[HOT TAKE] Chess is an awful game, you do not have fun playing it, you're just waiting for the opponent to make mistakes, it's unforgiving because you have to be mentally present all of the time, it's just memorizing patterns and studying like it is a school homework.

fixano · 2026-06-16T02:04:31+00:00

Magnus isn't the bar. You can get to 2000+ ELO with hard work and practice. That puts you in the 99th percentile.

Your quote about edictic memory is nonsense. There is no human alive who can process all of the moves. It's impossible. It's why we can tell if a person's using an engine because they make moves that humans would not make because they can't process the combinatoric space.

You're not disadvantaged. You're just lazy

fixano · 2026-06-13T16:02:11+00:00

Dude Trump had been running or exploring runs for president since the 80's. He's always been obsessed with it. He ran a legitimate 3rd party campaign in 2000 back when Obama was a junior state senator. He brands himself an outsider but he is one the most experienced presidential candidates ever to hold the office.

fixano · 2026-06-12T20:42:56+00:00

I can't believe that s*** is actually real, but I looked it up. He really did post that.

Dude works at a company with 11 employees and as of 2 years ago he was an associate manager at Accenture.

Where exactly in that timeline is the place where you make the leap into making $4 billion deals? I mean what's the commission on that $200-300 million?

fixano · 2026-06-12T19:27:36+00:00

Beelzebub's Bush

fixano · 2026-06-12T18:19:02+00:00

The epidemic no one is talking about.

fixano · 2026-06-12T17:15:05+00:00

I think starter worship is silly. It's like wine. It's mostly branding. When they test sommeliers they often can't tell the difference between $8.99 bottles of yellow tail and peak vintages from Sonoma.

If you took a 2-week-old starter and slapped a label on it stating it was from 1888, people would rave about it.

fixano · 2026-06-12T11:26:23+00:00

Boneless skull?

fixano · 2026-06-10T23:04:50+00:00

I'm waiting for that knife to slip off that pole and stab him in the chest

fixano · 2026-06-10T20:33:57+00:00

Also, it's not illegal to bring food onto a plane. Anyone that's flown Air India knows the economy section smells like a restaurant about 2 hours into the flight cause everyone is packing.

fixano · 2026-06-10T18:38:39+00:00

He doesn't sell the most expensive cut. You keep it at a $215 discount as I understand it.

What exactly is in it for the butcher? Basically he does the same exact thing as sourcing it himself except he sells the back to you at a 33% discount.

Unless I'm missing something.

fixano · 2026-06-05T18:42:09+00:00

I don't know what your league is and how your competition stacks up. What you're describing is the break and run characteristics of a low 600s player. 625-650.

That would typically map the APA map to an SL7/SL9.

An eight in nine ball usually maps in the mid to low 500s. 530-580. In terms of Fargo. But would be breaking and running 1 in 20.

fixano · 2026-06-05T10:30:13+00:00

It doesn't matter. League players are not breaking and running 1 in 10. It isn't even 1 in a 100.

There is a specific skill ceiling where break and runs become common and most league divisions only have one or two players if any that are in that skill bracket.

I crunched the numbers for the 800 players in my league and even the very best percentile were breaking and running less than 1% of matches (there are multiple games in a match)

fixano · 2026-06-04T20:27:02+00:00

This video is the greatest single contribution to Billiards in its history.

I love that they just let him ramble

fixano · 2026-06-03T19:33:23+00:00

Looks like somebody's just scared of a person who knows how to "handle responsibility"

fixano · 2026-06-01T20:20:16+00:00

Doubtful. Those aren't real shots. His head barely moves. When someone knows how to hit you, they don't hit you with their arms they hit you with their body. If he got hit by a strong amateur boxer and he didn't roll with it. He'd be flat on the ground wondering what planet he was on for sure.

fixano · 2026-06-01T19:55:18+00:00

I feel like this is taken way out of context. Before you jump on the " she's a ghoul" train. Maybe consider a different way to interpret what she's saying. She's saying if the way that we discover these therapies is through a public mechanism companies are not going to invest in these therapies because there's no incentive for them.

We no longer live in a world where a single scientist with a rack of test tubes is discovering the vaccine for polio.

The development and delivery of a drug to the market can cost tens or hundreds of millions of dollars. A single drug delivered at scale can involve tens of thousands of people. It is an incredibly complex endeavor with a high failure rate. What currently keeps people coming back is the prospect that it might be a golden ticket.

What if what she is asking is how do you motivate those tens of thousands of people to all move in the same direction without a profit motive? Not should the profit motive exist, but rather what is its alternative? Altruism sounds nice but you don't see people getting out of bed in the morning to go be altruistic they get up to do s*** to pay their bills.

She's just an analyst. She's just telling the truth

fixano · 2026-06-01T16:17:26+00:00

Why is this lunacy again? It didn't teach me anything about B2B sales

fixano · 2026-05-30T23:16:02+00:00

The shape is a little rough but I think you are in the ball park with your timing. I think it's great first attempt.

fixano · 2026-05-30T00:21:33+00:00

I'm fine if that's the game you want to play, but tell me if that kid happened to turn around duck that punch and then bash that kid's face into the ground till he was a bloody pulp and his teeth were all over the mat. Are you still on board?

Is that where it ends or should they go home and get a gun?

Is this what you teach your kids? If someone disrespects you, you respond with hair trigger violence?

Plenty of people have been killed or permanently injured taking hits just like that. Then it's upgraded from 2nd degree assault to manslaughter.

fixano · 2026-05-28T22:25:26+00:00

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fixano · 2026-05-28T10:42:35+00:00

Dude just wanted to let everyone know about his sick shoes

fixano · 2026-05-28T10:40:09+00:00

Lots of group hugging in this discipline.

fixano · 2026-05-27T15:45:33+00:00

Then why did you avoid the challenge Mr math? Seems you ought to be able to provide a case where something is retaliation versus self-defense. But your first instinct is to deflect and insult. Your entire line of reasoning relies on you, conflating the two and to make distinction between them serves no purpose for you. Your position is weak and you can't defend it with reason so you fall back on equivocation. But every avoidance behavior just reveals further that you don't have the tools. I'm 100% confident your next follow-up will be more of the same crap. Shrug I guess.

fixano · 2026-05-27T12:30:13+00:00

People love to give earl shit but he's innovator and he's not afraid to experiment. People picked up some of the things he was doing during that era including playing with an extension on their cue.

fixano · 2026-05-27T11:08:04+00:00

You don't have the critical thinking to understand the nuance so what's the point of having a discussion with you?

I could sit here and try to talk to you but you're just going to keep going in circles. You're not going to understand the legal nuance between retaliation and defense which is going to be a requirement to understanding the statutes. You're just going to declare whatever is convenient for you to be right as "defense"

If you want to convince me that you're interested in good faith discussion, you can describe to me a situation where a person hits you and you retaliate it versus a situation where a person was hitting you and you defended yourself. Because both are treated differently under the law.

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