Are Libertarians Suffering From Technology’s XY Problem?
A bit ago I posted about the XY problem that’s common in online technical forums. It should sound (sadly) familiar...
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Business Owners Don’t Create Demand; Consumers With Money Do
I think conservatives are fundamentally incorrect about what creates demand for products and services. Their claim is that those with...
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Font Size on Top Web Publications
Is that text above, or is it the result of a smallest printing head competition? I think publications that think...
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Programming and Data Interpretation Are the New Literacy
I hung out with @sgharms yesterday and the conversation was stimulating as usual. One of the topics was how essential...
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Reading Hitchens Improves My Writing
But only temporarily. During the short period after reading Hitchens, say a couple of hours, or perhaps a few days,...
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The Fiscal Cliff Debate Is Exposing the GOP as Liars
Remember during the election when we were all talking about who was fighting for what? Remember how Obama was claiming...
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Why I’m No Longer a Libertarian
Libertarianism is attractive. I find that it functions as a sanctuary for both those unhappy with conservatism (which they often...
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IQ2 Debates: Raise Your Issues Knowledge in a Single Hour
Many of us in the tech industry fancy ourselves experts on politics and various types of policy–especially taxation. We feel...
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On Spending Time With the Opposite Sex
I don’t believe men and women in relationships should spend significant amounts of time with people of the opposite sex....
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The Only Two New Years Resolutions You Need
Work on that instead of new years resolutions. Anyway, enough with the good cheer. If you absolutely must do resolutions,...
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3 Reasons the Future Will Think Us Primitive
We love to make fun of the ridiculous beliefs people had in the past. They used to think that demons...
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A Proposed Foundation for Human Government
I have an idea for a potentially universal guideline for maturing as a civilization: Humans should use a combination of...
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