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Economist at George Mason University. Writes Overcoming Bias on prediction markets, signalling and the far future, and wrote The Age of Em and The Elephant in the Brain.

• "People are often offended by beliefs, expect apologies for beliefs, and apologize for their own beliefs. … [but] beliefs [are morally] wrong only in virtue of other things (like evidence-gathering actions) wronging."

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Co-founder of Y Combinator and Viaweb; essayist at paulgraham.com.

• Remember how eagerly the press swallowed stories about how Twitter was going to crash after Elon bought it? How could they have believed that someone who could run rocket and car companies couldn't run a forum?

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Web standards author and speaker; wrote the CSS: The Definitive Guide series and co-founded the An Event Apart conference.

• I just deleted a post I made yesterday, because it led some people to reasonably read things into it that I didn’t intend. That’s on me, as I wrote it badly and without considering contexts beyond what I was thinking at the time. My apologies to anyone who read it and was disheartened or upset; I’m happy to discuss further in DMs with those who saw it and would like clarification on what I meant.

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Writer and developer; runs Waxy.org, co-organises the XOXO festival, and was the first CTO of Kickstarter.

• I Found Evidence Of My House Spinning — creepypasta in the form of a forum thread, don't miss the "what's new!" at the very end

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Statistician at Columbia; writes Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science, and wrote Bayesian Data Analysis.

• “In the Weights”—an exclusive invitation just for you!

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Web developer and writer; an early GitHub employee, author of speaking.io and of widely read essays on startups and product.

• Apologies if you’ve sent in a pitch deck for your startup this week; I’ve gotten 150+ pitches the last few days and that’ll take me a bit to dig through. Angel investing is a real trip.

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Professor of finance at NYU's Stern School of Business, known for his work on valuation. He publishes his data, spreadsheets and classes free at Damodaran Online and writes the Musings on Markets blog.

• I use this Vinod Khosla tweet with apologies to Vinod, since tweets are often out-of-context or emotive, to launch a discussion on the trade-off between scaling up and building business models (profitability) that every business faces.

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Economist; former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund.

• another tweet written a bit too fast. By "central bank debt" I mean public debt held by the central bank". Apologies☹️
  Quoting@ojblanchard1No, and useful to repeat: Contrary to interventions such as QE or debt management by Treasury, cancellation of central bank debt has zero mechanical effect on the liabilities of either the central bank (bank reserves are the same) or the government (the debt held by private investors is the same)

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Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.

• with all apologies for the title of this episode... @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com means that 2026 is the year it stopped being possible to be skeptical about whether AI is going to change the way we build software, not that we should stop being skeptical about AI. 😉
  Quoting@robbyonrails.comCompletely agree with @charity.wtf’s take on the recent @pragmaticengineer.com episode. Our generation might be the best at debugging shit. Why? Because 20+ years ago, we had to figure so much of it out manually. newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/stop-being...

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Web designer; founder of SimpleBits, co-founder of Dribbble, and author of Bulletproof Web Design and Handcrafted CSS.

• MastodonA little WIP Wednesday Warmup with Spagetty today. With apologies and homage to my beloved Veer (RIP) Serif cap I wore probably 20 years ago 🤓

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Social scientist turned small-scale farmer; wrote A Small Farm Future and argues against the case for feeding the world from factories.

• Food, energy, capitalism, collapse

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Free software developer; maintainer of sway, wlroots, aerc and scdoc, and founder of the SourceHut (sr.ht) software forge.

• Addressing the harassment

  Kiwi Farms is a web forum that facilitates the discussion and harassment of online figures and communities. Their targets are often subject to organized group trolling and stalking, as well as doxing and real-life haras…

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Theoretical physicist and philosopher, Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins and fractal faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. Writes the Preposterous Universe blog and hosts the Mindscape podcast.

• Thanksgiving

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Programmer based in Vancouver who writes at scattered-thoughts.net about databases, programming language design and developer tools; author of the Imp, Dida and Zest language experiments.

• 0055: consulting, sql needed structure, slow forum, on the line, out of thin air, papers, other stuff

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Pen name of the Canadian-American writer behind mrmoneymustache.com, a blog on frugality, early retirement and index-fund investing that has run since 2011.

• Just a lil update that the MMM Forum website (forum . mrmoneymustache . com) is currently down as we're trying to switch it over to Cloudflare to fight that bot problem. Initial setup looked promising and then this happened and I'm not quite smart enough to fix it myself 😅

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Pen name of the Canadian-American writer behind mrmoneymustache.com, a blog on frugality, early retirement and index-fund investing that has run since 2011.

• Looking for some technical advice on an interesting AI-related problem. I've been running the MMM Forum website for 10 years with no problems. 45k registered users, 3M posts and 20M+ visitors over the years! But now, thousands of AI scraper bots are overrunning it around the clock. It makes sense, there is a LOT of wisdom in those posts from the users and it would make a juicy addition to any future digital brain. They don't obey the robots.txt instruction files and they randomize their IP addresses and spread out the load so they can't be blocked. This has overloaded even the relatively larg…

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China economy researcher based in Beijing who writes on his personal blog about Chinese political economy, history, books and music.

• India and the invidious comparison with China

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Programmer and technology writer known for his long Mac OS X reviews at Ars Technica; co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast and Hypercritical.

• Apple Turnover:

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Software engineer who worked on Chrome and Polymer at Google, and writes about the web, emoji and Elm at meowni.ca.

• I think the thing that shocks/scares me the most isn’t that there’s white supremacists amongst my peers, it’s that they’ve become so comfortable with it that they’re ok suggesting lynching in a public forum, for the world to see. This is the worst fucking timeline.
  Quoting@polotekHoly shit. I used to work with this woman. I'll repeat that. I used to work in the same office with this white woman who is thinking "I wish we could go back to vigilante groups that could just go around hanging people."

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