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Direct realist, individualist, libertarian, dove. Trying to overcome my biases.

I question the assumption that a normal person just trying to live his life would never do something illegal.

Balaji Srinivasan has an annoying habit of changing the subject and droning on whenever someone else makes a point or asks a question he doesn’t like. I’m taking The Network State off my reading list.

Balaji’s plan, I guess:

1. Make an attention-drawing bet that the US dollar will hyperinflate within 90 days.

2. Use that attention to warn people about imminent, widespread bank insolvency.

3. Get proven wrong about 1.

4. ?

5. Many people believe 2.

Everything Wrong with the Presidents: An exhaustive survey of the Presidents of the United States and everything they did wrong while in office. [Still in progress. 21 presidents covered so far.]

https://www.libertarianism.org/everything-wrong-presidents

Russia invading Ukraine had nothing to do with the spike in the price of gasoline? Why have nominal prices fallen since then?

https://ycharts.com/indicators/us_gas_price

That didn’t end the war, of course. The article says 80,000 South Vietnamese soldiers and civilians died in 1974, which obviously doesn’t count North Vietnamese deaths.

Fifty years ago today, the last American combat soldiers left Vietnam, and North Vietnam’s government released its remaining American prisoners of war.

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/u-s-withdraws-from-vietnam

I didn’t know about Carbon; that’s interesting.

Go is a general-purpose programming language; just ask Rob Pike. I’d summarize it as C-like without C’s quirks, but with garbage collection and better support for concurrency.

As for Swift, it’s been open source since 2015, along with its standard library (the point of contention in Oracle vs. Google). You can get it for Windows and Linux.

Speaking of software for Apple products, Sturgeon’s law holds: 90% is crap. However, the median program for MacOS or iOS is better than the median program for Windows, Linux, or Android. A developer for an Apple product is more likely to consider the model their software presents to users, or at least more likely to think about the user’s experience. Developers for Windows mostly think about adding features and configuration options. To a lesser extent this is also true for Linux and Android.

I didn’t own any Apple products until Mac OS X Tiger. I was looking for a Unix desktop, preferably BSD-flavored, and that was the best available. My main laptop is a Linux PC now, but its main advantages are that it’s cheaper and open source. Mac software is nicer, on average.

#Gumby’s friends Prickle and Goo were inspired by words from philosopher #AlanWatts

https://www.gumbyworld.com/gumby-characters/prickle-goo/

“Or serious issues” is doing a lot of work in the headline. Some of these athletes suffered things like groin injuries, bacterial infections, cancer, aneurysms, or one of many other things. Some of them weren’t remotely young. I didn’t see any mention of COVID vaccination in any of the cited stories I checked, so I can’t tell who was or wasn’t vaccinated, or if they were, when. It’s not obvious to me there was any common cause.

I own one of these Harper Collins editions (William Morrow imprint). I can't find any notice that the text has been recently edited. Does that mean that it wasn't, or that the publisher didn't want me to know?

#AgathaChristie #sensitivity

https://www.avclub.com/agatha-christie-mysteries-sensitivity-edit-1850268221

“My One and Only Thrill”

#MelodyGardot #music

https://tidal.com/track/35362251