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Brian Lui

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Brian Lui

@brianluidog

Blog! brianlui.dog Food scanner app! foodknower.com Writing a sports drama! Used to be an equity research analyst and portfolio manager.

Sydney, Australia

Joined January 2018

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Brian Lui
@brianluidog
Apr 5
ANNOUNCEMENT: I made a food scanner app! This one is different because unlike every other app, it gives exactly two scores, which is the right amount. It's in closed beta and access basically gets granted when I'm at my computer. I've used it myself for months and it's
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Brian Lui
@brianluidog
Apr 6, 2024
I worry about "stuff that forces you to lie." Like airlines ask you "do you have a cold, cough, tiredness, itchy nose, sniffles or your foot hurts?" And if you have sniffles your choices are to tell the truth, miss your flight and lose $600, or lie. That's bad incentives.
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Brian Lui
@brianluidog
Jun 28, 2023
Something I've wondered about: why do airplanes care about weighing your carryons, instead of your body weight + carryons? Why is a 95kg person + 5kg carryon fine, but a 60kg person + 40kg carryon gets a heavy penalty?
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Brian Lui
@brianluidog
Nov 15, 2024
PSA: if you marry someone and you both love each other deeply, and your strengths and weaknesses are complementary, then it's totally normal to never have arguments. "Having arguments is normal and never having arguments is bad repression" is insane normie cope
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Brian Lui
@brianluidog
Jul 2, 2023
Honestly I don't care about CO2 climate change any more. Easily solved with current technology. Care more about air pollution, heavy metals, microplastics, etc. It's annoying that climate change took over environmentalism
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Brian Lui
@brianluidog
Nov 20, 2024
Type of guy who goes mega long the VIX and then orders $2000 of pizza delivery to the Pentagon
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Brian Lui
@brianluidog
Jun 7, 2024
I sometimes think about Japanese excellence. For example, Japanese whisky is much better than the original, but Japanese coffee is very bad. Similarly, Japanese jazz is superior to American jazz, but Japanese pop music is garbage. What causes these big differences?
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Brian Lui
@brianluidog
Jun 21, 2023
Pop Base
@PopBase
Jun 17, 2023
What is your favorite celebrity quote?
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Nassim Taleb disputes ever having said this. twitter.com/nntaleb/status…
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Brian Lui
@brianluidog
May 30, 2023
If you're not prepared for it, the cognitive decline due to aging can be a shock. For example, at my age I can no longer quickly multiply two digit numbers in my head, or consider a hypothetical scenario where I didn't eat breakfast
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Brian Lui
@brianluidog
Feb 23, 2021
Replying to @brianluidog @p_millerd and @idea_soup
If I'm playing a video game and there's a button marked "punch yourself in the face for no benefit" you bet I'm mashing that button
Brian Lui
@brianluidog
Apr 6, 2024
Replying to @scottastevenson
This came up because our kids asked about it. It's really tough to explain "lying is ok in this instance because both parties know"..
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Brian Lui
@brianluidog
Mar 13, 2023
For twelve years, you have been asking: Who is John Galt? This is John Galt speaking. If John Galt Bank is not immediately fully backstopped and depositors protected,
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Brian Lui
@brianluidog
Nov 30, 2023
Thought about how school knowledge is still relevant to adults. Physics might seem like useless abstract knowledge, but it has many real-world applications.
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The "physics" in this post is gibberish. Lateral g-forces are not directly related to angular momentum. They only depend on the speed and turning radius of the car. This type of path is known as a racing line. This orange line is a bad example. It also disregards traffic. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angular_m… en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racing_li…
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Brian Lui
@brianluidog
Nov 17, 2024
Women in their early 20s are incredibly annoying and immature. So any man who is willing to date them is either incredibly annoying and immature themselves (early 20s men), or extremely horny or abusive (older men). That's why people think older men dating younger women are weird
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