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Every time anything tries to make me like it, it has turned out to be a hoax (discovered by googling the thing not by liking it I might add).

Are you sure on that last point? There have been some kings with pretty low standards of living historically... :) I think a big part of the issue is our economy isn't aimed at let…

This may thwart kettling but I think it also thwarts protesting. The whole idea of the kinds of protests which get kettled is to show that a large number of people care about an is…

I'm surprised google didn't just use this to poison the results.

homo-economicus is an absurd simplification.

So I think the author could do with reading "The long and the short of it" by John Kay. Might help him understand how NNT did what he did. The extra takeaway is that portfolio cons…

Going long on a 2x leveraged oil ETF for the long term IS a surefire bet, just a very bad one. Going long via a normal oil ETF for the long term is still quite questionable. What t…

I think a large amount of our monetary inequality is down to the way we've allowed our markets to become warped. The numerous examples of CEOs who kill their company but still make…

Get a refurbished thinkpad. Mine was 3 years old when I bought it, it's now 4 years old and runs fine. When it dies I'll get another refurbished thinkpad and once again save hundre…

In order to move this away from debate about semantics I think this meshes nicely with an alternative view of intelligence. Specifically Human intelligence as a social endeavour ra…