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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.

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@AfJyag @disclosetv

Where taxes are lower. @nomadcapitalist would know better.

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@disclosetv

Great way to cause people to leave.

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Before asking “how can we”, shouldn’t we ask “should we”? twitter.com/royalsociety/s…

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@AnnikaJoeres @M_Hundhausen @HolzheuStefan

Aus Ihren Tweets wird nicht klar, ob die Zahlen nun 36 Dezibel zu hoch oder zu niedrig sind. Nur anhand der Bemerkung, dass es Gegnern in die Hände gespielt hat, kann man erahnen, dass sie 36 zu hoch waren.

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@Kaiwingchun

Correct, but we need an explanation to say either way.

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@mgechev

I thought number inputs don’t even let you type values that are outside the specified range?

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RT @Replit:
This is the most creative personal website I've ever seen 😍

It injects CSS into the page as it's written: https://t.co/WgS99uC…

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@Kaiwingchun

Ok but within those constraints there could still be infinitely many ways.

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Why couldn’t there be infinitely many ways to make an eye? twitter.com/RichardDawkins…

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Holding past generations' mistakes against current generations. A nasty result of collectivism. twitter.com/ElefentJames/s…

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@webdevMason

In other words, there's a problem we don't yet know how to solve. Is that really an argument against libertarianism?

Related: blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/libertar…

and blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/libertar…

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Mir ist gerade aufgefallen, dass "zusammenschreiben" und "getrennt schreiben" beide auf sich selbst zutreffen. Sie sind also homolog. Eine schoene Eigenschaft der deutschen Sprache!

#rechtschreibung #deutsch

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The second-handedness level is over 9000. twitter.com/lillianyoung/s…

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RT @dchackethal:
@angela4LNCChair

Would it have mattered if public opinion on lockdowns had been overwhelmingly negative? Would Newsom have…

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@angela4LNCChair

Would it have mattered if public opinion on lockdowns had been overwhelmingly negative? Would Newsom have cared?

Same logic as when parents impose screen times against their children's will: "They don't know what's best for them, I do."

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@_jayphelps @Iterator

Very handy for sending form fields over a socket or ajax.

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@_jayphelps @Iterator

IIRC you can also use it to turn FormData into an object.

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Note the official-sounding, proper language they're using to normalize this stuff. Also note their facial expressions of regret here and there, as if to say that they're so sorry to do this, but it's for 'the right reasons.' They're committing evil with good intentions. twitter.com/ComicDaveSmith…

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@brbascript

"Woah, you're a chatty Kathy today."

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RT @MrAndyNgo:
He was white, so no need to riot.

The @Oregonian, Portland’s paper of record. archive.is/2021.04.16-194… https://t.co/7PTOxMom…

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@Dudenverlag @TextSkizzen

Wochenend:in?

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@snipperbytes @nixcraft

The foreach also looks a bit like stack-safe tail recursion.

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@Not_the_Bee

Unclear to whom "him" refers.

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RT @Lukewearechange:
FAUCI: "I don't look at this as a liberty thing."

JORDAN: "Well, that's obvious!" https://t.co/XqPot9QIqj

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@mgoldingmd @ChristleNwora

Have you tried Tillamook? I didn't know vanilla could be this good. Highly recommended: tillamook.com/products/ice-c…

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RT @ClimateWarrior7:
Initially one feels an enormous wave of happiness. One is complying with the government's wishes! One is accepted by s…

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RT @paulg:
@kimmytaylor

It has died at many times and places. They are for that reason times and places you don't want to be.

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@brbascript

Sounds like Saul?

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If you want to give minorities money, just do it. Why force others to do the same? twitter.com/nowthisnews/st…

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@mynameisChesto @BennyChugg @DavidDeutschOxf @DorfGinger

Brains are made of atoms. And those atoms had to exist before brains existed so that brains could be constructed by evolution in the first place, i.e. before anyone could in principal perceive atoms.

