Hugh Hansen
@HughHansen
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Can't believe she wore the Survivorship Bias dress
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what a lovely day to walk beside this shallow pond in my recently purchased one of a kind Peter Singer greatcoat
I'm excited to share a unique piece of my personal history: my vintage 1952 Greatcoat, acquired during my time at Oxford in 1969. Not just a garment, but part of my academic journey. Sized for those 5'10" to 6'0", with a chest size of 42 to 44 inches, it features a distinctive
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by advocating population control, Paul Erlich laid the intellectual groundwork for China's One Child Policy, which would hurt China's position relative to the U.S. For this contribution to American hegemony, we can say Paul Erlich is one of the most successful effective altruis-
Paul Ehrlich in 1970: "The FCC should see to it that large families are always treated in negative light on television." If that doesn't work, then the government should "legislate the size of the family" and "throw you in jail if you have too many" kids. https://t.co/646gThk9WC
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I've decided that we need more Population Ethics related Simpsons' memes.
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Germany, 1945. The Nazis ordered him to identify the Jews among the 1,275 American prisoners. The next morning, 1,275 stood together. The Nazis were enraged. “You are to identify the Jews immediately.” Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds: “We are all Jews here.”
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And so it came to be that the strategic maple syrup reserve was poured onto the steps of the U.S. Capitol in 2024, making them too slippery to ascend as electoral votes were certified inside.
If the next presidential election reveals the U.S. hurtling toward possible violence and autocracy, should Canada try to intervene?
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I landed in the United States 10 years ago with nothing but credit card debt. After one startup exit, one big tech job, and one unicorn, I genuinely believe that it wouldn't have been possible anywhere else in the world. Here are 10 things I love about this country:
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Heartless Dictator of China, XI JINPING and the Communist Party of China. I am calling you out in front of the whole world. Close down the SLAVE labor camps and free the UYGHUR people! Stop the GENOCIDE, now! #FreeUyghurs
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Yesterday I rented a boat and took the leader of one of Flexport's partners in Long Beach on a 3 hour of the port complex. Here's a thread about what I learned.
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This was the voyage of the RSS First Step today. Its mission: encounter Earth from incredible views at apogee
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Nolan Ryan’s ERA was 3.09 the year the White Album came out. It was 2.91 the year Nirvana released Nevermind.
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SpaceX Starship transported on a Fagioli heavy lift transport vehicle, via @austinbarnard45.
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Half a billion people received a COVID vaccine in the last 15 days. [Here is all our work on the pandemic: https://t.co/bp2y7cHaIf]
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75-year-old Luke Appling hit a dinger at the Old Timers Baseball Classic. This is amazing.
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Gotta say, being fully vaccinated has meant the world to me. So many moments of joy and bittersweet reminders about how much we lost in the last year. Our neighbor's cat has kittens, and he invited us over to meet them. We raced over to hold them and let them lick our faces.
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"This transition from a zero-sum to a positive-sum economy is the most important change in economic history, and made it possible for entire societies to leave the extreme poverty of the past behind." https://t.co/NazSY8JSzV
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The goods and services that we all need are not just there; they need to be produced. Growth means that their quality and quantity increase.
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