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J0th, 1994 was a magical day for the good people of Cincinnati, Ohio and Louisville, Kentucky. No one could possibly have known at the time, other than anyone familiar with the series’ dwindling box-office grosses, that that fateful day would mark the very final time a fella would be able to say to his gal, “What say you and me have a kissing date in the balcony of the theater showing the newest Ernest P.

I think it's actually an ideal time to make long range prediction regarding BRICS, considering we have now two decades of additional information on the people who originally made proclamations regarding BRICS, and over a decade's worth of time to see how it has played out since becoming a more formalized association. Plenty of time to see where the lines are being drawn and what it can actually accomplish as a unit.

Everyone loves escargots à la Bourguignonne: helix snails (the wild ones are predominantly from Burgundy) with butter, parsley and garlic. And even kids love it. Why? because it’s achingly delicious, the snails are briny, earthy as a forest floor and very sweet. And there is garlic butter to dunk in too. Dunk bread, or just dunk your face — it’s that good, and we all know it. The vegetal bitter quality of the parsley transforms the garlic.

I just received the University of Cincinnati’s new member agreement with the Big 12 bringing my total of new member conference agreements to nine (you can download UC’s agreement below). There are three distinguishing characteristics among these nine agreements. These differences suggest ESPN, working through the Big 12, may have violated an undisclosed “telecast” agreement with the Pac 12 when it induced at least two of the four corner schools to jump ship.

So I started a podcast. Yeah, I know… I’m like seven years late to the party. Very fashionably late. The podcast is called World of DaaS and it is available everywhere (Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc.). Please subscribe, follow, and review. My first guest is Jack Dangermond, CEO of Esri. Esri is the most amazing company that you’ve never heard of. Esri does about $1.3 billion in revenue and is the biggest GIS (geographical information systems) software company.

For whatever reason the commonly accepted IQ of magnus carlsen is 190 - I think this is because people seem to think chess is highly g-loaded, when in reality it is not (r = .32 in unranked samples). Even if you make some generous assumptions about measurement error, I doubt the true correlation is higher than .45 in random people. Notably, Kasparov's IQ was tested at 135, vindicating my belief that a lot of these IQ estimates of prominent scientists/politicians/chess players/philosophers are bogus.

quick facts: 1600 elo in chess - which is pretty good, according to the website itself this is roughly the 97th percentile. His dad was the one of the best Black chess players ever - top 2000 at one point. I will assume that equates to a z-score of 4 or above to make the estimation easier Net worth between 10 million (according to police) and 300-400 million (according to the internet).

Another perfect SAT score. Not nearly as impressive given he took it in 2001 - so this equates to a z-score of 3.1 or above using the traditional 980/200 method for this time period. He is very wealthy - consistently in the top 10, giving him a wealth z-score of 6. Because it’s impossible to actually find somebody with that z-score in a simulation, I’ll just assume he is above a z-score of 4 in wealth.

Despite the title, you’ll be hard pressed to find someone more excited about Ethereum than myself. However, I believe the narrative and policy objectives around ETH the asset are in need of some refinement. It appears to be a pretty contentious issue based on my very scientific polling: This is the first of several upcoming pieces on my framework for ETH. I’ll cover the basics here: How value flows through the Ethereum protocol