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It’s some strange bias that lets people get worked up about this one already-convicted dealer but pass over in silence the pharmaceutical companies that designed these opioids to b…

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The US has a clear interest in preventing reunification with the mainland, regardless of the island’s legal status.

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David Spivak is a treasure. One of the clearest expositors of category theory out there.

Michael Hobbes has spent some time debunking the panic articles coming out of mainstream media on this topic. https://x.com/rottenindenmark/status/1596614556448882688 He also cover…

CJK characters do encode some phonetic content, it’s just an imperfect process and is more or less unreliable from dialect to dialect.

I’m not trolling. I’m treating your business no different from any other business. You don’t deserve even more special treatment from the justice system merely because you’re a lan…

I’m sorry you failed to react to changing market conditions. Have you considered reinvesting in a less risky sector, like index funds?

You made an investment decision (allowing hotel guests to legally become tenants) and it ended poorly for you. Why should the government bail you out for “almost no cost”? The lega…

Qohelet was most likely compiled by multiple authors well after the Babylonian conquest. The presence of loanwords in the text makes a date in the 10th century BCE highly unlikely.…

I don’t judge scholarly translations by their poetics, so perhaps you shouldn’t judge poetic interpretations by their scholarly merit. The world is big enough for both.

She had the humility to admit she knew little about ancient Chinese and the courage to go ahead and venture a translation anyway, striving to touch something deeper than language. …