Max Hillaert
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@hubermanlab
@NYMag
Why does it matter though?
People don’t follow him because he is a good partner or nice or a normal person
People follow him because he is driven, if not obsessed, about this topic to produce endless content week in week out.
I really don’t get the point of this kind of
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@michaelshermer
A war ends when the losing side capitulates and lays down arms.
A genocide does not end when the losing side capitulates and lays down arms.
Does anyone seriously doubt Israel would stop its assault on Gaza if Hamas would capitulate ?
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@nons3nce
@jirsa1616
@DailyLoud
Same logic. If vaxx was the problem 80% of the population of many countries would be dead.
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@JessePowell3
@razibkhan
Unless they pay for their own care later in life they will recoup those taxes from our kids.
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@LeaGambit
@cctvidiots
It’s very insensitive to use ‘legged’ language like ‘stand’ when speaking about people with missing legs.
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@edwinhayward
Grammar school entrants are heavily tutored kids drilled for months into 11 plus exercises and mock tests Untutored kids are at a massive disadvantage. Guess who can afford tutoring.
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@Shadysnow1
@john
@fullsendpodcast
@elonmusk
@joerogan
3 minutes of nothing punctuated by interruptions by the hosts derailing their guests train of thought.
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@pmarca
How much of it is your mind being hooked up to the “world wide amygdala” that is social media 24/7?
I find when I turn off the web for a few days the world is calm and dependable and tomorrow is probably going to be like today.
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@AllisonPearson
@Nigel_Farage
That’s not a great take. Completely different laws.
Their bank secrecy and money laundering practises would land Swiss bankers in prisons in the rest of the world.
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@NoContextHumans
I’d hope « stranger danger » alarm bells would ring loudly when men come and offer money to lure my kid to his car boot.
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@financemose
@DailyLoud
I thought the same thing. It looks like a person. But then I thought how he would even get there from his cabin when the only way out is down the ladder
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@levelsio
The EU is not a defacto-federation. It’s a confederation of nation states.
All of the sovereignty and power is in hands of the council of ministers.
The EU has no executive branch. The commission is a civil service. The EU parliament cannot propose nor pass law without
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@BioLayne
If people lived up to 1/10th of the standards they hold others to , we’d be living in some kind of utopia.
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@Rob_Kimbell
EU law has always allowed for deportations.
Freedom of movement only counts for workers. If you can’t find work you can be deported. Countries do it all the time.
UK had never quite understood this or unable to implement.
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@davidwatt_uk
@afneil
@CouttsandCo
That is definitely true, but also acknowledge the “woke derangement syndrome” angle where every twist and turn is undeniable proof of a steady march to a woke caliphate.
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@thebadstats
It’s a slippery slope from anti-covid vax to full blown anti-vax to wifi causes cancer.
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@PetitAgneau0203
@PopCulture2000s
Belgium is the ultimate ‘one hit wonder per two decades’ machine
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@MrRBourne
What is driving this sudden surge of Americans shitting on “poor Europeans”? 😂
Anyway the UK is not representative of the European lifestyle though which I suspect you have in mind when comparing.
You don’t really get much for your taxes in the UK like you do in the rest of
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@MayorofLondon
I was thinking the other day while walking through the tube dodging acid flying through the air: you know what would really help here ? Change the names of all the tube lines into cute warm and fuzzy names.
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@Grady_Booch
You don’t need it to create new abstractions to be useful as a coding assistant.
90% of my coding is non-novel , tedious plumbing together frameworks and solutions covering dozens of languages, dsl and yaml config schemas.
Its major usefulness right now is exactly that it
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@thresholdweller
@DanielJHannan
Makes you question everything Dan has to say about democracy if this is his grasp on the subject.
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@EdConwaySky
Applies to software engineering too. The more cpu cores and memory are available and become cheaper due to moore’s law the more bloated and resource hungry our systems get. Why put the effort in optimising systems when you can just buy hardware?
