I feel like a large amount of GDP is locked up because it is difficult for person A to very conveniently pay 5 cents to person B. Current high fixed costs per transaction force each of them to be of high enough amounts, which results in business models with purchase bundles,

ok well maybe she also likes tacos

is "buddy" a slur

joyce no need for stable job i have stable gambling addiction

Pictured is 29 people protesting: now prohibited on Carnegie Mellon University's campus. A new policy demands registration for 25+ people, 3 days notice, sign off by a "Chief Risk Officer," and names and numbers of organizers. We refuse to register to hold a protest on a college campus.

The perception of safety in American cities is disconnected from actual safety. Most Democrats think all cities are safe except Detroit and Chicago. They are wrong about New Orleans, Atlanta, and Philapdelphia. Most Republicans think all cities are generally unsafe, except a

what do you mean it’s september already

Elon Musk So, you've gone full-throttle sexist now? This "observation," which is not based on any actual observation, flies in the face of every study of conservatism in social psychology. Many studies show that conservatism is associated with social conformity and a submission to

people who like each other should just get married and build lives together. bring back arranged marriages.

insane i just found out about this

VLDB'24 Paper #2: This is our next gen PostgreSQL AI/ML tuner inspired by LLMs. Instead tuning a single part of DBMS, Proto-X holistically tunes everything: sys/table/index/query knobs, indexes, plans. • Code: github.com/17zhangw/protox • Paper: x.com/pvldb/status/1…

Years after the fact, a graduated Ph.D. student told me they didn't choose to work with me because of my research. They chose me because other students recommended me. Reader, at the time, I had just 2 years of Ph.D. advising exp. A🧵on the most important faculty superpower 1/10

at this point are dating apps not just modern day indian arranged/facilitated marriages

okay instagram has figured me out the algorithm got me i hate to admit it but that app is so fun why did i just start using it now

one of THE best rom coms i have ever seen is on netflix. go watch it immediately

one of my recent videos is getting a ton of attention and hate comments it’s a lot of people telling me i “should be embarrassed” to even question values I was raised on it’s funny because that’s the exact line of thinking so predominate in south asian culture that i’ve been

Elon Musk this is just sad

Hawk Tuah recently went viral on the misconception that single family zoning "protects" neighborhoods. "Actually, single-family zoning creates less tax revenue per unit of infrastructure. It incentivizes car-centric development which promotes poor health and social isolation."

ion see despacito on here nobody tell him

maybe i would if i had a non-shitposting account