Argentino, American, human, MIT alum, economist, dj, dueño PYME.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Joined February 2010
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Alex Batallés retweeted
Polaris Dawn is probably the most interesting mission coming up that people don’t know about.
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The SpaceX Extravehicular Activity (EVA) suit → spacex.com/updates #Maythe4thBeWithYou
This one hurts. It's hard to think of an author that has had a greater impact in how I think of the world than Daniel Kahneman. RIP
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An essay by @R_Thaler and yours truly on Danny Kahneman and Amos Tversky, his greatest collaborator.
newyorker.com/books/page-tur…
Hear me out: two drones, about 400m high, 20m apart, 10-30m off the flight path of starship, cameras pointing down at the launch pad with software that coordinates their movements to record stereoscopically. Watching that in VR would be 🤯 @elonmusk
Alex Batallés retweeted
The #Bitcoin Whitepaper was published on this day 15 years ago - October 31, 2008.
Thank you Satoshi! 🙏
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In 1971, the U.S. economy changed forever.
Here are 20 fascinating charts to show you what I mean🧵
What are your thoughts?
1. Productivity has skyrocketed while salaries have not moved at nearly the same pace.
Alex Batallés retweeted
An article published by The New York Times dated December 8th, 1903
9 days later the Wright Brothers had their first flight.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Their flight was not 9 days later, it was 69 days later.
The New York Times opinion piece was published on October 9, 1903: nytimes.com/1903/10/09/arc…
The Wright brothers first flight occurred on December 17, 1903: airandspace.si.edu/collection-obj…
Alex Batallés retweeted
Here's a 1-minute video showing--in the words of visualization hero @EdwardTufte--the "compared to what" factor for today's amazing @NASAWebb image. Thanks to the @WWTelescope for making this possible, and @ADavidWeigel. I only wish @NASA and @POTUS had shown the image this way!
And you can zoom on the first one (SMACS 0723) interactively here in @WWTelescope: web.wwtassets.org/specials/2…
Alex Batallés retweeted
Proof of Stake is decentralization theater
The Terra blockchain was officially halted at a block height of 7603700.
lcd.terra.dev/blocks/latest
Terra validators have decided to halt the Terra chain to prevent governance attacks following severe $LUNA inflation and a significantly reduced cost of attack.
Alex Batallés retweeted
Why does everything feel like the world is falling apart, yet the stock market has looked like this since 2009?
Well, here's a thread w/ some interesting charts that will help you understand: what you see is NOT what you get.
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Alex Batallés retweeted
I'm scared about rare side effects of the vaccine described in a story I read on my phone while driving.
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Enormous credit where credit is due if Biden follows through on desisting from the Yemen genocide.
If two Presidents in a row exit and ramp down existing wars while refusing to start new ones, that’s a new era in US policy-making. politico.com/news/2021/02/04…
