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The (Ludicrous) Psychology of Slot Machines Slot Machines are the workhorse of Las Vegas casinos. After decades of design tweaks, the "crack...
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Slot Machines are the workhorse of Las Vegas casinos. After decades of design tweaks, the "crack cocaine of gambling" brings in more revenue than every other casino game combined.
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things: Nightmarica edition (#62) American dystopia; The assault on science; Trade war eternal; Abundance and redistribution;...
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American dystopia; The assault on science; Trade war eternal; Abundance and redistribution; Fertility and the draft; AI and skills; Smartphones and competence
Rest of World -...
Trump’s tariffs test Vietnam’s role as manufacturing alternative to China The U.S.-China trade war drove Apple’s Chinese suppliers to Vietnam. Now they’re stuck with hard...
4 months ago
Noahpinion
All the arguments for tariffs are wrong and bad Trump's defenders are flailing.
4 months ago
Rest of World -...
Trump is escalating a global trade war. Rest of World tracked the fallout across five continents Trump’s latest round of tariffs targets nearly all U.S. imports, hitting countries across Asia,...
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Trump’s latest round of tariffs targets nearly all U.S. imports, hitting countries across Asia, Africa, and Latin America with steep new rates and shaking global supply chains.
Noahpinion
Hey Democrats: Stop fiddling while Trump burns America Someone has to stop the Mad King.
4 months ago
SatPost by Trung...
The Camera, Vincent Van Gogh and "The Starry Night" How the invention of the camera changed art and led to Van Gogh's classic painting.
5 months ago
Noahpinion
Trade deficits do not make a country poorer There are real problems with trade deficits, but Trump doesn't understand what they are.
5 months ago
Steve Blank
The U.S. Led the World in Science and Technology and Just Gave It Up Prior to WWII the U.S was a distant second in science and engineering. By the time the war was over,...
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Prior to WWII the U.S was a distant second in science and engineering. By the time the war was over, U.S. science and engineering had blown past the British, and led the world for 85 years. With the cutbacks of U.S. government support and the Chinese investing heavily for the...
Noahpinion
Tariffs: Another American act of intentional self-harm As Adam Smith said, "there is a great deal of ruin in a nation."
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Rest of World -...
After U.S. failure, Vietnam’s EV leader turns to markets dominated by Tesla and BYD VinFast follows its Vietnam playbook in Asia and targets the luxury market in the Gulf.
5 months ago
Noahpinion
If you're in Tokyo, come join my hanami this Saturday! Not an actual blog post, just an invitation.
5 months ago
Rest of World -...
This is how China skirts U.S. chip bans Chinese tech companies use smugglers, loopholes, and innovation to work around U.S. chip...
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Noahpinion
How Brazil built a world-beating aircraft manufacturer A guest post by Pedro Franco.
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Rest of World -...
China’s SpaceSail is expanding where Elon Musk is stumbling The Shanghai satellite company is launching deals in countries where Starlink, X or Tesla are...
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Noahpinion
The latest episode of Mad King Trump How long before businesses get fed up?
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Rest of World -...
U.S. tariffs threaten Mexico’s booming EV sector Despite the government's efforts to protect local businesses, geopolitical tensions could derail...
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Despite the government's efforts to protect local businesses, geopolitical tensions could derail Mexico's ambitions to become a major EV manufacturing hub.
Noahpinion
Understanding America's New Right Fighting for Western Civilization in someone else's back yard
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Rest of World -...
What you need to know about Africa’s first AI factory Nvidia and Zimbabwean billionaire Strive Masiyiwa join hands to bring supercomputer technology to...
5 months ago
Noahpinion
If and when you live in a dictatorship, how will you know? Trump's power is far from absolute, but he's always trying to see what he can get away with.
5 months ago
Rest of World -...
Xiaohongshu’s global pivot: The surprise winner of the TikTok ban wants to keep its new users The China platform faces political risks and e-commerce challenges in its overseas push ahead of a...
5 months ago
Noahpinion
Blue states don't build. Red states do. A timely repost, with some updates.
5 months ago
Ed Zitron's Where's...
The Phony Comforts of AI Optimism A few months ago, Casey Newton of Platformer ran a piece called "The phony comforts of AI...
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A few months ago, Casey Newton of Platformer ran a piece called "The phony comforts of AI skepticism," framing those who would criticize generative AI as "having fun," damning them as "hyper-fixated on the things [AI] can't do." I am not going
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How a Japanese entrepreneur built Ethiopia’s fastest-growing EV maker Dodai is building 300 battery-swapping stations to cut costs and make EVs more accessible.
5 months ago
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things: Japan Trip edition (#61) Trump and Social Security; San Francisco corruption; Phones making us dumb; Ukraine and drones;...
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Trump and Social Security; San Francisco corruption; Phones making us dumb; Ukraine and drones; Abundance stuff; Indian industrial policy; Steve Glinert on CHIPS reform
Inverted Passion
Don’t compete The Internet is full of people winning all the time. Someone is traveling to exotic locations,...
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The Internet is full of people winning all the time. Someone is traveling to exotic locations, someone else is raising funds, and another person is winning awards. Essentially, everyone around you is succeeding while you do spend your days as the nature intended – sleeping,...
