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If you're a slave in antebellum North Carolina, you have rosin on-hand and an open fire, no oven. You can cook your potatoes on the hot coals and ash or boil them in water in a pot. This method might have been more thermally efficient than either of those options and resulted in a nicer inner texture, while also conveniently sealing the cooked potato in a waxy later so it could be consumed later.

Is this the introduction of native call recording on iPhone? I've always had to use an app to record calls.

It's either smell, body heat, or easy access to skin. Maybe you sweat more than your wife, or the compounds in your sweat are more attractive to mosquitos, or maybe her hygiene is better.

The smelliest parts of people are the sweat glands and mouth. I pay extra care to my smell when archery hunting by keeping my teeth brushed and using wet wipes on sweaty areas. Eating an apple also helps neutralize mouth odor.

Better to whole-ass one thing than half-ass two things. Sleep allows a focused effort on cellular repair, garbage collection, memory consolidation, and learning.

The 24-hour dark-light cycle on Earth is the most energetically significant thing that happens here, and species capitalize on the parts of the day that play to their strengths.

No, purchasing power is down. Costs of living have gone up more than median wages. How much gold can you buy with USD today vs. 10 years ago? Less because the USD is worth less than it was. How much housing can you buy with $100,000 or with 1,000 hours of labor? Less housing.

Young people are objectively doing bad. Not trying to be depressing, but economically, behaviorally, health-wise, (at the median) they are worse off than their parents.

Phrases like "the American economy is booming" or "America is out-performing Europe..." are simplistic and ridiculous. My least favorite part of getting a degree in economics was the endless story-telling that pretends to be scientific. "America" is not equivalent to the asset portfolios of the richest 1% of the population. Just say what you're measuring (rich people's wealth) and don't try to dress it up as a measure of a thriving nation. Don't call it "America" or "the economy", call it GDP.

Purchasing power is down, birth rates are down, life expectancies are down, young people's expectations of the future are down. We should account for things we care about when we talk about how the country is doing.

How does that compare to the CEO's annual comp?

More like having a drug dealer in your AA group.

I wonder if you need to account for body language to get that figured out. A technical conversation on the phone is usually not as fluid as in-person.

Advice and verbal axioms like "eat more vegetables" probably don't work because they don't operate at the level of emotions and imagery, they're just words. People are not as rational as they like to think they are.

That cave location looks like such a prime piece of real-estate for a Paleolithic hunter group.

A legal fiction.

I meant it as a matter-of-fact observation. The headline was changed after my comment, but it was "Why We’re Deeply Invested in Making AI Better at Math Tutoring".

The "why" is obvious, it's cheaper than paying people, and the article didn't have anything interesting to say.