hindsightbias

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by hindsightbias 2y ago
Not that facts matter anymore: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/trump-mill...
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by hindsightbias 2y ago
Is there an Onion Coin?
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by hindsightbias 2y ago
Someone should send Joe a "I bailed Silicon Valley (Bank) out and all I got was this lousy t-shirt"
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by hindsightbias 2y ago
He bailed out SVB and Sachs didn't even give him a t-shirt.
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by hindsightbias 2y ago
Actually, that was absolutely correct until 1990 or so. When I was young and the world was filled with anti-nuclear grimness, my father took me aside and told me I had nothing to worry about... until Josef Tito died. I didn't even know
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by hindsightbias 2y ago
This is why everyone needs to invest in my Safety Conewear clothing line.
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by hindsightbias 2y ago
Senator McCarthy/Roy Cohn and the John Birch Society might like a word. Just replace commie with liberal/progressive/marxist/socialist. Roy Cohn was Don's business mentor.
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by hindsightbias 2y ago
All those commie socialist corporate bailouts?
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by hindsightbias 2y ago
Many of the cisterns existed back in 1906. Wherever you see a circle of red bricks in an intersection/street, there's a cistern. Problem was the fire chief was killed in the quake and he was apparently the only guy who knew where
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by hindsightbias 2y ago
Neither does he. Thiel is the last Straussian fanboi. He wrote a treatise on it while at Stanford. Rather than create new ideas or philosphies, you just invent some DaVinci Code like conspircay theory that all the great philosphers were rea
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by hindsightbias 2y ago
Support in CA for rebuilding is really county based. Butte County is fine with you making the same mistake over again. Sonomas cities are helpful by not rezoning to the fire codes they really should be. Napa is happy to let you keep a campe
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by hindsightbias 2y ago
The founders weren’t pro universal democracy. They were pro mitigating a coming riot and knew they had to unify disparate interests into a rabble that wouldn’t become a mob. The result is as weak a democracy as you could fashion. Social med
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by hindsightbias 2y ago
Bill’s sex life may cost the world a $100B+, as Warren’s kids don’t appear to be on the same required wavelength.
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by hindsightbias 2y ago
This should be a Tom Hanks movie.
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by hindsightbias 2y ago
So now I have a biological explanation for anti-prosocial behavior, whatever that is.
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by hindsightbias 2y ago
> Indeed, the easiest way to convert someone to wanting an EV is by giving them a short test drive, where the advantages of electric propulsion become apparent. Perhaps something like those state policies that require an ultrasound befor
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by hindsightbias 2y ago
> Examples include vaccines such as Fluad It should take a bit of cognitive dissonance to think privatization && quicker access to vaxes is on the coming executive agenda.
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by hindsightbias 2y ago
That would be a big nope: https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2025/01/07/a-manhole-cover-b...
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by hindsightbias 2y ago
Maybe there should be some ethical consideration of a culture of prizing American/German/Chinese/Russian mostly semi-pro and literally pro athletes stomping mostly real amateurs from the rest of the world in the olympiad. The
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by hindsightbias 2y ago
Climate change will result in many third world environments not being viable. Redistributing their offspring to first world environs that can afford mitigation will forestall collapse. Alas, xenophobic and self-loathing social darwinist ten
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by hindsightbias 2y ago
Awesome app and reporters, alerts, winds, integrated with UC cam networks in CA, ADSB and FIRIS mapping. Slept much better this last summer.
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by hindsightbias 2y ago
Gamer pilot H1-B would be a sweet deal though.
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by hindsightbias 2y ago
The best code is no code. Give me manual seat adjustment, rolling window, temp knob and wiper stalk over yer damn rolling iphone.
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by hindsightbias 2y ago
An invasion of Greenland would fall under Article 5 and we'd be at war with NATO. An interesting strategy.
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by hindsightbias 2y ago
Difficult to say what the will of the people was on TARP as it changed week to week depending on what the stock market had done that day. But three days later they were for it before they were against it: https://www.astrid-onlin
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by hindsightbias 2y ago
I’m shocked the “What’s a computer?” Apple ad is only 8 years old?
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by hindsightbias 2y ago
Imagine a billion AI regulators and lawyers and a judge in the Eastern District. Move fast, sue things.
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by hindsightbias 2y ago
> "So, there will be a lot of haggling about the details, which is why so many CEOs have been heading to Florida recently!" Mar-a-Lago membership was bumped to $1M. Plenty of room for tech, but probably not much for farmers.
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by hindsightbias 2y ago
The lesson from FTX was to burn it all down.
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by hindsightbias 2y ago
Just target the rich kids. A few million units there. Watched a guy drop $3700 on stocking stuffer iPads last Xmas. Had to call wife whether 1TB was enough. Sales kid said it had been like that all week. I apologized for buying a 64GB air.

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