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What you don't see on CNN

The value of intellect

Where the big tech companies stand

Experiments on humanity: Fertility effects of vaccines

Lin Wood's impenetrable fearlessness

The US corporatocracy: A proto-totalitarianism

The corporate coup: As predicted in July

This is the choice

Listening to experts

Racism in a nutshell

Facebook and Twitter interfering with the election

Sun angle, vitamin D and UVB

The reality simulator

Vitamin D and Covid

And now for gratuitous political views about the election

Summarizing Seth: The structure of the self

Summarizing Seth: Introduction

Summarizing Seth: Table of contents

The Swedish success with Covid continues...

The US left and its belief in institutions

The level of disease risk at which breathing becomes criminal

On wokeness

The immediate purpose of schools is child care. This is essential, virus or no

How to not break a sweat and get buff in 15 years

The Doghouse: PSU in the Dell Alienware Graphics Amplifier

Things you ought to know that people don't

My favorite breakfast

Covid-19 from a spiritual perspective

Covid-19: Stream of recent data points supports the iceberg hypothesis

Biden vs. Trump: Sex Predator vs. Sex Predator 2020

Ergonomic keyboards: Microsoft Sculpt vs. Logitech Ergo K860

Seth on hate with respect to love

Pura vida, my ass: 5 years in Costa Rica and all I got was this lousy T-shirt

We already live in a society based on love

denis tries to teach foreign policy

Reinventing wheels: A better, sliding-matrix diff algorithm

Reinventing wheels: A straightforward, two-pass diff algorithm

My beloved aunt and her All-Adoption

Forced-birth activists as paperclip maximizers

AI can change scenery, can't fix suffering

"Support" incompetence at Amazon (and elsewhere)

What's wrong with computing?

The case for SSH over UDP

Water heater does not work, but no fuses are blown and all circuit breakers seem closed?

Biden 2020

Life continues, not begins, at conception

GDP and the rate of predation: Why can't we protect ALL of the innocent?

Your silly email parser is not good enough

Facebook predictions: The campaign against Zuckerberg is about message control

Simple things that do not work in the US

Redditors with absolute powers

Faux stoicism of the confused libertarian / Trumpian variety

Dunning-Kruger effect in academic subjects without test of truth

We kept it gray

The five principles of negotiation (for young adults)

Missing web security feature: Signed web assets with browser validation

Samsung Galaxy: Buggy alerts in both Samsung and Google Calendar

Thoughts on Bitcoin - and why I cashed out of BTC at $18k

Mudanzas Mundiales: 82 days to move things from Costa Rica to Texas

Left vs. right: reason and compassion vs. blind principles

The "woo" of physicalists

IBM Trusteer Rapport is crap-ware

For sale: 4-bedroom condo in San José, Costa Rica!

On the Google vs. James Damore controversy

"It's hard work to suffer."

Libertarianism in bullet points

Is morality fundamentally objective?

Why I no longer like libertarians

Microsoft Office: Command Prompt window flashes every hour

Rust is beautiful

Limitations of Central-American pronunciation

"May prosper all the nations"

Righteous predators

The $20 billion puppy, and "The buck stops with you"

Rationalists and control fetishists

Is the internet ready for DMARC with p=reject?

Lock-step refactoring

Loyalty to group vs. principle

Limitations of single-payer health care

Why software patents are counter-productive

Fear: An account of terror on top of a coal stack; by Franc Bider

Code generation bug with new optimizer in Visual Studio 2015 Update 3

The barren rockscape and the Garden of the Mind

The benefit of some kind of authority

On the desirable properties of a programming language

"Hello world" in LLVM IR language without CRT

Over-education and free college

Libertarian confusions

The Louis Vuitton theory of happy marriage

CamelCase vs. underscore_case

Against signed integer types

"Unreachable" beauty standards

Socialism and libertarianism: The two idiots

The rats' race and the pie in the sky

Masters don't need

Limited empathy and large out-groups

Crappy gaming laptops recap

No true study

Scott Adams' Trump argument, and improving democracy

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