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Often Technology, Not Politics, Drives Policy Changes

6th March 2008

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Most “problems” that government purports to solve will solve themselves, if left alone to do so.

Many “solutions” provided by government will eventually fail, because they are (like government) essentially static, and can’t cope with a world that changes.

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Ohio has itself to blame — not NAFTA

6th March 2008

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Ohio’s most crippling handicap may be that its politicians — and thus its employers — are still in the grip of such industrial unions as the United Auto Workers. Ohio is a “closed shop” state, which means workers can be forced to join a union whether they wish to or not. Many companies — especially foreign-owned — say they will not even consider such locations for new sites. States with “right to work” laws that make union organizing more difficult had twice the job growth of Ohio…

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Stuff White People Like #82 Hating Corporations

6th March 2008

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When engaging in a conversation about corporate evils it is important to NEVER, EVER mention Apple Computers, Target or Ikea in the same breath as the companies mentioned earlier. White people prefer to hate corporations that don’t make stuff that they like.

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Je ne regrette rien: phonetics and phonology

6th March 2008

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Well, I thought it was interesting.

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The Charms of Wikipedia

6th March 2008

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Windows passwords easily bypassed over Firewire

4th March 2008

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Don’t use Windows. Just sayin’….

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Stuff White People Like #80 The Idea of Soccer

4th March 2008

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In fact, the main reason white people like soccer is so they can buy a new scarf. As you may or may not know, many soccer teams issue special scarves, and white people cannot get enough of them!

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Why Risk Aversion Isn’t

2nd March 2008

David Friedman is always worth reading.

Many fields use technical terms that sound self-explanatory and aren’t. The result is that many people believe they know what those terms mean—and don’t.

And that’s the most truthful thing you’ll read today.

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MSI ECOlution motherboard transforms chip heat into fan power

1st March 2008

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The Remarkable Pneumatic People-Mover

1st March 2008

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Sintex’s biogas digester ingests crap, emits energy

1st March 2008

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Just think — Washington could power the continent. Brussels could do the same for Europe.

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Robot taxidermy provokes thoughts, awwws

1st March 2008

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Pretty silly — but what else is there to do when your robot dog dies?

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MIT’s RoboScooter: high on scooter, short on robo

1st March 2008

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Wouldn’t mind having one of these.

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Ships ahoy.

1st March 2008

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Everything you wanted to know about spaceships — and a lot that you didn’t.

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Gene for ‘Woolly Hair’ May Spur Hair Remedies

1st March 2008

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And of course that’s important. Right?

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Yet Another Author Discovers Giving Away Ebooks Increases Sales

1st March 2008

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You’d think that people would learn that the market has changed. No matter how counter-intuitive it may seem, all of the empirical data support the notion that giving away books and music leads to higher sales, not lower. But people will ignore facts that contradict what they “know” to be true.

Come to think of it, that explains the Democrat party.

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Throw Out the Maps in 2008

1st March 2008

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Well, maybe.

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Assassination attempts

29th February 2008

Steve Sailer is keeping track, just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

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South America Goes Nuclear

29th February 2008

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How Nurture Works

29th February 2008

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In short, parents are correct to think that they can change their children. Their mistake is to suppose that the change will endure. Instead of thinking of kids as lumps of clay that parents “mold,” we should think of kids as plastic that flexes in response to pressure – and springs back to its original shape once the pressure goes away.

So I guess the solution is to press harder.

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Stuff White People Like #78 Multilingual Children

29th February 2008

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Languages such as German, Spanish, Swedish, or Italian are also acceptable, but are considered to be poor substitutes (especially Spanish). At the time of writing, it is still considered expert-level white person behavior to have white children speaking Asian and African languages.

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Cats Cut Heart Attack Risk?

28th February 2008

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Huh. They actually are good for something. Who knew?

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Military Robots General Threat?

28th February 2008

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Fake Photos a Thing of the Past?

28th February 2008

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We have the technology.

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E-book concept combines leather and multi-touch

28th February 2008

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Progress is being made.

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“Silicone womb” enters human testing in the UK

28th February 2008

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Perhaps it will help solve the Demographic Winter problem.

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The Economics Of Free Isn’t Good Or Bad — It’s Simply What Happens

28th February 2008

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So much for the politics of identity.

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Abundance And Scarcity In The Insight Market

28th February 2008

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This may seem a bit technical but it’s a very interesting concept.

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Are our brains wired for math?

28th February 2008

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Only non-Westerners, apparently. Of course, this is the New Yorker….

Steve Sailer has some thoughts on the subject.

You just have to have the Times Table pounded into your head over and over as a kid, but our education system is against “rote learning,” so school kids aren’t usually forced to chant them like in the good old days. But kids actually kind of like rote learning. (It’s adults who hate learning that way, and especially hate teaching that way.) Kids like singing the alphabet song, for instance. You’d think educators would find a times table rap that today’s children would like.

Indeed.

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Readybot cleans your kitchen, might be single best thing ever invented

28th February 2008

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Sign me up.

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Japanese plastic dirt is half as dense as real dirt, over 100 times more plastic

26th February 2008

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We have the technology.

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Doctor Silicon Sees Invisible Injuries

26th February 2008

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We have the technology.

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280-megawatt solar plant headed to Arizona desert

26th February 2008

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And about time, too.

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Yahoo Shareholders Sue Board for Golden Parachutes

26th February 2008

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I was wondering when someone would get around to doing that.

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Bratty Adolescents Have Bigger Amygdalas

26th February 2008

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

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IDL Motors’ linear propulsion system gets demonstrated

25th February 2008

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Solazyme Algae Biodiesel

25th February 2008

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Sounds like a rock group, doesn’t it?

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Stuff White People Like #75 Threatening to Move to Canada

25th February 2008

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 Within white culture, it is agreed upon that if Canada had better weather it would be a perfect place.

That only works for lefties, of course — righties would move to Australia.

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Wiperless windshields in your future? Thanks, nanotech.

24th February 2008

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And about time, too.

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Female G spot ‘can be detected’

23rd February 2008

Read it. Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

Of course, it is a BBC piece, so you’d have to verify it from a reliable source.

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Electronic tattoo display runs on blood

23rd February 2008

Read it. Engineers are very strange people.

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Tessellations

23rd February 2008

Read it. Wierd shit you can do with folded paper.

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Synthetic rubber mends itself after being sliced

23rd February 2008

Read it. Think commercial packaging. Think sandwich wrap.

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Why Democrats Are Kicking the Clintons to the Curb

23rd February 2008

Read it. An excellent analysis.

For the first time in 16 years, Democrats can vote against a Clinton without having to vote for a Republican to do it.

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Four SSGNs, No Waiting

22nd February 2008

Read it. Pretty cool.

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Limited edition R2-D2 DVD projector up for pre-order

22nd February 2008

Read it. Who could ask for anything more?

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WowWee Dragonfly bots being hunted by hawks

22nd February 2008

Read it. Biting into it will bring a real surprise.

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Obamamania and Trudeaumania

19th February 2008

Steve Sailer is always worth reading.

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Identical twins not as identical as believed

18th February 2008

Read it. So much for that pro-abortion argument. (Think about it.) (But not too long.)

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Ideology as Coalition: Environmentalists vs The Poor

15th February 2008

Read it. David Friedman is always worth reading.

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