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The players they recruited were incentivized by a $8,000 prize pool up for grabs among the 34 of them...average $EV $235. They have to play 3000 hands to get a shot at that money, …

The notion of statistical significance as applied to research papers doesn't map well to the poker domain. He keeps repeating that they won 9 big blinds per hundred hands over an 8…

I just read a great book called Paradise Now about 5 different Utopian movements in the US, Oneida being one of them. It seems the most successful colonies blended business savvy w…

Turns out that ignoring all political, legal, and economic frictions makes solving all the world's problems very easy! Why don't we all just produce enough food and then give it to…

I've seen several other journalists/bloggers/media-people react to this news as if Andrew's decision was clearly driven by structural economic factors rather than a more benign des…

hey, what was your screenname on pokerstars/ftp/2+2? from the timeline, i'm guessing we played together a lot.

What's so impressive to me about Red Bull is that they've successfully established a tier of beverages seen as more premium than soda in spite of no particular cost differences. Ca…

Not sure why you are conflating credentialism and vocational training; a big part of the problem is that these two are very different things. That is, students invest 4 years and t…