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Indeed. As a young voracious reader I used to think that more reading is an unmitigated good until I came across Schopenhauer and his aphorisms. I try now to be more selective, lif…

The Nikkei 225 may be below its 1989 peak in price terms but you can’t ignore the dividends which an actual investment in the index would have paid during that period. On a total r…

I must say it looks pretty good, wish I had tried it when I renovated my apartment. But all the other similar software I tried ultimately were a big disappointment. In my experienc…

Really well made! The magnet-based propeller is really clever. I was curious to understand how the depth control worked and the associated blog is very informative. Turns out this …

Credit card fees are already regulated the EU, i.e. card interchange fees are capped at 0.3%. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interchange_fee#European_Union As to why it's not a fixe…

That example is interesting. The Japanese word for real estate, 不動産, actually came from French [1], 'immobilier' (real estate, by opposition to what is movable or 'mobile' such as …

This reminds me of the Gerbils Museum [1], although this one is obviously a real museum for humans visited by penguins, rather than a museum built specifically for penguins. [1] ht…

If you’d like to read Wittgenstein but don’t know where to start I would recommend reading “How to read Wittgenstein” by Ray Monk, as an introduction before moving to “Philosophica…

Wittgenstein didn’t come come up with the idea of a “private language” but in his Philosophical Investigations he famously argued that the concept itself is nonsense (not via a sin…

Other good choices for French are the Trésor de la Langue Française informatisé (1994) developed by CNRS, and the various editions of the Dictionnaire de l’Académie Française. They…