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  1. Sep 21, 2021Twitter · reply@SilvermanJacob Bank of Mom & Dad holds my mortgage and it's an advantage to cut out the middleman... Otoh blood ties = trust and mutual concern for a win-win contract... Not sure if DeFi covers all the roles of family or institutions
  2. Sep 21, 2021Twitter · reply@WholeMarsBlog @elonmusk Yes- need to get my 93 yr old granddad into a FSD-enabled Tesla asap- his reaction time isn't what it once was...
  3. Sep 21, 2021Twitter · reply@monkeyrotica Permanently fare-free buses would be preferable... Collecting tiny fares is horribly inefficient way to pay for transit.
  4. Sep 21, 2021Twitter · reply@WholeMarsBlog In the long-run, biggest safety gain comes from shifting bad / aggressive drivers into FSD... So I sure hope this is a very temporary limitation while beta bugs are squashed.
  5. Sep 21, 2021Twitter · repostRT @molly_struve: It's just a refactor... Famous last words
  6. Sep 21, 2021Twitter · reply@mercoglianos Now all we need is a good ransomware attack shutting down one of the major terminals for a week or two...
  7. Sep 21, 2021Twitter · reply@MarkThompson_DC Only sensible to anticipate that others may acquire the same capabilities as the USN. The "star wars" mockery is useful to keep the media from paying attn, I guess...
  8. Sep 21, 2021Twitter · repostRT @tonymmorley: "Book production in the pre-industrial world was painfully slow and very expensive; a single book of just 200 pages in the…
  9. Sep 21, 2021Twitter · reply@BlckCatBlckSky Nah spreadsheet jockey, though he frequently played pickup soccer after work. Personal theory is vigorous exfoliation + excessive soap + dark skin... I mean I wasn't gonna complain about dirt in the bath, considering the alternative...
  10. Sep 21, 2021Twitter · reply@BlckCatBlckSky Yeah probably a sense of "you take the good with the bad"... My last live-in left literal dirt rings in the bath every time he used it, and a trail of socks, dishes, and paper in his wake, but then I've never seen a straight guy who lived according to my sense of cleanliness🤷
  11. Sep 21, 2021Twitter · reply@NicoDelon Beautiful sunset, terrifying walk home in the dark without continuous sidewalks. https://t.co/Ttahe8rjxL
  12. Sep 21, 2021Twitter · reply@NicoDelon 💯 ... Relatedly, why do so many streets in FL not have sidewalks?
  13. Sep 20, 2021Twitter · reply@AlanMCole To which faction do I belong if I want the whole concept of deductions eliminated, with bracket adjustments to make the change revenue neutral?
  14. Sep 20, 2021Twitter · quoteOk now I want a Moon Garden https://x.com/ModFarm/status/1439983423045701638
  15. Sep 20, 2021Twitter · reply@amasad Social elites punching down to bully geeks with subpar social skills, not very surprising tbh.
  16. Sep 20, 2021Twitter · reply@mattyglesias I expect 70% or more will be vaxxed in Arlington VA, based on 87% of 12-19 yr olds having been vaxxed https://data-dashboard.arlingtonva.us/covidvax2
  17. Sep 19, 2021Twitter · reply@Mikethejohnson @jejones3141 @antoniogm Which alternative economic structure makes it possible for someone to become rich without everyone else becoming relatively poor by comparison? Woke math is fascinating...
  18. Sep 19, 2021Twitter · reply@sunofdopamine A nest- elevated with a view but also cozy and protected with a wood ceiling. Simple furnishings, touches of nature, sheer curtains moving gently in the breeze, color-tune lighting programmed to reinforce circadian rhythms.
  19. Sep 19, 2021Twitter · reply@Ryan_Lanham @ESYudkowsky 🙄 deer don't eat humans either, and yet many American deer have covid antibodies...
  20. Sep 19, 2021Twitter · reply@Leo88Williams If pharmacists and distributors can be held liable for the decisions of doctors and patients, it is very sensible of them to refuse to do anything the media/FDA doesn't like.
  21. Sep 19, 2021Twitter · reply@Leo88Williams Completely unsurprising if you've followed the opioid lawsuits- distributors have been fined for "harm to society" for supplying drugs to pharmacies in excess of what the anti-drug powers think is appropriate.
