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Tuesday, January 31, 2017
A Post About Fight Club and Sample Bias
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Imagine if Jack from the movie Fight Club were to lecture you about auto safety. In the movie Fight Club , Ed Norton (aka Jack) is an a...
Monday, January 30, 2017
It’s Going to Be Okay
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The sun will rise tomorrow. Buildings will not fall. You’ll get up, go to work, go back home to hang with your people, then go to bed again...
Friday, January 27, 2017
How To Think About Government Regulation
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Suppose a customer wants some kind of safety feature or quality assurance on a product they are buying. Say it’s a warning tone in an autom...
Wednesday, January 25, 2017
Reacting to "Outrage Porn"
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Emotionally reacting to individual news stories is kind of silly. Some news is useful. But the latest sob story about some horrific crime i...
Declining to “Respect Your Opinion”
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When is it reasonable to decline to “respect” somebody else’s opinion? I’ve done this before. I have two specific examples in mind, and in ...
Sunday, January 22, 2017
Learning the Front Handspring
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I thought I’d do a post about a physical skill I’ve been learning: the front handspring. I always wanted to learn those cool gymnastic move...
Private Drug Prohibition is Adequate. Government Enforced Prohibition Unnecessary.
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I’m not opposed to all forms of drug prohibition. There are some forms that I like and that I believe to be necessary. But in those situat...
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