denis bider
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May 22, 2016 at 11:33
Mar 20, 2021
External locus of control
Mar 16, 2021
WaPo's retraction of Trump Georgia phone call hoax
Mar 14, 2021
The pride inherent in the ability to follow
Mar 14, 2021
2024: Candace Owens vs. Meghan Markle
Mar 5, 2021
The revolutionary pandemic
Mar 5, 2021
The cynical pandemic
Mar 2, 2021
Excellent news for Texas
Feb 25, 2021
What the f... is going on in this world?
Feb 21, 2021
A world in which it's not worth existing
Jan 14, 2021
Covid-19 lockdowns and science
Jan 9, 2021
The Purge
Jan 3, 2021
The complete uselessness of rationalists
Jan 1, 2021
Seth on computers
Dec 21, 2020
The party of unity and healing: "Those who disagree are not people"
Dec 21, 2020
Seth on Buddhism
Dec 19, 2020
Amazing Covid-19 tests in China!
Dec 17, 2020
Liberalism is fascism; conservatism is liberalism
Dec 17, 2020
What you don't see on CNN
Dec 15, 2020
The value of intellect
Dec 12, 2020
Where the big tech companies stand
Dec 7, 2020
Experiments on humanity: Fertility effects of vaccines
Dec 5, 2020
Lin Wood's impenetrable fearlessness
Dec 5, 2020
The US corporatocracy: A proto-totalitarianism
Dec 4, 2020
The corporate coup: As predicted in July
Nov 20, 2020
This is the choice
Nov 19, 2020
Listening to experts
Oct 28, 2020
Racism in a nutshell
Oct 15, 2020
Facebook and Twitter interfering with the election
Oct 13, 2020
Sun angle, vitamin D and UVB
Oct 13, 2020
The reality simulator
Oct 9, 2020
Vitamin D and Covid
Oct 8, 2020
And now for gratuitous political views about the election
Oct 7, 2020
Summarizing Seth: The structure of the self
Oct 2, 2020
Summarizing Seth: Introduction
Oct 2, 2020
Summarizing Seth: Table of contents
Sep 28, 2020
The Swedish success with Covid continues...
Sep 26, 2020
The US left and its belief in institutions
Sep 26, 2020
The level of disease risk at which breathing becomes criminal
Sep 3, 2020
On wokeness
Aug 8, 2020
The immediate purpose of schools is child care. This is essential, virus or no
Jul 29, 2020
How to not break a sweat and get buff in 15 years
Jul 28, 2020
The Doghouse: PSU in the Dell Alienware Graphics Amplifier
Jul 25, 2020
Things you ought to know that people don't
Jul 5, 2020
My favorite breakfast
Apr 24, 2020
Covid-19 from a spiritual perspective
Apr 21, 2020
Covid-19: Stream of recent data points supports the iceberg hypothesis
Mar 31, 2020
Biden vs. Trump: Sex Predator vs. Sex Predator 2020
Feb 24, 2020
Ergonomic keyboards: Microsoft Sculpt vs. Logitech Ergo K860
Jan 17, 2020
Seth on hate with respect to love
Jan 3, 2020
Pura vida, my ass: 5 years in Costa Rica and all I got was this lousy T-shirt
Dec 28, 2019
We already live in a society based on love
Dec 26, 2019
denis tries to teach foreign policy
Nov 10, 2019
Reinventing wheels: A better, sliding-matrix diff algorithm
Nov 5, 2019
Reinventing wheels: A straightforward, two-pass diff algorithm
Oct 16, 2019
My beloved aunt and her All-Adoption
Oct 10, 2019
Forced-birth activists as paperclip maximizers
Sep 15, 2019
AI can change scenery, can't fix suffering
Jul 15, 2019
"Support" incompetence at Amazon (and elsewhere)
Jul 3, 2019
What's wrong with computing?
Jun 14, 2019
The case for SSH over UDP
Apr 30, 2019
Water heater does not work, but no fuses are blown and all circuit breakers seem closed?
Apr 30, 2019
Biden 2020
Apr 15, 2019
Life continues, not begins, at conception
Apr 8, 2019
GDP and the rate of predation: Why can't we protect ALL of the innocent?
Dec 30, 2018
Your silly email parser is not good enough
Dec 20, 2018
Facebook predictions: The campaign against Zuckerberg is about message control
Dec 10, 2018
Simple things that do not work in the US
Jul 21, 2018
Redditors with absolute powers
Jun 13, 2018
Faux stoicism of the confused libertarian / Trumpian variety
Apr 30, 2018
Dunning-Kruger effect in academic subjects without test of truth
Mar 20, 2018
We kept it gray
Feb 2, 2018
The five principles of negotiation (for young adults)
Jan 26, 2018
Missing web security feature: Signed web assets with browser validation
Jan 18, 2018
Samsung Galaxy: Buggy alerts in both Samsung and Google Calendar
Dec 16, 2017
Thoughts on Bitcoin - and why I cashed out of BTC at $18k
Dec 6, 2017
Mudanzas Mundiales: 82 days to move things from Costa Rica to Texas
Nov 30, 2017
Left vs. right: reason and compassion vs. blind principles
Nov 4, 2017
The "woo" of physicalists
Oct 2, 2017
IBM Trusteer Rapport is crap-ware
Aug 13, 2017
For sale: 4-bedroom condo in San José, Costa Rica!
Aug 11, 2017
On the Google vs. James Damore controversy
Jul 20, 2017
"It's hard work to suffer."
Jun 4, 2017
Libertarianism in bullet points
May 29, 2017
Is morality fundamentally objective?
May 27, 2017
Why I no longer like libertarians
May 24, 2017
Microsoft Office: Command Prompt window flashes every hour
Mar 21, 2017
Rust is beautiful
Mar 18, 2017
Limitations of Central-American pronunciation
Feb 9, 2017
"May prosper all the nations"
Dec 19, 2016
Righteous predators
Nov 29, 2016
The $20 billion puppy, and "The buck stops with you"
Nov 28, 2016
Rationalists and control fetishists
Sep 26, 2016
Is the internet ready for DMARC with p=reject?
Sep 9, 2016
Lock-step refactoring
Aug 28, 2016
Loyalty to group vs. principle
Aug 25, 2016
Limitations of single-payer health care
Aug 18, 2016
Why software patents are counter-productive
Jul 30, 2016
Fear: An account of terror on top of a coal stack; by Franc Bider
Jul 28, 2016
Code generation bug with new optimizer in Visual Studio 2015 Update 3
May 22, 2016
The barren rockscape and the Garden of the Mind
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