Jan 2013 Sites

Jan 2013 Sites

• Extend Your Phone’s Battery Life – 3 Apps That Lead To a Longer Lasting Battery [Android]

• An Insurance Company With an Army 
• The Dwindling Deficit 
• Paul Ryan Throws $1.5 Trillion In Spending Cuts Down The Memory Hole: ‘We’ve Yet To Get Anything’ 
• No, Global Warming Hasn't Stopped

• What Nate Silver Gets Wrong, newyorker.com by Gary Marcus And Ernest Davis
  
• The Sophisticated Objection To Emissions Reductions (points to Cass Sunstein)
  
• America's Real Criminal Element: Lead New research finds Pb is the hidden villain behind violent crime, lower IQs, and even the ADHD epidemic. And fixing the problem is a lot cheaper than doing nothing.
• Let’s Give Up on the Constitution, December 30, 2012
• Ethics
•  When is it ethical to kill somone? -- Philosopher David Edmonds  (expert on “trolleyology”) discusses the five books that have had the greatest influence on his work
• Utilitarianism is the view that you should do that which produces the most happiness or wellbeing. It’s a version of consequentialism, which is the view that you should do that which produces the best consequences – utilitarianism says that what matters most about those consequences is happiness.
1. Peter Singer’s Practical Ethics
2. Thomas Nagel’s Mortal Questions
3. Utilitarianism: For and Against, Bernard Williams
4. Derek Parfit, Reasons and Persons
5. Janet Radcliffe Richards, The Sceptical Feminist
• Rationality of War: ebook by William Spaniel and interview (Best of Mind Your Decisions, 2012)

• The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever (and How to Solve It) --> [PDF]
• "Three gods A, B, and C are called, in some order, True, False, and Random. 
• True always speaks truly, False always speaks falsely, but whether Random speaks truly or falsely is a completely random matter. 
• Your task is to determine the identities of A, B, and C by asking three yes-no questions; each question must be put to exactly one god
• The gods understand English, but will answer all questions in their own language in which the words for 'yes' and 'no' are 'da' and 'ja', in some order. You do not know which word means which."

• AntiFragility --  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Understanding is a poor substitute for convexity (antifragility) -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Fragile Enough To Fail -- In his new book, Nassim Taleb argues for "antifragility" because "the opposite of fragile is something that actually gains from disorder." He elaborates in an interview with Linda Geddes:

The Essential Guide To Dim Sum -- Know exactly how to order thanks to this breakdown of 24 dishes, including photos and Chinese pronunciation.

6 Reasons Joseph Stiglitz and Other Top Economists Think Means-Testing Medicare & Social Security Is a Destructive Idea, -- Means-testing is a back-door strategy for taking away benefits earned by hard-working Americans. -- Floor vs Net