{"id":17698,"date":"2026-10-18T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T07:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=17698"},"modified":"2026-10-17T11:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T17:34:11","slug":"10-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=17698","title":{"rendered":"10.18"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For a country that is closed to the internet, however, the quality of OSM data in <a href=\"https:\/\/cartographers-nk.wonyoung.so\/\">North Korea<\/a> is extraordinary: 324,415 data points drawn by 889 contributors since 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ironic truth is, <a href=\"https:\/\/royfish.dev\/fingerprints-are-the-new-cookies\">privacy<\/a> extensions make you more unique, since fewer people have them. So a smart tracker could detect that, ignore the signals disrupted by the extension and focus on the ones that are not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/karpathy\/status\/2109361546505966046\">Napkin<\/a> math somewhere around 6B people (~75% of the population) have barely come in contact with LLMs at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If Milwaukee and Cleveland meet in the World Series, it would be the first time in history that the World Series features two cities where the Edmund Fitzgerald once docked.  In case you were wondering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, from a policy standpoint, is <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ericgoldman.org\/archives\/2026\/10\/my-reddit-ama-on-the-law-of-web-scraping.htm\">scraping<\/a> a good or bad thing? \u00bfPor qu\u00e9 no los dos?: Or, to put it into legalese, \u201cit depends.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Murphy&#8217;s desire to win can manifest in old-school ways. He is the rare major league manager who will still not hesitate to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/50170393\/playoffs-2026-brewers-dodgers-nlcs-game-2-milwaukee-new-level\">bench a player for lack of effort<\/a> or a mental mishap. He works himself into a tizzy over little mistakes, joking that he would trade his challenges for the ability to tase players who fall short of the Brewers&#8217; mission: a clean, fundamentally sound style of baseball.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What the <a href=\"https:\/\/sheets.works\/data-viz\/what-every-country-read\">world<\/a> read on Wikipedia yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We choose to reach for <a href=\"https:\/\/yellowstripsdeadarmadillos.org\/2026\/10\/14\/rubios-speech\/\">new frontiers<\/a>: in advanced manufacturing and superintelligence; in drones, weapons and warfare; in chips, minerals, cyber and every other domain of human possibility. To unleash our energy, to rebuild our factories, to return our astronauts to the moon and launch a new age of exploration in space.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Health Services Research has recently released a breakdown of how private equity <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dentaleconomics.com\/macro-op-ed\/industry-news\/news\/55341670\/how-does-private-equity-ownership-really-affect-dental-practices\">ownership<\/a> impacts both dental practices and patients, from finances to Medicaid to treatment options.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">France ignored the American example, built 56 reactors in 15 years and now makes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspendailynews.com\/opinion\/whiting-the-road-we-were-told-not-to-take-0b9fd0a3\">electricity<\/a> at about 40 grams of CO2 per kilowatt-hour, against a world average of 473.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/museumofages.org\/w\/vinci?lang=en#s=0\">museumofages.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In any case, what is missing from this endlessly verbose rationalist writing style is&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/alexwennerberg.com\/blog\/2026-10-13-long.html\">wisdom<\/a><\/em>. Wisdom involves discretion: an intuition for what ideas are and are not worth seriously pursuing, and the ability to determine what does and does not need to be said. This community, broadly speaking, does not seem to value wisdom as a trait at all; the idea that something may be true, valuable, or good merely because it is common sense or inherited tradition is anathema to them. Instead, there is a heavy bias towards that which is unconventional and counterculture, with the amount of ink spilled for heterodox ideas taken as evidence in itself that these ideas are worth taking seriously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/felixrieseberg.com\/about-me\/\">https:\/\/felixrieseberg.com\/about-me\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In fact what I discovered, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/rnaudbertrand\/status\/2110630258085183587?s=12\">hilariously<\/a>, is that the Chinese were just as surprised as anyone else: it\u2019s only weeks after Western media started crediting China with saving the world economy that Chinese media picked up the story. And even then, CCTV\u2019s first take in July (chinanews.com.cn\/gj\/2026\/07-05\/\u2026) presented it as something ??? (w\u00e0im\u00e9i ch?ng, \u201cforeign media claim\u201d) ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was a Friday night, and I was sitting at home at eight o\u2019clock and the <a href=\"https:\/\/adst.org\/2015\/06\/this-woman-was-nuts\/\">doorbell<\/a> rang. There on my doorstep was the Prime Minister of Nepal. He said, \u201cMr. Fischer, are you showing a movie tonight?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recruiting is top of mind for one of Austin\u2019s growing businesses,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/health\/healthcare\/the-cancer-test-that-wall-street-is-betting-on-2097ba9b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Natera<\/a>, a biotech that was founded in Silicon Valley and has since moved its headquarters to the Texas capital. The company, known for its blood-based cancer testing, has 300,000 square feet of office space and sprawling labs in North Austin, along with a parking lot big enough to get lost in.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why Austin? Part of it was the cost of the space, much more reasonable than the options in the Bay Area. Texas offered a more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2026\/10\/15\/business\/austin-housing-boston-jobs\/\">business-friendly environment than California<\/a>, company leaders said. But in relocating, there were also the intangibles to consider.&nbsp;  \u201cWe\u2019re gonna need to attract talent to a place. We need to sell people on a town,\u201d chief financial officer Mike Brophy, himself a native Texan, recalled thinking. \u201cYou can really sell people on Austin.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The main reason <a href=\"https:\/\/dfarq.homeip.net\/what-was-a-token-ring-network\/\">Ethernet<\/a> won the war was because it was cheaper. Once you bought everything you needed, Ethernet cost a third as much. Whether Ethernet was half as good or 75% as good was always a matter of debate, but for a third the price, it only needed to be half as good to be a reasonable value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The West must finally see the <a href=\"https:\/\/platformraam.nl\/artikelen\/167-het-westen-moet-eindelijk-de-balk-in-het-eigen-oog-gaan-zien\">beam<\/a> in its own eye<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a country that is closed to the internet, however, the quality of OSM data in North Korea is extraordinary: 324,415 data points drawn by 889 contributors since 2007. The ironic truth is, privacy extensions make you more unique, since fewer people have them. 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