Showing posts with label Shonky Reasoning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shonky Reasoning. Show all posts
Friday, July 8, 2016

Sing, Muse, of the incompetent rage of the police shooters

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To my mind, there is only one genuinely surprising thing about the recent  police shootings in Dallas , which is that they were carried out...
Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Great Ways to Troll Progressives About Colonialism

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Colonialism, in the eyes of the great and the good, is responsible for all of the third world's ills. This hypothesis is obviously abs...
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Wednesday, November 19, 2014

The worst law in London

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What does absurd government monomania in the face technological irrelevance look like? Back in the early years of the 20th century, before...
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Sunday, September 14, 2014

Of Behavioural Red Flags and Unfunded Campaign Promises

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One of the key meta-points of the rationality crowd  is that one needs to explicitly think about problem-solving, because one's intuitio...
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Monday, May 26, 2014

Lies, Damn Lies, and STD Risk Statistics, Part 2

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Continued from Part 1 . If you've just joined us, we're giving a good fisking to the Mayo Clinic's worthless list of STD ri...
Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Lies, Damn Lies, and STD Risk Statistics, Part 1

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Every time I read anything about STD risks, I tend to get mightily annoyed at how difficult it is to get any useful information from the me...
Sunday, March 30, 2014

Magical thinking about evolution and the environment

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It is almost an article of faith among certain parts of the left that they are the party of science. The right is full of knuckle-dragging, ...
Tuesday, February 11, 2014

A non-rhetorical question for people who believe race has no genetic basis

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A certain class of trendy lefty and soft social science academic is fond of asserting loudly that 'race doesn't exist', or '...
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Wednesday, December 11, 2013

A series of mostly rhetorical questions to the people complaining on Facebook about the Indian Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of laws criminalizing homosexual acts

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1. The decision itself can be found here . Have you read it, even if only briefly? Did it occur to you to even search for it? Have you read ...
Friday, July 26, 2013

Short answers to stupid questions

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" Because they enjoy it. Why does anyone do anything? "
Wednesday, June 5, 2013

The most logical software purchasers, on the other hand....

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‘The Best-run businesses run SAP’ Let’s heroically assume that this statement is true. It’s a long way from this statement to the ...
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Monday, October 22, 2012

The Stupidity of the 'China is a Currency Manipulator' Argument

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Sometimes it's hard to know whether stupid-sounding statements by politicians are genuinely believed, or just thrown out there for the r...
Friday, May 4, 2012

Digging ditches with teaspoons, Drug War make-work edition

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We previously encountered this country's illustrious drug czar, Gil Kerlikowske, here , making ridiculous claims that the drug war has e...
Saturday, April 28, 2012

Don't tell them it's also linked to tax revenues in the City of London which finance their existence

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The BBC has a classic case of 'English Majors Trying To Write About Finance', with this clanger of a headline: Black-Scholes: The m...
Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Like Raaaaaiiiiiinnnnnnnn, on your Wedddddiiiinnnggggg Daaaaayyyyyy

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In honour of world backup day  being a mere three days ago, the hard drive on my 8 month old Dell laptop decided to die. The answer to the...
Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Judgment Jerry, Judgment!

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The worst mistakes are the ones you don't realise you're making. The most poignant mistakes are the ones that you don't realise ...
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Saturday, February 4, 2012

Raise Those Prices, Jean-Pierre - The French Government Demands It

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The French are determined to continue their unofficial national motto of 'Le Ass, Le Gas or Le Grass - Nobody Can Provide Stuff For Free...
Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Mankiw on SOPA

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First off, I am working on fixing what I describe as the Steve Jobs problem  - that you generally agree with a lot of what someone says (or ...
Monday, January 23, 2012

How Password Reset Screens Should Work

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There is a long literature on how the password requirements for most websites are ridiculous - they make life hard for users without actuall...
Friday, January 20, 2012

You Keep Using That Word. I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means

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The probability of a letter from a company containing important information is significantly less when the front is marked 'Important In...