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Koenigsegg Agera RS became the world’s fastest production road car, recording a two-way speed average of 277.9 m.p.h
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Also, Bugatti, Hennessey, Rimac
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/12/25/the-worlds-fastest-road-cars-and-the-people-who-drive-them
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The World’s Fastest Road Cars—and the People Who Drive Them | The New Yorker
January 29, 2024The Greatest Wealth Transfer in History Is Here, With Familiar (Rich) Winners – The New York Times
January 27, 2024https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/14/business/economy/wealth-generations.html QT:{{”
“I have right now in my stock portfolio, some stock that my wife’s father, who died a long time ago, bought in the 1970s — that investment has gone from a few thousand dollars to many hundreds of thousands of dollars,” Mr. Pearl noted. “I’ve never paid a penny of taxes on all that, and I may not ever, because I might not sell and then my kids are going to have millions of dollars in income that’s never taxed in any way, shape or form.”
Mr. Pearl noted that people with only a couple of million can use “securities-based loans,” borrowing low-cost funds from banks using the value of a given investment portfolio as collateral. “You just loan yourself money,” he explained, and in many if not most cases, the portfolio’s rate of return exceeds the rate of interest on the loan. “}}
Oligopsony: What it is, How it Works, Example
December 29, 2023https://www.investopedia.com/terms/o/oligopsony.asp
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An oligopsony is a market for a product or service which is dominated by a few large buyers.
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Maya Angelou: How You Made Them Feel — NoteworthyNonsense
December 26, 2023QT:{{”
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
-Maya Angelou
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https://noteworthynonsense.com/blog/08/2020/Maya-Angelou-How-You-Made-Them-Feel
Measuring media ideology: Bias or reality
December 20, 2023https://www.economist.com/united-states/2023/12/14/american-journalism-sounds-much-more-democratic-than-republican American journalism sounds much more Democratic than Republican
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The first step in our analysis was compiling a partisan “dictionary”. We took all speeches in Congress in 2009-22 and broke them up into two-word phrases. We then filtered this list to terms used by large shares of one party’s lawmakers, but rarely by the other’s. The result was a collection of 428 phrases that reliably distinguish Democratic and Republican speeches, such as “unborn baby” versus “reproductive care” or “illegal alien” versus “undocumented immigrant”….Next, we collected 242,000 articles from news websites in 2016-22, and transcripts of 397,000 prime-time tv segments from 2009-22. We calculated an ideological score for each one by comparing the frequencies of terms on our list. For example, a story in which 0.1% of distinct phrases are Republican and 0.05% are Democratic has a conservative slant of 0.05 percentage points, or five per 10,000 phrases.
…Finally, we calculated the average partisan leaning of each news source’s coverage, weighting each story by the share of its content about domestic politics.
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Some claim human lifespans can be lengthened indefinitely
December 11, 2023https://www.economist.com/technology-quarterly/2023/09/25/some-claim-human-lifespans-can-be-lengthened-indefinitely
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There is a story about a blues musician who, when questioned on his 100th birthday about his decades of smoking and drinking, responded that if he’d known he was going to live so long, he’d have taken better care of himself. Bryan Johnson is that apocryphal bluesman’s polar opposite. He has been taking care of himself for years to a degree as remarkable, in its way, as the deepest devotion to bourbon and bad choices. …
The daily regime which he and his many doctors have devised makes life in Biosphere 2 look sybaritic. A kilogram of vegetables, all before 11am, rigorous workouts lasting 45-60 minutes, and 100 pills, including metformin and rapamycin. His vital functions are subjected to the sort of continuous scrutiny more usually associated with laboratory animals. He says he is ageing at 69% of the normal rate. Mr Johnson, who has been described as the most measured man in the world, can afford the team of medics, trainers and dieticians who minister to him because selling Braintree, an electronic-payments company which he founded, left him with a net worth of more than $100m. For mere mortals, however, a range of less intensive options are available.
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They Studied Dishonesty. Was Their Work a Lie? | The New Yorker
December 11, 2023https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/10/09/they-studied-dishonesty-was-their-work-a-lie QT:{{
the Data Colada team sent a dossier to Harvard that outlined an array of anomalies in four of Gino’s papers. In her lab study for the car-insurance paper, for example, several observations seemed to be out of order, in a way that suggested someone had moved them around by hand. Those data points, they found, were disproportionately responsible for the result. The team was unable to conceive of a benign explanation for this pattern. They had examined only four papers but noted “strong suspicions” about some of her published data going as far back as 2008. On October 27, 2021, Harvard notified Gino that she was under investigation, and asked her to turn over all “HBS-issued devices” by 5 p.m. that day. According to Gino, the police were called to oversee the process.
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Emmett Shear ’05 briefly appointed OpenAI CEO amid chaotic turnover – Yale Daily News
December 11, 2023QT:{{”
“The appointment, even if temporary, is significant both for Yale’s reputation and the tech community as a whole,” computer science professor Mark Gerstein wrote to the News. “Leaders in the tech industry serve as pivotal role models and inspirational figures for those pursuing technical professions.”
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Gerstein said that Shear’s brief stint as OpenAI CEO is especially notable given Yale’s “limited presence in tech leadership” compared to peer schools such as Stanford University and Harvard University. “}}
Charles T. Munger, Much More Than Warren Buffett’s No. 2, Dies at 99 – The New York Times
November 30, 2023Liked the quotes in this article. Here’s a great one: Mr. Buffett said that when they did differ, Mr. Munger would say, “Warren, think it over and you’ll agree with me because you’re smart and I’m right.”
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Repeating one of Mr. Munger’s favorite lines, Mr. Buffett said that when they did differ, Mr. Munger would say, “Warren, think it over and you’ll agree with me because you’re smart and I’m right.”
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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/28/business/charles-t-munger-dead.html
Neurons are not the only brain cells that think | The Economist
September 4, 2023astrocyte
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Autism is one. In 2017 Ishizuka Kanako of the Nagoya Institute of Technology, in Japan, found a link between an increased risk of autism and the presence of a pair of genetic variants known to disrupt, in microglia, the expression of a protein called cx3cr1. And in 2020 Xu Zhixiang of Scripps Research, in San Diego, showed a range of microglial protein-synthesis problems cause autism-like symptoms in mice.
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Many researchers now talk of “tripartite” synapses as being standard in the brain. Their transistor-like three-element composition has one part (the astrocyte) which acts like a transistor’s “base” connection, regulating the passage of signals between the other two (the neurons, the equivalents of a transistor’s “emitter” and “collector”). Since transistors form the logic gates of computers, that is intriguing. “}}
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