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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

RT @MinistryofTru16:
#MoT Whoever

Whoever made this is a genius. pic.twitter.com/G5lkDgWiyE

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In Solidarity with Salman Rushdie: blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/in-solid…

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RT @dvassallo:
My best advice to first-time creators: Start with a super tiny product.

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RT @ForEveryBd:
Very nice religious beliefs
#SalmanRushdie pic.twitter.com/m1R3l3ao5d

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RT @astupple:
“A hard money (Bitcoin) standard raises the cost of spreading anti-rational memes and raises the returns on spreading rationa…

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@SamHarrisOrg

Yes. Please help and join me in distributing the risk: twitter.com/dchackethal/st…

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@aliwaqarsindhu

deleted the tweet but it was archived here: web.archive.org/web/2022081219…

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Has anyone asked Dall-E 2 to generate pics of the prophet Mohammed?

The tool is invite only. If you have access, please post pics by commenting below, or dm them to remain anonymous and I'll post them.

I love receiving death threats. twitter.com/aliwaqarsindhu…

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RT @t3dotgg:
Things have progressed quickly pic.twitter.com/fR3aPY8Dtr

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@Bowiemtl1 @sarcholic @PR0GRAMMERHUM0R

what do you suggest? a bunch of nested if statements, some or all with duplicate else clauses?

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@sarcholic @PR0GRAMMERHUM0R

i will admit i sometimes do the third if there are LOTS of conditions all conjoined by && or || and i want to break them up into several lines so they're more legible

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@Lexy_from_Texy

I have been documenting some of Warren's lies in a post titled 'Lying Little Injun': blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/lying-li…

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@gedankenshit

ARD und ZDF haben das produziert? Wie peinlich.

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Schoen, dass sich dieses Gedankengut in Deutschland verbreitet. twitter.com/ulfposh/status…

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@Karl_Lauterbach

Ist es nicht normalerweise die Legislative, die Gesetze ‚macht‘?

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The IRS is not invulnerable. Keep it going. twitter.com/cwt_news/statu…

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@splitkostanjeu1 @DavidDeutschOxf

There's also the stuff about justification and background knowledge. And there are links to material that goes into more content, too.

I think those who read my post will understand DD's essay better.

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@splitkostanjeu1 @DavidDeutschOxf

It's mostly about form, yes. But I did point out that there seems to be a reduction of quality in some of the borrowed ideas vs. their originals, which is about content.

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@leoalexart

What do you mean by "most jobs being hateful"? That most jobs are worthy of being hated?

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Criticism of @DavidDeutschOxf’s ‘Taking Children Seriously and fallibilism’: blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/criticis…

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And environmentalists might unironically say the north is better off. twitter.com/MarinkoKordic/…

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RT @micsolana:
just heard someone unironically refer to herself as a recovering vegan and felt like, ok, we're gonna make it

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@VDS_weltweit @WDR

Muesste es nicht 'Krankenschwesternde' sein?

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@Karl_Lauterbach

Es koennte ja logisch sein, mit abnehmender Sicherheit:

Geimpfter mit Maske > Geimpfter ohne Maske > Ungeimpfter (mit oder ohne Maske)

Also ist die Kritik nicht falsch.

(Was aber def. falsch ist, ist der Gastro-Branche vorzuschreiben, was sie zu tun und zu lassen hat.)

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RT @SJobs_Stories:
"The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste - I don't mean that in the sm…

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RT @QuarkDDR:
Zur Klarstellung und weil dauernd neidisch gemault wird: pic.twitter.com/tPkZItCzrj

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@SteveStuWill

Another instance of a pretty girl using a genuinely interesting phenomenon to feature herself in a video about it to show off her beauty. Which makes the video really about her, not the phenomenon.

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Do you feel disgust at this picture? If not, why not? twitter.com/micsolana/stat…

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RT @a_nnaschneider:
Wie man jetzt versucht, alle Kritiker des ÖRR als „rechts“ und vermeintlich demokratiegefährdend abzustempeln, ist scho…

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@lucas_zmrn @f_schaeffler

Was daran ist denn bitte "rechte Narrative"?!

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@rveulacia @DavidDeutschOxf

You don't think this link refutes the claim that "pro-choice lobbying in the US had dwindled to historic lows before Roe was overturned"?

twitter.com/dchackethal/st…

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@rveulacia @DavidDeutschOxf

Pro choicers often suck at persuasion and discussing productively when they don't consider that they could be mistaken (see blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/chat-wit…) but that is not to say they don't discuss or organize.

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@rveulacia @DavidDeutschOxf

Even Wikipedia says "[t]he decision [...] caused an ongoing abortion debate in the United States":
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roev.Wa…

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@rveulacia @DavidDeutschOxf

Roe v. Wade was in 1973 but there was just as much talk about legalizing abortion in the 90s: books.google.com/ngrams/graph?c…

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@rveulacia @DavidDeutschOxf

And pro choicers still considered it their mission to 'educate' those 'flyover-state brutes' who effectively banned abortion by making it really difficult to get.

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@rveulacia @DavidDeutschOxf

It's not true that only pro life talked and organized. Whenever pro lifers attacked planned parenthood clinics, for example, there'd be an uproar by pro choicers.

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RT @malwaretech:
Why Web3 Is Less Secure Than Web2
youtube.com/watch?v=t68pNM…

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@quarkswdr @MeWireless

Das heißt also ‚ja‘?

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@quarkswdr

Ja, die bösen Reichen. Das Proletariat sollte regieren. Für die Umwelt.

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@rveulacia @DavidDeutschOxf

But didn’t Roe v. Wade give pro lifers more of a reason to discuss? And try to persuade pro choicers for fear they’ll be killing babies in the meantime?

