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Maybe he cheated to get in?

I don't feel the need to be constructive towards the whole taxes=theft crowd. Engaging them would just encourage them.

Competent bureaucracy is what they've got in Sweden. You obviously don't believe public goods exists. That's stupid.

The more underfunded the government is, the less it can invest in schools, mental health care, the environment, infrastructure, a competent bureaucracy and so on. All things that a…

I think we both realize that solving the two job problem is much harder. Hands off government and giving people the freedom to fuck up their life is great for middle class kids in …

Not too easy if you're working two jobs to provide for your family. By giving all the responsibility to the family you sacrifice those vulnerable children who weren't as fortunate …

So what is the implication from the fact that it is impossible to block porn for people who are not "an adult that has a fully formed identity and personality"?

Turns out the fancy math mania among economists didn't help us leading up to and during the great recession. We should now go back and pick up again the lessons learned after the G…

Because productive developers write more code or because productive developers write worse code?

Yea - I'm not really sure what the take away message here should be (although I found the article interesting). I'm currently working at a late project right now that started early…

Pretty sure the vagueness was intentional so as not to identify him.

Agriculture was terrible for our health - even before sugar became a part of our diet. http://discovermagazine.com/1987/may/02-the-worst-mistake-in...

Making a great algorithm _combined_ with suing the fake reviewers might be even better.

No he didn't. He argued that we need inflation to stop hoarding of money and make people spend their money and create activity in the economy. This is important because in the econ…

I think you'll observe that there are periods of inflation offset by periods of deflation, meaning that over time the value of money was somewhat more stable than your image implie…

It didn't use to matter much. Consistent inflation is a rather new phenomenon that basically only appeared after WWII. There was for example almost no inflation in Britain between …

No - that has probably more to do with guilt after WWII than the low birth rate. A low birth rate (within limits) is obviously a good thing - the world is over populated as it is.

Only 3% of Norway is farmable land. This makes it MUCH more difficult and hence expensive to make food in than for example Sweden (or the US). IF you want to produce your own food …

> Perl 6 was misnamed Damian Conway agrees with you - but Larry Wall decides, and he insisted on calling it Perl 6. Maybe Conway has a point, but maybe so many people wouldn't have…

Many people (myself included) don't trust Drobox, so being able to handle my data myself is regarded as a plus. (having Condoleezza Rice on the board is just _one_ obvious reason n…

Supposedly, 95% of Americans were killed by diseases, so it didn't feel as bad. Especially if your perspective on the matter was (and it really was) that "God has given America to …

I can't imagine that this stuff is legal - the NYT has paid Krugman to write this, and Genious is just copying the text and adding a few (to my mind inane) links and comments. It a…

Hans Rosling explains this quite elegantly with boxes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezVk1ahRF78&t=11m

The war on drugs is still going on in Oslo, and the human cost is evident in the human misery on the streets (and filling up the prisons). The dutch have reached a more enlightened…