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@mynameisChesto @BennyChugg @DavidDeutschOxf @DorfGinger

The whole "does a tree fall if nobody's around to see it falling" is an anti-realist fallacy. It also strikes me as a stolen concept because the misconception presupposes the existence of the tree it then denies.

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@mynameisChesto @BennyChugg @DavidDeutschOxf @DorfGinger

In order:

I don’t know what you mean by “quanta.”

Yes. And we currently don’t perceive primality either btw.

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@BennyChugg @DavidDeutschOxf @DorfGinger @mynameisChesto

I'm guessing yes and yes, because without humans there would still be, say, solar systems with a prime number of planets, molecules with a prime number of atoms, etc.

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RT @realchrisrufo:
SCOOP: Santa Clara County Office of Education denounces the United States as a "parasitic system" based on the "invasion…

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@JesseNichols

"Popperia"

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@CerebralWisdom

Maybe something for @JoeBiden?

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Wearing a mask while playing the trombone... 🤦‍♂️

instagram.com/reel/CNoPBL-Af…

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Somebody should install a big light source on the moon that we can see from earth.

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It's complicated, but I agree with the sentiment. twitter.com/LPTexas/status…

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RT @jh3yy:
"The Impossible Checkbox 🐻"

Now with sound! 🔊

⚒️ @reactjs && @greensock
💻 codepen.io/jh3y/pen/LYNZw… via @CodePen https://t.co/…

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@TSJPhillips @diemauerthewall

Da seh ich rot.

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@DavidDeutschOxf @mynameisChesto

What makes qualia different from abstractions?

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@toadmeister

If it was before the lockdown was imposed, how does the word “but” make sense there? I don’t think the first and last statement have conflicting implications.

Lockdown proponents can argue that it was only a peak because of lockdown.

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@CerebralWisdom

Should have said “freedom”.

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@ReachChristofer

I am told by a doctor that the part about vaccines not protecting from infection is wrong.

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RT @TheBabylonBee:
'It Is Still Not Safe To Go Outside,' Says Fauci's Head In A Jar In Year 2739
babylonbee.com/news/it-is-sti…

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RT @ReachChristofer:
Interesting 🤔

”Is the science of public health a religion now, or is science supposed to be about debate? If someone…

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RT @realchrisrufo:
Cake shop in Olympia, WA. https://t.co/RWQe2RZRmW

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I wonder if pretty soon entire game graphics will be written in CSS. twitter.com/jh3yy/status/1…

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Big news everyone: replicators mutate

⚡️ “The rise of variants in Europe shows how dangerous the virus can be” by @nytimes twitter.com/i/events/13805…

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@_Islamicat

Also, associating with gingers is haram.

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"[T]he Government are due to relax foreign travel restrictions, [enabling] Brits to visit ‘green list’ countries without having to take two Covid tests on return"

Like when parents tell their kids: You've been good, you may watch these three movies w/o doing your homework first. twitter.com/toadmeister/st…

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@reason_wit_me

Dunno, but people who claim anarchy could never work say so partly because they think conflict resolution with competing private abitrators would be impossible — not that it would be impractical.

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What people need is a willingness to discuss, to solve problems together.

If they don’t have that, a common legal system won’t help them much either.

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The myth that people need a common legal system provided by a legal monopoly to resolve conflicts is a special case of Popper’s myth of the framework.

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“Biodiversity provides food, water and shelter”

No, people do. twitter.com/royalsociety/s…

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@progressntwrk @dianefrancis1

The latter alone is said to have caused 25 million deaths in a single year according to mphonline.org/worst-pandemic….

Apart from the death count, we’re also much better able to deal with pandemics today because we have more wealth and knowledge. You’re discounting that progress.

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@progressntwrk @dianefrancis1

See the quote in my previous tweet? I’m happy for the technological progress and all, but surely you’ll agree that this isn’t the world’s most dangerous pandemic to date? There has been AIDS, various flus, cholera, the Black Death, bubonic plague...

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@progressntwrk @dianefrancis1

"the world’s most dangerous pandemic to date"

srsly?