Glad there’s a name for it!
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@RomyCerratti
@MaryRiddell
I love how the UK bar since Brexit now is: “but country X is doing worse than us right now”
Before Brexit we were topping almost every chart not only in the EU but globally.
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@wcaulfieldcomic
@peoplesvote_uk
And the referendum has been respected: art 50 was triggered and negotiations have happened to get a deal we were all promised we were going to get by Leave politicians and campaigners. We now need a referendum on the deal. That’s democracy, mate. Doesn’t stop at one vote.
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Now this is a new story, the politically homeless like myself, can put ourselves behind.
THE TECHNO-OPTIMIST MANIFESTO part 1
“You live in a deranged age — more deranged than usual, because despite great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.”
— Walker Percy
“Our species is 300,000 years old. For the
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@DavidDavisMP
@ConHome
Great. The crack team that negotiated Brexit are on the case. This will lead to some excellent regs.
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@DocAhmadMalik
This is textbook “monological belief system”.
Once you believe in one conspiracy, it serves as evidence for other conspiracy theories. You start off as a alleged doctor and you end up as a chemtrail guy who shouts: “why can’t they just leave the sky alone !”
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@LaukMikel
@elonmusk
@Liv_Boeree
I think I should have an ai tool that mutes anyone who doesn’t use the word “fascist” appropriately.
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@JessePowell3
@razibkhan
Another thought. If you are a successful smart couple with key skills that you have gained you *owe* it to society to raise a couple of smart successful kids that can solve tomorrows problems. Nobody wins by extinguishing this.
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@DVATW
@Femi_Sorry
This is so low and desperate it’s hilarious. You need to have a lie down old man.
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@PeterSweden7
Makes total sense. Great idea
Grown trees don’t capture carbon dioxide , they breathe it in and out.
Only Growing trees capture carbon.
Coal *is* buried trees. So planting , growing and burying trees is literally converting co2 back into coal.
This is natures way of
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@ProfBrianCox
Exactly this.
Brexit outside the Single Market or EEA could only work by doing the things Liz Truss / Kwarteng government was attempting to do and then some.
There is this dissonance where Brits are conservative institutionally, but quite aligned economically with European
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@james_violette
@heather_berlin
@hubermanlab
@NYMag
Unless anyone discredits his work successfully no one is going to care except for the people who already disliked him.
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@nntaleb
Seems a bit tangential when he appear to redefine ‘rent seeking’ as selling skills through an employment contract.
If you are an entrepreneur who employs people (I.e. rent seeking slaves), then you are running a rent seeking racket.
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@JMPSimor
I’m mean, these tweets are totally out of order and it should not have come as a surprise he might have taken action.
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@amasad
Most people totally overestimate the importance and power of the EU parliament in the EU.
The EU is a confederation of nation states, not a democracy of EU citizens. The parliament has very little power and is close to ceremonial.
What matters is the Council of Ministers.
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@Mangan150
Here is a paradox. My father turned 78. We calculated he smoked about 25000 packs of cigarettes. Heavy drinker. Never exercised. Married 4 times. Avoids doctors like the plague. Never ill. Protective factors: he doesn’t eat much , is pretty lean and still works full time.
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@toadmeister
Im very skeptical of the statement that 40% of Brits are wearing masks. It’s more like 0.5% or less where I live and has been for months.
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@harry_southdown
@DeborahMeaden
Exactly, Ireland was a negotiation between Irish people and rest of EU. They gained opt-outs, which ±65% of Irish accepted in the next referendum. Those Irish opt-outs are now enshrined in EU law.
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@NoContextHumans
Red pilled people hate their lives and the choices they made in it and they are lonely without any attachments.
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@eddylazzarin
This all mostly digital progress.
The amount of progress in literally every aspect of life between 1850 and 1950 is unparalleled.
