Day: October 17, 2016

TBC: Actually, facts do care about your feelings IFRL-TLC-Scenery-GAPD-rijks.the-cannon-shot-61

TBC: Actually, facts do care about your feelings

Will Truman October 17, 2016

Any individual fact (singular) is unlikely to be affected by your feelings, as long as it is...

American Creation: Ben Franklin Quotation that Typifies the Zeitgeist that Caused the Great Enrichment 6267660656_def03cbe85_b_ben-frankling

American Creation: Ben Franklin Quotation that Typifies the Zeitgeist that Caused the Great Enrichment

Jon Rowe October 17, 2016

Peter Thiel is fond of noting the incredible technological progress the modern world experienced starting...
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Brexit and the Temp Economy temp-economy

Brexit and the Temp Economy

Holly Whitman October 17, 2016

Zero-hour contracts are somewhat of a Catch-22 in the UK. What impact will Brexit have on these...

Morning Ed: United States {2016.10.17.M} morninged-paperboy

Morning Ed: United States {2016.10.17.M}

Will Truman October 17, 2016

Mass deportation, please. Of screwworms.

InMD on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025I am throwing this out there everywhere I comment in case relevant to anyone including any lurkers.…
InMD in reply to pillsy on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025True, but no death penalty in NY. I believe it's the feds pursuing it.
pillsy in reply to InMD on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025Pre-meditated murder is not, generally speaking, the kind of conduct one should engage in if one doe…
pillsy in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025Sometimes actions have consequences, and inactions have consequences, and imaginary phantasms have c…
pillsy in reply to InMD on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025As a bellwether, I think it's a bit less shocking than David Brooks calling for a general strike in…
Michael Cain on From Marginal Revolution: o3 and AGI, is April 16th AGI day?As for AGI, what does the software do when no one is bothering it with questions or tasks? Does it c…
InMD in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025One never wants to predict an outcome but I would think chances are high he gets it. Message being s…
Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025Luigi Mangione has been indicted with something or other that makes him eligible for the death penal…
Saul Degraw in reply to Burt Likko on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025In response to the 4th Circuit, Pam Bondi promoted Garcia to being an MS13 gang leader. They have un…
CJColucci in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025I was there. They weren't.