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This is why I have supported<\/a> the election (and more recently the re-election) of prosecutors who support reform. I have done it transparently, and I have no intention of stopping. The funds I provide enable sensible reform-minded candidates to receive a hearing from the public. Judging by the results, the public likes what it\u2019s hearing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Argentina\u2019s central bank delivered<\/a> an outsize 800 basis-point hike to its benchmark interest rate, the largest in three years, as inflation accelerates amid a growing political crisis. The monetary authority increased its benchmark Leliq rate to 60%, it said in a statement on Thursday. The effective annual rate, which accounts for compounded interest, reached 79.8%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Federal Trade Commission today took action against online home buying firm Opendoor Labs Inc., <\/a>for cheating potential home sellers by tricking them into thinking that they could make more money selling their home to Opendoor than on the open market using the traditional sales process. The FTC alleged that Opendoor pitched potential sellers using misleading and deceptive information, and in reality, most people who sold to Opendoor made thousands of dollars less<\/em> than they would have made selling their homes using the traditional process. Under a proposed administrative order, Opendoor will have to pay $62 million and stop its deceptive tactics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s an interesting and revealing contrast<\/a> in the ways that Tesla and Edison, respectively, presented themselves and their power of invention. Both men were adept at self-promotion and took advantage of every opportunity to put themselves and their inventions in the public eye. The inventive selves that each presented to the public were very different ones, nevertheless, and are revealing of the range of ways in which innovators could be imagined at the beginnings of modernity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the coolest patterns <\/a>in history is something called “the multiple.” It’s this spooky phenomenon where someone invents something or makes a new discovery and then, at roughly the same time, someone else invents the same thing or makes the same discovery independent of the first person.<\/em> Consider:<\/p>\n\n\n

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\u2014 Rothmus ? (@Rothmus) August 1, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n