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"a private jet crashed in Florida" is 100% one of the contexts where I trust Bill Ackman to know a guy who knows what's going on
From a pilot I trust: It is too early to tell all of the factors that played a roll but likely complacency and inexperience. From the ATC audio tape and radar (see below) I would say inexperienced pilot or pilots and obviously weather. They likely flew into the storms and iced up. The Lear has a very critical wing and if they iced up in the thin air at altitude, they likely experienced a power on stall which can result in an upset and or snap roll. As they asked to climb, we know they were likely at a very high power setting. Investigation should provide more insight as to whether they had the radar on or not and the training records as well as experience levels of the crew and any difficulty they may have had over the years with training. They will also rebuild their days before the flight looking at any causal factors like fatigue. This should not have happened. I have a video of the impact and the plane appears to be intact just before impact. We absolutely would not cross a line of storms like that while descending into them.
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CZ getting on the horn with Seth Rogen to discuss post-North Korean hack PR strategy
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most people don't this but if you want to convert to Judaism, you actually have to tell the New York Times three times before you're allowed to convert
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Guy who refuses to see Ali G 2 because he's a anti-aristocratic republican
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make sense for a cypto exchanged to hold reserves in an asset correlated to the S&P 500
Some very good and interesting points on the Binance hack in Bryce's substack today. Didn't know that the company's own emergency reserve is all in bitcoin.
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what a job title
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not even long islanders believe this
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"set in Alaska, the film reimagines the classic, with mosquitos taking the place of birds"
HBO is officially developing ‘THE BIRDS’, a new series inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's film. Starring Sarah Snook, the series is a modern-day reimagining of the film set in Alaska with a murder mystery at the center. (Source: Deadline)
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Realizing those M&A lawyers were just in it for the money
There is something particularly repulsive about a century old institution being torn apart because the partners want to make $15 million instead of a mere $12 million.
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I'm still calling it "the novel coronavirus"
Even the All-In guys seem to have given up on "super intelligence" @jdcapelouto
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who to be a lawyer needs a lawyer when you can pay your employees to be lawyers?
NEW: How good is the opportunity still in BigLaw right now? A top PJT investment banker is jumping to Sidley Austin even though he's not actually a lawyer: ft.com/content/84da55e7-f544…
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*who needs to be a lawyer, yeesh but you get the point
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the Flavio Bolsonaro saga just cannot hold a candle to the Carlos Ghosn escape plan, which was truly one of the most insane stories and it just got completely buried in the collective memory because it happened in late 2019
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new hilarious details of Adams administration corruption: a Queen's slice shop; Valentines Day health inspection; hundreds of mouse droppings; unrefrigerated calamari “My nerves are shot, bro” the owner says on the phone. $300 in cash solves it gothamist.com/news/former-ny…
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imagine playing for Kenny Jackett *and* Tim Gilet
A man who would've been proud to see this moment... 🙌 Harry gave a mention to the late Kenny Jackett in his Ballon d'Or acceptance speech last night.
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I can highly recommend Luke for a position on Anthropic's board -- he'd bring the specific quality of being annoying in meetings, but in a totally different way than anyone else currently at Anthropic
Replying to @DarioAmodei
@DarioAmodei Where can I apply for one of those Anthropic board seats devoted to making sure things are going okay for humanity?
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(laudatory), obviously ;)
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insightful piece about watching someone who is good at something become world historically great
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the funny thing is the state of florida is... an insurance underwriter
First they came for the insurance underwriters and I did not speak up, for I was not an insurance underwriter…
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