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• Killer Arguments Against Citizen's Income, Not (32)

  With my Citizen's Basic Income Trust hat on, I had a Zoom call with somebody doing an MA on the topic yesterday. He asked me about "political feasibility", give... Read more

  Posted on 24 October 2020 DEBATE

• Neal Hudson's One-to-ten Ratio

  

  Somebody asked me recently whether this ratio still holds. The answer appears to be, yes, there is still a ratio but since 2005, it is closer to one-to-eight... Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2020 DEBATE

• Things That Have Irritated Me This Week

  From The Conversation: Soot, otherwise known as black carbon, is also made when burning dirty fuels, and emitted in large quantities from older cars. Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2020 DEBATE

• "A Saturated Gassy Argument"

  I've been delving ever deeper into MMGW theories. Most of the common-or-garden ones are easily demolished*, their next line of argument is far more subtle and... Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2020 DEBATE

• Daily Mash Out-pedants Itself

  From The Daily Mash: 3am in the morning ‘AM’ means ‘in the morning’, cockwad. Saying them both is like asking ‘would you like some gravy meat sauce on that chop... Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2020 DEBATE

• "Money" Again

  From the comments to the previous post: Graeme: I knew this from A level economics in the 1980s. Money is a medium of exchange (1), a unit of account (2) and a... Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2020 DEBATE

• "Money and Cryptocurrencies"

  From J W Mason's blog: In the quantity view, “money” is something special. The legal monopoly of governments on printing currency is very important, because tha... Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2020 DEBATE

• "Natural Disasters Are Turning the World into an Uninhabitable Hell"

  From The Daily Mail: The number of natural disasters around the world has doubled since the turn of the century, with climate change to blame according to the... Read more

  Posted on 14 October 2020 DEBATE

• Baffling Throwaway Comment About Nitrogen and Infrared

  From sciencemag.org: Ho-kwang Mao at the Carnegie Institution of Washington in Washington DC, tried to create this new form of nitrogen at room temperature. Read more

  Posted on 13 October 2020 DEBATE

• "Bank of England Questions Banks Over Negative Rates"

  From the BBC: While the Bank of England may set its base rate below zero, it is unlikely most consumers will immediately enter the topsy-turvy world of being... Read more

  Posted on 12 October 2020 DEBATE

• Life Copies Satire

  From The Daily Mash, 5 August 2020: TEACHERS have announced that they would be willing to relocate schools to pubs as a compromise to keep both open. Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2020 DEBATE

• Lies, Damn Lies and Coronavirus Statistics

  The BBC has to big up lock down and diss the Brazilian President (a right wing-populist, apparently, politics is weird down there): The number of people to... Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2020 DEBATE

• Outbreak of Common Sense at HMRC

  From Landlord Today: An accountancy firm is warning Airbnb landlords they may be investigated following a decision by the short lets platform to share data... Read more

  Posted on 10 October 2020 DEBATE

• Skeptical Science Shoots Itself in the Foot Yet Again.

  

  From Skeptical Science: The greenhouse effect occurs because greenhouse gases let sunlight (shortwave radiation) pass through the atmosphere. Read more

  Posted on 09 October 2020 DEBATE

• Crikey! The Gruniad 'nearly' Talking Sense.

  Headline. "Boris Johnson's 95% mortgages will put Britain back on course for a house price crash". By line: Josh Ryan-CollinsHereA few errors though.1. This is... Read more

  Posted on 09 October 2020 DEBATE

• Lockdowns and the Sherlock Holmes Principle

  The Sherlock Holmes principle is, once you have ruled out the impossible, the remaining explanation, however unlikely, must be correct. Read more

  Posted on 08 October 2020 DEBATE

• "Scientists Call for Covid Herd Immunity Strategy for Young"

  The fight back has begun! From The Guardian: An international group of scientists has called on governments to overturn their coronavirus strategies and allow... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2020 DEBATE

• De-nesting Nested Radicals Using an Excel Spreadsheet

  

  This wasn't very difficult to set up. Let's say you are given "√(17/5 - √24/5)" i.e. you have to find the square root of "17/5 - √24/5": The... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2020 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against Citizen's Income, Not (31)

  Recently I was sent a link to an article, entitled "Europe's New Social Reality: The Case Against Universal Basic Income" which was long and not very... Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2020 DEBATE

• They (want To) Own Land! Give Them Money!

  From the BBC: ... Boris Johnson has promised low-deposit mortgages to help young people get onto the housing ladder. In an interview with the Daily Telegraph... Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2020 DEBATE