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@AbelardoIT @SimonHoiberg

So you never use callbacks or blocks or lambdas or anonymous functions in your OOP code?

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RT @marinamaral2:
Prohibition agents dump liquor out of a raided building, 1929. https://t.co/iqBzMnKfm0

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@ClickHole

She's not wrong!

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RT @ClimateWarrior7:
Goes without saying. We should also have checkpoints in the streets to limit unnecessary movement of unvaccinated peop…

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@AbelardoIT @SimonHoiberg

Those two approaches are orthogonal. You can mix and match.

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RT @patrickc:
🎤💸 We're very pleased to be working with @joinClubhouse to help enable frictionless creator payments: joinclubhouse.com/introducing-pa….

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@__adamjohnson_

How would I even evaluate that?

Exactly.

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@CicmilJovan

You go down a rabbit hole. Then you find another rabbit hole inside the rabbit hole. You go down it, too. You keep going down until you hit a wall. Then you climb back out.

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Eric Weinstein's long-awaited paper on geometric unity is finally here.

I wrote a comprehensive guide with the most important points so you don't need to read all 69 pages of it:

blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/a-compre…

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So a computer would need to be injected with dopamine to be creative, according to this renowned neuroscientist? twitter.com/connectedregio…

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@ReachChristofer @DavidDeutschOxf @KyleWil69587234

“so meditation is [...] thinking/guessing about what might be going on in the mind”

Isn’t that just epistemology?

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What a bunch of clowns making fools of themselves. twitter.com/gerda_alice/st…

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How about “altruistic” and “parasitic”? twitter.com/angela4LNCChai…

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RT @Nailfreak1:
So, ich starte mal das illegale Treffen mit den Nachbarn. 😉 Bis später.🥂🍻

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RT @ClimateWarrior7:
Happy Pandemic to those of my followers who are following the covid religion this year. Which I hope is all of you.

I…

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RT @reasonisfun:
#HPMOR by @ESYudkowsky shows the horror of forcing irrationalities on your children.

Coercing your child to adopt any

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@MichaelPSenger

Very good

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RT @ThomasEWoods:
Here's what they didn't want you to hear tomwoods.com/ep-1865-the-tw…

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No, because you could always click “inspect element” and copy from the DOM directly.

That’s also why no “pay to copy/paste” would ever be successful. t.co/1F9rMsJdbV

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@MichaelPSenger

Hypocrites

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RT @angela4LNCChair:
I mean it when I said I would work to destroy any institution that tries to uphold a vaccine passport.
Theres no room…

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@nixcraft

Smart!

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@UghanwaFortune @denicmarko

Modals, I think.

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RT @talkRADIO:
A school in Australia has made boys apologise to girls for rapes committed by their gender.

Julia: "I don't know why the bo…

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School causes a problem. Solution? More school to "solve" the problem. Just like with government.

A better way to get rid of bullying would be to get rid of schools. twitter.com/AndyShaw1/stat…

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RT @joergnicht:
Morning sun.
#Berlin https://t.co/owQDJxCmAg

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RT @MarsCuriosity:
Quick! Stop scrolling.
What you see here aren’t just any clouds, they’re Martian clouds. Take a moment out of your day t…

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Better emphasis would have been on "whether".

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RT @liberty_deity:
But without #USPS, who would deliver taxpayer-subsidized junk mail to rural communities?

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@JustCindyX @Ayaan

Like, literally?

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RT @TheAtlasSociety:
Free INDIVIDUALS, Not "Sacrifice," Creates ABUNDANCE. #Capitalism #AynRand #Quotes https://t.co/OWveAEUvkY

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RT @TheBabylonBee:
For Convenience, Vaccine Passport Can Now Be Tattooed On Your Hand Or Forehead babylonbee.com/news/for-conve…

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Why not first ask whether the town should "atone"? twitter.com/i/events/13762…

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@Sweordbora @TextSkizzen @meg_gyver

Hier "Sushi" essen :O

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