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OSD 224: The history of “this time it’s different”
This week in the OSD Discord, a subscriber posted this video from the early 1960s: It’s a history of gun culture in the US, focused largely on the…
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OSD 223: You know too much
For some, the returns on additional knowledge are positive. For others, they're not.
May 29
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OSD 222: The ingroup is judged on effort, the outgroup is judged on results
Demand excellence from your ingroup, because nobody else will.
May 23
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OSD 221: Gun rights are the real Commerce Clause
On being stochastically unreasonable.
May 15
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OSD 220: The evolution of what’s culturally unthinkable
Examples of positive cultural evolution in gun safety.
May 9
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OSD 219: Technically possible but culturally unthinkable
The liminal space that violence comes from.
May 2
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OSD 218: The off switch — the bear case for smart guns
This is a followup to last week’s essay “OSD 217: A fire control API — the bull case for smart guns”. The gist of the bull case is that smart guns turn…
Apr 25
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OSD 217: A fire control API — the bull case for smart guns
Also see the followup to this piece, “OSD 218: The off switch — the bear case for smart guns”. Software has a set of cool properties. Flexible…
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