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Another thing not mentioned, which I'd noticed recently after a couple of very poor nights, was feeling very dehydrated. Drinking a lot of water didn't seem to help, and it all wen…

Or the classic least norwegian squares method of regression in the WSJ http://kieranhealy.org/files/misc/laffer.png

Common law rests heavily on stare decisis. The precedent set in Australian Communist Party v Commonwealth is not likely to be overturned, as far as free political speech and organi…

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/interest-rate they don't

if ME&S represents the sum of Austrian economics, then it has little hope indeed.

Central banking evolved as a series of hotfixes for various macroeconomic edge-cases. Bank runs is one. Wildly varying inflation rates is another.

This is ridiculous conspiracy theorising.

Another similar epidemic to lead poisoning we've been sleeping on is lithium deficiency. Look at the quantum of improvement on suicide and all kinds of violent crime, including rap…

I've already seen that interview. How people behave behind closed doors is a more trustworthy guide to their sympathies.

The leaked emails documenting his correspondence with various alt-right figureheads paints a different picture. https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/heres-how-breitbart...

David Brooks has a good piece of commentary here: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/29/opinion/east-germany-immi... Every few years I try to write a column staking out a reasonable m…

It's a matter of proportion. Tariffs are some of the most destructive and distortionary taxes you could implement. The costs will be borne by many, and the benefits, a select few.

Utterly stupid. Interesting to see if this realignment is a long term thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%E2%80%93closed_political_...

These groups are there because in California they can capture a larger portion of the effects of trickle-down than in North Carolina, Texas, or New York; and because the state-prov…

Sounds like the killer app for child pornography.

Since Russia's relevant interests are in destablising the Atlantic alliance and undermining the European Union, elevating the US- and EU-critical Corbyn over more reasonable elemen…

Nah, most substantial leaks in recent years have avoided wikileaks and gone straight to reputable publishers, such as the panama papers team, so as not to be tarnished by perceptio…

The reasons why Ecuador took Assange in in the first place no longer make much sense. Under Correa, there were a number of tensions with the US that were looming large in Ecuadoria…

>Educators are completely failing the current generation and are stressed out about 'digital distractions' because they know they can't compete. This is practically a conspiracy th…

>Given that the WaPo article says that many of them had only a third or fourth grade education, this strikes me as possibly just making fun of people with disabilities. When the to…

None of the troubled firms were horizontally integrated in the way the gs would have prevented.

As with many topics of dispute, there's a bit of a gap between the prescriptions of advocates and the fears of those who oppose circumscription of hate speech. Most proposed legisl…

It may at least affray the WiFi costs.

The first chapter of Marx' capital directly sets up this inherency by means of his labor theory of value, along these lines.

>That is not why this is shocking. This proceeding is shocking because the legal basis for this change is dependent on a false statements about the technology involved. It goes bey…