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I really enjoyed this, for what it's worth.

Interesting as a heuristic device.

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The rapid degradation of domain value is a very important fear to consider. Web developers, even now, are faced with something of that anxiety: depending on geographical distribution their income has either flat-lined or is beginning to experience that foreboding little dip.

One for the zettelkasten, simply for the timeless reminder it carries:

Every intellectual who starts out planning to build eventually gets bogged down by the meta (what, at the low-level manifests as 'politics' and at the high level as 'strategy').

I'll return to this over and over.

So creepy. Feels like the kind of thing that'll be big in incel communities.

This brought me on the brink of tears. Took me two days to read because I had to stop from time to time.

"If you find yourself deviating from your goal daily, maybe you do not have a goal to begin with and you are conceding ground to someone who does."

As if I needed further confirmation that my suspicions about my work life were true.

I see...

Adds The Big Sleep, Ulysses and To Kill a Mockingbird to Goodreads

Hilarious and creative!

From Normcore, on Paul Graham and Flexport.

In previous global crises — such as the 2008 financial crisis and the 2014 Ebola epidemic — the US assumed the role of global leader. But the current US administration has abdicated the job of leader. It has made it very clear that it cares about the greatness of America far more than about the future of humanity.

America's nationalism does not bode well, for it and for the world.

Yuval wrote a book about the death of liberalism, I believe. Need to go read it now.

This is such a helpfully written and illuminating introduction to coronavirus testing and also what happens when countries aren't proactive.

Learned a lot from this. I suspect that, in the future, many kids will point to the coronavirus as being the thing that spurred their medicinal interests.

I do not think there is anyone alive who nerds out over the seemingly 'mundane' like Paul Ford.

This was such a read. Also: check out brbxoxo.com. What an idea for a web project: "brbxoxo searches online sexcam sites and only broadcasts feeds when the performers are absent."

I've only recently started to read The Atlantic and their human-centered writing around the coronavirus makes me feel very warm, I'm not going to lie.

I really admire America's spirit of freedom. I'm not surprised to see that it is tethered to bureaucracy and respect for authority (no society would work otherwise).

I guess I'm telling Ian not to beat himself over it. America, culturally speaking, inspires us to chase our dreams :D

This was oddly moving.

One thing I love fiction for is: it tends to take things, compress time and sprinkle magic on top of this.

The point I'm making is this is impressive. What a time to be alive.

coronavirus is in all the things.

game buffs, anyone?

sigh. heavy is the head.

Such a beautiful, beautiful article. Also, again, brings to mind an argument I've been making for a while. People who tell you facemasks are ineffective are lying. They're simply saying this to prevent you from snagging up all the facemasks and leave nothing for health workers. I understand the need for this, but I do not appreciate the dishonesty of the argument.

See that old fling? Her airways were well-protected by the mask. She only transfers the virus because he touched her physically.

Anyway - I love this article because it ticks the 'narrative' checkbox I've been waiting for. If facts won't do it, let stories.

Some contextual information: @can called out Ben on Twitter for sharing the chloroquine research 'paper', and Ben defended it, but eventually capitulated when it was revealed that the Stanford(?) PhD publisher had had their PhD revoked.

Given that Ben himself fell prey to 'weird' information, this is a thoughtful successor to Zero Trust Information.

I quite like this article, although I felt that the normal distribution graphs were rather arbitrary.

I'm trying to understand what this 'herd immunity' thing really means.

Damn.

Reminds me of something similar I wrote a few years ago, titled 'Human Compilation Error' - https://thevunderkind.com/human-compilation-error-5d23baea3b96