Quantumfreakonomics
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Quantumfreakonomics
2d ago
If Penelope was much older than 40 then it wouldn't make sense for her to have so many suitors.
A ten year age gap is plausible. Matt Damon is 55 and Anne Hathaway is 43. If Odysseus left for Troy when he was 30 and his wife was 20, then he would return when he is 50 and his wife is 40.
Quantumfreakonomics
2d ago
My hot take is that The Iliad and The Odyssey just aren't very good. I'm sure they were great works for their time, but we are so much better at storytelling nowadays. Not to mention that poetry in translation is uniformly awful.
Quantumfreakonomics
2d ago
Broke: Destroying the ethnostate of Israel to end the apartheid of Palestine.
Woke: Destroying the ethnostate of Israel to ensure a source of white, high-fertility immigrants to Europe.
Quantumfreakonomics
3d ago
The obvious conclusions are obvious. Apart from those, I find myself impressed with OpenAI's communications department. "OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation", is up there with, "Union Carbide and Bhopal City Council partner to address chemical stability incident during northerly wind event." Somehow they managed to keep this off not only the front page, but the second and third pages too.
Quantumfreakonomics
4d ago
Everyone uses the apps now. Are y'all only swiping right on Flakedy Ann or something?
Quantumfreakonomics
4d ago
People on here have been commenting a lot about women not showing up for dates
I'll just say that I have never once had a woman not show up for a date after agreeing to a time and a place. Every other popular complaint seems valid, but this one is fake as far as I can tell.
Quantumfreakonomics
4d ago
It is worth reading mathematics professor Peter Woit’s “The Situation at Columbia” series for an inside view of how elite faculty view the situation they are in. A particularly revealing quote:
Quantumfreakonomics
5d ago
Soccer is inferior because 98% of possessions do not advance the game state.
In American football, every play advances the game state. Even if nothing happens, 2nd and 10 is meaningfully different from 1st and 10. 3rd and 10 from the 20 is a very different game state from 1st and 10 from the 20.
In basketball, about half of all plays end in a score (arguably this is too much).
Quantumfreakonomics
6d ago
You're right that Argentina doesn't have a legitimate claim to the islands under standard liberal international relations theory, but there are other theories of international sovereignty. The Argentinian position is straightforward: Look at a map. They consider the Southwest Atlantic Ocean to be Argentinian. They also claim the Antarctic Peninsula.
The anticolonial aspect shouldn't be underestimated either. Under a strict interpretation of the Monroe Doctrine, the United States should have opposed British recapture of the islands.
Just got back from The Odyssey. What did you guys think of it apart from culture-war implications?
I'm glad that there were no gratuitous sex scenes. I guess I'm one of those sexless zoomers. I actually think they went too far in this regard. They could have gotten some topless models as sirens or had Calypso be thirstier.
Lupita Nyong'o, E. Page, and Zendaya really are miscast. It's not a meme. Charlize Theron should have been Athena.
It was pretty cool how they tied in the establishment of the oral mythic history of the Trojan War and forshadowed the collapse of the bronze age (spoiler alert: the Greeks are the sea peoples).
I'd say it's better than Dunkirk and Batman Begins but worse than all of Nolan's other films (I've never seen Tenet or Insomnia).
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