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…h easier to read this week, particularly if you are interested in the energy science implications of last week’s press release from the House Minority Leader] Topics: oil markets and Iran Most of this week’s note deals with oil prices and Iran, but I did want to point out a tre...

330 A Glossary within a deme, programs are generally similar enough that reasonable syntax-semantics correlation obtains. e Derived Hypergraph: The SMEPH hypergraph obtained via modeling a system in terms of a hypergraph representing its internal states and their relationships....

Free Will 321 Newton's Rings It turns out a single photon can interfere with itself! How can this be? It must somehow split up and consider both the available paths reflecting off the glass surfaces. Now that we have these two concepts in our head, that a photon sometimes refl...

social "calibration" -- increasing one's capacity to read social situations -- as well as "inner game" and being attractive by improving oneself will generally be a positive good. Indeed, it could be argued that no PUA tactics are inherently abusive, but some are more obviously s...

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306 M. Hoffman et al. publicized self-immolation, and not a breach of a threshold in, say, the quality of life of citizens or the level of corruption. This explanation requires simply that we rec- ognize revolutions as a coordination problem (as argued in Morris & Shin, 2002; Ch...

…com/weblog/2015/01/23/why-bitcoin-is-.html > The way that Bitcoin is organized currently is that there are five core developers and around a hundred contributors to the core code. The five core developers are like Linus Torvalds of Linux. They decide what changes are made to the...

…e "connection" vs. "control" distinction, there is also a distinction between PUAs who are seeking what is essentially self-help, and those who aren't. The PUA concept that best illustrates this is "inner game." Inner game is, essentially, genuine confidence and sense of purpose...

…ld happen, in the summit talks. I found the exercise disappointing as a result. But Yossi Ginossar assured me it would help the atmosphere, and would eventually translate into negotiating progress. “I hope so,” I said. It wasn’t until day-four that real talks began. The American...

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…e Bookmark it View this image > Carlo Allegri / Reuters Over roughly the past month, coverage of Bill Clinton’s travels with financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein have made their way from a thick stack of court documents into something approaching political my...

I never feel like less of an American than when the richest people abandon the poorest. I never feel like less of an American than when a President lies, and his supporters applaud. Sometimes it takes the experience of shame to galvanize change, and this is such a time. Having...

… were not accidentally leaked. Snowden supplied them in written answers to interrogatives sent to him by Poitras and Appelbaum in May 2013 while he was still on the NSA payroll. He also carefully orches- trated the exposure of the PRISM surveillance programs, precisely specifying...

to their wireless set, waiting to hear whether the German army will advance on Warsaw. The Polish Intelligence Bureau badly needed to know what the German army was planning and had recruited this group of young mathematicians as code breakers. Up to this point, code- breaking had...

…retooling stripped-down components of organisms (from atoms to organs) in much the same vein as in the late 1970s, when electrical engineers were working their way to the first personal computer by assembling circuit boards, hard drives, monitors, etc. George created and is direc...