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Crypto-Rich Puzzle over How to Pass on High-Risk Wealth to Heirs(bloomberg.com)
1 points by jdkee 4y ago|0 comments
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by jdkee 4y ago
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good
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by jdkee 4y ago
Decontenting products and offshoring is how American manufacturers maintained margins over the past thirty years.
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by jdkee 4y ago
Here is a reasonable interpretation of the words "well-regulated" in the context of the Second Amendment. See https://reason.com/2019/11/03/what-is-a-well-regulated-milit...
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by jdkee 4y ago
"I used to be a proud card-carrying member of the ACLU. Today, when its fundraising mailers and pleas to re-enroll arrive in my mailbox, I toss them in the recycling." Well said.
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by jdkee 4y ago
"The real solution to the water crisis is to start by admitting that water is a scarce resource in the region that needs to be rationed somehow and then start working on an equitable plan for rationing." A better plan would be to
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by jdkee 4y ago
"THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was st
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by jdkee 4y ago
"Chris was murdered in San Francisco on the evening of Nov, 17, 1979 as he left the San Francisco Zen Center. According to witnesses, Chris was robbed and then stabbed by two strangers near the corner of Haight and Octavia streets. He
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by jdkee 4y ago
"For each inequality, participants first read a description of the disparity between an advantaged and disadvantaged group (e.g., “According to a recent report, in 2018, White homebuyers received roughly $386.4 billion in mortgage loan
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TikTok May Be More Dangerous Than It Looks(nytimes.com)
8 points by jdkee 4y ago|3 comments
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by jdkee 4y ago
RIP Aaron Swartz. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M85UvH0TRPc
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Against All Applications(experimentalhistory.substack.com)
5 points by jdkee 4y ago|0 comments
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by jdkee 4y ago
This cannot be overstated enough.
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by jdkee 4y ago
Obligatory Kraftwerk "Computer World" plug. See https://consequence.net/2021/05/kraftwerk-computer-world-40-...
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by jdkee 4y ago
AD&D was such a world creation myth to immerse oneself in. Greyhawk and the Forgotten Realms. We fell out of it, my friends and I, in our twenties. But it has pulled us back in in our forties. Playing the original TSR modules with new c
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The Elephant LSD(burningshore.com)
2 points by jdkee 4y ago|0 comments
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by jdkee 4y ago
Ukraine's operating tank count has increased since the war began.
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by jdkee 4y ago
Via Rob Henderson's newsletter: Muscularity is the strongest predictor of mating success for men. A study on males aged 18 to 59 found that muscularity is significantly positively associated with the number of total sexual partners and
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by jdkee 4y ago
“ As I emphasized in Nonzero, the digital revolution—even before the internet age dawned, and certainly after that—did what the printing press did: It made promulgating information cheaper and easier.” The author clearly underestimates how
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by jdkee 4y ago
Harrison Bergeron by Vonnegut describes this quite well. See http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html
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by jdkee 5y ago
Gibson discusses this. https://williamgibson.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sprawl#:~:text=The... .
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by jdkee 5y ago
Why do you justify violence based on a person's speech? Speech is not violence.
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How to Survive a Nuclear Explosion(science.org)
8 points by jdkee 5y ago|3 comments
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Elon Musk, the richest person, says he doesn't own a home(businessinsider.com)
3 points by jdkee 5y ago|5 comments
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Shadertoy(shadertoy.com)
3 points by jdkee 5y ago|0 comments
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by jdkee 5y ago
For Illinois a contributing factor is poor governance consisting of high taxes, massive unfunded state obligations, a single party legislature that cemented its power by gerrymandering districts, etc. And the climate.
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by jdkee 5y ago
The mean height of the state of Florida is 2m above sea level. See https://www.climatecentral.org/news/the-future-is-now-for-se...
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Researchers Have a New Hypothesis for How Civilization First Started(sciencealert.com)
7 points by jdkee 5y ago|0 comments
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by jdkee 5y ago
The largest tank battle would be the Battle of Kursk. See https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Kursk
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Fractured Forests(cusjc.ca)
1 points by jdkee 5y ago|0 comments

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