**RT @cremieuxrecueil:**
Opinion polling is strongly affected by how you ask the questions
In 2012, a series of polls asked people if they wanted to increase taxes on the rich
Most said yes!
Then another poll asked people to set a specific top tax rate
Most unwittingly selected to lower top tax rates
https://nitter.moomoo.me/cremieuxrecueil/status/1660787608065114114#m
**RT @patrickc:**
Looking forward to booking my next Airbnb with Stripe: stripe.com/newsroom/news/air… (https://stripe.com/newsroom/news/airbnb-and-stripe).
https://nitter.moomoo.me/patrickc/status/1660778221460418565#m
**RT @patrickc:**
Looking forward to booking my next Airbnb with Stripe: stripe.com/newsroom/news/air… (https://stripe.com/newsroom/news/airbnb-and-stripe).
https://nitter.moomoo.me/patrickc/status/1660778221460418565#m
**RT @Altimor:**
Pains me to say this, but even I have changed my stance on remote.
We tried hard, developed the best tooling allowed by the tech — and still, remote falls very short of colocation, especially for startups that are still pre-product market fit.
https://nitter.moomoo.me/Altimor/status/1660718458152304640#m
**RT @emollick:**
“...class attendance \[is\] a better predictor of college grades than any other known predictor of academic performance, including scores on standardized admissions tests such as the SAT, high school GPA, study habits & study skills"
Details in this paper: fyp.utk.edu/wp-content/uploa… (https://fyp.utk.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2013/08/Crede-et-al-2010-on-class-attendance.pdf)
https://nitter.moomoo.me/emollick/status/1660689315159068673#m
A clue to what makes countries rich. And this is on a log scale.
**RT @SteveStuWill:**
Why you should (almost) never believe single medical studies vox.com/2015/3/23/8264355/re… (https://www.vox.com/2015/3/23/8264355/research-study-hype)
"\[W\]hat makes it news is that it's new – and that creates a bias in the media to look for brand new results. My view would be that brand new results would be the most likely to be wrong."
https://nitter.moomoo.me/SteveStuWill/status/1660434339501604865#m
**Response to @paulg:**
This was clarified for me by this metaphor of Eliezer Yudkowsky's:
nitter.moomoo.me/ESYudkowsky/status/1660399502266871809#m (https://nitter.moomoo.me/ESYudkowsky/status/1660399502266871809#m)
Few things are harder to predict than the ways in which someone much smarter than you might outsmart you.
That's the reason I worry about AI. Not just the problem itself, but the meta-problem that the ways the problem might play out are inherently hard to predict.
**RT @adamdangelo:**
I expect we will see continual progress from here to AGI, without any period that feels like a "winter". There are just too many obvious things left to be done. And the underlying exponential growth in compute has a very long way to go.
https://nitter.moomoo.me/adamdangelo/status/1660391688047857664#m
**RT @pitdesi:**
Investigative journalism was amazing back when newspapers made 💰
In 1977, the Chicago Sun-Times bought & ran a bar to expose corruption prevalent in Chicago.
It was impactful, exposing $16M in tax fraud & led to the firing & indictment of 30+ employees
topic.com/the-story-behind-t… (https://www.topic.com/the-story-behind-the-chicago-newspaper-that-bought-a-bar)
https://nitter.moomoo.me/pitdesi/status/1660309350504861704#m
My whole adult life has been a search for quiet. I've had 3 different buildings soundproofed. I can continue working on something in a noisy place, but to \*start\* working on something I need quiet.
nitter.moomoo.me/emollick/status/1660093233181933568#m (https://nitter.moomoo.me/emollick/status/1660093233181933568#m)
**RT @Rainmaker1973:**
The interesting pattern created by the tangent lines to sine function
\[source: bit.ly/2uU2jd7 (https://bit.ly/2uU2jd7)\]
https://nitter.moomoo.me/Rainmaker1973/status/1660193655750098946#m
**RT @dadiomov:**
The Economist has a special report on payments this week. It outlines three separate payment systems in competition:
\- Western networks: banks, Visa/MC, SWIFT
\- Closed apps: AliPay/WeChat
\- National schemes that connect: UPI
Truly a new era of payments.
economist.com/special-report… (https://www.economist.com/special-report/2023/05/15/as-payments-systems-go-digital-they-are-changing-global-finance)
https://nitter.moomoo.me/dadiomov/status/1660078978223448065#m
**RT @dadiomov:**
The Economist has a special report on payments this week. It outlines three separate payment systems in competition:
\- Western networks: banks, Visa/MC, SWIFT
\- Closed apps: AliPay/WeChat
\- National schemes that connect: UPI
Truly a new era of payments.
economist.com/special-report… (https://www.economist.com/special-report/2023/05/15/as-payments-systems-go-digital-they-are-changing-global-finance)
https://nitter.moomoo.me/dadiomov/status/1660078978223448065#m
**RT @amasad:**
We’re building a world class AI team. Announcements coming soon.
nitter.moomoo.me/jeremyopendata/status/1660018063524102144#m (https://nitter.moomoo.me/jeremyopendata/status/1660018063524102144#m)
https://nitter.moomoo.me/amasad/status/1660019786460573696#m
Someone asked me what was the most luck-dependent thing in startups. I replied: whether you're suited for it. Only a tiny fraction of people are.
**RT @Noahpinion:**
"After accounting for indirect taxes and in-kind transfers, the US redistributes a greater share of national income to low-income groups than any European country."
aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.12… (https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20200703)
https://nitter.moomoo.me/Noahpinion/status/1659619131946315776#m
The Bay Area has almost 7x as much VC investment as the second biggest US startup hub, NYC.
**RT @Suhail:**
Graphics revolution in plain sight.
nitter.moomoo.me/\_akhaliq/status/1659424744490377217#m (https://nitter.moomoo.me/_akhaliq/status/1659424744490377217#m)
https://nitter.moomoo.me/Suhail/status/1659434711763263489#m