  22. Sep 19, 2021Twitter · reply@YoDoctorYo Are we talking about opioids or Ritalin? (seriously I think it is ridiculous to use pharmacists and suppliers as gatekeepers- hold drs responsible for the prescriptions they write, end of story)
  23. Sep 19, 2021Twitter · reply@max_hodak Well to be fair I tapped "see results" because I'm an unmarried female...
  24. Sep 19, 2021Twitter · repostRT @archillect: https://t.co/gTb4yH8dGH
  25. Sep 19, 2021Twitter · reply@businessbarista 🙄 strong argument against forgiving any student loans.
  26. Sep 19, 2021Twitter · reply@robinhanson @_dan_c Yes for everything except tax policy.
  27. Sep 19, 2021Twitter · reply@ATabarrok 😂 last year dev of a berth scheduling tool was put on the backburner because their cobbled together spreadsheet system was "good enough"
  28. Sep 19, 2021Twitter · reply@Aella_Girl 😂 💯 though I'd add in alpacas / goats as 4H projects
  29. Sep 19, 2021Twitter · reply@BlckCatBlckSky @robinhanson And you think I'd be equally good at that?
  30. Sep 19, 2021Twitter · reply@Snowball_o0O Definitely take the rebate, though it should be 12K... My current car is fun, the Tesla is a pragmatic / environmental choice
  31. Sep 19, 2021Twitter · reply@robinhanson 🙄 these results are consistent with the left-wing belief that billionaire wealth is unjustified and we should fill university seats by lottery rather than ability. I for one couldn't do Elon's job anywhere near his productivity even with 10 yrs of training.
  32. Sep 19, 2021Twitter · reply@BlckCatBlckSky All part of the Superintelligence's plan to convince humans to willingly turn over control to a more reasonable being
  33. Sep 18, 2021Twitter · repostRT @max_hodak: AR isn’t useful until you can wear it every day on the street. VR is just a toy until you can feel the wind blow across your…
  34. Sep 18, 2021Twitter · reply@BlckCatBlckSky Otoh 70K representatives opens up some interesting possibilities...
  35. Sep 18, 2021Twitter · repostRT @MillionGardens: Wild relatives of food crops facing extinction might seem like a distant problem, but it directly affects us: these are…
  36. Sep 16, 2021Twitter · reply@elonmusk @inspiration4x Send Kanye on a private Dragon mission to record samples and write for his next album.
  37. Sep 16, 2021Twitter · postFirst Project for my future 'Bot... Rebuilding my tumbledown civil war stone walls to look more like this: https://t.co/bW6Q6lL4uk
  38. Sep 16, 2021Twitter · reply@ESYudkowsky @bessiambre Is it not where you live? It's usually legal for homeowners build and maintain their own homes as long as they do the permits and inspections properly... so if the robot is seen as just another advancement on power tools ultimately directed by a human, it's probably legal?
  39. Sep 15, 2021Twitter · reply@robertwiblin , " " ",
  40. Sep 14, 2021Twitter · reply@SeanDoubleYouS @Aella_Girl Multiplex it with income so you have "Working / below 100K" "Working / above 100K" "Upper / below 100K" "Upper / above 100K"
  41. Sep 14, 2021Twitter · replyMost info came from living in Arlington, eating at restaurants, and my neurodiversity that makes me unable to filter conversations at neighboring tables... Everyone was talking, so if a pundit claims to be surprised by Peril, they are either lying or very bad at their job.
  42. Sep 14, 2021Twitter · postI've been eagerly awaiting Peril ever since Robert Costa left Washington Week to work on it; what I've seen so far is *completely* unsurprising vs my previous beliefs extrapolating from various conversations + media coverage at the time...
  43. Sep 14, 2021Twitter · reply@nilocobau @SameOldTrain @RyanRadia Huh, growing up in the NoVA suburbs I spent most of my summers outdoors at horseback riding camps and don't remember it being unpleasant... But maybe DC itself is suffering from the heat island effect?
  44. Sep 14, 2021Twitter · reply@nilocobau @SameOldTrain @RyanRadia Unforgiving climate?
  45. Sep 14, 2021Twitter · reply@SameOldTrain @RyanRadia @nilocobau Idk, but a lot of them have "outdoor playspace" requirements, which would mean a lot of up & down stairs for short legs or herding kids through elevators or kid-proof caged balconies, so if the price weren't an issue it does make sense to prefer the ground floor...
  46. Sep 14, 2021Twitter · repostRT @Jon_Hartley_: A great example of the problems with central planning/full blown industrial policy: 15 skyscrapers in China that were par…
  47. Sep 14, 2021Twitter · reply@danielweir @ArlingtonDES My personal theory from watching the original Million Dollar Bus Stop is that they're just a cover story for running fiber for intelligence agencies, as they spent 90% of the construction time doing god-knows-what in 3 ft deep holes in the sidewalk.
  48. Sep 14, 2021Twitter · reply@Aella_Girl I got the opposite- "you're only a child, stop worrying about drug resistant bacteria and go play"
  49. Sep 14, 2021Twitter · reply@wil_da_beast630 Sure, but this is Twitter- indulging in silly luxury beliefs is kinda the point...
