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Alec Stapp

@AlecStapp

12 hours

Never listen to the degrowthers.

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Alec Stapp

@AlecStapp

2 years

Fix your labor shortage with this one weird trick

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Alec Stapp

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3 years

The government decided to let robocall scammers completely overwhelm our telephone system to the point where it’s basically unusable and no elected official seems to care.

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Alec Stapp

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3 years

I think about this tweet at least once a week

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Alec Stapp

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3 years

QR codes turning out to be useful has to be the greatest upset of all time

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Alec Stapp

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5 months

Still laughing about the time a computer scientist who had his bike stolen tried to explain binary search to a cop

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Alec Stapp

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1 month

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1 month

how would you explain bitcoin in 30 seconds to your girlfriend?

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Alec Stapp

@AlecStapp

1 year

Computer scientists trying and failing to communicate with the police lmao

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Alec Stapp

@AlecStapp

2 years

Who could have predicted

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Alec Stapp

@AlecStapp

2 years

In case the end is near, here’s the all-time best reply on this website

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Alec Stapp

@AlecStapp

2 years

Not gonna lie, didn't expect "illustrators" to be one of the first human jobs that artificial intelligence completely displaces but here we are

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Alec Stapp

@AlecStapp

4 months

TurboTax (Intuit) and H&R Block have lobbied for years to stop this from happening. These companies are parasites and I can’t wait for the IRS to put them out of business.

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Alec Stapp

@AlecStapp

1 month

An artist: (1) bought an Andy Warhol drawing for $20,000 (2) made 999 high-quality forgeries of it (3) shuffled them together (4) sold each of the 1,000 drawings for $250 each "If you pay your $250 maybe you’ll get the original $20,000 Warhol, but you’ll never know."

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Alec Stapp

@AlecStapp

3 years

The government decided to let robocall scammers completely overwhelm our telephone system to the point where it’s basically unusable and no elected official seems to care

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3 years

Why I no longer answer the phone

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Alec Stapp

@AlecStapp

1 year

Scientist who discovered that hand washing dramatically reduces mortality during child birth was ridiculed by his colleagues and then committed to an insane asylum, where he was beaten and then died 14 days later.

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Alec Stapp

@AlecStapp

2 years

Holy shit this is the best thing the FTC has done in years

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Alec Stapp

@AlecStapp

3 years

An artist: (1) bought an Andy Warhol drawing for $20,000 (2) made 999 high-quality forgeries of it (3) shuffled them together (4) sold each of the 1,000 drawings for $250 each "If you pay your $250 maybe you’ll get the original $20,000 Warhol, but you’ll never know."

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Alec Stapp

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1 year

How it started / How it’s going

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Alec Stapp

@AlecStapp

2 years

This really is insane when you think about it:

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Alec Stapp

@AlecStapp

2 years

Stunning fact: In Japan, the price of housing hasn't increased in 25 years.

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Alec Stapp

@AlecStapp

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pea

@postingtime

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does anyone have any useful sentences that will change my life immediately upon being read?

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Alec Stapp

@AlecStapp

2 years

Here’s a fact that most people don’t know: Single-use plastic grocery bags are actually the environmentally friendly option by a huge margin.

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Alec Stapp

@AlecStapp

2 years

Capitalism is when a government regulator bans most competitors from entering the market

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Alec Stapp

@AlecStapp

2 years

Who could have predicted

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Alec Stapp

@AlecStapp

1 year

Just thinking about how the United States could have been the world leader in 5G technology instead of China if we had just given *one guy* a green card when he needed one

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Alec Stapp

@AlecStapp

1 year

begging people to stop romanticizing the pre-industrial era

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Alec Stapp

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2 months

Really gonna enjoy watching the IRS nuke TurboTax’s predatory business model

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Alec Stapp

@AlecStapp

2 years

Maybe shutting down the nuclear power plants was a mistake?

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Alec Stapp

@AlecStapp

2 years

Has any company ever fumbled the bag as badly as Twitter did when it shut down Vine in 2017?

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Alec Stapp

@AlecStapp

1 year

I think about this all the time

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Alec Stapp

@AlecStapp

3 years

This is the best Twitter reply of all time

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Alec Stapp

@AlecStapp

11 months

The highway overpass collapsed just ***9 days ago*** Progress is a policy choice.

