Leon Markham

father husband he/him - into technology bicycles wine technology market dynamics strategy nerdery.

[Leon Markham @humanleon]

@ComfySipper @PaulSkallas I mean in fairness - in this dimension it’s really the US which is the outlier. @ByrneHobart writes very eloquently about the bizarreness of the American 30 year mortgage product

[Leon Markham @humanleon]

@joseiswriting In fairness - Asians plus anyone constitute the world’s majority. It’s like “Elon Musk and I, with a combined net worth of over $100B”

[Leon Markham @humanleon]

@AllahPeno @jbarro Turns out you can just cook things

[Leon Markham @humanleon]

@riemannzeta @paulg Paper and pen exams are the future!

[Leon Markham @humanleon]

@WalkerMarcus Rich Argentina is a lot less lindy than Rich Britain.

[Leon Markham @humanleon]

@villi Counterpoint. That was the fastest way to get to value with that level of technology. FDE is the same today.

[Leon Markham @humanleon]

@brejofit @patrickc Relevant https://t.co/Ft8NNiHK1S

[Ethan J. Weiss @ethanjweiss]

@patrickc This post made me think of this fascinating feature of human psychology - the illusion of explanatory depth...

https://t.co/WW4xJk6z16

[Leon Markham @humanleon]

@gabriel_horwitz @patrickc Consciousness has a different quality in that we don’t all agree on what it *is*. Glass is glass and lightning is lighting.

[Leon Markham @humanleon]

@emollick Semi related - HHGTTG was also basically a travelog written by a highly educated 1980s British man suffering culture shock in California. He saw the future because it was already there.

[Leon Markham @humanleon]

@SinaiLawFirm The good news is they’ll stay fresh for half as long too.

[Leon Markham @humanleon]

@hekwoys Pudding == dessert. Yorkshire pudding and black pudding are different from pudding in the same way that West Virginia is different from Virginia.

[Leon Markham @humanleon]

Hard to argue with that

[Leon Markham @humanleon]

@bolkonsky35 @james1071 @peter_sarris No just Oxbridge is bigger (Ivy League + MIT) - America perfected higher education around 1910 and leapfrogged Europe

[Leon Markham @humanleon]

@chrisgolds The Elizabeth line has loads more luggage space than I can fill. Unless you enjoy the ceremony of lifting your luggage off a high rack, it’s perfect.

[Leon Markham @humanleon]

@sasuke___420 @sdamico The thing about surface spreading was that it was just incorrect. At some point we didn’t know. I don’t think an abundance of caution destroyed trust - it was speaking dishonestly when things changed that did it.

[Leon Markham @humanleon]

The flip side to this is - who increased trust? @patio11 and @zeynep deserve to have their names engraved somewhere for sure

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

Offhand —

* Vacillation on masks, with abundant motivated reasoning in every case.
* Promulgation of made-up thresholds with no evidentiary basis (e.g. 6 feet).
* Authoritarian delight in nanny state intrusiveness (policing the beach and such).
* 180 on many issues around BLM.
* Lack of effective response from science funding bodies.
* Denial of aerosolized transmission.
* Changing of trial readouts so that they’d occur after the election. (Confirmed to me by senior OWS officials.)
* Crazy criteria for vaccine distribution.
* Adamant insistence on vaccine efficacy beyond what was supported by data.
* Almost complete lack of follow-through on OWS (on pan-variant vaccines).

I’m sure there are more, but those are the ones that stick out.

[Leon Markham @humanleon]

@EvanCull @s8mb ha no - the opposite I think.

[Leon Markham @humanleon]

@s8mb I say this with respect and love, but you don't really like wine. The purpose is not to refresh, it is to delight.

[Leon Markham @humanleon]

@robkhenderson A friend works at a posh London club. One of the members caused a scandal when a guest of his asked someone what their job was. The vulgarity!

[Leon Markham @humanleon]

@HarryStebbings Jura all day long. There are cheaper ones but not better ones.