February 2011
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SplitTheRent.org →
Splitting rent with your friends shouldn’t be stressful. If your rooms are different sizes or different levels of niceness, my calculator will give you a neutral and objective opinion on how to share the rent. It’s great for close friends or Craigslist strangers, because it gives you the “market” value for how the rent should be fairly split, without having to actually...
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Stefano Bartezzaghi - Storia del rebus →
Si può scrivere una storia del rebus, ma non si può scrivere la storia del rebus. Non si può assegnare un decorso univoco e un solo destino a un´idea tanto fissa quanto mutevole, ubiqua e dispettosa: l´idea di alternare o sovrapporre la scrittura e la figura in modo che il loro insieme, una volta decifrato, riproduca un dato messaggio linguistico.
Per come lo conosciamo, lo pratichiamo (e lo...
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“WordPress (which provides the software that drives this blog) provides me with a...”
– Steve Landsburg
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“Perché ho scelto (già dal 2005) di tenere tutti i miei risparmi presso il campo...”
– Innamorato Fisso del 29 gennaio 2011
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Jeff Ely on the Value of Your Marginal Friend →
You receive an email with a question asking for advice or a suggestion or an opinion. To give a full answer you would have to take some time to think. You are a little busy and you would rather not give it too much thought but there is a second consideration that leads you to give the quick and dirty answer right away. The longer you wait the longer they will know you thought about it and the more...
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“Quando la statizzazione della società si accentuò fino a diventare perfetta (con...”
– Rodolfo Sacco - Trattato di diritto comparato [via gboggero]
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How to Write Badly Well →
[via Cord Blomquist]
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“For every point of historical comparison, Iran offers at least one anomalous or...”
– Time Essay: The Dynamics of Revolution
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“Vittorio Sgarbi, nel corso della prima puntata di Telenovella - il nuovo...”
– Dago
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“Ieri ci è arrivato in redazione il racconto “La minchia capovolta”. E’...”
– Innamorato Fisso del 25 febbraio 2011
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“Mentre il premier Silvio Berlusconi sta per salire sul palco per il suo...”
– Ansa [via Dago]
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John Searle - Watson Doesn't Know It Won on... →
IBM’s computer was not and could not have been designed to understand. Rather, it was designed to simulate understanding, to act as if it understood. It is an evasion to say, as some commentators have put it, that computer understanding is different from human understanding. Literally speaking, there is no such thing as computer understanding. There is only simulation.
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The Ideological Profile of Harvard University... →
The principal author surveyed all Harvard University Press titles published (in first edition) between 2000 and well into 2010, making 10+ years of publication, in the subject areas of Business & Economics, History, Philosophy, Political Science, and Sociology, as well as a residual of Law titles. A large number of titles were initially removed from the survey because the book title suggested...
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“The pages of the casebook drain highlighters, not necessarily because there is a...”
– The Volokh Conspiracy - Student Evaluation of the Year
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WatchAEI - The Great Stagnation: An Interview with Tyler Cowen
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“[Il moltiplicatore keynesiano] l’ho incontrato ieri alla stazione di Bologna. Ho...”
– Love and Economics
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Michael Ledeen - Berlusconi: Undone by La Dolce... →
There was a time, nearly a generation ago, when Italian editorialists lamented the lack of sex scandals atop their society, and even expressed bitterness that the British were the winners in the category. But that was before Prime Minister Bettino Craxi, who fled the country in 1994 to avoid judicial condemnation for corruption, and Mr. Berlusconi had overcome the sex scandal gap. Today’s...
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Presentation Zen: Make your next presentation... →
Presenting 100% naked may not be appropriate for every case, but stripping down as much as we can often will make a huge, refreshing difference. The result will be a presentation that is different and somehow more real, “real” like a frank conversation among friends. In my experience, the higher up the management chain you go, the less real the talk. People at the highest level of...
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Bruno Lauzi - Lucy l’ortopedica (1970)
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Guy Numa - On the Origins of Vertical Unbundling:... →
The paper retraces the origins of the unbundling of infrastructure, which is a monopoly, from services, which are subject to competition. Using the case of the railroad industry in France, I examine how both natural monopoly theorists and legislation dealt with this subject in the 19th century. I argue that the origins of vertical unbundling date to this period with legislation pertaining to...
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“Domanda a Piero Angela (e per conoscenza a Carlo Rubbia): il clima è cambiato...”
– Innamorato Fisso del 16 febbraio 2011
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Division of Labour - On voluntary taxation c. 1911 →
WELLESLEY, Mass - To collect funds toward the $100,000 building fund at Wellesley College the students have adopted the plan of holding “silence” parties. At these gatherings a girl, who is seen to smile is fined 1 cent. If she laughs the penalty is 5 cents. If she so far forgets herself as to talk, each sentence she utters costs her 10 cents. A considerable sum of money has already...
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For Law School Graduates, Debts if Not Job Offers... →
If there is ever a class in how to remain calm while trapped beneath $250,000 in loans, Michael Wallerstein ought to teach it. Here he is, sitting one afternoon at a restaurant on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, a tall, sandy-haired, 27-year-old radiating a kind of surfer-dude serenity. His secret, if that’s the right word, is to pretty much ignore all the calls and letters that he receives...
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Gym-Pact: The Behavioral Economics Gym →
Gym-Pact offers what Zhang calls motivational fees — customers agree to pay more if they miss their scheduled workouts, literally buying into a financial penalty if they don’t stick to their fitness plans. The concept arose from Zhang’s behavioral economics class at Harvard, where professor Sendhil Mullainathan taught that people are more motivated by immediate consequences than by future...
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Lucio Battisti - Una (“Amore e non...
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