The Adventures of Shylock Holmes

One pound of inference, no more, no less. No humbug, no cant, but only inference. This task done, and he would go free.

Friday, May 26, 2017

The economist's case for at least agnosticism about Bitcoin

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As far as I can tell, the primary problem with Bitcoin is that after you've bought it, you become medically incapable of shutting the @#...
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Saturday, May 20, 2017

The metres lost, the metres gained

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What is gone, but still remembered, is quite vivid and easy to see. What is yet to come is often only perceived dimly, if at all. For a r...
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Monday, May 1, 2017

On the Pathology of Low Birthrates

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One of the important axioms of organisational development is that if you want an organisation to be successful and sustainable, you should m...
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Sunday, April 23, 2017

The Puritan Hypothesis Personified

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We live in a period where Whig history is the only history that most people know. The west conquered the evils of Nazism and racism, and is...
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Thursday, March 30, 2017

On Self-Control and Eating Disorders

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Years ago, I had a friend who once described herself in a moment of honesty as having gone through a period where she was, as she put it, an...
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Saturday, March 11, 2017

How to Improve the Discourse on Education Policy

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Is there a subject of policy debate in modern society more deranged than education? When it comes to primary and secondary education, the sh...
Saturday, February 25, 2017

On the Folly of Romanticising Dreams

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I finally got around to seeing La La Land, apparently making me about the last person in America to do so. It was quite good, after all. But...
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Thursday, February 16, 2017

Carlyle Considered

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After a shameful delay, at last I have joined the Froude Society ! Previous installments covered Froude's "The Bow of Ulysses: The ...
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