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The NYT is finally catching up...
If you're early in your career or still building, remote work is brutal:
- You miss real training, feedback, and institutional knowledge
- Productivity drops ~20% (MIT study)
- No mentors. No company culture.
- No bonding. No happy hours.
- Fewer real work friends
- Divorce rates and mental health issues spike
- Fewer spontaneous opportunities (client meetings, drinks with the boss, hallway ideas)
- Lower promotions and job security long-term
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Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence.
A news story broke there's massive structures beneath the Pyramid of Khafre, something far beyond the tech level assumed of ancient Egyptians.
What can back these claims? Extraordinary technology: Synthetic Aperture Radar🧵
As we offload more cognition to AI, does that diminish our net cognitive capacity, or is that capacity reallocated for other cognitive faculties to grow into?
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Most dangerous thing for country about Trump coin is what comes next. Now anyone in world can essentially deposit money into bank account of President of USA with a couple clicks. Every favor - geopolitical, corporate or personal - is now on sale, right out in the open.
neuroflow retweeted
At any point in life, you can just decide to live a different life
It’s one of the most powerful (and scariest) secrets around. Everything is a concept in your head
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US govt declared Coinbase an illegal brokerage, and then proceeded to use Coinbase as its brokerage
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Ep 1 of my Netflix series Ancient Apocalypse showcases Indonesia's Gunung Padang, possibly the world's oldest pyramidal structure, & honors the work of indigenous geologist Danny Hilman Natawidjaja. The archaeo-mafia were furious. But now... vindication:
sciencealert.com/giant-pyram…
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liz warren's expectation: hardened terrorists raised $130m+ in crypto to fund their operations
reality of terrorist financing with blockchains:
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Elliptic corrects the record. Your move, @wsj
elliptic.co/blog/setting-the…
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so just to recap
- WSJ journalists (Angus Berwick & Ian Talley) write a flurry of articles citing Elliptic data claiming that PIJ (Hamas affiliate) raised $93m in crypto (and cites BitOK claiming Hamas raised $41m) [1]
- Sen Warren uses this article to claim that Hamas raised "over $130m" in crypto. This article is her SOLE citation in her letter. The entire letter depends on the WSJ article [2]
- Over 100 member of Congress sign the letter, which asks for the Biden admin to further crack down on crypto
- Chainalysis comes out with an article disputing the WSJ claims, saying that instead of $82m of terror financing, the real figure is around $450k. It's unclear which wallets they are referring to. Either way, it looks like the WSJ analysis is vastly overstated [3]
- WSJ refuses to follow up or retract, instead writing more articles relying on their claims
[1] archive.ph/hdcWc
[2] warren.senate.gov/imo/media/…
[3] chainalysis.com/blog/cryptoc…
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