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An archive of my tweets and retweets through . They may be formatted slightly differently than on Twitter. API access has since gotten prohibitively expensive – I don't know whether or when I'll be able to update this archive.

But in case I will, you can subscribe via RSS – without a Twitter account. Rationale

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@taskrabbit_help

I put effort into writing a long review for a contractor from your platform. After submitting it, your site said that I had already reviewed him (I hadn't) and redirected me to a different page. My review text is lost. And I can't leave a review now.

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@AnneSalzkotten @Elitiker @c_drosten

Das Problem ist eher, dass Kinder gezwungen werden, in die Schule zu gehen.

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@Elitiker @c_drosten

Das heißt, Kinder würden für die Krankheit ihrer Klassenkameraden bestraft werden.

Hat @c_drosten eigentlich einen Hauch von Verantwortungsgefühl oder Freiheitsverständnis?

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@c_outsite @c_drosten

Achtung, bald kommt die Berliner Mutation, die ist 100x ansteckender.

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@meilitin @c_drosten

Und wenn sie das nicht möchten?

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New blog post: "Competence First, Incentives Second"

blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/competen…

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@TutulDevs @github

Disclaimer: I'm the author of that tool.

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@dvassallo

It's also second-handedness. aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/second…

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@TutulDevs @github

There's also replacing the 'hub' with 'pretty' :) E.g. gitpretty.com/rails/rails

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Back in the day, the flagellants whipped themselves harder. Today, people double the masks. Both behaviors refer to specious authorities.

Whatever they can think of to enact a meme more faithfully, they will do:

twitter.com/i/events/13567…

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@dvassallo

Sounds like you're being regulated to death.

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@Sony

"Picture a rusty nail and a tetanus shot, respectively." :D

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@ReachChristofer

That's different from having one's idea refuted and then asking for ever more refutations in an effort to dodge criticism because one hopes the other party will run out of refutations. It's that kind of dodge I wrote about.

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@ReachChristofer

Yeah that's when criticizing an idea to understand it better, which is totally fine. One thinks of other criticisms and wants them addressed too, thereby learning more in the process.

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@TextSkizzen

Mit “die” beziehe ich mich auf “die Subjekte”, nicht auf “der Numerus”.

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@micsolana

Why/what’s happening this week?

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@TextSkizzen

Wegen “oder”

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@TextSkizzen

“auf die er sich bezieht”?

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@UbahTheBuilder

Neither. Sublime Text here. Much better performance than Atom.

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RT @DavidDeutschOxf:
Russell blithely assuming that nothing "quite unforeseeable" will occur in the 20th century😅

Using that assumption to…

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@michaelmalice

Or how about none of that?

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@Atom2384 @ChipkinLogan @DavidDeutschOxf

All Life is Problem Solving, Conjectures and Refutations, Objective Knowledge are all great imo

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@polkatwitt @GermanAtPompey

Wie aus einem Horrorfilm.

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@TextSkizzen

Pluraletanta?

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@SimonHoiberg

Best feeling when somebody uses the product one has built and the like it.

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RT @laasrinadiaa:
An easy way to have a fluid typography(font-size changes depending on the screen size) using only the 'clamp(min, val, ma…

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RT @SpaceX:
Announcing the first commercial astronaut mission to orbit Earth aboard Dragon → spacex.com/updates/inspir… https://t.co/ukLsjFfRjk

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@haysstanford

No. One needs knowledge. And college isn’t the only way to create that knowledge.

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@GavinNewsom @POTUS

No, it’s 100% reimbursed by people who are locked away if they don’t reimburse you.

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@patrickc

It’s about the mind, not the brain. It’s software that allows us to learn languages faster or slower, not hardware.

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@JDPea @INVESTMENTSHULK

Yeah exactly, was gonna comment the same thing.

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@animals_trans @ClimateWarrior7

It’s “ladx,” say it right

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@Neuro_Skeptic

Karl Popper had some answers to that question.

