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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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@DustinSkenando @beer_ninja6 @GavinNewsom

Can't do that without travel documents which the government has a monopoly over and which are financed by tax money.

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@cybergoethe @czthaday @GavinNewsom

That's separate. Taxation gets money into the hands of government. And government shut down businesses. Both instances of force.

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@loose_fur @czthaday @GavinNewsom

Not wanting to have money stolen from oneself is selfish? And the government taking money against one's will isn't?

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@djrobstep @czthaday @GavinNewsom

Those are different because people agree to pay rent whereas they do not agree to pay taxes. Also a landlord won't put you in a cage if you don't your rent he'll just kick you out.

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@jwatte @Yascha_Mounk @SwipeWright

Everyone knows what jobs and opinions are, but I'll grant that freedom is less clear because people equivocate the term. Freedom from want is something quite different than freedom from violence e.g.

Shouldn't "our" job be just that: our job? And to stay out of people's lives?

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@engmac18 @gaybunnypup @GavinNewsom

What don't libertarians understand about it?

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@GavinNewsom

I've said it before and I'll say it again: don't take the money. I know it's tempting, but know that this is blood money.

Earn the money instead. Be mad at Newsom for making it difficult for you to earn money. But do not sell your freedom by taking this stolen money.

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RT @dchackethal:
@GavinNewsom

No, those checks are not from the state of CA, they're from peaceful people from whom you have forcefully ext…

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@gaybunnypup @GavinNewsom

Why what's dumb about it?

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@GabrielTapiaCu1 @iam_thesonofman @GavinNewsom

Right. You asked "Then how did we build the fucking roads dumbass." I just answered the question. No reason to insult me.

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@billhabicht @GavinNewsom

You don't know anything about me. And even if true, how does that make theft okay?

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@czthaday @GavinNewsom

And what about all the businesses he forcefully shut down because of the virus? You don't recall any force?

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I got a new Twitter badge :) twitter.com/gaybunnypup/st…

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@VVRabbi @itaisher @Yascha_Mounk @SwipeWright

This is exactly the kind of thinking I was warning about. And just because something is done all the time doesn't mean it's right.

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@GabrielTapiaCu1 @iam_thesonofman @GavinNewsom

The government builds the roads with the stolen money.

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@czthaday @GavinNewsom

What do you think happens to you when you don’t want to pay your taxes?

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@GavinNewsom

No, those checks are not from the state of CA, they're from peaceful people from whom you have forcefully extracted the money.

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@itaisher @Yascha_Mounk @SwipeWright

"people should not be fired" sounds more prohibitive to me than "employers should not fire" but maybe you're right. Yascha could settle this one easily, of course.

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@Demosthenes9 @Yascha_Mounk @SwipeWright

Right. And those kinds of thoughts usually lead to some third party (the government) stepping in and telling peaceful people what they can and cannot do. And then forcefully extracting money from them "in return." Which all goes against freedom Yascha says he wants.

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@Demosthenes9 @Yascha_Mounk @SwipeWright

Yascha suggested people "not be fired from their jobs for having dumb opinions unless those dumb opinions directly interfere with their ability to do their job."

Dunno what he's trying.

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@Yascha_Mounk @SwipeWright

Agree with the sentiment, but in a free society, employers are free to make any agreement with employees they like, which includes firing practices of both their choice.

What you're suggesting would prevent employers from making arbitrary contracts with employees. != freedom

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@jh3yy @CodePen

I see a bunch of initial values, but where do you increase them?

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@nomadcapitalist

Are there countries that aren't part of the West that do not tax people?

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The things people come up with! worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/1961…

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@TutulDevs @SimonHoiberg

Some feedback: my eyes squinted and I felt a slight headache immediately upon trying to read that slightly lopsided text.

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@mariyaivasileva

So... when a woman decides she’d rather work in, say, a leasing office than become a software engineer, that’s because of systematic oppression? Am I understanding you correctly?

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RT @chillywillers:
https://t.co/oTnCOE2LRY

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For example, many consider the fact that software engineering has less than 50% women evidence that software engineering is somehow biased against them, when in reality, it could be any number of reasons that have nothing to do with "oppression" but just interests, say.

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Also, wokesters mistakenly think that phenomena that aren't based on chance, such as sex distribution in a given category of job, would have the same outcome as chance in a "fair" world, and then demand (forced) equal distribution. twitter.com/pmddomingos/st…

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RT @pmddomingos:
If you flip a coin six times and get four heads, that doesn't mean the coin is biased against tails. But the AI ethics cro…

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@dvassallo @B_Vanderhaegen

^ The screenshot contains an example of the quest for certainty in business, presumably resulting from bad epistemology.