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Alec Stapp

@AlecStapp

10 months

How is this real

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Alec Stapp

@AlecStapp

7 months

Drivers used to just mow down kids, look at these numbers

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Alec Stapp

@AlecStapp

1 month

Good news of the day: We can fix really hard & scary problems if we try.

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Alec Stapp

@AlecStapp

2 years

Why can’t we build things anymore in the US? Look at this absurd process the FAA is making SpaceX go through:

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Alec Stapp

@AlecStapp

9 months

This might be the worst chart crime I've ever seen. Look closely until you see it...

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Alec Stapp

@AlecStapp

10 months

“You pay me $84 now and I’ll pay you thousands of dollars per month later” is the stuff of Nigerian prince email scams

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Alec Stapp

@AlecStapp

2 years

Holy shit

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Alec Stapp

@AlecStapp

6 months

How is this real

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Alec Stapp

@AlecStapp

4 months

Avi

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4 months

honestly im just surprised anything works at all

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Alec Stapp

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2 years

Really shocking to see how much more dangerous motorcycles are than every other mode of transportation

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Alec Stapp

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2 months

“The Chinese Communist Party can send push notifications to 170 million Americans from their favorite app” really should be the end of the debate

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Alec Stapp

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2 months

Insane statistic: 78% of noise complaints lodged against Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport were made by a single household. Reminder that NIMBYs are a very loud minority of people.

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Alec Stapp

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1 year

Can’t get over how bleak the economic situation is in the UK — just complete stagnation for more than a decade

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Alec Stapp

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10 days

Wanna see what economic self-sabotage looks like?

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Alec Stapp

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2 months

Biomedical innovation is miraculous

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Alec Stapp

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2 years

Weird how no one talks about this Vox article

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Alec Stapp

@AlecStapp

6 months

Reminder that the cost of housing in Japan hasn’t increased in 25 years

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i interviewed a japanese bespoke shoemaker last month and asked why are there so many craft-based businesses in japan, like bespoke tailors. he said rent is relatively low in tokyo, so if you have a passion for making suits and you only have a few customers, you're fine.

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Alec Stapp

@AlecStapp

7 months

Reminder that the United States could have been the world leader in 5G technology instead of China if we had just given *one guy* a green card when he needed one

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Alec Stapp

@AlecStapp

1 year

Immigration is America’s superpower. This should be a huge concern for US policymakers:

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Alec Stapp

@AlecStapp

1 year

Reminder for whenever you hear the term “personal carbon footprint”

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Alec Stapp

@AlecStapp

3 years

“running a leafblower for 30 minutes creates more emissions than driving a F-150 pickup truck 3800 miles” 🤯

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Alec Stapp

@AlecStapp

29 days

Rent in Austin has fallen more than 7% over the last year because the city allows new housing to be built

Boom 💥

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I’m in Austin, Texas. Cranes everywhere! They actually build stuff here!

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Alec Stapp

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3 years

Yup. So if we weren’t flooded with robocalls all the time, people like the hiker might default to answering calls from unknown numbers instead of defaulting to not answering (because without robocalls you can be confident it's someone you know).

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3 years

@AlecStapp If you actually read the story, the dude had no idea people were looking for him.

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Alec Stapp

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1 year

What happened to Silicon Valley Bank? Perfect explanation from @matt_levine in one paragraph:

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Alec Stapp

@AlecStapp

3 years

“Haunted” houses are actually just carbon monoxide poisoning 🤯

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Alec Stapp

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1 year

How it started / How it’s going

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Alec Stapp

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3 years

Why isn’t @elonmusk the hero of the environmental movement? He built a $550 billion company that sells electric cars & solar panels.

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Alec Stapp

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4 years

So much of life is pure luck, being in the right place at the right time. This is not that.

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Alec Stapp

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7 months

The backstory to how GPS became freely available for civilian use 🤯

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Alec Stapp

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1 year

It’s insane that city governments are allowed to auction off city revenue streams for the next 75 years to foreign investors

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Alec Stapp

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2 years

Immigration is America's superpower, so this should be raising alarm bells for policymakers: The United States is no longer the top choice of foreign talent when asked where they would move for work.

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Alec Stapp

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1 month

Still insane that this is true

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Alec Stapp

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1 year

For the first time ever we have a miraculous weight loss drug that actually works and isn't a scam

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Alec Stapp

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8 months

Hard to believe that these two countries are on the same island...

