exolymph

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Collectibles are terrible investments(fullstackeconomics.com)
158 points by exolymph 5y ago|158 comments
572.
Surreality Part 2(easy-trouble.com)
1 points by exolymph 5y ago|0 comments
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by exolymph 5y ago
Or maybe you and your wife don't funge with every other pair of individuals in the whole world? Some people truly aren't compatible and make each other miserable.
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by exolymph 5y ago
As you said, there's no secret but practice. Since you're already doing that, maybe the thing is to step up the volume? Find a native English speaker to hang out with, or talk to via video call — I think there are sites for this.
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Stop making excuses for your bullshit [video](youtube.com)
3 points by exolymph 5y ago|0 comments
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by exolymph 5y ago
[crying in Cantillon Effect]
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by exolymph 5y ago
It's technically pronounced z-ee-n (because it's short for magazine) but lots of people who aren't familiar with the origin and/or learned the word online say z-eye-n and it doesn't do them any harm. Both pronunci
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by exolymph 5y ago
Indeed, some would. Would you ? Note that you reflexively express your position by reference to a putative consensus.
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by exolymph 5y ago
Another fraught heresy, which I'm about to commit, is that men and women are intrinsically different (in aggregate, on average, blah blah blah) and thus if you swap the genders in your story, it is a genuinely different story. Granted,
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by exolymph 5y ago
Sad but unsurprising. I'm amazed that archive.is is still around, to the extent that I wonder who really funds it...
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Wild Geese(themeadow.substack.com)
1 points by exolymph 5y ago|0 comments
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Who is Andre Cronje? And, does him leaving crypto matter?(blog.hedgehog.app)
2 points by exolymph 5y ago|0 comments
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The Russia We Have Lost(thelampmagazine.com)
5 points by exolymph 5y ago|0 comments
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by exolymph 5y ago
Uncoordinated volunteers are worse than useless, sadly.
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by exolymph 5y ago
This is admittedly a pedantic nitpicky comment, but humans did build astronomy on a foundation of astrology. Much like alchemy and the legit techniques used during that phase of exploration later got subsumed into chemistry.
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by exolymph 5y ago
IMO the right mechanism is for people of [insert desired demographic] to start companies and make them successful.
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by exolymph 5y ago
So you agree that cancel culture is bad, then? Delighted to hear it.
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Selling high-priced products to few people(simonowens.substack.com)
2 points by exolymph 5y ago|0 comments
589.
The Crypto Community Needs to Get Smart(er) on Energy(blog.hedgehog.app)
10 points by exolymph 5y ago|6 comments
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by exolymph 5y ago
Not the same thing, but relatedly, every legit email I receive from my health insurance is functionally indistinguishable from phishing. They always bounce me through a million weird domains too. It's very discomfiting and makes me wor
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by exolymph 5y ago
Unfortunately faster than 2x speed starts to overrun my ability to parse human speech =/ Maybe if I practiced...
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by exolymph 5y ago
> Let's not turn grad students having a laugh into an actual statement on public policy. Not to put too fine a point on it, but... at least this you can't stop me from doing.
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by exolymph 5y ago
The podcast might have been Planet Money: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/03/22/521132960/epis... Priceonomics wrote an accompanying article: https://priceonomics.com/th
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Centralized vs. decentralized exchanges: The Ultimate Guide(blog.hedgehog.app)
1 points by exolymph 5y ago|0 comments
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by exolymph 5y ago
You can't control what other people think, so let go of the anxiety.
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I Schizopost: What Schizoposting Is(thedayofthecollar.substack.com)
34 points by exolymph 5y ago|47 comments
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by exolymph 5y ago
I'll admit, I automatically upvote anything Marginalia-related. We just like you, man! Keep fighting the good fight <3
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by exolymph 5y ago
tl;dr excellent recommendation algorithm
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by exolymph 5y ago
There should be an equivalent to Godwin's law for HN and RSS readers <3
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by exolymph 5y ago
This is 100% me. If I can't mainline a bunch of people's perspectives within minutes, I'm not interested. Video is waaayyy too slow. Granted, I also have an exception: I watch YouTube regularly, but I have to be doing somethi

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