Articles by NavinF
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How getting richer made teenagers less free (theargumentmag.com)

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Can There Ever Be Too Many Options? A Meta-Analytic Review of Choice Overload (oup.com)

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Strategy Letter IV: Bloatware and the 80/20 Myth (2001) (joelonsoftware.com)

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It's much easier to hold computers accountable than to hold humans accountable (andymasley.substack.com)

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More Perfect Union videos are wildly deceptive on data center water use (andymasley.substack.com)

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For the climate, little things don't add up (andymasley.substack.com)

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Japan's Recent Rice Price Crisis [video] (youtube.com)

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Are Holes in [120V US] Plugs Useless? Not Anymore [video] (youtube.com)

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So You Think You Can Scroll (realengineerbo.github.io)

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Adam Savage Tests the Apple AirPods Pro Hearing Aid [video] (youtube.com)

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Why Do I Keep Finding Padlocked Playgrounds in New York City? (reason.com)

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Grok-3-Preview-02-24 tops lmarena Leaderboard; GPT-4.5-Preview within 95% CI (lmarena.ai)

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DoD is planning to test Rocket cargo delivery to Johnson Atoll (federalregister.gov)

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Henrietta Lacks Seems Like a Nice Person, but Not a Scientific Hero (astralcodexten.com)

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Laser Speckle Eye Test [video] (youtube.com)

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How NEPA Will Tax Clean Energy (ifp.org)

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Blur Busters Open Source Display Initiative – Refresh Cycle Shaders (blurbusters.com)

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The Superfluity of the Masses (nicholasdecker.substack.com)

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Nobody goes to New York City anymore. It's too crowded (natesilver.net)

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Bioaccelerationism Is a No-Brainer (richardhanania.com)

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The problem with US charity is that it's not effective enough (vox.com)

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Grading the World's Shortest Manifesto (cremieux.xyz)

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EVTOL Noise: What's Possible? What's Hype? [video] (youtube.com)

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The open problem -- the "moving sofa problem" -- has possibly just been solved! (twitter.com/scientific_bird)

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In Newton, we tried an experiment in educational equity. It has failed (bostonglobe.com)

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Inside the World's Largest AI Supercluster xAI Colossus [video] (youtube.com)

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There Is No Business Case for Civilization (twitter.com/peterrhague)

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Fix unemployment insurance to help young men into work (aibm.org)

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HS2 spent £100M on tunnel to protect rare bats (ft.com)

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Starship – Fifth Flight Test (SpaceX channel) [video] (youtube.com)

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[flagged] German man deliberately got 217 Covid shots from 8 formulations (cnn.com)

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Introduction to Compute-in-Memory [video] (youtube.com)

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US inflation falls to 2.1%, almost hitting Federal Reserve target (theguardian.com)

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Failed Shark Tank Product (Lugbug) Could've Saved $750k with 3D Printing [video] (youtube.com)

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Is Porn Misleading Men? (aella.substack.com)

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The Parable of the Talents (slatestarcodex.com)

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I Printed a Better Lathe [video] (youtube.com)

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Catching the Starship: A Breakthrough for Humanity (quillette.com)

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Beef fat prevents alcoholic liver disease in the rat (nih.gov)

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Understanding the Tech Right (richardhanania.com)

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GATTACA (The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Film) [pdf] (philpapers.org)

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Laser Power Meter that works in a surprising way [video] (youtube.com)

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How to Have Polygenically Screened Children (2023) (lesswrong.com)

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Interactive marginal tax rate chart for UK (taxpolicy.org.uk)

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Shorting Home Equity Mezzanine Tranches (2007) [pdf] (kalzumeus.com)

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The military is an impossible place for hackers, and what to do about it (2018) (warontherocks.com)

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They Clapped: Can Price-Gouging Laws Prohibit Scarcity? (econlib.org)

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Don't squander public trust on bullshit (livboeree.substack.com)

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The Worst Argument Against Ozempic (cremieux.xyz)

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Pilot flying Helene rescue missions in NC threatened with arrest (qcnews.com)

