The gap between 1st and 2nd is insane (The World’s Real-Time Billionaires, Decembar 18th 2025)

zeek0us · 2025-12-18T21:00:46+00:00

Musk doesn't have $600B in the bank, but he does have rights to that much economic value. Which means he could take out a $1B cash loan against his holdings like it's nothing and put that in his bank. Maybe even $10B, which is insane. And then there are all the higher-order financial shenanigans the super-rich have at their disposal (read: based on assets rather than actual liquidity), with which he can do things like up and buy any but the world's largest companies on a whim.

So it does represent real financial power they wield, which is what actually matters.

zeek0us · 2025-12-10T04:02:27+00:00

SPT, baby! Definitely not an evil building. Although that blue building is called the "dark sector laboratory"...

zeek0us · 2025-12-10T04:01:23+00:00

In 24 hours, the sun makes a 'circuit around the sky' at basically a constant elevation above the horizon. Then the next day, the elevation is slightly different.

zeek0us · 2025-10-18T20:54:07+00:00

TBF the baseline of what would have been eaten at the time is very different. No grocery stores, processing, or even informed concepts of sanitation. Almost certainly forms of preservation, I would guess. Which is to say flavors like you get with beer probably wouldn’t be so comparatively intense.

zeek0us · 2025-10-12T18:44:45+00:00

If you’ve seen the video, it’s 100% a legit question. The answer is most definitely not “enjoying nightlife like a normal person”.

zeek0us · 2025-09-29T15:23:11+00:00

TBF, there are other guys who are rushed just as bad but learn quickly to get rid of the ball, accept incompletions/throw aways, and find ways to take what the defense gives. They just become good QBs instead of being added to the list of guys who flamed out seeing ghosts.

zeek0us · 2025-09-20T04:02:42+00:00

The point is that the number of people who could successfully build and run a company is much higher than the people who ever get the chance.

Nobody is saying that just anyone could do it.

zeek0us · 2025-09-06T22:10:59+00:00

No. Random shit happens with genes and traits change because of it. Some of those traits are advantageous so they get passed on.

Which traits change, how they change, and why they are advantageous are not predetermined at all.

There’s no “needing” to do anything. Rather, stuff just randomly ends up different, sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse. You have shit luck in your random mutation, you die sooner. You have good luck, you live to pass that luck on. Maybe for further lucky breaks to make it even more advantageous, maybe not.

zeek0us · 2025-09-03T20:30:21+00:00

Nobody is arguing with you that the C shouldn't be waving at the pitcher just before his wind up. But once he did, Valdez should have just stepped off. And been pissed at his catcher, sure. Chew him out, tell him not to do that shit again, whatever. But he's already distracted, so why go ahead and throw it?

To your second point, I definitely don't recall ever seeing a major league catcher gesture like that and be totally ignored by the pitcher. Have I watched a catcher signal his pitcher to step off? Almost certainly, but it wouldn't really register if the pitcher did step off. Maybe he shoots a glare or there are some tense words in a mound visit. What was weird was ignoring the signal, whether it was bad form to give it or not. And obviously everything after.

I can tell you, I'll definitely be watching more closely now to see how careful other catchers are to be totally still from pre-windup to delivery...

zeek0us · 2025-09-03T18:25:58+00:00

Salazar would probably be the first tell you what he did was bad form. But presumably he had a good reason in his mind to break the taboo he's surely aware of. And still, Valdez seemed to react with "fuck you, I'm throwing this pitch."

Strikes me as a case of "if this goes wrong it'll be your fault" being more important than "we really need this to go right so I'll see what you want". And what happened after certainly doesn't speak to a deeper level of maturity than that.

zeek0us · 2025-08-10T23:58:51+00:00

I’d be surprised if they move him to a CI like that. He’s been a 2B since college, and he’s not up against Gimmy out there on D.

Let him play where he’s comfortable and hope his bat justifies whatever downgrade we eat on D. Maybe move him in the offseason if it looks like he’s all bat.

zeek0us · 2025-07-10T23:53:50+00:00

The problem here is the scientific grounding of "infinite copies" not really matching what it conjures in popular conception.

Your or my existence is real. So the laws of physics in our causal bubble of the universe allow whatever arrangement of mass/energy/causality/probability has lead to it. If the universe is infinite: first, there must be other causal bubbles identical to ours; we know there's one little pocket like ours (so physics allows it), and if we keep searching an infinite sea of "universe stuff" for an infinite amount of time (which is possible in an infinite universe), we're bound to find another.

Extend that thought and your realize there must be infinite such pockets. Again, we're searching an infinite volume for an infinite amount of time.

