Many pilots rely on self selected enthusiasts, vendor methodologies, and rough time saved calculations rather than robust measures of service quality or error rates.
I have almost like this superstitious thing that if I were to actually do an elective surgery to look younger, I would immediately get, my cancer would come back, or I would get Parkinson's, or it's almost like, recently I was thinking about, my dad loved that ancient fable, Appointment in Samara.
Zemblanity is when something unlucky, unwanted or undesired happens by design because it's already built in. It seems unexpected and like bad luck, but in hindsight it was to be expected and avoidable.
Investors who participate in the IPO will essentially be financing Musk's unproven AI ambitions in order to get a piece of uh high performing commercial space and telecom firm.
I think right now the crypto industry is to be honest is too transparent. It's actually extremely easy to track crypto funds. Um like the blockchain is a public ledger and then if you couple that with a a few centralized exchanges KYC information, you can track most of the transactions pretty accurately.
What I realized what she was doing was she was kind of testing my conviction, right? And she probably got a lot of calls from people who said, "Oh, I want to do this. I want to do that." And she's like, "Well, if you have the conviction in yourself to move out with no job, that shows you really kind of want it."
the bank is just benefiting from my misfortune, from the misfortune of people who can't afford to make any mistakes, from people who have no margin of error.
When you're really kind of starving for accurate information uh you know out of out of both sides in terms of what is the condition of the straight of Hormuz uh how is it you know what what is the traffic look like? What is the potential for that to get back online? what is the the knock-on effect going to be for the global economy? all of these, you know, unanswered questions. Um, I think that just makes markets, uh, you know, a little bit more aggressive and volatile when you get any snippet of good news
Billions of Saudi dollars were already reshaping the US economy. And now many of those tech companies are vulnerable as Iran targets their infrastructure in Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries in the ongoing war.
Against I would be worried about unknown unknowns. Pro. While there isn't much human data, the anecdotal evidence is pretty strong. Against anecdotes are not enough for me. Pro. Fair. It is for me.
A lot of these mega mergers over time don't prove valuable. I remember I first started covering media in the year 2000. That was the year that AOL acquired and ate Time Warner. And it was disastrous for both halves of that.
By banning the export of chips to China, the cost to China of a Taiwan invasion decreases. And so if China can't access TSMC chips anyway, it's a lot less risky to go to war.
For everyone in London, whether you lived through the night was, therefore, a matter of luck. The odds were long, only one in 20,000 chances of being hit, said the papers. But still, every bomb landed somewhere. Each bomb might be that one. You couldn't know it wasn't till it hadn't fallen on you.
If you look at history, there's as much danger of an autocrat coming from the far left as from the far right. I believe the far left is as dangerous as the far right. It's the extremes that present a threat to society.
The speed of which AI is changing we're not adapting our society fast enough... the biggest issue confronting our country today and other countries is the speed of which this change is occurring is society moderating that fast enough?
It's becoming increasingly untenable for prediction markets to sit in the middle of the tension between gambling on the news and trying to self-regulate such that they don't encourage insider trading.
if this war is extended if it if if we see um no offramp for for for the US and Israel and it has to continue and therefore that choke point stays closed. At some point we're going to see you're going to see a supply crunch and that's what that that's really the the major fear.
there are about 20 million barrels of oil that transit the straits of Hormuz every day. That's almost three times as much as Russia exports. So, you know, this is a problem three times as great as the problem that created the panic on global oil markets at the start of the Ukraine war.
roughly 20% of the world's oil production is flowing through that every day and so whether you're looking backward or looking forward there is no replacement whatsoever for opening that strait and keeping it open.
this is a regime that um is essentially a death cult and doesn't have the same motivations as a normal regime has. They view the death of their own people, the martyrdom of their people as a sign of their own sacredness and righteousness.
Mortal danger was actually, I think, a core part of the appeal of the sport in those early days. These guys were gladiators. They were risking their life every time they got in a car.
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