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Old theory: gift giving is how you express love for others New theory: gift giving is how you keep hatreds safely managed and under control
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Venkatesh Rao Retweeted
Who do I know in London besides people I've already met? Have an event invite in September and trying to make up a Sufficiently Compelling Reason to go.
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Good cult bad cult
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Venkatesh Rao Retweeted
Buterin's Law: any "principle", "rule" or "law" which the creator deliberately tries to name after themselves and promote and market with their own name will not gain traction and probably doesn't deserve to.
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“Stigler’s law of eponymy” (proposed in 1980 by professor Stephen Stigler) states that no scientific discovery is named after its discoverer. Stigler himself named the sociologist Robert K. Merton as the discoverer of "Stigler's law" to show that it follows its own decree.
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Who do I know in London besides people I've already met? Have an event invite in September and trying to make up a Sufficiently Compelling Reason to go.
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The number of people who are just chomping at the bit to join a cult, waiting for...’permission’ isn’t the right word, maybe ‘waiting for it to come inside the Overton window of possible futures,’ is really staggering.
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My climate change scenario personal strategies 2° C: Grow my current sideline consulting gigs into mainstay 2-4° C: Buy floating house, LARP terraforming alien planet > 4° C: Join some sort of apocalyptic cult or start one If climate deniers turn out to be right: eat my hat
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Heatwave in Portugal probably less extreme than GFS model predicted (50°C), but e.g. Evora still faces very hot days, close to the national alltime high of 47.4°C: Today 45 Friday 46 Saturday 47 Sunday 47 Risk of wildfires increasing.pic.twitter.com/1jwMuVcbtI
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floating homes in new orleanshttps://twitter.com/gribbly/status/1024893120217903104 …
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If it was 77mm sea-level rise in the last 25y, should be easy enough to conservatively do linear extrapolation and map out the next 77mm submergence zone for a 2044 investment horizon or so
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Venkatesh Rao Retweeted
2017 was among 3 warmest years on record for the globe, according to
#StateOfClimate2017 report issued today by@ametsoc https://bit.ly/2LS2rF0@NOAANCEIclimatepic.twitter.com/Q3e9iDD88o
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Idea: buy land in sea-level rise coastal zones, and build houseboat type houses, but on floating sliders that rise up posts or something
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NOAA's annual climate snapshot -- released today -- highlights that global mean sea level rose 77 mm between 1993 and 2017! That 77 mm is...
...at 1 emoji = 4 mm.https://twitter.com/NOAA/status/1024673149709950978 …
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Any time one purports do something beneficial for natural ecosystems and make some money for their effort, someone will immediately accuse them of "profiteering." We are so conditioned to extractive industry that we don't recognize symbiotic or regenerative work when we see it.
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A namesake of mine Akshay Venkatesh, has won a Fields medal. I will be namespace BIRGing for the next week
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What are your favorite biz thriller documentaries or movies (e.g. Smartest guys in the room, the big short)?
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At the moment of this Tweet,
#Mars makes its closest approach (57.6M km) to#Earth on its orbit. It will not be this close again until Sep 11, 2035.
(ESA/Hubble)pic.twitter.com/vYktIZjyJU
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Works well with the time-tested wisdom: "Never argue with an idiot. They will pull you down to their level and beat you with sheer practice and experience."
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