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What's a great book you'd recommend, but which you would predict no-one else has yet recommended on Farcaster? (I see a lot of the same titles come up in threads like this - let us reach deeper into our libraries!)
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Even with all the hype, this book remains underrated. It is the most thought provoking book I’ve ever read.
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Asked GPT how that compares to cumulative inflation in the 1970s https://i.imgur.com/HyfjSwF.jpg
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There are no bad versions of Bob Gaudio’s Beggin’ (but Timebox’s 1968 cover is the best) https://i.imgur.com/gowgJHV.jpg
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TIL Nassim Taleb has been reviewing books on Amazon since 1999 https://www.amazon.com/gp/profile/amzn1.account.AHMHNR4MRTDLMBOOT6Q7LX2WP5YA/ref=cm_cr_srp_mb_gw_tr?ie=UTF8
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Where on the S-curve is Disney’s ‘Hocus Pocus’? https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=Hocus%20Pocus,Hocus%20Pocus%202 https://i.imgur.com/J215k4z.jpg
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The Agony and the Ecstasy (Michelangelo) American Prometheus (Oppenheimer)
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unlimited use recurring subscriptions (netflix, car washes, saas)
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(🌯,🌯) GuacCoin @zach @bgrill.eth
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Fiction: - Memoirs of Hadrian Non-fiction: - Debt: the First 5,000 Years - On Thinking For Oneself
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Do any of the DALL-E / stable difffusions models produce vector graphics yet? These overpriced stock vector sites have to be nervous
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qql.art is a wild social experiment. Now I feel like if don't get a mint pass, this owl will never get the chance to live permanently on the blockchain. https://i.imgur.com/MnMEmjz.jpg
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Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20170104090728/http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2000/12/19/micropayments.html
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“Micropayments, like all payments, require a comparison… there is a minimum mental transaction cost created by this fact that cannot be optimized away… the only transaction a user will be willing to approve with no thought will be one that costs them nothing” (Clay Shirky, 2000)
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I think so. Stagnation in Nuclear’s ‘levelized cost of energy’ seems to be largely explained by Wright’s Law (little cumulative capacity growth = little learning) https://ourworldindata.org/cheap-renewables-growth https://i.imgur.com/zOimRfS.jpg
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Growing up the only exception to an otherwise strict “bedtime” was if I was reading a book. Great parenting hack. I thought I was beating the system.
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If you like GEB, I’d recommend The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse. I only started it this week, but 25% in and so far it’s Ender’s Game + GEB + Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16634
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source: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/population?yScale=log&time=1700..latest&country=~OWID_WRL
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the limit does not exist https://i.imgur.com/aLQBC2P.jpg
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10/10 would recommend American Prometheus
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