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While that's definitely a blunder, if you look at the right figures (in the article: inflation-adjusted median income of $48,500 then and $60,000 now, and inflation-adjusted averag…

Flash Crashes are not a phenomenon caused by algorithms. The SEC/CFTC report on the 2010 Flash Crash describes how it happened. Quote: One key lesson is that under stressed market …

I agree. In general, I find the task of "introduce yourself to a specific person" or "make a specific case for something" much much easier than "talk to people about nothing in par…

The author does explicitly state that his proposal is only about publicly-traded stocks, so your first point is moot. Secondly, regarding your second point, some company or person …

So the idea is to use Prozac to make it easier for therapy to reprogram a brain's responses to social situations that induce anxiety. I'd be curious to know what this says, if anyt…

I'm afraid I don't follow. Could you elaborate on how that means they became evil?

To tvtropes I also want to add comedy and music. Humour is a mild painkiller, interestingly enough: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=laughing-ma...

I think it's interesting how the focus of the Nature articles is on elucidating the process by which autism develops and affects people, and not on whatever coping mechanisms there…

It advises using Strunk and White. I think it would be helpful to point out that S&W need not be considered all that authoritative: http://chronicle.com/article/50-Years-of-Stupid-…

One of the finer points of that book is that it is a biography of Dirac's life, not just a description of his insights into physics. His personal life was unhappy and makes for rat…

That is not a good measure of debt. Government debt is only meaningful as a fraction of GDP (large countries have more debt than small ones, e.g.). So in this case you want this gr…

The richest pay the largest proportion of taxes because they earn so much. In the article, 400 hundred people make $90 billion, and it takes 3 million people working at $30,000 a y…