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Marginal Revolution

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Popular posts: 33
Total points: 6,290
HN comments: 4,629
Rank: #147 personal

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Society, Policy & Culture 18 Tech Industry & Business 5 Science & Space 4 Life, Learning & Writing 3 Software Engineering 2 Programming Languages 1

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1

Jake Seliger has died

2024960 points193 comments Life, Learning & Writing details

2

“Get Out of Jail Free” Cards in New York

2018621 points239 comments Society, Policy & Culture details

3

Half Doses of Moderna Vaccine Produce Neutralizing Antibodies

2021339 points391 comments Science & Space details

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Restrictions on house sharing by unrelated roommates

2025311 points394 comments Society, Policy & Culture details

5

College has been oversold

2011299 points239 commentscited by 5Society, Policy & Culture details

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Authoritarians Distract Rather Than Debate

2017212 points151 comments Society, Policy & Culture details

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Is Legal Pot Crippling Mexican Drug Trafficking Organisations?

2018207 points175 comments Society, Policy & Culture details

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Lessons from “The Profit”

2018204 points62 comments Tech Industry & Business details

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The Japanese Urban Zoning System

2016187 points60 commentscited by 3Society, Policy & Culture details

10

Work on these things

2020175 points182 comments Life, Learning & Writing details

11

Be Safe, Break the Law

2011168 points79 comments Society, Policy & Culture details

12

Why isn’t New Zealand richer and more productive?

2014166 points163 comments Tech Industry & Business details

13

Has there been progress in philosophy?

2018159 points247 comments Life, Learning & Writing details

14

One take on working in some of the major tech companies

2018146 points33 comments Career & Management details

15

Cultivating minds: The psychological consequences of rice versus wheat farming

2024139 points69 comments Science & Space details

16

Nuclear waste is a solved problem

2021130 points192 comments Science & Space details

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Why Do Domestic Prices Rise with Tarriffs?

2025128 points200 comments Tech Industry & Business details

18

“The real problems are with the back end of the software”

2013125 points148 comments Software Engineering details

19

Bertrand Russell’s 10 Commandments for Teachers

2012120 points37 comments Society, Policy & Culture details

20

No One Is Innocent

2013119 points29 comments Society, Policy & Culture details

21

Why Paul Romer Won the Nobel Prize in Economics

2018117 points54 comments Tech Industry & Business details

22

Teachers Don’t Like Creative Students

2011111 points51 comments Society, Policy & Culture details

23

Asian-American admissions at Harvard

2018110 points111 comments Society, Policy & Culture details

24

The rise and decline of thinking over feeling

2021109 points106 comments Society, Policy & Culture details

25

The 57,000 Page Tax Return

2011106 points99 comments Society, Policy & Culture details

26

Tantrums as Status Symbols (2005)

2016106 points59 comments Society, Policy & Culture details

27

A comparison of programming languages in economics

2014104 points81 comments Programming Languages details

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Too Good to Be True: How More Evidence Can Decrease Confidence

2016104 points46 comments Science & Space details

29

Norway Chess cancels Alexander Grischuk

2022103 points239 comments Society, Policy & Culture details

30

Why is Singapore no longer "cool"?

2026102 points287 comments Society, Policy & Culture details