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Jun 25, 2008
, Politics

One of the things I sometimes fiddle with in the back of my head is how to fix school curricula to better serve students and society. One of the stronger ideas I have is that economics (and ideally, game theory) should be taught, replacing a lot of really dumb mathematical holdovers like trigonometric identities for a semester or two.

And over the last few weeks, I've been really wishing that we'd been teaching economics for the past fifty years instead of other silly things, because the blinding stupidity on exhibit in the recent oil debates is really starting to get to me.

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Jerf to MSM: Links, Or It Didn't Happen!
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May 27, 2008
, Bloviation

I can prove the News Media, or the "MSM" if you like, is not about news. I really do mean "prove". It's quite simple.

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Please Stop with the HTML Replacements
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May 14, 2008
, Programming

Markdown.

BBCode.

Uncountably many Wiki markups, all different.

reStructuredText.

Textile.

Pottymouth.

Who knows what I'm missing.

Please stop.

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May 05, 2008
Sometimes in the middle of the night I get kind of stuck. Laying in bed, not quite awake, not totally asleep, kind of dreaming. And stuck on one particular subject, unable to change it and think/dream about anything else. - recently at Chizumatic

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"Web tripwires" reveal 1.3% of web pages altered in transit

Will integrity issues be heating back up?

... probably not. It looks to me, based on the project page, that the vast majority of modifications come from local proxies the user is running, and the remainder is just on-the-fly image compression, which I am broadly not opposed to, as the human perception integrity is mostly maintained. (Not in favor of, mind you, but not opposed.)


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