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@SimonHoiberg

V difficult reading the comments. Use a color scheme with higher color contrast between comment color and background color for better legibility.

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@SimonHoiberg

What does it mean to get the “last” item from a map or set?

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@CerebralWisdom

Or both are wrong.

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@WatchRatio

Is this real? Do you have a link to the post?

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Security guard at Corona detention center catches the virus: who’d have thought? Entire city pays the price.

“Leaders of other states and territories have also been contacted and advised not to allow people to travel into the state.”

Casual violation of freedom of movement. twitter.com/jeffreyatucker…

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@MatMcGann

E.g. if you ask them questions about Z and one says they haven’t thought too much about it (or worse, need not think about it, they just “know”). Or if you criticize Z and one just shrugs it off without offering counter criticisms.

Then that person isn’t taking Z seriously.

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@Andre_j_Fischer

AGIs might do it for others or themselves or both.

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@bartholmberg

That she didn’t “function well as a person,” even if true, does not mean she was incompetent at economics.

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@ThePracticalDev @joeczubiak

That doesn’t help if the crawler runs or at least reads JS.

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@bartholmberg

I forget if I have. What does she say in it that you think shows she's incompetent?

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@MatMcGann

For example, I take socialism seriously and reject it.

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@bartholmberg

To be clear, you're claiming that her expertise did not extend to economics, but that that of economists and psychologists does?

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@MatMcGann

No because taking an idea seriously does not mean accepting it on blind faith.

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@TheAtlasSociety

Why call it "rational, benevolent self-interest" instead of just "self-interest"?

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@CerebralWisdom

That's exactly what Elizabeth Warren has been doing in the context of a wealth tax: twitter.com/ewarren/status…

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New blog post: "Taking Ideas Seriously"

blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/taking-i…

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@Andre_j_Fischer

In the former case a rollback wouldn't help because one can't roll back reality.

Different AGIs might have backups for different reasons. The main reason I would have them, if I were an AGI, is so that I couldn't die as easily. And yes it'd be a very good idea.

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AGIs could use git commits to version their minds and git push to back their minds up to the cloud. They could revert to any previous commit and thereby reinstantiate their minds from the state they were in at that specific commit.

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I remember thinking it was weird when Obama got it. But this is worse. twitter.com/nypost/status/…

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@nomadcapitalist

I just wrote about how evil wealth tax is earlier today: blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/wealth-t…

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@FallingIntoFilm

I’ve watched about two thirds of it. Yeah it’s interesting. If true, I’d put it in the category of “hardware problems causing software problems.”

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@ewarren

blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/wealth-t…

She won't read it. But maybe some others will. And maybe they will recognize how evil what Warren is advocating really is.

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New blog post: "Wealth Tax Is Evil"

blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/wealth-t…

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Whereas if you live for 60 years after acquiring some asset, a wealth tax will tax that same asset 60 times. A wealth tax compounds.

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Graham writes:

The reason wealth taxes have such dramatic effects is that they're applied over and over to the same money. Income tax happens every year, but only to that year's income.

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Here's an article @paulg wrote on the subject:

paulgraham.com/wtax.html

For example, at a mere 1% wealth tax, the government will have taken almost 50% of the taxed assets at the end of your life.

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Also, a wealth tax is particularly insidious because it taxes the same amount again and again. A percentage that may seem low can have devastating effects over the years.

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@ewarren

Their ability to afford it does not justify theft from them.

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The parasite keeps growing.

That’s how it starts: it affects “only” the top 0.1%. So most people don’t care. Then the parasite grows a little more. Which costs more. So then it’s 1%. Rinse, repeat. twitter.com/ewarren/status…

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Cool. Was hoping browsers would add support for aspect ratios. twitter.com/Una/status/135…

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@GavinNewsom

At whose expense?

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@FallingIntoFilm

No, why do you ask?

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@BetterCallSaul

Can't wait for the last season. Soon pls!

