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Money buys even more happiness than it used to

theconversation.com/money-buys-even-more-happiness-than-it-used-to-141766
It used to be that happiness largely leveled off after around $75,000/year, but now it continues to increase even beyond $160,000 a year.

A More Specific Letter on Justice and Open Debate - The Objective

theobjective.substack.com/p/14203152-3a83-4068-b6b2-a5007b0e2f5b
On Tuesday, 153 of the most prominent journalists, authors, and writers, including J. K. Rowling, Malcolm Gladwell, and David Brooks, published an open call for civility in Harper’s Magazine. They write, in the pages of a prominent magazine that’s infamous for being

The Frink is Good, the Unit is Evil • Hillel Wayne

hillelwayne.com/post/frink/
One day Alan Eliasen read a fart joke and got so mad he invented a programming language. 20 years later Frink is one of the best special purpose languages for dealing with units. “But why do we need a language just for dealing with units?” Glad you asked! Intro to Units A unit is the physical property a number represents, like distance or time. We almost always are talking about SI units, or Système international.