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I would love to see Persona/BrowserID support built in here.
Commented Feb 5, 2013 on Civilized Discourse Construction Kit at Coding Horror
Civilized Discourse Construction Kit
Occasionally, startups will ask me for advice. That's a shame, because I am a terrible person to ask for advice. The conversation usually goes something like this: We'd love to get your expert advice on our thing. I probably don't use your thing. Even if I tried your thing out and I gave you ...
The best response I saw to this was:
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/health/women-to-force-hat%11stand-into-anus-of-male-midwife-200907131899/
Commented Jul 16, 2009 on Man: Labor pain good for women at Majikthise
Man: Labor pain good for women
Midwifery professor Denis Walsh argues that labor pain is good for women: In an article for Evidence Based Midwifery, published by the Royal College of Midwives, Dr Walsh said the NHS was too quick to give in to requests for pain-killing injections. He said: ‘A large number of women want to avo...
It seems to me that taxing those things that increase _overall, long term_ unhappiness. People will tend to maximise their instantaneous happiness perfectly well by themselves, but are notoriously bad at medium/long term thinking.
Commented May 25, 2009 on Tax Unhappiness? at Overcoming Bias
Tax Unhappiness?
Last week I described how Robert Frank wants to discourage "conspicuous consumption" via big houses, cars, and barbecues, because he thinks they cause large positional (i.e., relative status) harms on others. After describing our best data on positionality, I asked if Frank would endorse its im...
The Pi Singing seems to be from a longer piece, which comes from http://pi.ytmnd.com/
The rap was great!
Commented Mar 15, 2009 on to celebrate pi day... at WWdN: In Exile
to celebrate pi day...
I present this incredibly awesome song by my friend Chris Hardwick:
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