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Odd that you talk about concentration camps when the George Washington of Palestinian nationalism collaborated with Hitler and help recruit Muslim SS troops in order to commit actu…

The defense of murder, rape, Holocaust denial, blood libels -- all grist for the Bitchat for Gaza and HN mill. Man, what a tidal wave of antisemitism we're experiencing.

Really nice. Does anyone have a recommendation for a service which print such images as posters at a reasonable price?

Has anyone modified these things to give them a little more power? I have a "gen 1" Bug-a-Salt and it doesn't have enough grunt to kill a fly. I suspect that a stronger spring woul…

I agree: read books about China. Books like "Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962" by Frank Dikotter, and "The Black Book of Communism…

I agree, this is a great book. Just about anything by Sowell is worth reading, but _Basic Economics_ and _Economic Facts and Fallacies_ are good starting points. Also consider _Eco…

I'm not sure that it is exactly what you're looking for, but the Econtalk podcast ( https://www.econtalk.org/ ) covers a wide variety of economics-related topics. If you listen to …

> Design for Everyday Things Do you mean "The Design of Everyday Things" by Don Norman? If so, I agree that it is a great book.

"Stalin and the Scientists" by Simon Ing tells a very different story. Many Soviet scientists were severely punished when they found themselves on the wrong side of Communist dogma…

The author displays the very cognitive blind spots he decries. He says "One reason I’ve been thinking about the virtue of humility recently is because our president, Donald Trump, …

Newspaper headline: "Emacs text editor makes people smarter."

> It's not public Why not?

"anyone in a position of authority". Hmmm. Let's bring him up on charges before the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, eh? AvE is great, and if you watch enough of his episodes you'll…

I think you're referring to Programming Throwdown ( http://www.programmingthrowdown.com/ ).

It's no longer clear that Uber is the most ethically challenged company in Silicon Valley.

"referral bonuses that encouraged its heavily Asian workforce to recruit other Asians" Every technology company I have worked at used referral bonuses to find qualified applicants.…

Tell this to the children of Sderot in Israel, who have been repeatedly under attack by the Islamist Hamas regime in Gaza. The murder of Jews is regularly lauded by official Hamas …

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas_Covenant The Charter identified Hamas as the Muslim Brotherhood in Palestine and declares its members to be Muslims who "fear God and raise the …

"We are pattern-seeking story-telling animals." -- Ed Leamer in "Macroeconomic Patterns and Stories"

The escape key is small. Do you find that to be a problem?

A brief but profound paper: The Use of Knowledge in Society by Hayek ( http://home.uchicago.edu/~vlima/courses/econ200/spring01/hay... ). As others have said, the EconTalk podcast …

The paper looks interesting; thanks for sharing the link!

Yes, his channel is wonderful. I love his low-key delivery; he's kind of the anti-Dave Jones (eevblog - also excellent).

Where can you buy a CPAP/APAP/BiPap for $150?

What kind of guillotine paper cutter did you purchase? How many page books can it cut through?