shmulkey18

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by shmulkey18 10mo ago
Odd that you talk about concentration camps when the George Washington of Palestinian nationalism collaborated with Hitler and help recruit Muslim SS troops in order to commit actual genocide. "In 1941, Haj Amin al-Husseini fled to Ger
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by shmulkey18 10mo ago
The defense of murder, rape, Holocaust denial, blood libels -- all grist for the Bitchat for Gaza and HN mill. Man, what a tidal wave of antisemitism we're experiencing.
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by shmulkey18 6y ago
Really nice. Does anyone have a recommendation for a service which print such images as posters at a reasonable price?
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by shmulkey18 7y ago
Has anyone modified these things to give them a little more power? I have a "gen 1" Bug-a-Salt and it doesn't have enough grunt to kill a fly. I suspect that a stronger spring would do the trick, but haven't seen any t
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by shmulkey18 7y ago
I agree: read books about China. Books like "Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962" by Frank Dikotter, and "The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression"
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by shmulkey18 7y ago
I agree, this is a great book. Just about anything by Sowell is worth reading, but _Basic Economics_ and _Economic Facts and Fallacies_ are good starting points. Also consider _Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Unders
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by shmulkey18 7y ago
I'm not sure that it is exactly what you're looking for, but the Econtalk podcast ( https://www.econtalk.org/ ) covers a wide variety of economics-related topics. If you listen to it, over time you will come to und
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by shmulkey18 7y ago
> Design for Everyday Things Do you mean "The Design of Everyday Things" by Don Norman? If so, I agree that it is a great book.
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by shmulkey18 8y ago
"Stalin and the Scientists" by Simon Ing tells a very different story. Many Soviet scientists were severely punished when they found themselves on the wrong side of Communist dogma. Making empty statements was not possible if, fo
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by shmulkey18 8y ago
The author displays the very cognitive blind spots he decries. He says "One reason I’ve been thinking about the virtue of humility recently is because our president, Donald Trump, is one of the least humble people on the planet. It was
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by shmulkey18 8y ago
Newspaper headline: "Emacs text editor makes people smarter."
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by shmulkey18 8y ago
> It's not public Why not?
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by shmulkey18 8y ago
"anyone in a position of authority". Hmmm. Let's bring him up on charges before the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, eh? AvE is great, and if you watch enough of his episodes you'll see that the old-school jokes are matc
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by shmulkey18 8y ago
I think you're referring to Programming Throwdown ( http://www.programmingthrowdown.com/ ).
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by shmulkey18 8y ago
It's no longer clear that Uber is the most ethically challenged company in Silicon Valley.
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by shmulkey18 10y ago
"referral bonuses that encouraged its heavily Asian workforce to recruit other Asians" Every technology company I have worked at used referral bonuses to find qualified applicants. This common recruiting practice is now considere
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by shmulkey18 10y ago
Tell this to the children of Sderot in Israel, who have been repeatedly under attack by the Islamist Hamas regime in Gaza. The murder of Jews is regularly lauded by official Hamas spokesmen, and such murders are routinely celebrated by the
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by shmulkey18 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas_Covenant The Charter identified Hamas as the Muslim Brotherhood in Palestine and declares its members to be Muslims who "fear God and raise the banner of Jihad in the face of th
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by shmulkey18 10y ago
"We are pattern-seeking story-telling animals." -- Ed Leamer in "Macroeconomic Patterns and Stories"
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by shmulkey18 10y ago
The escape key is small. Do you find that to be a problem?
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by shmulkey18 10y ago
A brief but profound paper: The Use of Knowledge in Society by Hayek ( http://home.uchicago.edu/~vlima/courses/econ200/spring01/hay... ). As others have said, the EconTalk podcast is excellent.
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by shmulkey18 10y ago
The paper looks interesting; thanks for sharing the link!
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by shmulkey18 10y ago
Yes, his channel is wonderful. I love his low-key delivery; he's kind of the anti-Dave Jones (eevblog - also excellent).
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by shmulkey18 11y ago
Where can you buy a CPAP/APAP/BiPap for $150?
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by shmulkey18 11y ago
What kind of guillotine paper cutter did you purchase? How many page books can it cut through?
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by shmulkey18 11y ago
Yay! Let the rich be the only ones who can afford computers! Shoes! Books! Potting soil! Clothing! Housing! Cars! The list of horrors that the free market visits upon the non-rich is truly shocking. After all, by your logic all non-regulate
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by shmulkey18 11y ago
Read "The Bet: Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and Our Gamble over Earth’s Future" and learn why this sort of thinking has been shown to be wrong again and again.
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by shmulkey18 11y ago
When the Indian government implemented the strategy you suggest, it consigned the country to years of economic backwardness. "Self-sufficiency" is the road to poverty.
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by shmulkey18 11y ago
Of course, we can't implement the obvious and economically rational solution: let the water market operate freely, rather than having the government dictate prices, impose rationing, encourage neighbors to rat out putative "water
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by shmulkey18 11y ago
Former Nazi criticizes the Jewish state. Shocker.

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