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Reprint on bitcoin from 2014
Linked in previous item, worth a reprint. In this 2014 piece I was discussing three different subjects. Ten years later all three turned out right. A rare conjunction, since I’m wrong about many things! = = = = = START 2014 REPRINT: Three beautiful examples of completely ignoring history in today’s news. = = =…
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Craig Wright, the final chapter
Edit: Oooops, I published too soon without waiting for the actual sentence! The Judge sentenced Wright to 1 year but suspended the sentence for 2 years to see if Wright will start paying his fines. Unsatisfying conclusion and won’t stop the chaos that Wright creates every minute of his nasty life. PROFESSIONAL CRIMINALS NEED TO…
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Why I like Quora
I’ve switched most of my time-wasting from Substack to Quora, because (1) Quora is subject based, not forceful. Quora feeds you more of what you like and less of what you don’t like. Substack refuses to set up subject areas and insists on hammering you with the same damn shit no matter how often you…
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Tiny example
Our conventional view of the past is 100% wrong in every way. Everything we learned in school and media is violently wrong, either by giant omissions or perfect falsehoods. This is true in tech and industry as well as politics and economics. Our conventional history of every invention and industry is wrong. One tiny but…
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Mirror
Substack has become the exact mirror image of Twitter. Twitter is RNC trolls pasting RNC talking points in nasty language. Substack is DNC trolls pasting DNC talking points in nasty language. The few remaining independents are either going silent or leaving.
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RTO = LBO
This article at MSN tells the truth about the push for returning to the office. Elon also tells the truth when he proposes forcing federal workers to RTO. The purpose is to fire all workers without going through the trouble of actually firing them. Properly firing them would COST MONEY for unemployment insurance and severance…
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What’s happening? Oh.
This article is another postgame analysis of the “election”. Not especially interesting, too much focus on fine details of redistricting and population trends for my taste. The graph halfway down is far more interesting. Hard to interpret at first, until I realized it’s a parametric graph. The lines zigzag all over the place, sometimes backward…
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Two possibilities?
Big Science, especially the public-facing side in magazines or TV, has been totally corrupt for at least 40 years. Journalism’s public side is permanently corrupt. No history of objectivity at all, except for the years when the Fairness Doctrine ruthlessly censored broadcasters into objectivity. BUT: Out of the public eye, and away from the magazines…
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Mean vs median
A classic case… Some literary type on Substack stated as a fact that the average person reads 12 books per year. Others came in fast to give the real fact: the normal or typical person reads 1, maybe 2. The literary type was using mean, which is always pulled up by outliers like literary types…
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Non-hostile divorce
Most successful companies started as hostile divorces or shotgun marriages (LBOs). In autos, all the big names but Ford and Packard started as splits or buyouts**. Hudson’s origin was unusual. It was founded by salesman Roy Chapin and engineer Howard Coffin. Both originally worked at Oldsmobile. When Oldsmobile was bought by Wall Street types who…
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Stupidly annoying
Yesterday this blog received more “reads” in 7 minutes than it did in the previous year. 1510 “reads”, all from one dubious source. Liquid Web LLC doesn’t seem to be known as a spambot, and it’s not a Facebook or NSA or Amazon portal. It’s just a web hosting company, taken over and enshitified by…
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Mechanical is better
A passionate defense of informal justice by Michael Moore: = = = = = START QUOTE: Yes, I condemn murder, and that’s why I condemn America’s broken, vile, rapacious, bloodthirsty, unethical, immoral health care industry and I condemn every one of the CEOs who are in charge of it and I condemn every politician who…
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Reprint on MECHANICAL laws
Continuing from previous item, reprinting this piece on the specific subject from 2021. Real profit works mechanically when the mechanism is set up to increase profit for the whole business or the whole government. The setup fails when the mechanism makes a single exception for the billionaires who STEAL profit and taxes from the business…
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Reprinting the IBM 650
I’m returning to blessed normal after six months of bad anxiety and bad balance. Part of the return is regaining a broader set of interests and a broader use of learning and skills. Programming skills are returning just in time for a new courseware project. Programming includes a fascination with early computers, including older analog…
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Was this his purpose?
After reading Mangione’s whole manifesto, a highly literate account of his mother’s endless pain and his own endless pain, plus the endless failure of United “Health” to honor its own CONTRACT, I had a new thought. He will probably get better medical care in prison than he did outside the walls. Prisons are NOT ALLOWED…
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