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Bitcoin (Tm) and the Eye of Sauron(epsilontheory.com)
2 points by PhaedrusV 5y ago|1 comments
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by PhaedrusV 6y ago
Title misspelled "both adults"
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Geographic evidence that gun deaths are cultural(hwfo.substack.com)
4 points by PhaedrusV 6y ago|1 comments
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Portrait of a Very Serious Investor (ET)(epsilontheory.com)
1 points by PhaedrusV 6y ago|0 comments
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by PhaedrusV 6y ago
How about an internet year off...
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by PhaedrusV 6y ago
It's like people have never heard the word "boycott"
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by PhaedrusV 6y ago
Aaaaand moral high ground: lost
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by PhaedrusV 6y ago
Excuse me, real median per capita income. And it hasn't been declining but it has been flat. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_GDP_per_capita_vs...
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by PhaedrusV 6y ago
Fair enough, I was mistaken
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by PhaedrusV 6y ago
This was a point I made when the pandemic shortages kicked off. The entire world's purchasing habits shifted towards guns, food, prepping gear, and TP. The prices of those items skyrocketed (when they could be found). I predicted at th
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by PhaedrusV 6y ago
I can't imagine that would go any better. I think I'll just pass on reading the author's thoughts.
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by PhaedrusV 6y ago
Also, all those changes were wrought by government fiat, and have been accomplished almost completely by reducing the weight of the cars, not by quality improvements as the article implies.
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by PhaedrusV 6y ago
Yes, the author is debating a straw man. The argument that the government is understating inflation is a pretty simple one. 1) The government is heavily incentivized to understate inflation in order to limit its expenditures for social secu
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by PhaedrusV 6y ago
Conditions were perfectly clear, late at night, at several thousand feet, and the light persisted for about 10 minutes without any flickering or distortion. There aren't any natural phenomena I know of that could have caused that. Obvi
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by PhaedrusV 6y ago
I saw an inertia-less, extremely fast aircraft playing around above the Sierra Nevadas one night about 22 years ago. Obviously you all don't know me from Adam, so I don't expect this to update your priors much, but my personal evi
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You Can't Handle the Lie(epsilontheory.com)
8 points by PhaedrusV 6y ago|1 comments
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by PhaedrusV 6y ago
The Lightbringer series by Brent Weeks, and "A Land Fit For Heroes" series by Richard K. Morgan would both make for awesome TV series'.
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by PhaedrusV 6y ago
Yeah, it breathed new life into the basic game in a big way. The mods, on the other hand, get pretty different.
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by PhaedrusV 6y ago
Agree on all points. There's a total conversion mod for the original X-COM: UFO Defense that is amazing, and being actively worked on. New updates every month or so. Hundreds more hours in the campaign. Set a few hundred years after X-
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by PhaedrusV 6y ago
Have people decided that they need Facebook for some reason? Just delete your account. If you need photos, or groups, or contact, there's other services. A good ol' boycott will fix everything wrong about Facebook. No 'terror
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A brief retrospective on my year since deleting Facebook(medium.com)
2 points by PhaedrusV 6y ago|0 comments
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by PhaedrusV 6y ago
Here you go. Video of cop shooting a guy in the back as he ran away, then planting a gun on him. The officer didn't know the event was filmed, and filed a wholly false police report on the subject. https://youtu.be/XKQq
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by PhaedrusV 6y ago
Instead of signal-boosting rotten cops, can we signal-boost the ones who arrest bad cops?
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Bluetooth Standard Vulnerability: Bias(schneier.com)
1 points by PhaedrusV 6y ago|0 comments
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by PhaedrusV 6y ago
"Maps of Meaning" by Jordan Peterson (yeah, that JP): a extremely interesting textbook-length treatment on cultural meaning and narrative. I found it a little hard to get through the learning curve on the jargon in the print form,
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by PhaedrusV 6y ago
I'm currently reading "Principles of Secondary Education" by Inglis as an inaugural project for a blog. Share any interesting finds!
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Forgotten Books – 1,271,515 restored old books(forgottenbooks.com)
3 points by PhaedrusV 6y ago|1 comments
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by PhaedrusV 6y ago
Which is why the ultimate move is to teach yourself to enjoy the things you know you need to do. Having kids helps with enjoying chores. "No babe, it's OK, I'll take the dishes and listen to my podcast. You just watch the kid
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Ask HN: Any experience with non-ACA compliant health insurance?
1 points by PhaedrusV 6y ago|0 comments
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How few questions can I answer on the 2020 census?(medium.com)
2 points by PhaedrusV 7y ago|0 comments

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