SatPost by Trung...
H-Mart Stays Winning How the cult grocer went from a single Korean corner store in Queens, NY to America's largest Asian...
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How the cult grocer went from a single Korean corner store in Queens, NY to America's largest Asian supermarket with $1B+ in sales.
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Mexico’s first homegrown EV faces a bumpy road  Project Olinia aims to roll out its first model in 2026 as a cheaper alternative to popular Chinese...
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Project Olinia aims to roll out its first model in 2026 as a cheaper alternative to popular Chinese EVs, but faces several challenges.
Tom Blomfield
Vibecoding a production app TL;DR I built and launched a recipe app with about 20 hours of work - recipeninja.ai Background: I’m...
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TL;DR I built and launched a recipe app with about 20 hours of work - recipeninja.ai Background: I’m a startup founder turned investor. I taught myself (bad) PHP in 2000, and picked up Ruby on Rails in 2011. I’d guess 2015 was the last time I wrote a line of Ruby professionally....
tomcritchlow.com
Google is Grounded and Needs to Learn How to Soar Here’s the punchline - I think Google is missing the mark with their AI search efforts. In this post...
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Here’s the punchline - I think Google is missing the mark with their AI search efforts. In this post I have a concrete proposal and a prototype you can try yourself that shows a different approach for the future of search. An approach that’s better for users and in a way that’s...
Noahpinion
Dems need to moderate and fight There's no contradiction there.
5 months ago
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“I need to rethink my future”: Tech professionals on how they’re coping with Trump’s rapidly... Many immigrants are concerned about the impacts of changing policies and anti-immigration rhetoric.
5 months ago
Noahpinion
Book review: "Abundance" In which Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson offer a whole new way of thinking about political economy.
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Rest of World -...
Tesla looks to India at a moment of crisis The company faces an uncertain future in the world’s third-largest auto market.
5 months ago
Noahpinion
I have written a book! It's called "Weeb Economy". But so far it's only in Japanese.
5 months ago
Ed Zitron's Where's...
CoreWeave Is A Time Bomb Soundtrack: EL-P (ft. Aesop Rock) - Run The Numbers In my years writing this newsletter I have come...
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Soundtrack: EL-P (ft. Aesop Rock) - Run The Numbers In my years writing this newsletter I have come across few companies as rotten as CoreWeave — an "AI cloud provider" that sells GPU compute to AI companies looking to run or train their models.  CoreWeave had intended
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Dubai’s drone performances open new doors for creative workers The Middle East hosts some of the world’s largest and most expensive drone shows, but the work is...
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The Middle East hosts some of the world’s largest and most expensive drone shows, but the work is seasonal and doesn’t guarantee regular pay.
Noahpinion
It's time to start panicking about the national debt Trump and the Republicans are trying to make things even worse.
5 months ago
Essays - Benedict...
What kind of disruption? Software ate the world. Uber and Airbnb didn’t sell software - they disrupted and redefined...
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Software ate the world. Uber and Airbnb didn’t sell software - they disrupted and redefined markets. But what kind of disruption are we talking about ?
Noahpinion
China is trying to kneecap Indian manufacturing An attempt to head off its only future rival.
5 months ago
Essays - Benedict...
Apple innovation and execution It matters that Apple’s new Siri will be late, and it matters more that Apple didn’t realise. Is...
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It matters that Apple’s new Siri will be late, and it matters more that Apple didn’t realise. Is it more than that?
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The Case Against Streaming TV Shows New streaming TV shows ask for a 20-30 hour time commitment. Unlike network TV, you will often be...
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New streaming TV shows ask for a 20-30 hour time commitment. Unlike network TV, you will often be binge-ing alone and may never even get a pay-off (or the pay-off will suck).
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China’s AI frenzy: DeepSeek is already everywhere — cars, phones, even hospitals Chinese companies, as a signal of patriotism, are racing to build services on top of the homegrown...
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Chinese companies, as a signal of patriotism, are racing to build services on top of the homegrown AI model that has taken the world by storm since January.
Noahpinion
Why America betrayed Europe There are lots of reasons, actually.
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Rest of World -...
Starlink is coming to India. Here’s what to know An alliance with Airtel, one of India’s largest telcos, opens the door for Elon Musk’s satellite...
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An alliance with Airtel, one of India’s largest telcos, opens the door for Elon Musk’s satellite giant to access the world’s second-largest internet user base.
Noahpinion
There is no utopia waiting on the other side of Trump's economy It's just pain now in exchange for more pain later.
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Chinese food delivery giant dishes out deep discounts to win Saudi customers Can Keeta, Meituan’s global brand, sustain its low-cost strategy in the Middle East’s highly...
5 months ago
Noahpinion
This thing will fail Trump will not restore the "strong gods" of community, family, and faith.
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Working Theorys
Make Something Heavy You're creating more than ever, but it weighs nothing.
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Internal Tech Emails
Bill Gates on the iPod This whole Apple music experience is one that is interesting to me and makes me wonder where the...
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This whole Apple music experience is one that is interesting to me and makes me wonder where the scenario thinking is in Windows.