My absolute favourite Dutch band (I’ll come back to Dutch bands with other occasions as well) is, by any measure, Doe Maar (chose the only rather complete bios in English to link here, the wiki one).
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Bad research…
The problem with all this type of research is that they (the authors) do not have any model to account for their findings. I mean, interesting observations, but…nothing more. Not to mention that it does contradict other studies (also within psychology; every day there’s a new descriptive study observing something else on two dozens observations and extrapolating to the whole population…).
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Stephen Dubner has this excellent post about how Google looked like 10 years ago. Pretty amazing, isn’t it? And you can also see the webpage of a young PhD called Sergey Brin, full of ideas (and- most likely without knowing it- with a very succesful career just years away).
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I keep wondering how can there be such a mixture of (not always) good (sometimes excellent!) economic policies (far better than most ‘opposition’ in the USA advocate- and that’s one problem there: the alternative might be worse, in overall terms), but absolutely insane ‘political’ ones (eventually leading to bad economic outcomes as well…), interfering with private life/ choice and meant to control, there is this obsession with controlling each and everybody’s activities, thoughts etc.,
→ Read more Inflation is illegal! (in Zimbabwe)
I don’t know whether it is in any way comforting to know that there are even worse politicians and decision makers than our very own, in Romania. Of course it is not at all comforting for the poor people from Zimbabwe, where the following example comes from.
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