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> The Nakamoto Scheme is an automated hybrid of a Ponzi scheme and a pyramid scheme which has, from the perspective of operating a criminal enterprise, the strengths of both and (currently) the weaknesses of neither. https://p
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Switzerland is also the only country I’ve visited where everyone knew what PET is and could identify it from 20 paces. I remember going to a movie theatre and naively wondering if the dedicated PET bins had something to do with dogs.
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Important to clarify that much of scrutiny went in the other direction, cutting down concerns about how bad things could get in January and February of 2020.
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I think that one thing the pandemic has demonstrated is that groups of experts are just as prone to groupthink as non-experts. Thomas Kuhn may argue that they are even more prone to groupthink. Yet we've also seen intelligent non-exper
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You’ve quoted the WHO accurately which is actually more damning. Taiwanese scientists had observed evidence of human-to-human transmission and submitted it to the WHO well before that and they ignored it. Positive evidence of human-to-human
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I’m not who you’re asking but I wish we had learned that a robust debate is necessary and we shouldn’t just assume tha Anthony Fauci has read the latest research. https://www.econlib.org/great-moments-in-epidemiology/
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Here’s a handful of reversals from the first half of 2020 alone. It wouldn’t be so bad if they didn’t speak with such certainty about things that are not in fact certain. https://www.fumento.com/articles/erosion-of-trus
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It was a legitimate concern and a ruinous strategy. I believe that competent leadership could have rallied the public to the cause of reserving PPE for hospitals for a month. Even if you don't believe in the basic nobility of the commo
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This is a conspiracy theory. An alternative observation is that some very credible critics see failure andrer failure and report on it. Here’s an article in today’s New York Times just to pluck one of dozens of data points out of the air. T
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I bet this piece of trivia is something competitive paintballers like to wax over after a match: “Someday Olympic non-lethal gun combat will be restored by the IOC…”
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It’s hard to get a definitive answer, but as a matter of law there are several states with legal “mutual combat”. One would imagine most of these cases happen on the other end of the SES scale. https://www.quora.com/Where-is
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I ran the same analysis a while back and was really surprised how short team blue’s bench is compared to team red.
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The public health profession has lost so much credibility over the last year. No one should feel the need to reverse engineer latent preemptive anticipatory inverted Stockholm syndrome like this, but here we are.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16866990
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Drop loop cursive and get the book Write Now which teaches Getty-Dubay italic to adults. https://handwritingsuccess.com/
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Or maybe drugs that lead to insight instead of away from it.
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Widely and freely available HD porn too. It’s easier than ever for people to use it as a substitute, and it reduces the drive to seduce. It contributes to a downward spiral of satisficing. Edit: Getting downvotes from folks in denial. I’m n
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Obligatory Achewood: http://achewood.com/index.php?date=07282004
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Aha, thank you! I am actually quite behind on it, and also hadn’t read that post, which I largely agree with. I can see how the term has escaped his ability to define it in the context of his argument. It seems like our era of fast decentra
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One of the first things I do on a new Mac is to enable three finger drag. A couple of years ago this option moved fron trackpad settings to accessibility options. That’s when I understood that I had a disability.
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It is used to point out the perpetuation and reification of race as a concept by people who call themselves antiracist. There are many liberal thinkers who have not given up on the notion that race is a fiction, and that the best way to be
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I’m referring to his use of the word in his new book (which he is serializing for free on his substack), “The Elect: Neoracists Posing as Antiracists and Their Threat to a Progressive America”. [1] The first place I saw the term used (he ha
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Comments like this make me worry that a lot of people don’t have lives outside of the office or their work identity. Or maybe people keep their friend groups so tightly curated by ideology these days that the only chance they have to argue
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It seems like the term neoracist has been promoted by John McWhorter more than any other public intellectual and you can hardly call him right wing unless your vision of the political spectrum is severely warped.
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You’ve got to throw in some uncompressed pcm audio streams just to keep it interesting. When we were learning Linux a friend and I used to pipe /dev/hda into /dev/dsp for fun and when we hit some fragments of uncompress
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We spend a lot of time training digital computers to deal with analog information that has been converted into digital forms, and I wonder how much we could also gain by finding better ways to convert digital information into analog forms t
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It happened to coincide with hyperbolic campaigns around net neutrality stateside and a lot of that language got overextended to really different situations. I spent a month in Myanmar in late 2016 and different providers had different zero
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It has to be the highest acquisition-dollar / employee of all time. I doubt anything even comes close. And isn’t it true that they were profitable on their $1 per year subscription scheme? I’d love to read a book about how it all came
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> ‘Do we want to lose one of the most important apps in a mobile environment to Google?’ Little did Cue know how determined Google was to fumble messaging over the next decade.
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End to end encryption was a huge innovation first widespread with iMessage, then Signal, and even WhatsApp and eventually (optionally) on FB messenger and Telegram. Now it's table stakes.

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