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toomuchtodo
110,948karma·51,753submissions·October 26, 2011
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Forward deployed scholar
"We deem those happy who, from the experience of life, have learned to bear its ills without being overcome by them."
In life, everything is a wager. Whether you realize it or not, you are constantly making implicit and explicit predictions about the future state of reality. To live is to predict.
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Yes. The last federal administration attempted to use CISA to encourage better cyber outcomes for water supply systems, and the water industry and Republican states sued over it. There is no will to f…
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“US Treasury warns banks it may intervene in yen” https://archive.today/FMmwi
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We run an agentic security test harness when attempting to merge a working branch to main. Human review of output required to merge.
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Federal agencies, US cities on alert for potential retaliatory attacks amid Iran war - https://abc7chicago.com/post/federal-agencies-us-cities-aler... - March 2nd, 2026 > &q…
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https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/31/smevals/ https://github.com/prime-radiant-inc/smevals …
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https://www.usbr.gov/ColoradoRiverBasin/post2026/final-eis/i... Takeaways: * The US government released a plan to stave off catastrophic cuts to the water supply in Ari…
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Value preservation by law.
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https://www.msci.com/discover-msci/media-room/msci-acquires-... https://firststreet.org/ …
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https://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/0454h/report.pdf (page 5, Start at “Introduction”) https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/07/1123462 (“It also takes…
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Direct costs are ~$113B as of June 16th, 2026 (per the Pentagon's briefing to Congress, counter stopped on that date): https://iran-cost-ticker.com/ Iran War Cost Tracker - ht…
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Related: Ember Energy: Batteries and demand flexibility are ready to scale across the EU - https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/batteries-and-deman... - June 24th, 2026 Eu…
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What tasks are folks using Fable credits for?
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This is America. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49089109 (citations)
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Bailing out workers is okay. They are, by definition, the people who have done the work. Bailing out the wealthy, or tax cuts for them is not. Unless you are very wealthy, you are a worker, and unless…
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This Is Probably Fine! by Patrick Boyle - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nvsDmwZWdM - May 29th, 2026 > US 30-year Treasury yields just hit 5.2% — the highest level since July 2…
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https://retractiondatabase.org/RetractionSearch.aspx Kim, Hana, When science corrects itself but patents do not: Retractions, boundary infrastructure, and downstream invention. http:…
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> I'm trying to convince the state legislature to reclassify "solar farms"[3] as agriculture (as opposed to 'industrial' that they are today) which would allow a farm to de…
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Funny enough, Las Vegas has been planning for this outcome and won't run out of water. Only agriculture users will be impacted, who consume ~50% of the total annual Colorado River Basin. So, to y…