I am halfway through the sixth season of the Alone TV show and have enjoyed watching it with my wife.
I am not much of an outdoorsman yet, but I am hoping to do a lot more hiking and camping with my kids as they grow up.
I have a few strategy ideas for Alone based on what I’ve seen:
The main challenge is calories:
“When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes. Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain.” – Napolean Bonaparte
“I sincerely believe with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; & that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale” – Thomas Jefferson
“I have two great enemies, the southern army in front of me and the financial institutions in the rear.… read more “Quotes on financiers”
Fake news is false information that is shared among people. Fake news includes anything that is published in the face of contrary evidence of that is published claiming evidence that does not exist. Examples are visible everywhere: what your cranky uncle rants about at Thanksgiving, clickbait news articles, what your gullible friend shares on social media, and what the scammy company claims in their ads.… read more “Solving Fake News”
In my first job out of college I worked at a company called Visible Technologies that is now out of business. The company had a cool product in 2006 they were building for tracking social media sentiment before that was really a thing. The founders need to go to all of their attention to this project.… read more “My First Job Out Of College”
Authorities in many areas are planning on distributing the Covid vaccine to those most at risk first. I agree that health care workers and other front line workers like grocery store personnel should receive the vaccine first. I do not think that the vaccine should be distributed to the elderly in nursing homes first though.
Studies have clearly shown that the death rate is much higher for the elderly than for the young, so why do I think the elderly should not receive priority vaccinations?… read more “Vaccine Distribution: All Covid Deaths Are Not The Same”
I would like to see a cycling computer game that combines the following:
I have been reading some articles lately about the various apps for indoor training platforms… Zwift, Rouvy, CVRcade, Peloton, etc, etc.
I think all of them are missing something… they all try in various ways to replicate the experience of actually doing the activity in question outdoors (running outside or riding in a race with people).… read more “Indoor bike / treadmill = game controller?”
As a person who, in a very small bit part, has helped to build the internet, I am surprised to find that I am terrified of it.
I am embarrassed to admit that I got sucked into unhealthy rabbit holes online today. I started the day well, getting up at 6 am and programming on a new tool I am building and handling emails that came into my company.… read more “The Internet Is Now Terrifying”
What would happen if we did away with the income tax, sales tax, estate tax, property tax, and all other taxes?
The government could simply finance itself by printing money / inflation. Let’s say the government total expenditures were 5% of GDP each year, then you would simply have 5% inflation.
This would solve all the problems we have with income inequality, worthless heirs of the wealthy hoarding riches, and of very complex and expensive IRS and CPA work.… read more “Idea: Inflation Taxation”
