Data not public = not science. Method not public = not science. Blockchain's a linked list. Only known useful application is Bitcoin. TANSTAAFL.
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17 Feb 2018
"... he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.”
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May 27
Ed.D.
I’m a straight white dude, a veteran who grew up in a military family on farms in the Midwest. Moved to Texas on a scholarship from the Army.
I drive a truck, listen to country music, and love football.
I dare anybody to call me UnAmerican, and I’m fully behind Talarico.
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May 4
Hewlett-Packard
May 4
Europeans: we have applied for a 10 billion EU grant to establish planning protocols for the new Eurotech Centre slated to open in 2047
Americans: back the fucking car out of the garage, I got an idea
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Apr 21
The only proper answer to the question whether Donald Trump won the 2020 election is: "I am not a biologist."
In a 2025 discussion, @SenWarren bragged to me about being the leading force behind the months-long delay of Fed Chair Jay Powell’s renomination.
I told her that her political grandstanding helped pave the way for the Biden-era inflation crisis, the worst America has suffered since the 1970s.
It is disappointing to see that the Harvard Square inflationista has learned little from that fiasco.
Now, she is trying to delay Kevin Warsh’s confirmation as Fed Chair, once again putting politics ahead of the well-being of the American people.
To paraphrase an old saying, “she has learned nothing and forgotten nothing.”
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Apr 19
‘‘Twas the 18th of April in ‘75
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere …
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Mar 18
Basic conflict between those who are trying to craft a message and those who want to know the truth of how the world works.
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Feb 23
An appeal to Texans supposedly covered by Blue Cross Blue Shield Rx: Has anyone been able to contact and converse with a telephone support person based in the United States. We have been trying for months to straighten out a billing issue (we have the cancelled checks), but every attempt is dumped into the Philippines, where the support is uselessly obsequious and utterly unhelpful.
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Feb 20
Strong correlation between the feel of AI and Word/Excel. A new tool that makes formerly excruciating tasks readily accessible - AND encourages misuse/misapplication to a frightening degree.
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Jan 6
A massive swath of modern science fiction is rendered almost unreadable because of references to the effects of “global warming”.
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18 Dec 2025
Hit the wrong keys and just discovered that Alt-Shft-N toggles line numbers in nano.
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27 Nov 2025
My wife and I moved recently. Cleaning out the pantry we discovered some cans and packages five or six years old that we discarded. We also found three boxes of brownie mix - none more than seven weeks old.
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6 Nov 2025
What will 1TB of memory cost in 2043? Fifty cents? A whole dollar?
23 Sep 2025
The Bitcoin UTXO set is 11 GB now.
At current growth rates it will exceed 128 GB in 2035, preventing many people from running nodes.
In 2043 it will exceed 1 TB, and many larger mining operations will struggle to run nodes.
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30 Oct 2025
How can it be a "civil" war when the adversaries are foreigners?
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27 Oct 2025
Put the entire hemisphere on SNAP, and we’ll all be rich!
26 Oct 2025
Just think of how big the economy would be if everyone were on food stamps!
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19 Oct 2025
Multiple independent peer-reviewed studies confirm that it is a common symptom of Matlock Withdrawal.
19 Oct 2025
What has caused old, white Americans en masse to behave this way and suffer severe TDS?
Is it cable news?
x.com/matt_vanswol/status/19…
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