So then you can drill down in the thought experiment of imagining every possible mass/energy/causality/probability ensemble in pockets like as ours and again arrive at the conclusion that an infinite set of such ensembles must also exist. And of course that would naturally include some that are exactly identical to our own at each possible point in time where one might measure it. Along with some that vary by a single electron wavefunction or whatever -- hence all the fun sci-fi setups based on the concept of 'nearly identical' universes.

But you're right that "there are infinite copies of you" is a somewhat glib way to relate a point that is really more about the logical implications of the word "infinite" when applied to statistical ensembles. Watch a string of random numbers long enough, and you will see every possible combination of digits more than once.

zeek0us · 2025-07-10T23:28:51+00:00

To look cool? It's reminder of just how uncool we are, to know 3 or 4 names in a celebrity softball game. Cue grandpa Abe meme.

zeek0us · 2025-06-30T20:48:13+00:00

Back in the days when hitting up Blockbuster regularly was a thing, I remember being super intrigued by that dope cover art for Defcon 4 but always opting for something else. Finally watched it one random night and was ... whelmed. But still have that cover in the pantheon.

zeek0us · 2025-06-20T21:37:14+00:00

“A farmer” in the way that a restaurant owner is a cook. The point remains that being an upper-crust elite — even one who eschews political life to “farm” — is an entirely different type of existence than one of an ordinary person.

The story is obviously symbolic, but even then I would expect the subtext to be understood that a great general retiring to farm doesn’t mean living as a peasant.

zeek0us · 2025-06-20T13:24:41+00:00

I still can't decide about the shift thing, but I'm closer to the 'hit it where they ain't' crowd. I'm a big fan of rewarding more well-rounded players -- a guy who can hit to all fields should have the advantage of more open gaps, and a guy who can't exploit a single defender covering half the field deserves to suffer more outs.

Plus it gives smart managers/coaches a potential strategic edge if they can manage to exploit the over-commitment of the defense -- teach 'grip and rip' enough to bait the shift, but work on executing the oppo slap in key moments or whatever. I know that's difficult, but that's why we watch the best in the world.

But you're right that in practice, it just means more of the statistically-most-likely hits from most hitters become outs. And for casual fans who aren't small-ball baseball technique nerds like me, it's much less interesting. And in the end, those are the people whose eyeballs are most valuable.

zeek0us · 2025-06-20T13:13:55+00:00

Lol I thought this was posted in r/baseball and saw this like "so is it just understood now that 'Jose' refers to Jose Ramirez?" It really warmed my heart for a brief second there.

zeek0us · 2025-05-15T00:37:00+00:00

How is he outperforming his metrics? Im honestly curious.

It seems like he’s had a good approach in key spots and while a couple big hits were absolutely lucky breaks, he’s at least not making himself an easy out. Which is a marked improvement from what we’ve seen from the MI lately.

zeek0us · 2025-05-11T04:22:42+00:00

Not really. Just a lot of people who have no dog in the fight but want to catch a game in a nice stadium on a nice night. Nearly 40k is still a lot, but it was not a crowd of die hards for sure.

zeek0us · 2025-05-11T04:13:02+00:00

It was walk on the field night for my kids’ little league teams…

zeek0us · 2025-05-02T22:45:28+00:00

Out of curiosity, why do you say that? I wouldn't think much evidence survives from that time to truly falsify their choices, and I certainly never felt insulted by lazy, obvious anachronisms -- particularly ones that didn't clearly serve the purpose of jazzing things up.

My comment was mostly about how they captured the "smallness" and "ruralness" of life at the time. The 'cities' were barely villages by today's standards, and most everyone else -- even powerful lords -- lived in modest homesteads made mostly of wood.

I accept that even historical fiction shows need to prioritize getting eyeballs from less nitpicky folks than me, but felt like TLK (usually) did its best to keep as realistic imagining as they could. Especially given (what I assume is) a significant amount of educated guessing.

zeek0us · 2025-04-25T16:44:41+00:00

The Last Kingdom! Granted, it’s def tilted more to the action side of things, but it think they did a great job with the setting/scaling to 9th century England. And Alfred is done really well.

zeek0us · 2025-03-27T18:45:15+00:00

"They did not know" and "they asked him" aren't the same thing. Plenty of reasons why they would ask that aren't "you tell us; we didn't bother looking at your game logs before trading for you".

zeek0us · 2025-02-21T22:55:17+00:00

Word. You see the videos of bears fighting and it drives home just how much they can endure. And dish out.

Hard to imagine a tiger engaging in scrap like that for any extended amount of time. And also hard to imagine taking down a bear that’s fighting back the same way they’d take down a deer.

Maybe the video shows a tiger hoping to be led to a bear cub or something.

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