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@rveulacia @DavidDeutschOxf

Again, there were lots of discussions about abortion. At all times. So it can’t be true that “discussions were essentially shut down by Roe”.

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@rveulacia @DavidDeutschOxf

Is that meant to be a refutation of my precious tweet? If so, how?

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@arjunkhemani

Isn’t it spelled “nullius in verba”? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nullius_i…

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RT @dvassallo:
My real business plan: Avoid going back to this pic.twitter.com/cPmISwgTXO

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RT @naomicfisher:
When we demonise screens, we risk demonising the things our children love. We denigrate their choices. We give them the m…

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@rveulacia @DavidDeutschOxf

They could not have discussed and persuaded each other before? I remember heated discussions about abortion happening before Roe v. Wade was overturned, and ppl are always free to petition the government.

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RT @Suhail:
@paulg

I found early on just asking myself: “would I hire this person if I knew what i know now?” seemed to always produce the…

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RT @paulg:
Inexperienced founders are usually too slow to fire bad people. Here's a trick that may help. Have all the cofounders separately…

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@DavidDeutschOxf

Who was persuaded of what?

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@MinistryofTru16

*had had

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@paulg

Is that the worst you’ve seen in SF?

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RT @Cokedupoptions:
Congratulations to the IRS on winning the $846.3 million Mega Millions Jackpot! pic.twitter.com/1pCJKNdLBJ

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@BreakingBadIrny

That website actually goes somewhere.

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RT @dvassallo:
The hidden risk of steady income is letting past stability fool you about what to expect from the future. You start entering…

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RT @SJobs_Stories:
"The Mac Hardware is not at the top of the food chain, let's just say. We wanna get it there. We ARE gonna get it there.…

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@paulg @dvassallo

Overall, these low numbers sound like good news to me, because they indicate that engineers continue to be in high demand and that they quit when they don't like their job anymore.

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@paulg @dvassallo

Vesting schedules can become a prison where you try to convince yourself to just 'hang on' a few months longer when you've long been ready to quit.

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@paulg

3) As @dvassallo has said, only intrinsic motivation lasts. Vesting schedules are designed to keep you for the long haul, but in the end money doesn't fulfill you. You have to be personally interested in the work you do. And interests change, sometimes rapidly.

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I see several reasons for these numbers.

1) Switching to another company is often lucrative. Poachers make it worth your while.
2) As I believe @paulg once tweeted, developers want to build. They don't always want to maintain. Much of the building happens early on.

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I spent four years at Apple, more than twice the average.

I'm surprised the Apple average is only 1.9. Several of my colleagues had been there for 10+ years, and even more 5+.

But yes, even four years is considered a long time in this industry. And it is. twitter.com/typesfast/stat…

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Below you can see programmers building AI and then claiming it’s sentient. twitter.com/liron/status/1…

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@Karl_Lauterbach

Vielleicht koennten Menschen mehr Trinkgeld geben, wenn Politiker und Staat es ihnen nicht in Form von Steuern und Inflation rauben wuerden.

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Explanation vs. induction twitter.com/PR0GRAMMERHUM0…

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@derspiegel

Die Jungseienden?

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@quarkswdr

Ihr Account gibt vor, wissenschaftlich zu sein, gibt aber eigentlich nur rot-grüne Ideen von sich. Bei einer zwangsfinanzierten Institution vielleicht auch nicht verwunderlich. Aber definitiv widerlich.

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@Crucible_X @michaelmalice

Yes good point

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@michaelmalice

I think I remember reading in one of Popper’s books that any idea claiming that ‘objects from the heavens’ could influence objects on earth was considered astrology and therefore false. Same for moon being the cause of tides.

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RT @Bozena15259009:
So the rest of the world is warming faster than the rest of the world... 🤔 pic.twitter.com/gz2wJQLOEF

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@silvan_amberg @MinistryofTru16 @AlainS1991

“der weisse Cis-Mann” 😂

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RT @WokeTemple:
I first heard this expression over 30 years ago, at university. It disturbed me then and it disturbs me now. It rests on a…

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RT @realchrisrufo:
SCOOP: Portland Public Schools is now teaching elementary school students to subvert the sexuality of “white colonizers,…

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@dvassallo

Absolutely disgusting.

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@CerebralWisdom @lavern_spicer

And because America stands for freedom, it does not stand for forcing citizens to help others.

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Ich zwar nicht. Aber viele. Unbedingt lesen: twitter.com/micLIBERAL/sta…

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RT @dweekly:
I sued a spammer!

Did you know you have a right to sue folks that send you unsolicited text messages or calls?

I received a…

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@FBI @firstofequals

“protecting the American people”

I once filed a report with you after being hacked and you didn’t even acknowledge it let alone investigate it.

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@QuarkDDR

Gendern ist ganz wichtig

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@krlwlzn

That sounds worse to me than anything trump has ever said while in office. Have a particular quote in mind?

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@bartholmberg

there's no guarantee, but quite possibly it would, yes

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RT @firstofequals:
We can lick this recession before it even begins. All we need to do is shut down the economy for two weeks to flatten th…

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Someone needs to read Popper. twitter.com/CitizenFreePre…

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RT @marvin_wank:
Ja, Menschen sind soziale Wesen. Sie haben Freundeskreise, gründen Firmen und treten Vereinen bei.

Doch wenn Politiker vo…

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RT @infiniteprogrs:
@KKirjailija @DavidDeutschOxf

took Popper‘s optimism and ran with it. pic.twitter.com/MRjtpVboto

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@infiniteprogrs @KKirjailija @DavidDeutschOxf

Eine Quellenangabe mit Titel waere super, falls andere das Buch interessiert. :)

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@egm0nt @alejandrosgms4 @Rainmaker1973

What makes you think I'm acting on that assumption?

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