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Exactly how far do you believe this principle extends? Do you believe "international laws" should apply to other solar systems as well as other planets in this solar system?
This is among the weirdest things about them. It's as if they want to be angry.
8 yo: Do you have nightmares when you're sick?
Me: Sometimes you have strange dreams if you have a fever.
8 yo: I think I had a fever when I dreamed that my father was Darth Vader and I was lost in a store selling kayaks.
Biden will listen to scientists, and that will be a big change.
I don't expect the biggest change will be in the direction of strictness, but in organization and competence. When you project this onto strictness, you'll see some increase.
Taylor Swift has 87.3 million followers on Twitter - the exact same number as Trump.
This is the first campaign ad she has ever given permission to use her music.
#onlytheyoung
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Words from @ashishkjha that every American should read. bit.ly/3jM5TgZ pic.twitter.com/KSQYS6fBSr
Since 1980 there has been a Republican stripe running north to south across the middle of the country.
No other country in the world has seen a surge in opioid overdose deaths like the US.
This is one of the charts in my post 'Why is life expectancy in the US lower than in other rich countries?’
ourworldindata.org/us-life-expect… pic.twitter.com/MjrAr1tH79
ourworldindata.org/us-life-expect…
When done properly, at least, office hours consist of figuring out which of many possible problems to focus on, and what to do to solve it.
Haters are the intersection of trolls and stalkers.
Also office hours. In fact this is a significant part of the value of office hours.
I think that not only means something, but probably tells us more than the VP in question meant to. Twas a case of chronological not-invented-here.
Presumably someone within Google has been arguing for years that this look is the future, and at the very moment when they finally got their way, it became false.
Whoever's in charge of design at Google must be bumming that their jumping on the bandwagon of NBC Peacock logo design was the thing that tipped it over and made this look passé.
One thing you have to say about that generation: they were bold.
I think we have to start by acknowledging that forums are teaching us something about human nature.
But there may be ways to design forums that are somewhat resistant to this and other unfortunate features of human nature. It's still early days for this form of technology.
paulgraham.com/95.html
It's a general feature of sufficiently large forums.
I find mute is less work...
The commander in chief who reportedly called U.S. troops "suckers" and "losers" is now pushing a ballot-counting policy that could disenfranchise tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of American service members who are voting from overseas. bit.ly/3e43nSl
Interesting. Which books?
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Or better still, while still running one.
"But he was a _________."
Definitely room for improvement there.
Partly that I like orange, and partly that all the VCs' sites I looked at were (in those days) forest green, maroon, or navy blue. Basically colors you'd use to look legit to LPs. Whereas I wanted to appeal to founders.
The last part of this made me laugh out loud. twitter.com/girlsreallyrul…
Steadman is a great illustrator, but much better suited to Hunter S. Thompson than Walter Benjamin.
That seems a likely explanation. Why did the vaccination rate decline?
pic.twitter.com/FoR70hFkeN
Startups: There is an opportunity to brand yourself distinctively by what would seem the obvious choice of not using the whole spectrum of colors. twitter.com/runemadsen/sta…
Motive mostly, although the actions of people trying to set a good example will also tend to have a higher ratio of cost to visibility.
Moral bling.
Something that needs a name: the SIDR, or standard intellectually dishonest response.
E.g. when you argue against banning the expression of some category of ideas, the SIDR is to claim that you personally espouse all such ideas.
That's a different phenomenon. Especially recently, that's often astroturfing.
I miss Maisy books!
Taiwan has reached 200 days without local cases of coronavirus, and its economy is one of the few to grow this year straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia…
straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia…
Totally random third tier Trump scandals are much more serious than anything Hunter has done, but the sheer quantity of Trump misdeeds forces a lot of crowding out.
nytimes.com/2020/10/29/us/…
That's very common on Twitter. But reassuring in a way. I don't feel stupid for asking, because whatever the answer is, it's clearly not generally agreed upon.