Much of the research into humans' risk-avoidance machinery shows that it is antiquated and unfit for the modern world; it is made to counter repeatable attacks and learn from specifics. If someone narrowly escapes being eaten by a tiger in a certain cave, then he learns to avoid that cave.

Switzerland is the perfect place where you have volatility at a municipal level that nothing up top - small units competing with each other.

Paul Krugman is a danger to society!

We cannot truly plan, because we do not understand the future-but this is not necessarily a bad news. We could plan while bearing in mind such limitations. It just takes guts.

A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see

I want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment.

The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally.