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How to get 7th graders to smokeOR: "fuzzy, wet, and unfalsifiable" 2024-5-14 7:01am Experimental History Adam Mastroianni 4,000 words Rated 2024-5-15 9:15am - sethherr
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lori's blog - Why I Lost Faith in KagiRated 2024-5-14 8:40am - sethherr
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Plea deal for driver accused of DUI crash that killed cyclist is unjustThe proposed one-year sentence for a driver accused of killing SF cyclist Ethan Boyes in a DUI crash is a shocking injustice, writes Gabriella Wong. #Vision zero 2024-3-15 11:36am SFGATE Gabriella Wong 1,000 words Rated 2024-5-14 8:33am - sethherr
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Vancouver's new mega-development is big, ambitious and undeniably IndigenousIn B.C., Indigenous nations are reclaiming power and wealth for their own citizens—no matter what the neighbours think #Real Estate 2024-3-11 7:39am St. Joseph Media Jadine Ngan 2,000 words Rated 2024-5-14 8:33am - sethherr
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The Universe of Discourse : It's an age of marvelsFrom the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus The Universe of Discourse 1,000 words Rated 2024-5-14 8:31am - sethherr
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Scientists Like Me Knew There Was Something Amiss With Andrew Huberman’s Wildly Popular PodcastHe recommends supplements. He’s iffy on the flu shot. And more. #Health Care #Science 2024-3-27 12:53pm Slate Andrea Love 3,000 words Rated 2024-5-14 8:29am - sethherr
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Artificial scarcity, artificial fatigueRated 2024-5-14 8:25am - sethherr
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Stop Wasting Money on Biodegradable Dog Poop BagsIf you scoop your dog’s poop using an "eco-friendly" bag, stop. There are far better ways to deal with your dog's poo. 2023-5-17 5:08am Outside Online Kristin Hostetter 2,000 words Rated 2024-5-7 8:24am - sethherr
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Opinion | What Medical Stories Do We Trust?How vaccine injuries and long Covid test our partisan beliefs. 2024-5-4 4:00am The New York Times Ross Douthat ($) 1,000 words Rated 2024-5-5 7:21pm - sethherr
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Opinion | The Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez You Don’t KnowThree terms in, she’s exiting her political adolescence and coming into her own as a veteran operator. #Congress #Joe Biden #US Politics 2024-5-4 4:00am The New York Times Gaby Del Valle ($) 3,000 words Rated 2024-5-5 7:17pm - sethherr
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Bollards: Why & WhatNaming something we see and benefit from every day josh.works 1,000 words Rated 2024-5-5 6:46pm - sethherr
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How bad are search results? Let's compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPTdanluu.com 20,000 words Rated 2024-4-24 1:03pm - sethherr
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The Man Who Killed Google SearchThis is the story of how Google Search died, and the people responsible for killing it. The story begins on February 5th 2019, when Ben Gomes, Google’s head of search, had a problem. Jerry Dischler, then the VP and General Manager of Ads at Google, and Shiv Venkataraman, then the VP of Engineering, Search and Ads on Google properties, had called a “code yellow” for search revenue due to, and I quote, “steady weakness in the daily numbers” and a likeliness that it would end the quarter significa 2024-4-23 9:24am Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At Edward Zitron 4,000 words Rated 2024-4-24 1:01pm - sethherr
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Responses to Tyler Cowen on RationalityIn his recent podcast with Ezra Klein (recommended), Ezra asked Tyler his views on many things. One of them was the rationality community, and he put that response on Marginal Revolution as its own post. Here is the back and forth: Ezra Klein The rationality community. Tyler Cowen Well, tell me a little more what… 2017-4-4 4:40pm Don't Worry About the Vase 4,000 words Rated 2024-4-22 11:51pm - sethherr
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Thoughts on seed oilDon't get distracted. 2024-4-18 9:01am Dynomight Internet Newsletter dynomight 5,000 words Rated 2024-4-18 2:45pm - sethherr
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Dragon In My Garage • Skeptical ScienceRated 2024-4-18 2:32pm - sethherr
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(1) Prof. Ian Walker on X: "And this is where we saw the big win-win: there's a clear negative relationship between water pressure and consumption. More powerful showers used less water overall. A LOVELY TINGLY SHOWER MIGHT BE *BETTER* FOR THE ENVIRONMENT THAN A WEAK DRIBBLE. I know, right? https://t.co/dVCWHgb7JO" / XX (formerly Twitter) 500 words Rated 2024-4-17 7:31pm - sethherr
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TBM 271: The Biggest Untapped OpportunityThe biggest source of waste is not low performers or having too many employees. The biggest source of waste is untapped skilled pragmatists. The number of skilled pragmatists in any given company is much larger than people realize and, therefore, represents a HUGE opportunity. But almost by definition, they are less visible. 2024-2-4 1:34pm The Beautiful Mess John Cutler 1,000 words Rated 2024-4-17 6:29pm - sethherr
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This is a teenagerRated 2024-4-16 9:01pm - sethherr
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The Ex-N.Y.P.D. Offcial Trying to Tame New York’s TrashThe city has lived in filth for decades. Can the commissioner of the Department of Sanitation, a scion of one of the country’s richest families, finally clean up the streets? Eric Lach reports. 2024-4-8 3:00am The New Yorker Eric Lach 6,000 words Rated 2024-4-14 9:00am - sethherr
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What Have Fourteen Years of Conservative Rule Done to Britain?Sam Knight on the Tory U.K. Prime Ministers David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, and Rishi Sunak, and issues including Brexit, the N.H.S., inflation, housing, and the economy. 2024-3-25 3:00am The New Yorker Sam Knight 8,000 words Rated 2024-4-6 7:06am - sethherr
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Practically-A-Book Review: Rootclaim $100,000 Lab Leak DebateI watched 15 hours of COVID origins arguments so you don't have to - but you should! 2024-3-28 4:24am astralcodexten.com Scott Alexander 105,000 words Rated 2024-3-30 8:49pm - sethherr
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How Israel turned homeowners into YIMBYsHomeowners are often the biggest opponents of building new homes. An Israeli reform reversed this by making homeowners the main beneficiaries of development. 2024-2-16 5:30am Works in Progress 6,000 words Rated 2024-3-20 7:50am - sethherr
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Using axis lines for good or eviladd them only if they mean something 2024-2-29 9:00am Dynomight Internet Newsletter dynomight 1,000 words Rated 2024-3-19 11:20pm - sethherr
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Less Utilitarian Than Thou... 2024-2-27 9:03pm astralcodexten.com Scott Alexander 65,000 words Rated 2024-3-19 11:08pm - sethherr
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Vaclav Smil and the Value of DoubtDavid Owen interviews the author and scientist Vaclav Smil, whose books on environmental issues include “Size: How It Explains the World” and “How the World Really Works.” #Climate Change #Environmentalism #Renewable energy #Science 2024-2-20 3:00am The New Yorker David Owen 4,000 words Rated 2024-3-19 10:44pm - sethherr
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TinyLetter had a big momentOn February 29th, 2024, Mailchimp shuttered TinyLetter, a simple email service that attracted a number of personal and experimental writers in the mid-‘10s. 2024-2-29 6:00am The Verge Kevin Nguyen 3,000 words Rated 2024-3-19 10:27pm - sethherr
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Lies, Damned Lies, and Manometer Readings—AsteriskAmerica’s HVAC labor force is plagued by dishonesty and frequently incapable of meeting industry standards. Interventions in indoor air quality are the next frontier in pandemic prevention — but are they up to the task? asteriskmag.com 3,000 words Rated 2024-3-19 7:13am - sethherr
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Driving at ridiculous speeds should be physically impossibleIntelligent Speed Assistance, a type of speed-limiting tech, is being tested in New York, DC, and Europe. But will it take off? 2024-3-1 4:00am Vox David Zipper 1,000 words Rated 2024-3-18 11:20pm - sethherr
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Diseconomies of scale in fraud, spam, support, and moderationRated 2024-3-18 10:49pm - sethherr
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40 years of programmingRated 2024-3-12 4:12pm - sethherr
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Berkeley's Upzoning Would Be Among Nation's LargestA proposal to end exclusionary zoning would allow for 100,000 more homes in Berkeley's neighborhoods. 2024-2-17 7:02am The Discourse Lounge Darrell Owens 3,000 words Rated 2024-2-17 9:20pm - sethherr
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Paying people to work on open source is good actually - Jacob Kaplan-MossIf you have a problem with maintainers getting paid then you have a problem with me and I suggest you let that one marinate. jacobian.org 2,000 words Rated 2024-2-16 8:44pm - sethherr
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Taste gamesor why I avoid midrange beer 2024-2-15 9:01am Dynomight Internet Newsletter dynomight 3,000 words Rated 2024-2-15 8:46pm - sethherr
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Activists vow to keep installing guerrilla benches at East Bay bus stopsBerkeley has replaced one DIY bench with a city-approved one. A pair of activists have added at least four more wood benches in the East Bay. #Transportation 2024-1-12 4:30pm Berkeleyside Iris Kwok 2,000 words Rated 2024-2-11 9:22pm - sethherr
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Jacques on X: "Sharing a long, but insightful comment @Gwern made in response to the question: "EA had a pretty weak hand throughout and played it as well as can be reasonably expected"? Gwern: It was a pretty weak hand. There is this pervasive attitude that Sam Altman could have been…" / XX (formerly Twitter) 1,000 words Rated 2024-2-11 1:27pm - sethherr
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How to hire low experience, high potential peopleFinding diamonds in the rough 2024-1-26 8:51pm Working Assumptions Tara Seshan 2,000 words Rated 2024-2-7 7:06pm - sethherr
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At Penn, Tensions May Only Be Growing After Magill’s ResignationProfessors at the University of Pennsylvania have begun to organize, fearing what they view as a plan by the billionaire Marc Rowan to upend academic freedom. #College 2024-1-29 9:20am The New York Times Stephanie Saul ($) 2,000 words Rated 2024-1-29 7:12pm - sethherr
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On “owning” softwareWhen it comes to services supporting software teams, ownership is expensive. 2024-1-24 2:01pm avdi.codes Avdi Grimm 4,000 words Rated 2024-1-27 9:05am - sethherr
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Driving Faster Takes LongerI often drive between Boston and New Haven. While on the road, I find myself pondering a simple question: If my only goal is to arrive as fast as possible, how fast should I drive? Ignoring things like ethics (or fuel efficiency), the solution would seem to be simple. Drive as fast as possible. But there's a… 2024-1-27 7:17am Algorithm Soup 1,000 words Rated 2024-1-27 9:04am - sethherr
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Sex, aggression, and humour: responses to unicyclingSam Shuster compares men and women’s responses to the sight of a unicyclist 2007-12-22 12:00am PubMed Central (PMC) 3,000 words Rated 2024-1-23 8:45am - sethherr
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‘America Is Under Attack’: Inside the Anti-D.E.I. CrusadeThe backlash against “wokeism” has led a growing number of states to ban D.E.I. programs at public universities. Thousands of emails and other documents reveal the playbook — and grievances — behind one strand of the anti-D.E.I. campaign. #College #Texas 2024-1-20 1:35pm The New York Times Nicholas Confessore ($) 7,000 words Rated 2024-1-22 6:03pm - sethherr
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Should I Open Source my Company?The unexpected upsides of building in public 2022-3-25 12:00am Supabase https://github.com/awalias 2,000 words Rated 2024-1-22 11:52am - sethherr
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Book Review: What's Our Problem?... 2023-2-22 8:05pm astralcodexten.com Scott Alexander ($) 30,000 words Rated 2024-1-21 8:37pm - sethherr
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The Quiet Death of Ello's Big DreamsEllo launched in 2014 with big dreams, but the artsy social network suddenly shut down last year, deleting nine years of posts without warning. What happened? 2024-1-18 8:23am Waxy.org Andy Baio 6,000 words Rated 2024-1-18 5:29pm - sethherr
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Pinker was right, I was wrong. | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Sciencestatmodeling.stat.columbia.edu Rated 2024-1-18 8:18am - crkrenn
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Opinion | Look What We Made Taylor Swift DoWhether she is conscious of it or not, Ms. Swift signals to queer people — in our language — that she has some affinity for queer identity. #Celebrity #Country Music 2024-1-4 2:01am The New York Times Anna Marks ($) 5,000 words Rated 2024-1-9 10:03pm - sethherr
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The reality of the Danish fairytaleDenmark has long ranked high on the list of societies that American liberals dream about turning the United States into. And for many good reasons. Education is state-funded, and students are even paid a stipend to go to university. Health care is equally free of individual charge, and there’s generally a robust social safety net for u... world.hey.com 2,000 words Rated 2024-1-6 11:17pm - sethherr
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