I was just struck this morning with a realization about Sam Harris’s latest
book:
The Moral Landscape. I’m browsing through portions of it again after reading it when it was
released, and I’ve come to realize that it’s not simply…

Today I learned (from Scott Adams’ blog) that Donald Trump, during his last
presidential run, proposed that we pay the national debt off all at
once–with a massive tax on the rich.

I don’t know the details, and they don’t r…

Encoding

Encryption

Hashing

Obfuscation

Summary

There is often
significan…

I was re-reading a part of Moral Landscape this weekend and came across a
concept I had not shared yet.

It’s the idea of building the ultimate society by creating all the social
structures, advantages, disadvantages, tax co…

I’ll take that. ::

If you frequent
Hacker News
and
Reddit
as I do you’re probably familiar with a certain type of rant regarding
college. It goes something like this:

College isn’t nearly as important as people say it is. I am hig…

I have a simple question:

If tap water is better for you because it’s better regulated why is it that
in various places across the country the tap water tastes like different
kinds of crap, while a bottle of Dasani always tastes ex…

I frequently find myself of two minds when faced with those who are
suffering from poverty and lack of education, and these depend heavily on my
mood and state of mind. If I’m in a poor or aggressive mood I tend to
quietly condes…

Some are unaware that there are strong class distinctions even within the
middle class, and that there are specific and key tells that those in the
upper tiers look for when determining if someone is part of their group.
Here are th…

There’s some
fascinating new research
showing that adding women to a group of problem solvers makes them more
effective. The reason is clear and unsurprising to me: smart men tend to
dominate and restrict the flow of ideas, w…