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Social mobility is not the same thing. Internal-vs-external locus of control is probably pretty correlated between parents and kids for reasons of both nature and nurture. The point is that what successful parents pass down to their kids is not cash, but attitudes that are highly adaptive to making fat stacks.

9991··on On being brought up by libertarian economists

Lol, yea.

9991··on On being brought up by libertarian economists

Most wealthy people in the US didn’t inherit their wealth. There’s probably also a heritable component to this.

9991··on "Confidential" 988 conversation records shared with corporations

“I didn’t know I couldn’t do that.”

9991··on On being brought up by libertarian economists

Having an internal rather than external locus of control leads one to be both richer and more Libertarian.

9991··on Mozilla silently bans 2 anti-state-censorship add-ons in Russia

I would also never pay for DRMed media, so LibreWolf is a good fit for my use case. I don’t decide any one else’s use case.

9991··on Mozilla silently bans 2 anti-state-censorship add-ons in Russia

The ones that angered me were the surveillance and the inclusion of closed source DRM. Enough to get me to switch to LibreWolf.

9991··on Secret Hand Gestures in Paintings (2019)

Instead of relying on secrets that can be leaked, you should be using asymmetric cryptography.

9991··on Is Red Meat Healthy? Multiverse Analysis Has Lessons Beyond Meat

According to the people who are on all meat diets, one’s volume and frequency of poop goes way way down.

9991··on How many holes does the universe have?

The cube isn’t flat. The curvature is just concentrated into the corners. You can measure this curvature by adding the interior angles of a triangle that contains a corner.

9991··on The new Framework Laptop 13 with Intel Core Ultra Series 1 CPUs

No questions, just thank you.

9991··on Netflix is removing offline downloads from its Windows app

Yea, you’re right.

9991··on Netflix is removing offline downloads from its Windows app

It doesn’t require copyright infringement. If you wanted, you could buy and rip blurays.

9991··on Exit Strategy: The Case for Single-Stair Egress

Sounds like a death trap.

9991··on Romance author gets locked out of Google Docs for "inappropriate" content

Until they sell products that respect customers’ autonomy, privacy, and property rights. But realistically, just self host.

9991··on Romance author gets locked out of Google Docs for "inappropriate" content

Not true. I don’t use a single Google service. That’s my recourse.

9991··on Stack Overflow users deleting answers after OpenAI partnership

If there wasn’t a substantive difference, then there’s no need to make the change.

9991··on Show HN: We made a simple daily Fact or Fiction game

> Your brain feels pain more strongly than any other organ.

> Wrong It's fiction! Your brain itself cannot feel pain, surgeons can even operate on a brain without a patient feeling pain!

Buddy, my brain is the only organ doing any feeling at all.

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