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Today is a doubly special day.
For one thing, today is Slope of Hope’s 18th birthday. Every year on March 29th, I’ve written up some kind of “happy birthday” message to celebrate yet another annum in Slope’s long and storied history. It seems hard to believe that, were Slope a person, it would now be old enough to vote and have consensual sex. Let us all take a moment of gratitude that Slope is, in fact, an abstraction and incapable of doing either of those things. Sort of like its creator.
People never learn. The mentality of high-risk investments is still running hot. I mean, good grief, I still get unsolicited texts like this on a regular basis.
One huge portion of the Slope site which gets almost zero attention is SlopeRules. I was reminded of this today when this email tumbled into my inbox:
