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California can't support as many people as you wish it could and replacing its SFH suburbs with cramped mixed income efficiency apartments would be an aesthetic, ecological, and so…

I hope the feds hunt down and arrest everybody who used multiple slurp juices on a single ape. There's XMR, some interesting little projects like DERO, and a vast sea of tokenomic …

JavaScript Creek

We might have lost the ability to solve problems and create solutions with approachable yet powerful programming environments. But think about all the abstractions, frameworks, pla…

I remember back when cryptokitties came out KNOWING that useful real world blockchain applications were right around the corner. Simpler, happier times.

But why is the pop music industry stagnant, though? There are fewer producers, executives, and financial/logistical obstacles to creatively expressing ourselves with music than eve…

We've got to learn that this is an inevitable consequence of our appetite for automation and scale. If your business is important enough that it can't risk falling into the endless…

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/01/old-music-...

If anything, it's the middle aged who refuse to believe that technology and music can just sort of stop progressing, while the young are downloading old music and shrugging about a…

It's always the elephant in the room with invisible illness.

I believe that the diagnostic methods for testing chronic inflammation can and must be improved, and that chronic inflammation deserves far more R&D investment than it currently re…

Long Covid is merely a small part of a broader story of chronic inflammation and how millions and millions of people are suffering from invisible autoimmune consequences of lyme di…

> Unless you're saying that coercion is only justified on individuals if the benefit to society are well known, probable, and sizable enough to some "threshold". This point seems t…

You do not have the right to impose your optimistic opinion about vaccines on others. And I'll do my part to see to it that you don't have the power. Importantly, threatening coerc…

Your argument could perhaps hold water if it were centered on the Johnson & Johnson formulation. There is no precedent for a relatively novel technology being injected into everybo…

This period is best understood as a brutal hangover from several years of market subsidized growth. We had cheap Ubers, cheap meal delivery, and free web services all paid for by a…

I'm middle aged and obese. It appears that it was indeed suboptimal for people younger and healthier than myself to take it. It's a complex question that involved a lot of rumsfeld…

I chose to get vaccinated and I continue to believe it was the right decision. More data may prove me wrong. We'll see, I suppose. But research like this underscores the point that…

For most of the American soldiers who were deployed, the Vietnamese were a barbarous and exotic other that were trying to kill them. It would do a disservice to all of the sides of…

Maybe we should bring back buggy whip craftsmen too, so we can truly turbo-charge this economy with people who are busy doing jobby looking stuff.

I think coding on my enclosed porch in a cozy country farmhouse surrounded by nature is a beautiful thing. In comfy pajamas, all day long. Will you subsidize my aesthetic preferenc…

A vast subset of our economy depends on parasitically feeding off of people commuting to work. If you think they and the government institutions and their politicians who rely on t…

I'm going to go with the happiness I can remember how to spell.

Climate Change should be approached as an engineering problem that threatens everybody and not packaged as a "social justice" problem against the affluent. One could as easily fram…

Some anonymous trolls gaslighting you online do not grant you a license to hate, dehumanize, and harm everybody who disagrees with your politics.