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“America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.”

Infinite in All Directions is still one of my favorite science books.

"Science and religion are two human enterprises sharing many common features. They share these features also with other enterprises such as art, literature, and music. The most salient features of all these enterprises are discipline and diversity. Discipline to submerge the individual fantasy in a greater whole. Diversity to give scope to the infinite variety of human souls and temperaments. Without discipline there can be no greatness. Without diversity there can be no freedom. Greatness for the enterprise, freedom for the individual- these are the two themes, contrasting but not incompatible, that make up the history of science and the history of religion."

There is also a NSA center in that area

Tip more than 20%: good server or small bill for sit down meal

Tip 15%: mediocre service at sit down meal

Tip less than 15%: bartender, order at counter meal

Got the same thing just yesterday.

Ben doesn't explicitly draw this line, but it seems Apple is betting that courts reward orientation towards privacy in the face of monopolistic actions.

Russ Roberts invited them both to discuss their differences on econtalk- Nassim promptly declined. Until that happens, I think the twitter feud is without value.

wondered when or if they would bring this back

yes. lessons will improve your riding no matter how long you've ridden, and they are KEY at the beginning stages. so many movements are counter intuitive

"Oumuamua appears to have originated at the Local Standard of Rest (LSR), which is the galactic frame of reference." Is a very interesting side-note

thank you, that is an interesting perspective... "This is one of those sentences that sounds insightful, but in reality is pretty surprisingly shallow."

“To be a mass tourist, for me, is to become a pure late-date American: alien, ignorant, greedy for something you cannot ever have, disappointed in a way you can never admit. It is to spoil, by way of sheer ontology, the very unspoiledness you are there to experience, It is to impose yourself on places that in all non-economic ways would be better, realer, without you. It is, in lines and gridlock and transaction after transaction, to confront a dimension of yourself that is as inescapable as it is painful: As a tourist, you become economically significant but existentially loathsome, an insect on a dead thing.” -David Foster Wallace