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Treason in the Futures Markets
People close to Trump are trading based on national secrets
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 8,147 posts.
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I am leaving the AI party after one drink
Personal website of Lara Aigmüller. Thoughts about web frontend development, music, and more…
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Last gasps of the rent seeking class?
Over the past fifty years, the U.S. economy built a giant rent-extraction layer on top of human limitations: things take time, patience runs out, brand familiarity substitutes for diligence, and most people are willing to accept a bad price to avoid more clicks. Trillions of dollars of enterprise value depended on…
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The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner
A fabulously gay blind Romance author.
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Hold on to Your Hardware
A warning about rising prices, vanishing consumer choice, and a future where owning a computer may matter more than ever as hardware, power, and control drift toward data centers and away from people.
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We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do
I don’t think people have thought hard enough about how bad this could get.
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French e, è, é, ê, ë – what's the difference?
A complete explanation of how e, è, é, ê, and ë are used in French, with rules, examples and pronunciation.
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End of "Chat Control": EU parliament stops mass surveillance
The controversial mass surveillance of private messages in Europe is coming to an end. After the European Parliament had already rejected the indiscriminate and blanket Chat Control by US tech companies on 13 March, conservative forces attempted a democratically highly questionable maneuver yesterda
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False claims in a widely-cited paper
A couple months ago we had a post, This paper in Management Science has been cited more than 6,000 times. Wall Street executives, top government officials, and even a former U.S. Vice President have all referenced it. It’s fatally flawed, and the scholarly community refuses to do anything about it. which was about…
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China is mass-producing hypersonic missiles for $99,000
The Radical Asymmetry of Modern Warfare (P2)
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The bee that everyone wants to save
My neighbour has 50 hives, the road has 30 more. That's 4 million honeybees, and not one of them is the bee that actually needs saving.
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Apple Just Lost Me
AndreGarzia.com website
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The bridge to wealth is being pulled up with AI
For two centuries, the credential system gave intelligence a route to heritable capital. Artificial intelligence is closing that route. This essay builds the argument from first principles - with probability theory, interactive simulations, and a prediction specific enough to be falsifiable - and puts a number on the…
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March, 19-21: God is a comedian
A stiff drink is recommended
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Migrating to the EU
For various reasons, I have decided to move as many services and subscriptions as possible from non-EU countries to the EU or to switch to European service providers. The reasons for this are the current global political situation and improved data protection. I don’t want to go into the first point any further for…
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Reports of code's death are greatly exaggerated
There is a profound tension here: english specifications intuitively feel precise until you learn better from bitter experience. (It's all in that facial expression of the last frame.)
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Vatican Rebukes Peter Thiel's Antichrist Lectures in Rome
A papal adviser calls Peter Thiel a heretic after his secret Rome lectures on the Antichrist draw global attention and a Vatican rebuke
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90% of crypto's Illinois primary spending failed to achieve its objective
The cryptocurrency industry super PACs dumped $14.2 million into the Illinois primaries. 90% of that – $12.8 million – was wasted, in that it went to opposing Democratic candidates who won their primaries (Stratton in the Senate race, Ford in H-07) or supporting their opponents. The PACs' only victories in the state…
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I'm OK being left behind, thanks
Many years ago, someone tried to get me into cryptocurrencies. "They're the future of money!" they said. I replied saying that I'd rather wait until they were more useful, less volatile, easier to use, and utterly reliable. "You don't want to get left behind, do you?" They countered. That struck me as a bizarre…
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The Social Smolnet
The Social Smolnet par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
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Overcoming the friendship recession
My thoughts on the friendship recession and what I'm doing to maintain friendships.
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The Soul of a Pedicab Driver
The Soul of a Pedicab Driver, by Carl Etnier.
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How to defer US taxes
Your government wants you to create taxable wealth.
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“Your frustration is the product”
The people making these decisions for these websites are like ocean liner captains who are *trying* to hit icebergs.
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Silicon Valley's "Pronatalists" Killed WFH. The Strait of Hormuz Brought It Back
On the Strait of Hormuz, fertility research, and the millions of dollars bet on artificial wombs that missed the point
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The “small web” is bigger than you might think
The small web is growing, and getting more active. Good news.
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Just Put It on a Map
An underrated strategy for urbanist persuasion, powered by open source tools