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Summary of the convincing points?

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A lot has changed in four years. The margin was not comfortable enough to say it can be repeated.

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I think about this a good bit and I agree, to an extent. I think the framing that makes it more obvious is that "we value things differently / at different levels". So, we might share a value but prioritize it much differently. Maybe that's obvious? I dunno.

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@kottke.org thoughts?

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Very convincing argument.

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Chris Bredesen's avatar Chris Bredesen @cbredesen.bsky.social
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What's your confidence that Biden in the current form wins over Trump in November? I'm at about 10%.

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Mornings are for coffee, contemplation and reducing all-cause mortality. bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... via reddit

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I was just surprised by the only remotely usable ordering Kiosk while at a Miami coffee shop. I think it’s made by Toast. Kudos.

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TMBG vibes in the intro. Winning!

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kottke.org's avatar kottke.org @kottke.org
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How Not to Get Screwed Buying a Used Car. “This video about how not to get screwed buying a used car crams an astounding amount of good information into three minutes.” [kottke.org]

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My folks subscribed to National Geographic and this is one of the few I remember super distinctly.

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I'm definitely on team Sparse Chips.

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I don't discount the role of luck in many business successes but I think we have different definitions of "extremely dumb".

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Peter Sagal's avatar Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social
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Our social dynamic has been defined by a basic schism for almost a decade now: Half the country is going to vote for this man, and the other half cannot conceive why anybody would ever vote for this man.

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That's how online politics works. Till "woke" took over, it was "socialist".

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This one goes in the hall of fame. Perfect.

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Chris Bredesen's avatar Chris Bredesen @cbredesen.bsky.social
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I just had one of those medical provider online bill pay systems "authenticate" me by account number + date of birth. The next step was asking me to add my DOB to the account. I shit you not.

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While we have calculated Pi to trillions of digits, we need only 37 digits to calculate the circumference of the known universe to a margin of error equal to the size of a hydrogen atom. Happy Pi Day!

www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/news/201...

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Absolutely fantastic work. Highly recommend watching the video linked in Jason's article below.

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I doubt they could do that today but congress could - if they wished to tighten the rules - could pass this kind of law making norms and customs into actual binding rules. Alas...

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I gotta think this is coming. I does seem conspicuously absent. That said, I'm jazzed about a lightweight sports app that isn't rife with ads and other BS.

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kottke.org's avatar kottke.org @kottke.org
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A list of things unexpectedly named after people, including MySQL (My Widenius), German chocolate cake (Samuel German), and Shrapnel (Henry Shrapnel). (Also: aspirin, dry ice, and escalator used to be trademarks!) [kottke.org]

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Marco Langbroek's avatar Marco Langbroek @marcolangbroek.bsky.social
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1/2 The renewed volcanic eruption near Grindavik, on the Reykjanes peninsula of Iceland, in a cloudless Copernicus Sentinel 2A satellite image from mid-8 February. Combined natural colour + SWIR.

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I'm in the middle of the Netflix series DARK and this hits differently...

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Randall Munroe's avatar Randall Munroe @xkcd.com
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These throwable fire extinguishers seem like a real-life example of xkcd.com/937 — they have really good reviews from everyone except the few people who tried using them to put out fires

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Chris Bredesen's avatar Chris Bredesen @cbredesen.bsky.social
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My 50-year-old body gets cranky after a while and I have to move .. but my wife and daughter? pshhh. ALL. DAY.

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He's going places ... diagonally

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nobody: how many stroopwafels have you eaten this week? me: YOU SHUT YOUR DIRTY MOUTH

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kottke.org's avatar kottke.org @kottke.org
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“I built a trading bot that buys stocks that are being bought by politicians. It is up 20% since it launched in May 2022. The market has been flat during the same time period.” More here. [threads.net]

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