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Alec Stapp

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3 years

For decades QR codes were mocked as a gimmick Pandemic hits and they spread faster than the virus — an incredible underdog story

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Alec Stapp

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1 month

Children whose parents were doctors are 25x more likely to become doctors than others. Children whose parents were lawyers are 18x more likely to become lawyers than others. Children whose parents were legislators are 354x (!) more likely to become legislators than others.

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Alec Stapp

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4 years

Nuclear power needs to hire a PR team.

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Alec Stapp

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2 years

Will never understand how a "Green" party can support a policy agenda that leads to shutting down nuclear power plants while bringing back coal plants

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Alec Stapp

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1 month

This person has a PhD in computer science from Johns Hopkins and is currently working at Meta on AI research. And he just got denied an H-1B visa because we made him enter a lottery to get one. Absolutely insane that this is how our immigration system works.

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H1B lottery ❌ It was less than a 1 in 3 chance, but sucks anyway!

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Alec Stapp

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Occasional reminder that there are no low energy, rich countries

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Alec Stapp

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Alec Stapp

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4 years

Is this the best prediction in the history of tech? (Written in 1999)

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Alec Stapp

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Complete and utter defeat for the anti-test crusaders

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Alec Stapp

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3 years

NYT: Amazon makes it too hard to cancel Prime Also NYT: if you want to cancel your NYT subscription, please call this phone number during our business hours and a customer service representative will try to talk you out of it

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Alec Stapp

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3 years

Oct 2013: Snapchat launches Stories Aug 2016: Instagram copies it Feb 2017: WhatsApp copies it Mar 2017: Messenger copies it Nov 2018: YouTube copies it Sep 2020: LinkedIn copies it Nov 2020: Twitter copies it Wild how closely this matches each company's reputation for shipping.

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Alec Stapp

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3 years

This debate is over, right?

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Alec Stapp

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7 months

Good news of the day: TurboTax and other tax prep industry lobbyists have failed to stop the IRS from offering free tax filing

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Alec Stapp

@AlecStapp

2 years

Civil asset forfeiture is banana republic-level corruption and we just let it go on

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Alec Stapp

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2 years

New research shows that children of immigrants were nearly twice as likely to become rich as the children of people born in the United States. Immigration is the key to American exceptionalism.

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Alec Stapp

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1 year

Japan now has the highest fertility rate in its region…

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Alec Stapp

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1 year

"correlation isn't causation" but sometimes the correlation is hitting you over the head

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Alec Stapp

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2 years

China is going to build >150 new nuclear reactors in the next 15 years, which is more than the rest of the world has built in the past 35 years. Huge missed opportunity by the US and our allies to not prioritize nuclear energy in our decarbonization strategy.

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Alec Stapp

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1 year

One of the most striking charts related to climate change I’ve seen

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Alec Stapp

@AlecStapp

5 months

I wonder what percentage of Americans are aware we now produce nearly 50% more oil than Saudi Arabia

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5 months

The US increasingly leading in oil production, too

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Alec Stapp

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3 months

This is, without exaggeration, the worst permitting reform idea I’ve ever heard.

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Alec Stapp

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3 months

Degrowth ideology has caused so much harm

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Alec Stapp

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1 year

One underrated area of progress: Cars are so much safer than they used to be

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Alec Stapp

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3 years

Final results from the Nordic natural experiment: Cumulative COVID deaths per million people Sweden: 1,403 Finland: 166 Norway: 141 Annual GDP change for 2020 Norway: -2.5% Finland: -2.8% Sweden: -3.1%

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Alec Stapp

@AlecStapp

4 months

Occasional reminder that automation is the reason you and your family don't have to be subsistence farmers anymore

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Alec Stapp

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6 months

This might be the best explanation I’ve seen for the divergence between consumer sentiment and economic data @idobadtakes

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Alec Stapp

@AlecStapp

4 years

Mar 1998: "How Yahoo! Won the Search Wars" (Fortune) Sep 1998: Google founded Feb 2004: Facebook founded Feb 2007: "Will MySpace ever lose its monopoly?" (Guardian) Jun 2007: iPhone released Nov 2007: "Nokia. One Billion Customers—Can Anyone Catch the Cell Phone King? (Forbes)

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Alec Stapp

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2 years

Extreme polarization on “trust in science” is a recent and very troubling trend.

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Alec Stapp

@AlecStapp

3 years

NYT: dark patterns are the techniques that companies use online to get consumers to keep subscriptions they might otherwise cancel Also NYT: if you want to cancel your NYT subscription, you have to call this phone number during our business hours & let us talk you out of it