privacy
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On brevity and conspiratorial-sounding language.
Many ideas, when phrased too briefly, sound an awful lot like conspiracy theories.
conspiracy theories, conspiracy theorists, conspiracy theory, email, Facebook, filter bubble, Gabriel Zucman, Gmail, Google, Hidden Wealth of Nations, miscommunication, privacy, privacy laws, Proton mail, santa claus, Shoshana Zuboff, social media, sunscreen, Surveillance Capitalism, Swiss privacy laws, tax evasion, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, vegan, veganism, Zucman
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On Roe v. Wade
What rights do you have, if a research experiment might instantly erase them?
abortion, abortion access, abortion rights, adversarial justice, adversarial law, adversarialism, artificial womb, caregivers, choice, conception, court arguments, David Cole, equal protection, ethics, external conception, fetal development, fetal viability, freedom, gestation, imbalance of power, infanticide, Jenny Kleeman, justice, Justice Sotomayor, motherhood, Mothers and Others, parenthood, personhood, philosophy, Planned Parenthood, Planned Parenthood v Casey, potentiality of human life, pregnancy, privacy, pro-choice, pro-life, reproduction, reproductive freedom, reproductive rights, right to life movement, Roe, Roe v Wade, Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, Sarah Hrdy, science, science versus philosophy, scientific research, Sex Robots and Vegan Meat, Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court, Supreme Court justices, Supreme Court opinions, ultrasound, wealth, women's health, women's rights
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On photographs not taken.
Most likely, you are being watched. If you spend any time in urban areas, you surely pass by numerous surveillance cameras each day. Recent advances in computational image analysis allow the movements of every person in a crowd to be tracked. Big Brother has hungry, hungry eyes. Worse, you’re probably collaborating with the invasion of…
4th Amendment, Barry Friedman, big brother, cell phones, cops, data mining, evidence, exclusionary rule, fire hydrants, Fourth Amendment, government search, GPS, incarceration, internet service providers, ISP, mass incarceration, photography, police, policing, Policing Without Permission, privacy, reasonable suspicion, search and seizure, smartphones, snooping, unreasonable search, Unwarranted
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On government intrusion and addiction.
To beat the opiate epidemic, we need strong communities. But prosecutors’ reliance on police informants destroys communities.
AA, addiction, Akhil Reed Amar, ants on the melon, Bill of Rights, constitution, Cor Urbis, creative writing, Daniel Dennett, death before dishonor, economics, emotion, evolution of emotion, exclusionary rule, FBI, Fourth Amendment, freedom of religion, game theory, Homo economicus, human evolution, jailhouse tattoos, Jeremy Waldron, mandatory minimums, mass incarceration, mosque, NA, opiate epidemic, poetry, poetry in jail, police, police informants, policing, prison, prisoners’ dilemma, privacy, protection, rats, recovery, repeated prisoners’ dilemma, rights, search, signaling, snooping, teaching writing in jail, tip, Virginia Adair, War on Drugs
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On bitcoins and privacy.
Bitcoins: either I or other people were suffering from some fundamental misunderstandings.
antibiotic resistance, antibiotics, Bitcoins, black markets, blockchain, Canadian pharmaceuticals, civil liberties, cost of medicine, cost of prescription drugs in the U.S., drugs, economics, freedom of speech, GHB, gun control, healthcare spending in the U.S., how anonymous are bitcoins?, how could the government protect your property rights if they don’t know what you own, how much computer power would it take for someone to steal your bitcoins?, imported pharmaceuticals, John Bohannon, law enforcement, legalized drugs, legalizing drugs, monetary policy, money supply, opiate abuse, ownership, ownership by majority vote, policing, prescription drugs, privacy, property rights, Ross Ulbricht, senseless regulation, Shadow, ShadowCash, speculation, The Silk Road, transaction log, War on Drugs, wealth, what makes a law just
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