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Flat land, flat caste
The old frontier spirit persists in the plains. Social structures are flatter, and castes matter somewhat less, in a hard land where everyone has to contribute. Today’s EnidBuzz question: What do you collect? The usual literal and cute answers were interrupted by an example of flat caste. Can you imagine Johnnie Rockefeller or Andy Carnegie…
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Checking the source 2
Two weeks ago I explored the original C++ code by ‘Satoshi’. = = = = = START REHASH: I was assuming the chain is a linked list or nodelist. It’s just a simple array, with expandable memory. The ‘chainness’ only means that each item in the array is a vector or struct including its own…
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Appreciation to apprehension
Enid is looking forward to the arrival of a supertall Xmas tree to kick off their annual lighting competition. The lighting has been going on since the 80s. When I visited Enid in those years, I often toured the well-organized neighborhood displays. When I lived there in the 70s, I might have appreciated the ‘tallest…
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Who’s more effectively paranoid?
I’m looking at two strings of comments at Substack. First Justin Hart asking for guesses about WHY the “virus” hoaxocaust needed to happen in 2020, as opposed to any other time. Second, the responses to Taibbi’s funny drinking game on last night’s “election”. I used to wonder about the WHY question, and finally settled on…
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Looks like a win-win
If stories can be believed, two late-autumn migrations have started in the bird world. The “journalists” and other D-brand demons are leaving Twitter and moving to Mastodon. The R-brand demons are moving back into Twitter. Mastodon is an obscure platform with even less general interest than Twitter. The D-brand demons will be talking solely among…
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A real economist!
This guy REALLY knows what’s happening and what’s wrong. A couple of choice items, not exactly quoted: It’s too bad that bitcoin’s marketers didn’t work for nuclear power. We can’t do anything because our government is chaotic. Nobody wants to invest in real production because you can be sure you’ll be demonized and banned two…
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Problem solved!
Our noble leaders are warning us to be VEEEEEEEEEEEERY PATIENT, because it takes a VEEEEEEEEERY LONG TIME to count votes. Obviously we need a technical fix. Polistra has a fresh Innovative Disruptive idea! We need a machine that works something like an abacus, except a whole lot faster. She realizes that this is WAY beyond…
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Eirx
We often signal our orthodoxy by using the “native” spelling of a country or tribe we’re supposedly defending. The signalers don’t worry about actual “nativity” when they invent lunacies like Latinx or Womxn. They’re trying a bit harder with Ukraine, but the result is still absurd because the Ukrainian “language” is a dialect of Russian.…
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Raking record
Time to start the roof-raking record for this winter. As always, this should be in my private daily worklog, but I started doing it here, so I’ll continue the tradition. Last winter was EASY. Only three rakings, and the first was 12/31/21. This winter is likely to be harder than average. We started with a…
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Reprint on jail and jobs
First written 11/1/17, linked in previous item, worth a reprint. = = = = = START REPRINT: An article in Aeon starts with an excellent and evocative question: Should life in jail be worse than outside, on principle? Author Chris Barker is a prof at a small POST-Christian college (Methodist) in Winfield. You don’t see…
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Parkinson, not cheating
Via UncommonDescent, suspicion falls on the work of a Nobel-winner in genetics. Several research articles co-authored by Nobel-prizewinning geneticist Gregg Semenza are being investigated by publishers after internet sleuths raised concerns about the integrity of images in the papers. Journals have already retracted, corrected or expressed concerns about 17 papers over the past decade, and…
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Another non-fix
Continuing the theme of the opportunity cost and wasted passion in the bitcoin realm. Here’s another misplaced non-solution. NFType proposes using NFTs to clean up the messy copyright situation of digital fonts. Or at least I think that’s what they’re proposing. The website and the Twitter version are totally uninformative and incomprehensible. Font licensing is…
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Why 1907 needed scrip
Enid Buzz posted this ad from an Enid clothing store in 1907. On account of scarcity of currency reminds us that the Panic of 1907 was a huge but brief Innovative Disruption, sponsored by Innovative Disruptor Edison. Scrip was born in this depression, and resurrected in 1933 when FDR broke the banks to restore the…
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Not enough Parkinson
The data-gatherers are still somewhat innocent of the way the world works. In response to demon Emily Oster’s announcement that there will be an amnesty, the data-gatherers are invoking “rights” and “laws” and “morality”. None of those myths can possibly affect the behavior of demons. We’ll never have a Nuremberg. The original Nuremberg was enforced…
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Alien beeings
Latest research on bees and charge: For about three minutes, part of the migrating swarm passed over the electric field monitor. This revealed a net positive field intensity of 100 volts per meter at peak density. This effect was not observed in a second control meter positioned in the open field 50 meters away from…
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