Other than information revolution, life is not that different 1950 to 2020
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@SimonTuffen
@NicholasTyrone
it would disproportionately benefit Uk-based companies able to send workers across Europe without any benefit while european companies wouldn’t be able to.
It would also trigger re-negotiations with other 3rd party countries that would want the same deal
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@BallouxFrancois
The idea of sovereignty over your land and to rule it over it , is actually a very American and historically Anglo Saxon thing. An English man’s home is his castle.
It’s a very European thing for the lines between public space and private spaces to be blurred
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@ProfKarolSikora
@bijoulandlord
It’s already clear with 10yo that the boys are winning on sports day by quite a margin.
My 10yo. daughter plays club football and can beat most boys running. The boys who are also in club football win by a long margin.
There will always be some outliers, but trained boys vs
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@KonstantinKisin
Are we allowed to think that in a market with 300+ banks , a literally *exclusive* bank and its sister bank refusing custom to a customer , being represented as a “march to fascism” and requiring, without any sense of irony, government intervention can be lightly mocked?
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@garethmammal
@afneil
@mailplus
I’m gonna wager this article is in the same league of depth and complexity as Andrew’s 😉
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@paulg
You definitely do more with less. You have to, but it’s an absolute net negative in output.
Love my girls to death, but between them , their surprisingly complicated lives and full time jobs there isn’t much left. 😊
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@dwallacewells
‘Reverse vaccine’ is poor marketing , as it could be inferred that vaccines caused the auto immune issues 😅
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@The_Real_Fly
@ukrainewilllwin
Honestly there aren’t many countries in the world that when in a total war situation would maintain a clean justice system allowing foreign agents in to talk up the invading force. He took his US sense to the wrong place.
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@mikegalsworthy
@BBC
No WTO expert on the panel? Why do you let who has no expertise on the subject go unchallenged on your shows at this stage? It’s appalling.
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@RomyCerratti
@DouglasKMurray
@benshapiro
There is no equivalence to the scale and indiscriminate nature of the Allied strategic bombing of Germany and what Israel is doing in Gaza
I hate the term “surgical”. There is nothing surgical about blowing up a structure with a bunker buster. But there is a huge difference
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@tickerguy
@nntaleb
How can mask simultaneously spread contamination and inhibit non-harmful infections in young people?
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@7ATP10
@nons3nce
@jirsa1616
@DailyLoud
The Netherlands and Germany have almost identical vaccination rates than Sweden, yet the Netherlands had high post-pandemic excess deaths and Sweden negative post-pandemic excess deaths.
What gives?
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@LoganPaul
I know what you mean. I had a speeding ticket yesterday. The matrix strikes again.
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@Debunk_the_Funk
@BretWeinstein
I remember when Peter Hotez was being called out for not wanting to do real-time debate. Who is avoiding the debate now?
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@FeartheBeardy
Not sure about working class driving the Industrial Revolution. It’s vast amounts excess capital generated by colonialism and mercantilism and the allocation of it by the aristocratic and merchant classes through burgeoning financial markets that drove that.
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@jordanbpeterson
God my timeline is flooded with this new Peterson snarky content. It pains me a little if I’m honest , but I got to unfollow. Life is too short.
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@jordanbpeterson
He broke the law. He was live streaming from the courts. I don't care what he stands for, he knowingly broke the law for a stunt and got the English Martyr publicity he wanted in jail.
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@alexfeinberg1
I don’t understand why 80s men liked anorexic-adjacent women.
My assumption is that they didn’t , but this was pushed by fashion influencers who didn’t really like women ‘in that way ‘ ?
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@jitu_rajoriya
@streetfighthard
Still. Got to admire the hyena’s courage and grit to go after these big cats in the first place. They aren’t leaving their buddy behind.
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@ProfBrianCox
IMO we go Norway or we go Singapore.
This TCA is worst of all worlds:
Unable to leverage the single market without frictions.
