There is a great thread on reddit.com right now titled “You meet a girl (or guy) and you are really liking her. Suddenly you have a conversation about something and she immediately becomes unattractive to you. What were you talking about and what was her stance?” (Presumably these are casually and innocently offered things in … Read more
In case you haven’t heard—and given the shameless bias of most mainstream news sources (particularly on the topic of global warming), you may well not have—hackers recently breached the network of a prominent British climate research organization and released about 61 megabytes of confidential information “into the wild.” To say the released information is damning … Read more
Who said this? Generally speaking we get the joke. We know that the free market is nonsense. We know that the whole point is to game the system, to beat the market, or at least find someone who will pay you a lot of money because they’re convinced that there is a free lunch. We … Read more