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Marshmallow tests are more a test of the child’s priors about adult reliability.

If the child has reliable parents they tend to pass the test. The children of reliable parents do better in life, which is obvious.

The test also fails to account for a temperate child that doesn’t actually want more than one in the first place and isn’t playing the researchers game.

Our Man in Havana is a very good book about the topic.

Secrets are a dark illiquid market where there’s high demand for things that don’t exist. So naturally there’s a lot of supply for that information. The fact that is almost all bogus is irrelevant.

Might not be the same, but reading computer code and Ancient Greek or Latin are remarkably similar skills.

I could be convinced that parsing a language at that resolution isn’t how language processing works for general use, but that’s like saying diagraming a sentence isn’t speaking a language. Technically true but missing the point.

This is Google saying “if anyone is going to monetize your site’s reputation it’s us.”

Orders should have some durability and it would probably change behaviors enough to make hft go away.

If you list a buy or sell order it just has to be in force for some period of time, say a minute or something.

HFT shops will say this would reduce liquidity, but it would only make clear what real liquidity was in the first place.

It is a little curious that the skin was applied with consent, but not removed with it.

I was lead to believe that Harvard was where smart people were. The simple thing to do would be to remove the book from circulation, not destroy the thing that made it interesting.

This is essentially the purpose of money laundering, so a lot.

The fact that there's no formal difference between tax payments and scam payments should be tickling the part of your brain; this means something.

The Dead Internet Theory was only slightly ahead of its time.

Used to be real people pretended to be girls on the internet. These days I can’t even get an honest real fake person pretending to be an attractive female on LinkedIn.

This has the same pattern as the Vivendi deal with Blizzard back in 2007.

In both instances, the game end of the deal had peaked already, and there was nowhere to go but down. Nothing a few billion dollars can’t fix, maybe some “new content,” says the business guys.

Meanwhile their product becomes worse by the month. The magic is fading. All the people who made it great move on, not wanting to deal with the business parasites who showed up to squeeze a buck. Repeat.

It's amusing watching streaming turn into cable, but somehow worse. At least we got some public access programming out of cable.

Piracy is a service problem. Valve proved digital piracy can be beaten by commercial solutions. The problem is the media cartels being intransigent with digital delivery, not piracy.

As a member of the collectible asset class, Jordans are not falling like the rest of the cohort.

Most collectibles are -90% these days. Jordans selling at humble discounts isn’t a sign of weakness all things considered.

Huh I wonder if I could setup a local police force to do keyword research now for cheap with a few overbroad warrants.

Destroy the cameras.