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Public perception about the average intelligence of any type of criminal is likely influenced by survivorship bias: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias

This whole case just makes me incredibly sad. Two federal agents tampered with important evidence, likely fabricated the entire “murder for hire” fiction, abused their law enforcem…

One of the best papers I've seen is Crime Markets: Non-Usefulness of Prediction Markets for Assassination and Crime: http://bitcoinhivemind.com/papers/6_Crime_Markets.pdf Summary: …

Having reliable, auditable, public protocols which can operate without the blessing of the world’s existing governments is precisely the point. Killer examples include any products…

What is the ongoing performance cost of using the official TypeScript compiler for long-running applications? Or is this primarily a concern of startup time for scripts and short-l…

Congratulations on the 1.0 release! I've been using Deno as my primary "hacking" runtime for several months now, I appreciate how quickly I can throw together a simple script and g…

The “inflation protection” provided by TIPS relies on the good-faith reporting of the same government which creates and benefits from the inflation. If inflation as measured by the…

You can also use the “restart stack frame” option in Chrome DevTools to move back to the beginning of any function currently being executed. So if you skip past something on accide…

It's good to see EFF taking a principled stance on Assange. Too many organizations have chosen to throw WikiLeaks under the bus after their 2016 election leak harmed the "wrong" Am…

Nice list! One I’d add: one of my all-time favorite cryptography-related quotes is from Bruce Schneier‘s Applied Cryptography, talking about key length: > These numbers have nothin…

Good to hear! Here’s also a fascinating news clipping from a 1910 issue of the New York Times. It really helps to get a feel for the rhetoric of the era, “Physician Condemns Practi…

Just curious, have you ever heard of lodge practice? It was a huge source of medical care for the poor and working class well into the early 1900 (serving ~1/3 of the population), …

This seems to be the deeper reason why many wealthy people begin leaning left publicly after amassing their fortune. The very same people can often be seen years earlier making sta…

It’s worth noting here that an astonishing number of prominent politicians and politically-involved elites are still avowed (and publicly acknowledged) Malthusians. So when trying …

That is such a fantastic article. It’s timeless: it was published in 1850, but it remains more relevant than ever.

I would love to see a comparison of the probability of contracting a foot fungus or other contagious disease in a security line vs. being a victim in a terrorist attack. Seeing as …

This is great, thanks for sharing. People in this thread might also appreciate this essay: https://maryrosecook.com/blog/post/git-in-six-hundred-words And the more expanded version…

I think the other response was flagged for language, but the included link was really interesting. I'd never even heard of medical "lodge practice" before seeing this video and rea…

Would you make the same argument in favor of the cartelization of internet service providers? If in the 90s the ISPs banded together and got a government to prohibit competition, w…

That’s an amazing video, thanks for sharing. And the comments are actually useful – there’s a pinned link to a New York Times article published in 1910 which explains the argument …