Interesting, highly relevant. What happens when states force home insurers to do things that aren't in their interest (like premium caps, prohibitions of underwriting conditions) etc. Hartley et al: effects of Fair Access to Insurance Requirements in the 1960s. 1/

Starting a new company: You pay us $10k/mo and we send your competitors an endless stream of invites to be interviewed on 3 hour-long tech podcasts, speaking engagements, founder dinners, and all-day tech events so they can never get real work done and they fail.

This is bonkers. They have set annual rent increases at below cost growth, forever.

All the great breakthroughs in science are, at their core, compression. They take a complex mess of observations and say, "it's all just this simple rule". Symbolic compression, specifically. Because the rule is always symbolic -- usually expressed as mathematical equations. If

I might have a new favorite proof that the harmonic series diverges. It's just so beautiful.

There is a lot of property in Northern Nevada currently listed at millions of dollars for its mineral potential. If it had potential, it wouldn’t be listed. And if you know the area, most of these properties aren’t where you’d look for gold. Can’t fault them for trying I guess.

La Fermette Mareuf, France

History books in every country be like...

Megan McArdle andymasley.substack.com/p/data-centers…

Was just regaled with stories of a major company forcing everyone to use AI to write most of their code. That code is then “reviewed” by the same AI before being pushed into production. Engineers are constantly dealing with production outages from comically bad AI code. No one

I struggle to understand the conceptual failure that would cause an executive to decide that LLMs should review their own code. We don’t let actual AGIs (human engineers) review their own code.

Climbing mountains in the “extreme altitude” zone (5500-8000 meters) provides a novel perspective on your health and fitness. Cardio and renal efficiency are paramount. Proved that on Thanksgiving in the Andes. Pleasantly surprised by speed of adaptation. Killer views too.

A great new meta-analysis of the psychological impacts of economic inequality just came out. Its first big finding was that across 100 studies, there was no significant effect on subjective well-being: not cross-sectionally, longitudinally, or at a small or large level. The

Link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Am not political but.. 🤦🏻‍♂️ "Rachel Reeves’s decision to raise taxes to the highest level on record will constrain economic growth for years and deter people from saving, earning more money and taking the risk of becoming entrepreneurs, leading economists have warned. The

I have boomer relatives hounding me about obvious AI generated fake pictures of my city. Totally geometrically impossible, they should know better. FML, this is the AI slop future. Credulous relatives constantly pinging me about random AI slop they see online as if it was real.

Lake Louise in Canada

Easter Island

View from Bà Nà Hills in Vietnam