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You usually have to make a lot of marks on some physical medium in order to have highly developed thoughts. They might not be writing - they might be diagrams, or equations. I doub…

Heh, that's what I came to the comments to say, too.

There is a very similar file briffa_sep98_e.pro where the similar code does not appear to be dead code (or, at least, it does not die as soon as the code in the file the blogger wa…

"the reason we were taught to hate it was because it was a threat to our masters." That's sophomoric pseudo-wisdom, and a cliche to boot. Who hasn't heard that one?

I don't see anything here that you can't say to quite a lot of people. And I'm not surprised. After all, if you couldn't say it, you sure couldn't publish it for the world to see. …

"If I had a persistent gadfly like Stephen McIntyre..." ...or Socrates... You do realize that "gadfly" is how Plato described his beloved teacher Socrates. "Gadfly" has a two thous…

Indeed, but it imperils one of the major points made against the skeptics and vindicates one of the major points made by the skeptics.

"The problem is that when you do find a few toasters that match your requirements on Amazon, most have reviews like "stopped working after 2 months" "completely uneven toasting" "d…

Go to Amazon. Type in "toaster". Pick "House & Garden" to let you sort. Sort by bestselling. Look at the first six items and pick one. Done. Time taken: it need not be more than 60…

And should publishers also remove the names of the authors from the covers of their books, on the theory that they don't want to "bias" potential readers? How do you imagine this w…

An alternative way of measuring the degree to which mathematics has "fragmented" might be to look at the pattern of citations in the mathematical literature. Look at it over time t…

It was thought to be bad. Maybe that was a mistake. The history of anti-trust is riddled with mistakes.

He's comparing Google Reader with Twitter. That seems very apples and oranges to me. It seems a bit like saying, "I don't buy books any more because television is much more up-to-t…

I don't take issue with your conclusion, but I don't think the Internet is a natural monopoly. It's not the Internet itself that is sold, after all, but access to the Internet, and…

People will talk about all sorts of things. If they talk about it but don't do it, then that's evidence that the talk is impotent, and that's even more reason not to regulate. The …

But that does not negate the competitive principle that he articulated. Many, perhaps most of the products we buy involve a chain (or tree) of producers, all keeping each other hon…

It seems a strong improvement, at least in principle. Bias toward early comments has been a big problem. However what I have long thought of as the main problem remains: the people…

Chatting with my girl, my left hand on my keyboard and my right hand on my, uh, "mouse".

Was any of that jargon fake? A good chunk of it was real and recognizable.

"If a study, significant at p=0.05, is replicated again at p=0.05, then the odds of that happening when there actually is no effect (assuming independence) are the product of the t…