The largest ticketed concerts have had several hundred thousand attendees. I bet if they reviewed the names on the tickets, they’d find they set world records for gatherings of people with the same name without even realizing it.

And even those who saw it would have seen it in the context of a lot of other portraits in the same style, where it doesn’t stand out as anything personally directed at Rinehart.

I think they’re terms men often apply to whichever figure in the household represents the greatest constraint on their actions (or the person to whom they most defer).

If they’re married, that’s their spouse, but if they’re living with their parents in a traditional male-dominated household, it’s their father.

Large doses of capsaicin can increase how the heart squeezes, putting extra pressure on the artery, noted Dr. Syed Haider, a cardiologist at MedStar Washington Hospital Center.

Is it the nerves or the muscles of the heart that have this reaction to capsaicin? And does it only target the heart?

• Compression algorithms can reduce most written text to about 20–25% of its original size—implying that that’s the amount of actual unique information it contains, while the rest is predictable filler.

• Empirical studies have found that chimps and human infants, when looking at test patterns, will ignore patterns that are too predictable or too unpredictable—with the sweet spot for maximizing attention being patterns that are about 80% predictable.

• AI researchers have found that generating new text by predicting the most likely continuation of the given input results in text that sounds dull and obviously robotic. Through trial and error, they found that, instead of choosing the most likely result, choosing one with around an 80% likelihood threshold produces results judged most interesting and human-like.

The point being: AI has stumbled on a method of mimicking the presence of meaning by imitating the ratio of novelty to predictability that characterizes real human thought. But we know that the actual content of that novelty is randomly chosen, rather than being a deliberate message.

The vessel, Alboran Cognac, [...] encountered the highly social apex predators

The highly social orcas were clearly aware that the only true Cognac comes from the Atlantic coast, not the Alboran Sea.

“Anastasia Nyrkovskaya’s Fortune Media Group quietly adds CEOs’ names to news headlines.”

Wiktionary runs on MediaWiki—does that have the sort of functionality you need?

Partly—but depending on how much you want to prioritize redistribution vs revenue, you could adjust the tax/Gini curve to set the equilibrium wherever you want.

Right.

If they can proactively reduce inequality, fine; otherwise the tax rates will do it for them.

He’s only one year older than Biden. If Sanders acts like he’s too old to serve another term, it’ll make Biden seem too old as well.

You wouldn’t—they’d have to work together. (Something they do seem capable of, when there’s profit in it.)

If you’re trying to solve inequality through tax policy alone, I wonder what the effect would be of having the top tax rate vary with the Gini coefficient. The idea being that the wealthy can theoretically reduce their tax burden if (and only if) they figure out how to use their economic power to reduce inequality by other means.

Yeah—the harness they had Marques wear was probably in part to make sure he didn’t fall over and touch his clothes or hands to the disks.

That was just an example—it might also be a problem for shoes with heels, or textured soles, or people with feet too small to cover enough disks at once.

Seems like it would only work for objects with large, flat bottoms—if you tried to use it barefoot it would likely rip your toes off.

You can use any port for SSH—or you can use something like Cockpit with a browser-based terminal instead of SSH.

Ok, but protests need to be done “without distraction”? That kind of defeats the purpose, doesn’t it?

If your criticism of the state of Israel is that it gives unequal treatment to Jews and non-Jews, how do you distinguish that from conceiving of it as a Jewish collectivity?

If you criticize an action that no other country is engaging in, how can your criticism be similar to that leveled against other countries?

I’m not portraying archaeologists as making shit up—I’m saying people in general jump to “magic rituals” when archaeologists can’t provide a definitive answer. The person quoted was explicitly speculating, not providing a professional opinion.