Don't forget that today's observable universe includes places that will never be able to see us because of the expansion of the universe being faster than the speed of light. There's a smaller sphere for the portion of the universe that we can influence.
Funny enough, vanity sizing strikes there too. The purported waist size of a pair of Levi's is off by almost three inches.
One might argue that the size on their label is not supposed to indicate the size of the garment waistband, but the waist size of the wearer who would find it comfortable, but even with that interpretation it doesn't work out right.
Yeah. It's a remarkable problem. There is a clear solution that is happily used for men. You tell people what to measure then have the clothes sized for the various dimensions.
Charles Tyrwhitt have this guide where they tell you what to measure for shirts :
I think that diff algorithms have more in common with traditional, “lower” textual criticism than with the sort of source criticism canjobear is pondering.
This is true - all the global multinationals that essentially make the US stock market earn a good portion of their revenue in foreign currency, so their revenue and profits will increase.
In addition, they are all cheaper when priced in USD, so their stock will go up regardless.
This is just counting short term effect of currency devaluation. Long term there are also effects around trade balance and jobs.
Also, increasing billionaire wealth and burgeoning (but somewhat circular) market capitalizations of companies will seem like a good economy while real income and wealth for the bottom half of Americans keeps falling. The mainstream business media is a gaslight factory completely ignoring the ever-widening K-shaped economic reality that there's a very good economy for the highest income people and a rapidly declining/terrible economy for everyone else.
Totally get that — the “open loops stick around, then randomly resurface months later” feeling is very ADHD-coded.
A lightweight trick that doesn’t require a whole new system:
When you act on something, add a single closure line at the top of the note:
Done: <what happened> — <date> — <where to find it>
It turns the note from “still open?” into “closed loop” in 5 seconds, and future-you stops re-processing it.
If you had to pick one, which is more ADHD-painful for you: too many open loops, or losing track of where the finished thing ended up?
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