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Anime Just Changed Scrabble Forever [video] (youtube.com)

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Just Pay Them Off (cremieux.xyz)

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Crystal Ball Challenge (elmwealth.com)

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What America Lost by Delaying the Vaccine Rollout (theatlantic.com)

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SpaceX: Every statement made by FAA Administrator Whitaker today was incorrect (twitter.com/spacex)

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With Bluesky, the social media echo chamber is back in vogue (ft.com)

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Bay Area food bank move blocked by lawsuit citing 'historic parking lot' (sfchronicle.com)

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Fussy eating in children largely down to genetics, research shows (theguardian.com)

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When "Punch a Nazi" Goes Wrong: Inside an Oceanside Furry Fight (blockedandreported.org)

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Missing Fixed Effects Don't Justify Segregation (cremieux.xyz)

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Doctors overestimate terminally ill patients' survival days by a factor of 5.3 (bmj.com)

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Food Deserts Are Not Real; They're more like bad habit neighborhoods (cremieux.xyz)

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Got sued for $75k over an ADA website claim. Didn't give in. Didn't settle. Won (twitter.com/bandholz)

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Seeing the World Through Your Eyes (world-from-eyes.github.io)

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Designing T Slots and Dovetails for Machinabilty [video] (youtube.com)

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[flagged] Unrealized gains taxes are a pointless hassle. Much better ways to tax the rich (noahpinion.blog)

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People Who Want to Keep Honduras Poor (snowdentodd.substack.com)

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Fnirsi-1014D vs. Rigol DS1202Z-E [video] (youtube.com)

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America Is Losing Southeast Asia (foreignaffairs.com)

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It's not just about child mortality, life expectancy increased at all ages (ourworldindata.org)

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Learning is inhibited by heat exposure, both internationally and within the US (nature.com)

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SpaceX will provide Internet service to users in Brazil for free (twitter.com/elonmusk)

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How to fit your 3D prints together [video] (youtube.com)

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Design Holes for Machinability [video] (youtube.com)

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Does data show Boeing is unsafe? (visualapproach.io)

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NASA's problems with launch tower for SLS are getting worse (arstechnica.com)

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AT&T customers report wireless service has been down for hours (theverge.com)

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The Blue Zone Distraction (cremieux.xyz)

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How San Francisco's bureaucracy is condemning its night markets to mediocre food (sfchronicle.com)

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Yes, we have noticed the skulls (slatestarcodex.com)

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Japan's Bigmotor scandal is a tale of misguided regulation (2023) (nikkei.com)

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The Mouse Forced Swim Test (nih.gov)

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Students Flee Field as Computer 'Fad' Fades (1987) (pessimistsarchive.org)

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China Makes $31B Nuclear Push with Record Approvals (bloomberg.com)

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JFK vs. James Webb on Getting to the Moon (November 21, 1962)

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SpaceX: CNBC's story on Starship's launch operations is factually inaccurate (twitter.com/spacex)

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Why America Stands to Lose If It Resumes Nuclear Testing (foreignaffairs.com)

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Quit Complaining About New Car Interiors Getting More Distracting (jalopnik.com)

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NASA pushes back SpaceX Crew-9 mission to NET Sept 24 so Starliner can return (nasa.gov)

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Cleaning Pigs and Pigging Strategy (gate.energy)

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It's Time to Reform Environmental Litigation (reason.com)

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Community Input Is Bad, Actually (theatlantic.com)

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Inline Filament Dryer [video] (youtube.com)

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How much of your binary executable is just ASCII text? (lemire.me)

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Ariane Director laughs about SpaceX (2013) [video] (youtube.com)

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Where Will Astronauts Go After the ISS Is Destroyed? [video] (youtube.com)

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Dumbest NASA Decision in Years? NASA Grounds Rover and Sends Ballast [Scott M] (youtube.com)

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Elligator: Elliptic-curve points indistinguishable from uniform random strings (2013) (acm.org)

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Tax Treatment of Capital Gains at Death (congress.gov)

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Houthi attacks in the Red Sea, merchant traffic through Suez Canal down >50% (usni.org)