  50. Sep 14, 2021Twitter · reply@QiaochuYuan Maybe another medium dose of acid...?
  51. Sep 14, 2021Twitter · repostRT @_ficus: 🍃Urban greening is more than trees and parks. There are dozens of ways to green a city: roofs, walls, wetlands, raingardens and…
  52. Sep 14, 2021Twitter · reply@as_per_ushe @mattyglesias Don't forget the toilet paper!
  53. Sep 14, 2021Twitter · repostRT @elonmusk: @PPathole They are … not yet friends
  54. Sep 14, 2021Twitter · quote"the root cause of escalating costs is overwhelmingly regulatory, rather than budgetary, in nature". https://x.com/NiskanenCenter/status/1435975591136743434
  55. Sep 14, 2021Twitter · reply@Noahpinion @RationalEtienne The only possible answer is a gilded statue of Our Lord and Savior El*n M*sk (PBUH).
  56. Sep 14, 2021Twitter · repostRT @BiophilicCities: Biophilic Reads: Two articles on the Kazanka River Strategy building urban river parks in the Russian city of Kazan. F…
  57. Sep 14, 2021Twitter · reply@mattyglesias Are we talking about #metoo here or ..?
  58. Sep 14, 2021Twitter · reply@robertwiblin Yes to the wasted human capital and distortions in tech infrastructure, but mostly that imo their gains are rents extracted from other market participants by relying on rules written by their lobbyists, rather than a fair system one might design from the Veil of Ignorance.
  59. Sep 14, 2021Twitter · quote@robertwiblin Or this... I'm not anti-wealth or long term investing but I think a lot of the HFT stuff is net negative https://mobile.twitter.com/robertwiblin/status/1429846814417727493
  60. Sep 14, 2021Twitter · quote@robertwiblin 😏 Https://mobile.twitter.com/robertwiblin/status/1431270220056911874
  61. Sep 14, 2021Twitter · reply@CalebJHull I love how everyone at the Met Gala was cosplaying Hunger Games spectators... Dog whistle of solidarity with the frivolous rich?
  62. Sep 14, 2021Twitter · reply@bryan_caplan And at what point does workaholic refusal to retire become emotionally abusive to the spouse who wants to travel the world together?
  63. Sep 14, 2021Twitter · reply@robertwiblin Otoh the overuse of these medications on livestock is causing dewormer resistance. Yet another externality of factory farming...
  64. Sep 14, 2021Twitter · reply@bryan_caplan Wait, you're a pro-natalist, right? Refusal to gain sufficient weight while pregnant can cause lifelong damage to the child... Seems like it would be abusive *not* to gain weight.
  65. Sep 14, 2021Twitter · repostRT @bastard_brian: Interestingly enough, quitting your job does not fill you with boundless energy to do all the things you want to do
  66. Sep 13, 2021Twitter · reply@Duderichy Idk, I think it depends on the local options available- the diff between Sidewell Friends and a typical DC public school is prob worth more than $100K.
  67. Sep 13, 2021Twitter · reply@jbarro @raylehmann @mattyglesias Unsurprising given that all the people who winter in FL got vaxxed and then moved back North for summer, leaving the unvaxxed masses with a misleading vax rate.
  68. Sep 13, 2021Twitter · repostRT @JH17279617: Since you can infinitely mint scarce assets, the only true scarcity in crypto is the number of people who want an asset bec…
  69. Sep 13, 2021Twitter · repostRT @TheOnion: Study Finds Processing Power Wasted Mining Bitcoin Only Thing Preventing Sentient Computers From Wiping Out Humanity https://…
  70. Sep 13, 2021Twitter · reply@krishnanrohit These responses illustrate how consultants take all the blame, none of the credit... Which is def part of what makes them useful! 😂 The "naive 23 yr old" persona can be so useful in gathering frank opinions from old timer ICs who know the pitfalls in CEOs grand plan.
  71. Sep 13, 2021Twitter · quote😂 and yet... https://x.com/krishnanrohit/status/1437448042374959109
  72. Sep 13, 2021Twitter · repostRT @rmc031: lol https://www.axios.com/ceos-cancel-culture-kamala-harris-alums-b65cb267-4940-467b-bfde-ea743a1efc5d.html
  73. Sep 13, 2021Twitter · reply@mattyglesias Does Trump really like this idea now that he's no longer in office to take credit for it?!?
  74. Sep 13, 2021Twitter · reply@paulg @Austen "unusually thoughtful" == "on the spectrum" to normies. Frustrating that clear thinking has been pathologized 😞
  75. Sep 13, 2021Twitter · reply@Austen At the same time the bonds of tribalism do pull people into positions they otherwise may not have stretched themselves to consider... Like Dems support for immigration before vs after Trump
  76. Sep 13, 2021Twitter · reply@Pathless110 Yeah, it's just a more comforting illusion than to directly think about media distorting facts to drive up my blood pressure, the better to sell me on new and improved blood pressure meds
  77. Sep 13, 2021Twitter · reply@Pathless110 Yep, suddenly the remaining social graph goes virtual, is suddenly suceptible to alteration...
