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                How to talk to your ancestors
              
          
    Talk to your ancestors


When I lived in China I frequently had the chance to talk to people who experienced an event that I had only read about. The past 70 years in China have been rather… eventful, and I’d talk to some older person and find out they had first-hand stories about the Cultural Revolution, or occasionally even the Chinese civil war. The difference between what’s written in history books and people’s personal recollections were often stark!
When the COVID pandemic was looming but its significance was still only being talked about in the West by a handful of iconoclastic investors, I really wished I could talk to someone who had been through the Spanish Flu (or hell, the Black Death!) to get a sense of what it felt like right before the excrement hit the air-conditioning.
But even more than that, I’ve always desperately wishe

  
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    So in the scenario where people in most countries hold some of their assets in crypto, when a nasty regime starts rearing its ugly head there are a lot of precautionary steps they can take--they can put more assets into crypto, and they can shard their keys and give the shards to friends and relatives outside of the country （or just send the crypto directly to those people, since bank freezes don't work on Bitcoin.) Importantly, having an asset that they can store on a single scrap of paper (or literally as 12-24 words in their head) they can LEAVE earlier. Even gold is pretty tricky to leave with large quantities of, but crypto is by design the world's most portable asset.
So the wallets can't be seized and emptied, because the wallets are invisible and can't be searched for, and doesn't need to be stored with an intermediary at all. And the private keys don't have to die with the owners, because unlike larger quantities of gold, they can be transmitted to children or whoever with extreme ease.
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So during the years of the Depression I had arranged a schedule for myself. When you don't have a job or anyone to tell you what to do, you've got to fix one for yourself. I divided the day into four four-hour periods, of which I would be reading in three of the four-hour periods, and free one of them.

By getting up at eight o'clock in the morning, by nine I could sit down to read. That meant I used the first hour to prepare my own breakfast and take care of the house and put things together in whatever shack I happened to be living in at the time. Then three hours of that first four-hour period went to reading.

Then came an hour break for lunch and another three-hour unit. And then comes the optional next section. It should normally be three hours of reading and then an hour out for dinner and then three hours free and an hour getting to bed so I'm in bed by twelve.

On the other hand, if I were invited out for cocktails or something like that, then I woud put the work hour in the evening and the play hou

## delay.txt

Dear customers,

We were initially planning to ship out all the Gray Tee orders today, but it turns out we have a small problem. In the states, the FTC strictly regulates how clothing is labeled, which means every garment sold has to have care instructions, a country of origin, and an indicator of what materials were used. Since we wanted to leave the shirts as simple as possible, we were going to print the care info on the inside of the shirt, but leave the other stuff on a removable tag on the packaging.

As it turns out, you have to get an exemption in writing from the Secretary of the FTC to put your labels anywhere but on the shirt itself. Luckily, we are next-door neighbors with a really great silk-screen shop, so they are adding the necessary labeling as we speak. Since they need the shirts unfolded in order to print on them, and we had them all folded up ready to ship, Shan and I spent the morning unfolded and bundling shirts:

http://imgur.com/REB3I

Anyhow, we're really sorry for the delay, and we'
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	So during the years of the Depression I had arranged a schedule for myself. When you don't have a job or anyone to tell you what to do, you've got to fix one for yourself. I divided the day into four four-hour periods, of which I would be reading in three of the four-hour periods, and free one of them.

	By getting up at eight o'clock in the morning, by nine I could sit down to read. That meant I used the first hour to prepare my own breakfast and take care of the house and put things together in whatever shack I happened to be living in at the time. Then three hours of that first four-hour period went to reading.

	Then came an hour break for lunch and another three-hour unit. And then comes the optional next section. It should normally be three hours of reading and then an hour out for dinner and then three hours free and an hour getting to bed so I'm in bed by twelve.

	On the other hand, if I were invited out for cocktails or something like that, then I woud put the work hour in the evening and the play hou

	Dear customers,

	We were initially planning to ship out all the Gray Tee orders today, but it turns out we have a small problem. In the states, the FTC strictly regulates how clothing is labeled, which means every garment sold has to have care instructions, a country of origin, and an indicator of what materials were used. Since we wanted to leave the shirts as simple as possible, we were going to print the care info on the inside of the shirt, but leave the other stuff on a removable tag on the packaging.

	As it turns out, you have to get an exemption in writing from the Secretary of the FTC to put your labels anywhere but on the shirt itself. Luckily, we are next-door neighbors with a really great silk-screen shop, so they are adding the necessary labeling as we speak. Since they need the shirts unfolded in order to print on them, and we had them all folded up ready to ship, Shan and I spent the morning unfolded and bundling shirts:

	http://imgur.com/REB3I

	Anyhow, we're really sorry for the delay, and we'