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arts • investing • games • tech • code • philosophy • bitcoin
Joined December 2007
it's the smart dogs that are most easily trained i think about that a lot
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Amazing to see a Bitcoiner win the Nobel Peace Prize The times they are a-changin’
BREAKING: 🇻🇪 Leader of Venezuelan Opposition María Corina Machado proposes using #Bitcoin as a national reserve asset. Bitcoin is a "lifeline" and "vital means of resistance" 🙌
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Thread of some surprising things that are older than other things Notre Dame predates the Maori settlement of New Zealand
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great book, great thread 👇
Some things I’ve learned from reading Robert O. Becker’s book, The Body Electric Here are some gems for you:
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this is so cool!
🧵 The tugboat MIRENE--our adventurous home for 43 years, based in the Sausalito houseboat community--is now for sale. Price $1.8 million. Link below. And a thread of detailed description and photos.
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1 in 20 deaths in Canada is now medically assisted In 2023, 15,343 MAiD provisions accounted for 4.7% of all deaths in Canada (out of ~320,000 total deaths). Projections suggest it could reach 1 in 10 deaths by the mid-2030s. the fastest-expanding euthanasia regime worldwide
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Amazon has all the money, information, connections, and brand recognition you could dream of. Yet, most of its projects go nowhere. It’s not a skill issue. It’s a fundamental property of business. Chance plays a huge role and nobody knows what’s going to work and what won’t.
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The personal library of retired John Hopkins University Humanities professor Richard A. Macksey, housed in his home.
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germany lol what a mess. they're also "decarbonizing" 🥴
Germany has proposed raising the retirement age to 73 to prevent the collapse of the pension system, per Reuters
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one of the dangers of reading is that for many people it feels like taking action you run the risk of reading books about how to change the world or how to fix this or that but never actually take the actions necessary to change or fix anything
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I was studying other times in history when gold prices more than doubled in the reserve currency of the time, as they did in the past year: it's rare and almost always a sign of a profound loss of confidence in the existing monetary and political order, going all the way back to
BREAKING: Gold officially crosses above $4,000/oz for the first time in history. Gold is now worth ~$27 TRILLION.
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"The more you slow down, the more 'torque' you get in your thinking." great metaphor 👌
AI has given me back the analog reading experience. Yes, Kindle is 10x more efficient and convenient. Taking reading notes by hand (physically) is much slower — and I'd say that slowness gives me room to deeply understand and distill new thoughts. The more you slow down, the more
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"Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly. What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness." —Marcus Aurelius
i'm 27. Instead of regretting that I can't wake up to age 18 again, I pretend to myself that I'm 90 and I've woken up at age 27 again, and that I get to magically, wonderfully have the next 63 years again.
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it's okay to change, it's not okay to retroactively change and pretend like past sensibilities and tolerances didn't exist
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amazon removed all the guns from the james bond movie art it may seem like a small thing but it's the reason i buy physical media. big things are just accumulated small things. large swaths of history always get memory-holed by the those invading, intolerant, or in charge
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Notice in these Amazon #JamesBond digital posters they’ve removed all the guns and given awkward poses? Welcome to a world where promoting James Bond 007 needs to be done without his sidearm.
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A spectacular example of Orwellian doublespeak from the UK Home Secretary: "Just because you have a freedom doesn’t mean you have to use it at every moment of every day." In fact the ability do something whenever you want is practically the definition of a freedom.
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