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Mar 2019
1:51pm, 26 Mar 2019
35,408 posts
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Diogenes
Tim Harford swears by it, says he's given it to more people than any other book
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Mar 2019
2:56pm, 26 Mar 2019
111,480 posts
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GregP
The link out of Glenn's link is good too - tristanharris.com
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Mar 2019
9:54am, 27 Mar 2019
41,569 posts
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GlennR
The Old Believers v the Russian Orthodox church. The reformation Russian style: en.wikipedia.org |
Mar 2019
9:55am, 27 Mar 2019
41,570 posts
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GlennR
Incidentally, this painting, which I have seen in the flesh, is one of the best known in the country: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Believers#/media/File:Boyaryna_Morozova_by_V.Surikov_(1884-1887,_Tretyakov_gallery).jpg |
Mar 2019
9:55am, 27 Mar 2019
41,571 posts
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GlennR
Duff link. I'm sure you can figure it out.
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Mar 2019
10:11am, 27 Mar 2019
41,578 posts
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GlennR
Try this one: artsandculture.google.com |
Mar 2019
12:00pm, 27 Mar 2019
41,583 posts
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GlennR
From the Times: “There are lies, damned lies and statistics — and, in this case, false statistics. A team of number-crunchers were left red-faced yesterday after they had to withdraw the latest national mortgage figures because of errors.” |
Mar 2019
12:16pm, 27 Mar 2019
41,584 posts
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GlennR
A quite brilliant piece on software resilience: theregister.co.uk |
Mar 2019
10:23am, 28 Mar 2019
41,622 posts
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GlennR
"People with high IQs drink more heavily, may take more illegal drugs, and are almost twice as likely as everybody else to hit credit card limits. They have the same rates of bankruptcy and missed mortgage payments as everybody else despite having better-paid jobs. Intelligent, educated people are less likely to question their assumptions, to learn from their mistakes, to take advice or reverse their decisions when they discover new facts. Instead they use their brainpower to ingeniously defend their original positions."
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Mar 2019
10:27am, 28 Mar 2019
35,456 posts
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Diogenes
At last, vindication!
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