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#439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling

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Craig Jones is a legendary jiu jitsu personality, competitor, co-founder of B-Team, and organizer of the CJI tournament that offers over $2 million in prize money. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep439-sc See below for timest...

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Is Ben scrolling TikTok right now? “This site reveals, in real-time, whether...

Is Ben scrolling TikTok right now? “This site reveals, in real-time, whether I — artist and professor Ben Grosser — am currently scrolling TikTok. Think of it as a last-ditch effort, a sort of public confessional as therapeutic tool…”

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U.S. Considers Breaking Up Google as Antitrust Remedy

nytimes.com/2024/08/13/technology/google-monopoly-antitrust-justice-department.html

David McCabe and Nico Grant, reporting for The New York Times: Justice Department officials are considering what remedies to ask a federal judge to order against the search giant, said three people with knowledge of the deliberations involving the agency and state attorn...

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Apple: iOS 18.1 Will Offer API for Third-Party Apps to Offer In-App NFC Transactions Using the Secure Element

apple.com/newsroom/2024/08/developers-can-soon-offer-in-app-nfc-transactions-using-the-secure-element/?1723649422

Apple Newsroom: Starting with iOS 18.1, developers will be able to offer NFC contactless transactions using the Secure Element from within their own apps on iPhone, separate from Apple Pay and Apple Wallet. Using the new NFC and SE (Secure Element) APIs, developers will ...

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A number of NYC restaurant wine buyers explain how they price bottles...

A number of NYC restaurant wine buyers explain how they price bottles of wine on their wine list. “I generally stick with the norm as far as markups go: 3x to 3.5x.”

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After Years of Legal Wrangling, Apple Now Allows Spotify to Show EU Users Pricing in App, and Inform Them They Can Sign Up on the Web

newsroom.spotify.com/2024-03-04/the-european-commission-confirms-apples-anti-competitive-behavior-is-illegal-and-harms-consumers/

Spotify, in an update to an older post on the company blog: While we are still many steps from a level playing field, we are beginning to see progress because of the European Commission’s historic decision on March 4, 2024 which found that Apple violated the EU’s antitru...

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“When Google increased paid maternity leave to 18 from 12 weeks in...

“When Google increased paid maternity leave to 18 from 12 weeks in 2007, the rate at which new moms left the company fell by 50%.” Paid leave, universal healthcare, and related programs would be such a boon to workers & the economy.

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AT&T Says It Won’t Carry Google’s Pixel 9 Pro Fold

cnet.com/tech/mobile/at-t-says-it-wont-carry-googles-pixel-9-pro-fold/

Eli Blumenthal, reporting for CNet: Looking for Google’s new Pixel 9 Pro Fold? You won’t find it at AT&T. The carrier has confirmed to CNET that it will not be offering Google’s newest Pixel Fold to its customers. The decision would be a blow to Google’s device ambit...

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The World’s Fastest Puzzle Solver (It’s a Robot)

Mark Rober built a robot that solves jigsaw puzzles and pitted it against Tammy McLeod, one of the world’s faster human solvers. The design and build process is fascinating, especially the fine-tuning enabling the robot to “wiggle” each piece into its place. When we firs...

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Recent CDC report: “Among children born during 1994–2023, routine childhood vaccinations will...

Recent CDC report: “Among children born during 1994–2023, routine childhood vaccinations will have prevented approximately 508 million cases of illness, 32 million hospitalizations, and 1,129,000 deaths…”

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Helium Synthesis

Our lawyers were worried because it turns out the company inherits its debt from the parent universe, but luckily cosmic inflation reduced it to nearly zero.

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New Distraction Control Safari Feature Is Now Available in the iOS 18 and MacOS 15 Betas

macrumors.com/2024/08/05/ios-18-safari-distraction-control/

Juli Clover, writing last week for MacRumors: Distraction Control can be used to hide static content on a page, but it is not an ad blocker and cannot be used to permanently hide ads. An ad can be temporarily hidden, but the feature was not designed for ads, and an ad wi...

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Subtle Tweaks to the Harris/Walz Logo

threads.net/@jonathanhoefler/post/C-oBpJeuoA1

Jonathan Hoefler, on Threads: The Harris/Walz logo got a smart and subtle haircut this weekend, which, like the very best typography, is making everything better while drawing very little attention to itself. I read a lot of comments about political logos… Having helped...

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Google’s Pixel 9 Launch Event

theverge.com/24218825/google-pixel-9-event-announcements-products

Emma Roth, writing for The Verge: Google has finally taken the wraps off its Pixel 9 lineup, which includes three slab phones and a folding phone. The regular lineup consists of a base Pixel 9 with a 6.3-inch display, a Pixel 9 Pro XL with a 6.8-inch screen, and a new, s...

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‘He Sounded Like a Disoriented, Racist Daffy Duck’

usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2024/08/12/trump-musk-interview-x-twitter-spaces-disaster/74774628007/

USA Today columnist Rex Huppke, on Donald Trump’s high-profile return to Twitter/X: But the online interview went off (the rails) with a multitude of hitches. X users erupted with either frustration or laughter as the planned start time passed, and nothing could be acces...

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Patreon Should Consider Calling Apple on Its Threats

news.patreon.com/articles/understanding-apple-requirements-for-patreon

I neglected to call this paragraph out yesterday in my first link to this announcement from Patreon: Patreon is home to an incredible range of creators, all with unique circumstances and billing needs. Apple’s in-app purchase system, on the other hand, only supports Patr...

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Fever Feels Horrible, But Is Actually Helpful

Kurzgesagt explores what happens when a virus or bacteria enters a human body and the essential role fever plays in helping your body fight off disease.

Fever feels bad. So we take medication to suppress it — but is this a good idea? It turns out fever is one of the oldest defenses against disease. What exactly is a fever, and how does it make your immune defense stronger? Should you take a pill to combat it?

We often mistake fever for the disease…it’s actually part of the cure. When my kids were young, I vividly remember our laissez-faire French pediatrician urging us not to give them medication to get rid of their fevers because that was the body fighting back and doing useful work — unless their temps got too high of course.

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Lethonomia “refers to the inability to recall someone’s name”. I can never...

Lethonomia “refers to the inability to recall someone’s name”. I can never remember the name of the actor who plays Frodo in LOTR or Spider-Man from Sam Raimi’s movies.

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August 1st was Earth Overshoot Day for 2024. “In the past 7...

August 1st was Earth Overshoot Day for 2024. “In the past 7 months, we’ve used everything our planet can regenerate this year. For the rest of the year, we’ll deplete our children’s future.” We’re using the resources of 1.75 Earths per year.

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Creator Platforms Should Be a Special Category on the App Store

on.substack.com/p/apple-patreon-in-app-purchase-system

Substack cofounder Hamish McKenzie, on Patreon being required by Apple to offer in-app subscriptions through their iOS app: But we also don’t think that Apple should be wholly blamed. This unfortunate situation, in which creators ultimately bear the biggest costs, is a s...