Periodic reminder: if I ask you to review a paper, I have no problem with you turning it down. I don't know what else is happening in your life right now. I do have a problem with nonresponse. Please decline quickly. Otherwise you're just making authors' life worse.

Progressives dislike progress. Conservatives dislike conservation. What a time to be alive.

lol I mean, seriously. On every dimension Lindy Ruff had a more impressive season than Cooper. Literally every single dimension.

But if you *really* just believe that CPD should stop actively policing communities where lots of shootings happen, you'd cancel ShotSpotter and sit on your hands. Notably, that's what the Mayor seems to be doing. (5/6)