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Progress links and tweets, 2022-09-14

by jasoncrawford

14th Sep 2022

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This is a linkpost for https://rootsofprogress.org/links-and-tweets-2022-09-14

Links

Low stone walls called “kites” are believed to have been used for hunting and may date to 8000 BC (h/t @SamoBurja)
Health insurers just published a trillion prices (h/t Marginal Revolution). There’s a startup to be built in making this data accessible and useful

Tweets & retweets

We are on the verge of eradicating extreme poverty, but the system that has brought this change is extremely unpopular (@JonSteinsson)
Star Trek portrays humanity as a beautiful, optimistic, and open race that that has our brightest days ahead (@rlorenc)
Singapore is launching a new program to recruit the world’s top scientific/technical talent (@calebwatney)
“We ran the experiment of email being a truly open P2P protocol… That experiment failed” (@patio11)
“I love and admire my species, living and dead” –Steve Jobs

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Progress links and tweets, 2022-09-14

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“We ran the experiment of email being a truly open P2P protocol… That experiment failed” (@patio11)

I must be missing something here. How does this fit in with the rest of the tweets in that list?

[-]jasoncrawford2y21

It's just a digest of my Twitter. I mostly prune it to progress-relevant stuff but sometimes I include stuff that's adjacent