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OSD 239: Quick, be normal
You’re accepted when people don’t fight you, but you’re normal when they don’t notice you.
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OSD 238: Throw me your rights, it’s an emergency
Why emergency response is helped, not hindered, by people’s liberty.
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OSD 237: Gun ownership is legislation
Society's org chart doesn't look like an org chart.
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August 2023
OSD 236: Guns are for nerds … for now
This is a continuation of last week’s piece, “OSD 235: Guns are for nerds”. Last week we talked about a lesson from history that if people need to know…
OSD 235: Guns are for nerds
How to make gun ownership go truly mainstream.
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OSD 234: Accidental rebels
You could plot gun laws on a graph that has “severity of punishment” on the y-axis and “how easy it is to break this law accidentally” on the x-axis…
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OSD 233: What about nukes?
And why the answer to that question doesn't matter.
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July 2023
OSD 232: The gun control Laffer curve
And how individual incentives make it hard for gun control groups to achieve their goals.
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OSD 231: The best laws are discovered, not made
This week a young man sitting in a field made a 3D printed version of the forced reset trigger: Naturally, this touches on themes we discuss a lot…
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OSD 230: On excellence in the basics. Or: being not stupid beats trying to be smart.
In which Charlie Munger teaches you concealed carry.
OSD 229: Iterative innovation in the regimes of bits, atoms, and regulation
The big costs of small hurdles.
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OSD 228: Fault tolerance in gun design and gun law
Gun control is a 1911, gun rights are a Glock.
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