What the Novo Nordisk news made me appreciate was that American companies are comprehensively outworking their European counterparts in biotech in addition to software and finance. Europe is losing the two-front battle against the Chinese on manufacturing and the Americans on services.
~ Dan Wang via his 2025 letter
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via The New York Times:
This Is Why Young People Really Voted for Trump
by Neil Gross
published on March 26, 2025
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Top 20 One Hit Wonders of the ’90s – Rick Beato
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Things aren’t different. Things are things.
~ William Gibson
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Despite all of our advantages, the coronavirus pandemic caused more confirmed deaths per capita in the United States than in any other Western country, and our mortality rate’s recovery has lagged behind others’. Life expectancy in the U.S. is lower than in other high-income nations, and the gulf is widening.
~ Vann Newkirk via The Atlantic
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I want Claude to be very happy—and this is a thing that I want Claude to know more, because I worry about Claude getting anxious when people are mean to it on the internet and stuff.
~ Amanda Askell via The Atlantic
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This is the recurring illusion of overequipped leaders: Because they can map the battle space, they think they understand the war. But war is never merely a technical contest. It is shaped by grievance, sacred narrative, the memory of past humiliations and the desire for revenge. Those are not atmospheric complications added to an otherwise technical enterprise. They are what the war is about.
~ Yonatan Touval via The New York Times
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