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  1. Determinism in research code - 2023 March 20

    Getting deterministic results out of research code is an important part in reproducible research. Unfortunately the incentive structures in many research organizations punish people for putting effort into helping others reproduce their results, collectively we would do better if we could change these incentive structures.


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  2. Collateral crisis psychology - 2023 March 19

    Many people have no idea how the banking industry works and therefore have no idea what's driving th current crisis. I've noticed a lot of people who are dead wrong about it being very smug about things. They'll probably lose a lot of money and even they they still might not learn. Interactions with these people can be difficult especially if you are actually trying to help them.


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  3. Central bank interventions and price discovery - 2023 February 18

    Do we really have free markets if there's ongoing large interventions being made into those markets even if it's under the guise of monetary policy?


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  4. Demand destruction anecdotes - 2022 November 09

    Lately I've run across a few amazing examples of demand destruction that I couldn't help but write about.


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  5. Some predictions for the upcoming era - 2022 September 09

    A new era in the Commonwealth has begun.


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  6. Where is your line in the sand? - 2022 May 18

    Far too many people are unsure of their ethical and moral stance on things and that's causing an enormous number of problems.


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  7. Economic sanctions and vodka bans - 2022 May 16

    In the middle of the Russia-Ukraine crisis many people started calling for all sorts of bans. How effective are these really? Calls for bans on Vodka are far more informative than I'd ever have imagined as it exposes many of the complexities of the modern world including how brands are so utterly disconnected from what they represent.


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  8. Russia-Ukraine conflict crypto grifting - 2022 March 02

    There's definitely unscrupulous people out there who live by the notion of "never let a crisis go to waste" who are using the recent war as a means to grift and scam. Some of these people are using crypto currencies to run these scams.


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  9. Bastiat on legal systems and morality - 2022 February 28

    Came across a highly relevant quote from Bastiat today


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