With weightings of the three components arrived at in the best possible expert taste, ditto across-the-board agreement on what to exclude etc. Here's Nassim Taleb's take on this crock: https://archiv… (View Post)

There wasn't a vote. (I know that means they didn't vote for it, but was there an amendment or something they should have pushed harder for, or what?) (View Post)

People spell Usher "Ussher" to wind him up, right? Or to suggest he might be just the right guy to revise the chronology? (View Post)

It's so annoying that when I'm hoping he's on the point of an undeniable kook-out, such that no psychiatrist would feel the Goldwater rule still applies ("They're eating the dogs and masturbatin… (View Post)

"Why does it matter to you anyway?" sounds like a troller trick too. The idea that the proportion of babies who are "White British" is too small is obviously racist. It should be … (View Post)