Origami Risk keeps winning awards…
Author: fish1964
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TikTok Sucks?
I’m obviously not the most common age demographic for TikTok (though I do have an account). Given it’s success it clearly doesn’t suck, but from the content creators point of view? This video from Hank Green is a fascinating look at the economics of content creation and platforms. YouTube appears to be a total outlier in terms of genuinely paying the creators…
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Web3 as Poop Emoji
That’s probably the strangest post title I’ve ever written. I really can’t explain it, just read this post. It’s written by the founder of Signal.
Despite considering myself a cryptographer, I have not found myself particularly drawn to “crypto.” I don’t think I’ve ever actually said the words “get off my lawn,” but I’m much more likely to click on Pepperidge Farm Remembers flavored memes about how “crypto” used to mean “cryptography” than I am the latest NFT drop.
He makes an excellent point that despite the web3 goal of a decentralized web, people are going to connect to a Blockchain through one or two services for convenience. So you will be at the mercy of the service.
He built an NFT app that ultimately delivered a poop emoji (read the post, it’s excellent). OpenSea (NFT marketplace) ultimately stopped showing it. Is it still on the Blockchain? I assume so. If you bought it could you see it? Sorry.
Poop.
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Movie Casino Scams
This is long but awesome. A casino cheating expert dissects various gambling movie scams and explains how everything is done.
The best gambling movie to him is Casino (1995), “so real world…”.
My favorite clip is when he brings in his wife and she is able to say the cards he has every time based on subtle signals. Watch this part:
His final quote:
“If you want to go to a casino and you want to be guaranteed to come home with a small fortune, go with a large one…
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How to Ride a Bike
This video, Most People Don’t Know Bikes Work is brilliant. You can’t turn left without first turning right…
Watch the whole thing, but this part explains it best:
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Mark Zuckerberg Changes Name to Mother Teresa
I literally have an RSS feed for The Borowitz Report just for the headlines. But the articles are extra funny…
“The name ‘Mark Zuckerberg’ did not accurately describe my function: to be a force for good, spreading love and kindness throughout the metaverse,” he said.
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Ueck
This is a nice article about Bob Uecker (“87 going on 27”). I grew up in Milwaukee. With a family of all boys, we did a lot of camping trips. Listening to the Brewers on the radio was a common thing. And it was always Uecker. A genuinely good baseball announcer as a former catcher, he would throw in occasional hilarious deadpan one liners (down 9 runs, “a couple grand slams, we’re right in this thing”).
It’s crazy to realize that an average major league catcher turned broadcaster became so famous.
He’s done commercials, television and films. He was a favorite guest of Johnny Carson during more than 100 appearances on The Tonight Show. Uecker hosted Wrestlemanias and is in the WWE Hall of Fame. He’s in the Radio Hall of Fame and Cooperstown as well, recipient of the 2003 Ford C. Frick Award for broadcasting.
But deep down he’s always been a baseball player at heart…
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Kentucky – Welfare State
This chart is a bit crazy. There are 8 states that pay more in federal taxes than they receive back from the federal government. By and large, those aren’t the states complaining about high taxes. That obviously means 42 states are paying less than they receive, substantially less in many cases.
This is per capita balance of payments. Orange to red are the states paying more than they get back. Gray to blue are the freeloaders. Each Kentucky resident gets over $14K more from the federal government than they contribute.
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20 Years
It’s hard to believe it’s been 20 years. Today we will get together with friends and remember the folks we lost.
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Deficit Bullshit
Barry Ritholtz is always a good read. This one especially so.
We are told over and over, again and again, that If we allow the federal government to deficit spend, a parade of horrors awaits us, including:
– Excess Federal spending will crowd out Private Capital, choking innovation and new company formation;
– The costs of US borrowing will skyrocket, making the debt impossible to manage;
– The US Dollar will be devastated, and it will be radically devalued against all other currencies;
– All of this will cause rampant inflation, spiking prices to levels not seen before;
– Deficits will act as a drag on the overall economy;
It has been 50 years of hearing this — and NONE OF IT HAS PROVEN TRUE.
Hard to argue with that.
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