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		<title>The Embarrassing 2nd Amendment.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[from Kids
 Prefer Cheese: The Embarrassing 2nd Amendment.
Had a nice glass of wine last night, and re-read one of my favorite
essays, by one of my most favoritest lefties&#8230;.Sandy
Levinson, of the UT-Austin Law School.
Here is the essay: The Embarrassing 2nd Amendment.
Sandy (whom I got to know down at UT-Austin when I was there) is honest.
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		<link>http://gentropy.org/blogs/2010/07/02/the-embarrassing-2nd-amendment/</link>
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		<title>New Deal 0.0</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Megan McArdle :: The Atlantic &#8211; Sage
Harold Meyerson makes an argument that will be familiar to readers of this blog:  stimulus doesn&#8217;t work the way it used to.  Workers have more skills, which makes it harder to create jobs to soak up an untapped labor pool&#8211;even if we did create large numbers of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gentropy.org/blogs/2010/05/13/new-deal-0-0/</link>
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		<title>Libertarians versus Progressives</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Horde of Angry Libertarians &#8211; Hit &#38; Run : Reason Magazine
heller&#124;5.10.10 @ 6:08PM&#124;#
Which hubris is larger?
I know enough to make decisions for myself
or
I know enough to make decisions for everyone
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		<link>http://gentropy.org/blogs/2010/05/11/libertarians-versus-progressives/</link>
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		<title>intrinsic stochastic developmental variation in contributing to phenotypic variance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nature, nurture and noise » Gene Expression
The basic problem with the interpretation above is that it limits “innate” influences to “genetic” ones. Just because some trait is not genetic does not mean it is not innate. If we are talking about how the brain gets wired, any number of prenatal environmental factors are known to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gentropy.org/blogs/2010/04/29/intrinsic-stochastic-developmental-variation-in-contributing-to-phenotypic-variance/</link>
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		<title>Favoring Small Retailers can in fact be enabling Rent Seeking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Matthew Yglesias » Political Conflict Isn’t About Free Markets
To borrow an idea from Robin Hanson, I think it’s useful to think about political conflict in terms of valorized figures. On the right, you see a lot of valorization of businessmen. On the left, you see a lot of valorization of pushy activists who want to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gentropy.org/blogs/2010/04/07/favoring-small-retailers-can-in-fact-be-enabling-rent-seeking/</link>
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		<title>The Core Defect in Socialism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Explaining Socialism&#8217;s Moral Decay, Bryan Caplan &#124; EconLog &#124; Library of Economics and Liberty
I&#8217;m now finishing up a new introduction for a reissue of Eugen Richter&#8217;s Pictures of the Socialistic Future.  In writing it, I identified three distinct answers to the question: &#8220;How could a movement founded to liberate workers from capitalist oppression end [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gentropy.org/blogs/2010/04/06/the-core-defect-in-socialism/</link>
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		<title>Insurer&#8217;s are not the bad guys</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Patrick&#8217;s Price Controls &#8211; WSJ.com
On Thursday, Democratic Governor Deval Patrick&#8217;s insurance regulators announced that they had rejected 235 of 274 insurer requests for premium increases for individuals and small businesses over the coming year. This power has been on the books since 1977 but never used, and Mr. Patrick announced in February that he was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gentropy.org/blogs/2010/04/05/insurers-are-not-the-bad-guys/</link>
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		<title>Information and Gravity &#8211; Truely Good Entopy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Technology Review: Blogs: arXiv blog: Gravity Emerges from Quantum Information, Say Physicists
It suggests that differences in entropy between parts of the Universe
generates a force that redistributes matter in a way that maximises
entropy. This is the force we call gravity....It also relates gravity to quantum information for the first time. Over recent years many results in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gentropy.org/blogs/2010/04/04/information-and-gravity-truely-good-entopy/</link>
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		<title>More on Intuitive Differences</title>
		<description><![CDATA[continuing on this post http://gentropy.org/blogs/2009/10/02/intuitive-differences/I have a friend that has a predisposition to believe conspiracies. I have the exact opposite bias. I rarely see any indication of conspiracy.
Makes for a fair amount of disagreement.

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		<link>http://gentropy.org/blogs/2010/03/06/more-on-intuitive-differences/</link>
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		<title>Less expensive, lower-quality innovations abound in every economic sector—except medicine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just-as-good Medicine » American Scientist

That decrementally cost-effective innovations are so rarely described in the health-care literature suggests that medicine is distinct from most other markets, in which cost-decreasing, quality-reducing products are continuously being introduced—think IKEA, Walmart and the Tata car. Several reasons may explain this “medical exceptionalism.” First, there is fundamentally a lack of incentives [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gentropy.org/blogs/2010/03/03/less-expensive-lower-quality-innovations-abound-in-every-economic-sector%e2%80%94except-medicine/</link>
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