  78. Sep 13, 2021Twitter · reply@Pathless110 Ugh, BOT .... Autocensor trying to stop me from saying it 😂
  79. Sep 13, 2021Twitter · reply@Pathless110 Naturally 😛 I'm still convinced covid came from a bit frustrated that too many conversations were still taking place offline
  80. Sep 13, 2021Twitter · reply@Pathless110 😂 funny how borderline passing the Turing Test is somehow cool these days
  81. Sep 13, 2021Twitter · reply@_AlastairX_ @Duderichy I struggled with the concept of "a right to X" ... I can *prefer* that govt provide X given our current level of wealth and existing market failures, without thinking X is an immutable "right".
  82. Sep 13, 2021Twitter · quoteCreepy AF. Love it. https://x.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/1437102828133175304
  83. Sep 12, 2021Twitter · reply@sadalsvvd (or at least provides a good corpus for your AI-therapist)
  84. Sep 12, 2021Twitter · reply@sabrinaesaquino Exactly right per @neiltyson https://t.co/xteKltykzb
  85. Sep 12, 2021Twitter · reply@_AlastairX_ @QiaochuYuan @DaltonDEmery (actual answer is that women define themselves more in terms of relationships, so the idea of reawakening in 100 yrs without loved ones seems selfish & pointless, vs staying alive to delay the pain of mourning for friends & family seems noble)
  86. Sep 12, 2021Twitter · reply@_AlastairX_ @QiaochuYuan @DaltonDEmery Entirely coherent when you consider that women have been suffering under male control of the thermostat since the beginning of AC... 😏
  87. Sep 12, 2021Twitter · reply@Duderichy Ha really? I got "low agreement"... Who are these ppl with so much faith in govt, and can you send them here to DC to work in a govt agency until they're as cynical as the rest of us?
  88. Sep 12, 2021Twitter · reply@eade_bengard https://xkcd.com/747/https://xkcd.com/747/ https://t.co/ND5qZOQvcu
  89. Sep 12, 2021Twitter · repostRT @businessbarista: Sooo this happened. @peppertheapp agreed to donate a meal to someone in need for every RT that this tweet gets. And…
  90. Sep 12, 2021Twitter · reply@skiesforme @elonmusk @BLKMDL3 @WholeMarsBlog Sigh, my congressman owns a car dealership, it is hopeless 😞
  91. Sep 12, 2021Twitter · reply@WholeMarsBlog @elonmusk Idk about the American made part... Borders don't matter to climate change, we just need to electrify as fast as possible
  92. Sep 12, 2021Twitter · reply@rupenp @krishnanrohit (and then weave a tenuous link to the blowhard's fave topic and credit him with the great idea so he leaves happy to sell it to his team, while simultaneously rolling eyes with the quiet guy to keep the ideas coming)
  93. Sep 12, 2021Twitter · reply@rupenp @krishnanrohit Yep, consultants biggest superpower is that we can afford to shut down the high status blowhard to pursue an interesting line of thought from the quiet guy in the corner and the minion from the other division who perked up when he heard it.
  94. Sep 12, 2021Twitter · reply@robinhanson @krishnanrohit @GarettJones As a consultant, I think of my job as catalyzing productive conversations- if I'm doing it right I'll fade into the background as key client personnel start getting excited and having insights in conversation with each other to answer my "dumb" question.
  95. Sep 12, 2021Twitter · reply@robinhanson @krishnanrohit @GarettJones Some of it is that "change agent" status allows you to question assumptions, ask *really* dumb questions, and run the numbers on alternatives... It isn't about walking in with knowledge but about different incentives creating different mindset from steady-state productivity.
  96. Sep 11, 2021Twitter · reply@SwiftOnSecurity In DC military circles at the time I remember everyone saying "don't let them win" by retraumatizing people with dramatic images... People who lost someone felt it was a private personal story, not for media consumption.
  97. Sep 11, 2021Twitter · repostRT @ModFarm: With intelligent indoor gardening systems, you can now grow leafy greens, vegetables, herbs and fruits in your living room, ki…
  98. Sep 11, 2021Twitter · repostRT @FastCompany: Forget everything you know about wind turbines. http://f-st.co/gjXxwum
  99. Sep 11, 2021Twitter · reply@deepfates It's true, we don't give enough respect to the empathic skill of grokking legacy code...
  100. Sep 11, 2021Twitter · repostRT @timkaine: And it's why I've been steadfast in opposing wars initiated without congressional debate and approval—the consequences are so…