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RT @lukeholder:
@petergould

Check out this Jimmy McGill nail salon Office diorama! youtube.com/watch?v=L7_Flj… so cool! By Boylei Hobby Time :)…

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@seldo

Yeah. Or if links can’t be opened in new tabs by holding cmd while clicking on them.

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@brbascript

Bet there’s lots of those lines in the script.

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@TextSkizzen

Passen "Stichwörter" in die erste Kategorie?

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@CarnunMP @ks445599

Good idea but for non-technical things I think it's better to just put it on a good old blog where people don't need to know about things such as pull requests, commits etc. to contribute and where they can just post a comment instead.

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@ks445599

That's not a half bad idea. I'll see if I have time to put such a list together and if so will post it on my blog.

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@BennyChugg @ToKTeacher @DavidDeutschOxf

Many people don’t like fallibility. They want justified, true belief...

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Here's a transcript of an older talk by David Deutsch I stumbled upon that you may not have seen before—at leaste I hadn't.

oxfordchabad.org/templates/arti…

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@4tian @pmddomingos

Domingos wasn’t arguing that people shouldn’t be allowed to buy non-GMO products. He was arguing they’re unscientific.

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@Pogue

Tune in to San Francisco now and you’ll get a charming man talking on the “Islamic Bulletin” about how rotten children in the area are because the mosques don’t have enough personell.

Just lovely.

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RT @ZubyMusic:
Remember to cancel your 1 year trial of communism before it auto-renews.

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@4tian @pmddomingos

What’s the value prop with non-GMOs?

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@pmddomingos

Been doing that. Sometimes they change the color of the logo and I only realize I bought a non-GMO product when I get home. :(

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@realchrisrufo

Ever notice how people who spew these nonsensical ideas have roses in their twitter names?

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@Evolving_Ego @Plinz

You should consider that critics of your ideas have addressed the problems you raise:

To wit: blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/libertar…

and

blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/libertar…

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@ks445599 @madeofmistak3

I suspect madeofmistake may be referring to internet memes specifically.

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@Evolving_Ego @Plinz

will help you round out your views on political economy

A bit condescending, don't you think?

I've skimmed the articles. But I didn't ask for what those thing are. I asked for a specific example you had in mind.

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@Evolving_Ego @Plinz

What's an example of a "collective action problem"?

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@MichaelPSenger

Invert what they're doing: instead of accusing leading politicians of being grandma killers (a lie), accuse them of enslaving people (the truth). Etc.

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@MichaelPSenger

Is anyone planning to beat the CCP at their own game by creating a large number of bots that post contra-lockdown tweets?

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@KennethCassel @JavaScriptDaily

Nice, will try it.

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It's great that when you duckduckgo "scientific method" it shows a picture of @DavidDeutschOxf.

But wouldn't it be better if the text next to it were replaced with "the entry you're looking for doesn't exist"? With links to both Popper's and Deutsch's works. https://t.co/zS5ffzNtyS

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@hoolacambs @Plinz

Nobody's perfect.

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@iooian @Plinz

All regulation agencies can be tempted by large sums of money from industry. Not all need succumb, but many do.

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@Plinz

Beyond that, it's a crime to force people to pay for a service they do not want. But that crime is organized and legalized in Germany and most (all?) of Europe, so it's not surprising that most Europeans don't understand Americans who (correctly) oppose legalized theft.

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@WKCosmo @SwipeWright

What does the method look like? Can you write it down?

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@coderoflagos

Is there a method for that?

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@ks445599 @ZubyMusic

FWIW I think they're both criteria. If an explanation isn't hard to vary it cannot be scientific.

But yes, the hard-to-vary stuff is more than just a criterion. It does give meaning also.

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@OptimoPrincipi

Maybe one of @billburr's ancestors?

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@ks445599 @ZubyMusic

Testability is necessary but not sufficient. Explaining the world well is. See BoI ch. 1.

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RT @nixcraft:
Punny: Hi there! I am your server for today! https://t.co/avLXMvilBA

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@ZubyMusic

What do you think its true meaning is?

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@oliverjumpertz

Just don’t host anything on AWS that amazon disagrees with politically or they’ll ban it...

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Could it get any more reductionist (and Bayesianist) than this paper? twitter.com/Neuro_Skeptic/…

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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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