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> Most people are 100% exposed to their job and perhaps their home, and I think it would be good if they would also invest small amounts long-term in businesses directly (rather than indirectly via bank savings).

$VT/$VTWAX let them invest in 8800+ different companies across the globe.

dunce2020on Short term, high-dose Vitamin D supplementation for Covid, a randomised trial

The fruit-juice drinkers, nudists, sandal-wearers, sex-maniacs, Quakers, ‘Nature Cure’ quacks, pacifists and feminists are all behind Big Vitamin D.

dunce2020on The Economics of Sex Robots

Peak alienation under Kapital

dunce2020on Glass viscosity calculations debunk the myth of flow in medieval windows (2017)

> so I don't understand the obsession with correcting people online who call it "friction".

It lets dumb people feel intelligent. The type of person that confuses trivia for insight.

dunce2020on Are we losing our ability to remember?

Agreed - I learned examples, not rules.

dunce2020on Are we losing our ability to remember?

I don't know any of the definitions, grammar rules of English yet I'm still able to effectively communicate with and understand others.

dunce2020on Climbing the cosmic distance ladder: Terence Tao book announcement

Naked Money/Naked Statistics/Naked Economics by Wheelan.

dunce2020on Climbing the cosmic distance ladder: Terence Tao book announcement

"The Theoretical Minimum" series by Susskind.

dunce2020on Google: “Any harm Epic has suffered is not irreparable and is of its own making”

> It can't be one rule for the tech companies, and another for all the other companies.

Says who?

dunce2020on Calibre 5.0

Calibre rules.

dunce2020on Dickhead of the Week: Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri

That's how you know the author is cool and irreverent. An iconoclast!

dunce2020on Ask HN: Do you send emails to yourself?

Yes, journal@(my name).com

dunce2020on Secrets of Elite College Admissions

They're not fucking nerds, no.

dunce2020on Warren Buffett traded Goldman Sachs for gold

That's not hypocrisy.