Slope of Hope Blog Posts

Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.

Asian Speed

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Interesting to see the progress difference. Let’s face it, in China, you don’t have to muck around with property rights, going to court for years to get permission to go through someone’s field, or paying union wages for manual labor. You just get it freakin’ done. By the way, the California High Speed Rail is just as much of a train wreck, so to speak, as ever.

Twitter Tip

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I’ve been on Twitter since 2007, and until recently I didn’t see much in the way of spam. It recently got really annoying, because I kept getting those stupid “I followed this one guy and made $200,000 on a $7 trade, so please follow him” things, and all I knew to do was block them one by one. There’s a better way to go about this, though, which is to go to the Muted Words page and enter any words which, by themselves, will prevent the tweet from showing up. You’re welcome!