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How we paid for the War on Terror(adamtooze.substack.com)
104 points by riverlong 5y ago|106 comments
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Xi Jinping Asks: What Is Good Technology?(jayriverlong.substack.com)
4 points by riverlong 5y ago|0 comments
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Curators All the Way Down(gaby.mirror.xyz)
1 points by riverlong 5y ago|0 comments
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Old Memes and China(jayriverlong.substack.com)
1 points by riverlong 5y ago|0 comments
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Food Addiction in America(jayriverlong.substack.com)
1 points by riverlong 5y ago|0 comments
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Capitalism: You Wouldn't Trade It for Anything(jayriverlong.github.io)
5 points by riverlong 5y ago|1 comments
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by riverlong 5y ago
Author here. I've watched a lot of international films, probably between 250 and 300. These are pretty much the only films I watch nowadays -- you're right that the American lens on film gets tiresome. Nonetheless, I still have ma
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by riverlong 5y ago
Author here -- No, I have never been a particular fan of action movies. I find them pretty boring; they're perhaps the worst offenders in the "all movies are the same" category.
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by riverlong 5y ago
Author here. I've dug reasonably far into international cinema -- at a glance, about 250 - 300 outside US Cinema, across various time periods: French New Wave, Korean, Iranian, etc. On David Lynch -- I like stuff that is weird and unu
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by riverlong 5y ago
Thanks! I've been watching more foreign films, but my problems persist. I'll check out some of these. (I've seen some, like Parasite, The Salesman, Tehran -- they were fine movies.)
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No More Movies(jayriverlong.substack.com)
5 points by riverlong 5y ago|3 comments
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The Hypostatic Union of Kanye West(applieddivinitystudies.com)
1 points by riverlong 5y ago|0 comments
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Aging into Irrationality(jayriverlong.substack.com)
4 points by riverlong 5y ago|1 comments
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Fear of Injury: Reconnecting Body and Mind(jayriverlong.substack.com)
2 points by riverlong 6y ago|0 comments
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Why Hasn't Effective Altruism Grown Since 2015?(applieddivinitystudies.com)
2 points by riverlong 6y ago|0 comments
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Advice? Just Say No(jayriverlong.substack.com)
3 points by riverlong 6y ago|0 comments
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On Writing More(ava.substack.com)
125 points by riverlong 6y ago|49 comments
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The Myth of the Male Bumbler(theweek.com)
2 points by riverlong 6y ago|0 comments
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by riverlong 6y ago
This is FUD. If the electricity consumption becomes prohibitive, Bitcoin will just switch to Proof-of-Stake. Ethereum's already doing it. Zero electrical waste.
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Specialness(ava.substack.com)
2 points by riverlong 6y ago|0 comments
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The Chinese Businessman Paradox (2018)(commoncog.com)
58 points by riverlong 6y ago|23 comments
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An Inside Joke for the Super-Rich(theirrelevantinvestor.com)
3 points by riverlong 6y ago|0 comments
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Notes on Adam Marblestone’s Focused Research Organizations(applieddivinitystudies.com)
2 points by riverlong 6y ago|0 comments
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The Pandemic Has Erased Entire Categories of Friendship(theatlantic.com)
3 points by riverlong 6y ago|0 comments
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by riverlong 6y ago
Orwell's less well-known works are some of his very best. Homage to Catalonia is superb, as are some of his essays -- Politics and the English Language I remember as an essential piece. He's a wonderful writer, especially at his m
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Ten Reasons for Tech Optimism in 2021(jayriverlong.github.io)
1 points by riverlong 6y ago|0 comments
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The Spiteful Investor (Or There Are Always Idiots at the Cutting Edge)(jayriverlong.github.io)
2 points by riverlong 6y ago|0 comments
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Two Life Lessons from a Series of Unfortunate Events(jayriverlong.github.io)
1 points by riverlong 6y ago|0 comments
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Two Paradigms of Personal Computing(jayriverlong.github.io)
43 points by riverlong 6y ago|9 comments
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by riverlong 6y ago
Thank you for sharing the Postman talk. It's a superb set of insights.

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