Tony D’Addeo (@deodad) on Farcaster

Tony D’Addeo

@deodad

@farcaster dev / dad / books, cooks, ski, code ~ there are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant

New York, NY, USA

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deodad

Dave Ramsey is consistently right when talking to gambling addicts but has some weird takes when Phil Ivey calls in. Why does he hate baccarat when people ask him if they only play when using edge sorting to make positive EV bets? There is no downside. It’s free money!

deodad

austin airport christmas vibes

deodad

holiday rereading “At times I feel your voice is reaching me from far away, while I am prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, when all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is no imagining what new forms they may assume.”

dwr

holiday reading

deodad

strategically under packing based on the EV of any socks, underwear, and sweaters i may or may not receive for christmas from my family

deodad

i cheated on the snowman game, got the top score of 94, and then deleted because I felt ashamed

deodad

i enjoyed the sarah paine lecture series on dwarkesh

Dwarkesh Patel

@dwarkesh_sp

Final Sarah Paine lecture: Why Russia lost the Cold War. To me, the most interesting question is not why the Soviet Union ultimately collapsed - it's how a brutal, centrally planned, stupendously inefficient, colonial land empire survived for so long. I was surprised to learn https://t.co/qUKPaUmR95

deodad

@limes.eth Farcaster Cheese Library wen

horsefacts.eth

Red Hawk if ya nasty if y'all like a mature Mt Tam, i.e. when it is starting to get goopy, try Jasper Hill Harbison/Winnimere. both soft ripened so they are spoonable. kinda the East Coast Tam/Red Hawk

deodad

update 1: brie on rye sourdough with fig preserves is my new weekend dessert update 2: best nft i’ve bought and it’s physical wood manifestation recently arrived from the incredibly talented @naiya.eth

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2mo

3 dark chocolate covered espresso beans is my new weeknight dessert

deodad

10d

"I always think about the area under the curve of engineer-hours. All the effort that goes into these grotesquely beautiful optimized structures. At some point you have to ask the annoying question. Would it have been faster and cheaper to accept lower performance and build a system that scales. Starship is basically t...

Andrew McCalip

@andrewmccalip

11d

I’m in total agreement with John on this one. The rocket analogy is dead on. There’s a specific disease in engineering where we treat the last sliver of efficiency like it’s sacred, and we treat time like it’s free. Then we act shocked when the result is a bespoke artifact with https://t.co/9Oiai1RHti

deodad

10d

Clanker RFC: Auctions We’ve been exploring how to make Clanker the best place to launch a token with 3 goals in mind: - Discover a fair market value - Distribute broadly and fairly - Earn in a way that is aligned with your community We think auctions could be a powerful tool to meet those goals and want to get commun...

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Clanker Auctions (Shared) | Notion

deodad

10d

this question was in reference to a prediction market about individual college football players choosing to transfer schools or not my comment was "what could wrong" the answer is to the extent prediction markets are for events that can be manipulated they become reflexive—the market itself becomes a determining fact...

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Hyperstition - Wikipedia

reeeny

10d

As someone not familiar with the system, could you spell it out? What will go wrong?

deodad

10d

i don’t accept that marmite has a “best by” date stuff seems like it’d keep forever

deodad

10d

what could go wrong

InGame

@InGameHQ

11d

Kalshi has filed forms to accept bets on who enters NCAA Transfer Portal. Documents say that Kalshi intends to offer the contracts possibly as soon as end of business on Wednesday.

deodad

11d

men will read the chapter in Anna Karenina where Levin spends an entire day mowing his field with the peasants and just say “hell yeah”

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11d

my eastern european mother in law comes over and within a day there is a pot of boiled beat water sitting on the stove, tea brewed with fermented fire weed leaves being served, a mysterious jar of onions in honey standing on the counter