Dang it’s like you’re right there courtside (and can’t see what happened)

Adam Yauch saying “Gitche Gumee” is my new vocal stim

turning and turning,
in a gyre neither widening nor decreasing

No telling for sure but let’s just say that I’m deeply concerned about the value of the underlying collateral here too

I mean if we take him at his word, his beliefs and his actions are a completely incoherent mishmash so I believe it

They have a couple abstruse engineering applications, but every derivative gets a little further away from the important facts of an object's motion until you're drifting in an abstract cloud of the acceleration of the acceleration of the acceleration of the acceleration of the

I'm still mad about "sixth, seventh, eighth derivative" so here are arguably the most relevant and useful higher derivatives—derivatives of position over time. The first is velocity, second is acceleration, and third is "jerk," or acceleration of acceleration. Then come snap, crackle, and pop.

Yeah Levy clearly isn't buying it but at the same time doesn't do anything effective to push back. What this dude needs more than anything is a good Chotining.

Yeah unfortunately we know how he feels about that too.

oh he's VERY keen on Germany and Germanic culture. He loves Germany. If only there were some ways we could be more like Germany. Expecially Peak Germany, you know. At its peak. Whenever that was.

Anyway Alex Karp would like to make it extremely clear that he a dyslexic smol bean and this whole critical thread is actually ableist.

Again, superior how exactly?

I wish Levy had pushed him here about whether he thinks there is any foundational difference between the USA and (coincidentally, I guess?) the WWII Axis powers Germany and Japan, specifically w/r/t immigration.

The sixth derivative tells you the slope of the equation for the fifth derivative. The eighth derivative tells you the slope for the seventh. Etc. Nothing more profound.

Three different senses of the word "derivative" in one answer, the first underlining his apparent belief that a derivative, mathematically, is somehow a "deeper" or more meaningful understanding of something (it's just an equation for the slope of a different equation at any point on a graph).

To me, those are not interesting questions because it’s hard to imagine anything much being changed by the substitution. No way on earth Kerry would have ended any of Bush’s wars, any more than Obama did.

Not that I know of. So I guess that’s one difference

And was there, with the benefit of hindsight, a difference between Clinton and Dole?