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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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		<title>Marginal Devolution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Armed and Dangerous » Blog Archive » Marginal Devolution
Eric S. Raymond writes:
We&#8217;ve spent the last seventy years increasing the hidden overhead and
downside risks associated with hiring a worker &#8212; which meant the
minimum revenue-per-employee threshold below which hiring doesn&#8217;t make
sense has crept up and up and up, gradually. This effect was partly
masked by credit and asset [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gentropy.org/blogs/2010/02/27/marginal-devolution/</link>
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		<title>American Politcal Will</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Marginal Revolution: Is there a case for a VAT?
from the comments:
It seems to me that the American political system is simply broken. Canada could reduce the size of government and keep health care spending in check because in a parliamentary system with strong party loyalty, individual politicans are given &#8216;cover&#8217; by their parties and are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gentropy.org/blogs/2010/02/18/american-politcal-will/</link>
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		<title>Intellectuals and Society &#8211; comments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[EconLog &#8211; Sage
Talking about Thomas Sowell&#8217;s new book Intellectuals and Society

For example, it is far easier to concentrate power than to concentrate knowledge. That is why so much social engineering backfires and why so many despots have led their countries into disasters.

Brilliant.


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		<link>http://gentropy.org/blogs/2010/02/15/intellectuals-and-society-comments/</link>
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		<title>FOXP2 gets even more interesting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“I think the evidence now that CNTNAP2 is involved [in autism] is quite good,” ]]></description>
		<link>http://gentropy.org/blogs/2009/11/13/foxp2-gets-even-more-interesting/</link>
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		<title>Try try again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That makes Tjintjelaar’s work sound easier than it is. “The first time a subject catches my attention, it’s rare that I can shoot it the way I see it in my mind,” he explains. “So I go back again and again until everything is perfect — light, weather, the tides. I’ve shot a few piers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gentropy.org/blogs/2009/10/25/try-try-again/</link>
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		<title>Intuitive Differences</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Intuitive differences: when to agree to disagree
13Kaj_Sotala29 September 2009 07:56AM
from here
Two days back, I had a rather frustrating disagreement with a friend. The debate rapidly hit a point where it seemed to be going nowhere, and we spent a while going around in circles before agreeing to change the topic. Yesterday, as I was riding [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gentropy.org/blogs/2009/10/02/intuitive-differences/</link>
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		<title>Writing Software is Like &#8230; Writing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Summary
I finally figured out the right analogy for software development. Alas, the target audience for this analogy won&#8217;t be happy with it. 
via Writing Software is Like &#8230; Writing.
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		<link>http://gentropy.org/blogs/2009/07/21/writing-software-is-like-writing/</link>
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		<title>Where do we go from here?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Roman historian Livy famously described the terminal plight of the late Roman Republic: &#8220;Nec vitia nostra nec remedia pati possumus&#8221; (&#8220;We can bear neither our shortcomings nor the remedies for them&#8221;)
america rip: A Look at the Numbers — The Coming Collapse of America
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		<link>http://gentropy.org/blogs/2009/06/05/where-do-we-go-from-here/</link>
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