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Those teachers are indeed oppressors. But not because of racism. twitter.com/realchrisrufo/…

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@TextSkizzen

Anscheinend nicht: duden.de/rechtschreibun… benutzt "5%ig"

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@TextSkizzen

Heißt es dann auch "50 %-ig"? Zum Beispiel in "Es gibt eine 50 %-ige Wahrscheinlichkeit".

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@TextSkizzen

Ganz richtig. Schade nur, dass die Leerzeichen manchmal dazu führen, dass die Abkürzungen von einer Zeile auf die nächste getrennt werden, wenn sie nicht mehr in die Zeile passen.

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@jensspahn

Die Zeitangaben machen alle wenig Unterschied. Für Politiker, weil sie ohnehin weiter bezahlt werden, für Bürger, weil man sich in zehn Wochen wieder etwas Neues ausdenkt, um Restriktionen noch länger bestehen zu lassen.

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@avalonpenrose

"I own stocks, so I have a pretty good understanding of the stock market" is a non sequitur.

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@bhweingarten @realchrisrufo

And neither is desirable.

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Those folks putting ever more masks on at ever more times of day are rather reminiscent of both the flagellants and the inhabitants of the Easter Island. “Let’s enact this lifestyle ever more faithfully, maybe it will save us! To hell with freedom and creativity!”

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RT @RitterJurgen:
was sind schon 34 Jahre?
#Berlin #DDR #Tucholskystraße
1987 - 2021 https://t.co/LZSbnmg9nr

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@liberty_deity @gregbacon

Literally the first question in the FAQ: blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/libertar…

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@dela3499

Memes exist in at least two different physical forms. Also, memes can go up and laterally across generations of people.

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@florinpop1705

Variations on reduce with single-line arrow functions.

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@micsolana

Another question we don’t always ask: at whose expense and with whose consent?

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@POTUS @JoeBiden

Sounds wonderful. Who paid for this btw?

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@SJ_Watson @GermanAtPompey

David Deutsch’s “The Beginning of Infinity”

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@HistoryNed @kreuzberged

I see the heaters haven’t changed much since.

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@GavinNewsom

They thank you “for supporting struggling Californians.” But it wasn’t you. It was the other Californians from whom you stole that money at the threat of violence. And now you’re taking credit.

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@kreuzberged

What mic is that and does it come with the audio cover thing around it?

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From a libertarian perspective, it's as though the headline read: "It's finally a Latino's turn to steal people's money." twitter.com/GavinNewsom/st…

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RT @SpaceX:
Falcon 9 launches Starlink to orbit – the eighth launch and landing of this booster https://t.co/zyj8ZdDFql

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@RubyInside

And if anyone has trouble updating, as I did: stackoverflow.com/a/13626200/137…

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@adekunle_dreams @CerebralWisdom

But the main thing children learn in school, even though it's not explicitly on the curriculum, is a very evil thing indeed: blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/the-true…

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@adekunle_dreams @CerebralWisdom

I don't understand the second sentence, but re the first one:

Effectively, yes. Children are met with such overwhelming force in school that there's a metaphorical gun to their heads to learn what parents and teachers deem right. Some of those things are good, some terrible.

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"Ist GPT-3 die erste künstliche allgemeine Intelligenz?"

zephyrnet.com/de/ist-gpt-3-d…

Nein.

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@bscholl @paulg

The whole site still looks like it's from pre 2010.

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RT @stackblitz:
💡 JavaScript tip:

When destructuring multiple values you can set one as a default for another. https://t.co/ryrtrKDxCH

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@CerebralWisdom

I’d guess the secret of tyranny lies in both, for, “educating”, in practice, ends up being forceful indoctrination of “the right” things to learn.

Forcing people to learn certain things is another way to make them ignorant.

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@popper1902 @ella_hoeppner

Rather CTP-esque at around 40:05.

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I respect her courage in the face of authority. twitter.com/TruthAbtChina2…

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