2023-04-29

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Experts sound alarm over global spread of dangerous marijuana viroid
My Awkward Inference - by Robin Hanson - Overcoming Bias

I might now become more accepted by UFO folks, even if I become less accepted by the usual elites. But while there are exceptions, overall these aren’t exactly our intellectual creme de la creme. Yes, it seems that in this case they happen to be more right, and on something pretty big, but that is probably more due to their contrarian instincts than their brilliant analysts.

Private Equity Is Gutting America – and Getting Away with It
Voters as Mad Scientists, by Bryan Caplan

Communists and moderate Democrats are vastly different, but they have something in common: Free markets get on their nerves. Nazis and moderate Republicans are vastly different, but they too have something in common: Leftists get on their nerves. Within each side, the difference between moderates and extremists is the intensity of their antipathy, not the object of their antipathy.
AI companies using content created by millions without consent or compensation

Tell HN: Cloudflare verification is breaking the internet | Hacker News
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Update: The problem has been resolved. I can no longer reproduce the issue. I'm not sure if there was a fix on CloudFlare's side or if it was because I cleared cookies and cache and restarted my browser after resetting general.useragent.override.
I, for one, welcome our new Steam Deck-killing, Windows-running overlords
Foobar2000 2.0 Released