Capital gains taxes don’t just steal your wealth, they change the way you make bets If you have a 70% chance of doubling your money or losing everything, a full Kelly bet is 40% of your portfolio But if you are taxed 50% on your winnings, your true upside…...

Is this the place to channel my dislike for Telegram? No end to end encryption by default, impossible for groups, usually a lot of traffic (messages), but pretty low quality. If someone wants to "connect on telegram", it's like if they told me they trust in...

I'm halfway through "Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids" by Bryan Caplan. This book is a breath of fresh air for anyone who's ever felt the pressure to over-parent and sacrifice everything for their kids. Caplan throws out the traditional parenting playbook and...

New Bard is pretty good, but it hallucinates a lot. I needed a song picking advice and it was inventing songs and then describing them. ChatGPT hallucinates much less (I gave the same questions to both). On the other hand, it answers more complexly and is much faster. Competition is…...

Medium as a blogging platform has become unusable for readers. They often require account to just read blogs. When I want to create, I can sign up, but I can't login. The magic link never works (tried different browsers). I can login with Google, but it also sucks....

In this episode, I want to show you where are we going - what is the alternative, or rather parallel system. Does it already exist, or is it a hallucination of dreamers? How do we enter it - do we wish it into existence or is there another pathway? How big is…...