Comments on: Around the Web – December 6th, 2010

By: Russell

Russell — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 13:01:34 +0000

Re: Corruption. Has Bangladeshi corruption changed over time from what you’ve heard from relatives? Do corruption levels ever change for any society? I live here in Chicago and it seems that corruption is something that is talked about a good deal but is nowhere near as widespread as it used to be.

I really love the blog. Great insights.

By: Douglas Knight

Douglas Knight — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 23:54:10 +0000

Here is the paper on web history sniffing, including the list of sites.

By: Razib Khan

Razib Khan — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 17:59:17 +0000

read this:

http://www.amazon.com/Moral-Consequences-Economic-Growth/dp/1400095719/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1291744748&sr=1-1

By: Katharine

Katharine — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 17:46:12 +0000

This is why liberals should be very careful when talking about ’sustainability.’ If it sacrifices ‘blue skies’ then the vistas become dark.

Call me a socially inept idiot, but to me this makes no sense. It’s somehow a problem to say ‘Look, unless we do this, it’s going to be crap, and there’s no other way to do things well, and odds are people are going to suffer, but this is the way that makes the least amount of people suffer’?

Are the majority of humans this emotionally infantile?

By: Sandgroper

Sandgroper — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 14:10:22 +0000

I guess this pretty much answers my question: http://www.snipercentral.com/snipers.htm#WWII

By: Sandgroper

Sandgroper — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 13:49:50 +0000

“Hobbits Are White, But Should We Pretend Otherwise?”

Nope. The counterpoint to that was the casting for “The Legend of Billy Sing”, in which people of European descent have been cast in the roles of the half-Chinese Australian sniper Billy Sing in WW I and his fully Chinese father.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Sing

How many infantrymen any time in history have had a personal confirmed enemy kill rate of >150 ? Can’t be many.