Unable to leverage the world market without frictions violating regulatory alignment
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@afneil
FPTP acts as a suppressor of volatility and a moderator in the market of ideas. Snuffing it out at inception or bringing it to heel in the black box of inner party politics.
PR allows new ideas to go straight to the public unadulterated and transparent. The dampener here is
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@normonics
Hey Joe. Italy lockdown leading to results. Few days of new case numbers going down. 🤞🙏
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@killernat1234_
@financemose
@DailyLoud
Yeah that makes sense. But like my mind saw that shape and immediately went to ‘falling man’
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This is a really comprehensive put down to the argument that WTO will lead to cheaper goods than within the EU, or even that the EU is more protectionist than the rest of the world.
Jim's detailed response on EU trade policy to the former leader of UKIP here.
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I’m thinking today is the day for me to leave pandemic twitter behind and cull all pandemic follows except the most neutral reporters (
@mugecevik
). All the arguments are in a kind of seasonal loop, ideological and with very little new information.
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@GabrielMuraviev
@sentdefender
But socialist revolutions let you know they are socialist revolutions and will have socialist groups driving them. I haven’t see anyone asking for owning the means of production and other socialist demands, but maybe I missed the demands.
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@MerrynSW
The subtext: “Not to mention it’s really hard not to pay taxes with so many card transactions on our books and we have come to rely on this. “
Not that I care. I even sympathise. It’s just that cashless is just too convenient. I hardly ever carry it around. I think at this
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@afneil
Not paying for a subscription to read a single article, so the headline and the tenor of the author is the only thing we have to go on.
If the headline is misleading click bait perhaps it’s not worth a subscription.
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@KonstantinKisin
Konstantin why paywall it with a subscription?
I know it’s the going business model , but why no offer a day pass for a quid?
I can’t be the only one that doesn’t subscribe to news and opinion, because you just do not consume a single source and having to pay a sub for each
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@DaveKeating
We all know it’s really American culture that drove English as European lingua franca.
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@Telegraph
All the drama aside. Belgium has had a price set for a loaf of “standard bread” for decades and decades. It’s very specific and doesn’t apply to all bread. As far as I understand it is still in place after all this time and I assume therefor hasn’t had any negative outcomes.
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@AlpacaAurelius
Many plants do anything in their power for their seeds to get eaten by animals as it spreads their genes.
Which is why the tomato plant has nicotine in its leaves but trace in the fruit.
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@jordanbpeterson
I think Taleb underappreciates the importance of conscientious paper shufflers in making shit happen in grand scheme of things. Can you imagine a company made of talebs? Nothing would ever get done. Would be like herding cats.
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@pabforester
@amun1966
@Stewie567
@wcaulfieldcomic
@peoplesvote_uk
You voted to invoke art 50. That’s all you have a mandate for. The rest is open for interpretation. Let’s clear up the interpretation.
@Jacob_Rees_Mogg
himself suggested two referendums.
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@amun1966
@Stewie567
@wcaulfieldcomic
@peoplesvote_uk
No. All we want is a democratic mandate. If you have a clear mandate for WTO by all means , let’s do it. I’m ready. Im probably going to do well out of low tax, low reg economy. There is no mandate for it. You all know this if you are honest. You just worry you gonna lose that 2%
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@levelsio
Boy you are reading a lot into this.
you are dealing with huge differences in cultural attitudes and economic trajectories. It’s meaningless.
HDI tries to fix this with objective measure which is also dubious
Forget what people say , look at what they DO. Which direction
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@KonstantinKisin
Has 1st point not been refuted ? Both sides of the culture war seem to live in alternate reality on this point
Point 2 it’s not clear what was deemed inaccurate in the document.
Point 3 and 4 is not the BBC’s fault as the CEO of a company is a pretty damn good source. It has
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@RogerHelmerMEP
No. One in Six London workers are EU nationals. We pay our taxes, we want to see our plight represented by blowing some of that tax revenue in the sky in pretty blue colours. Now go whistle.
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