A random assortment of quotes I found interesting or entertaining. Small, but (theoretically) growing.
<Duesentrieb> yes, caching is easy, purging is hard
<Simetrical> Probably we'd still be arguing about it otherwise.
<flyingparchment> Simetrical: not if you do it how i do
<flyingparchment> ask for people's opinions, then take their good ideas and do it how i want
<gsnedders|work> ment: Everyone making up their own elements a good idea?
<gsnedders|work> ment: Shouldn't they go to standards organizations to specify them?
<Philip`> gsnedders|work: Not if they put colons in the names
<zcorpan_> going to file:/// gives me an xml parse error in firefox :-(
Lots of small diverse flawed studies, plus lots of diverse researchers each choosing their own criteria for rating and debating them, seems to me a recipe for everyone believing whatever they want. —Robin Hanson, "Too Much Debate"
Today we induce millions of people to make up mostly-random political opinions on hundreds of diverse complex policy topics they hardly understand, split into warring factions based on shared opinions, and then fight vicious political battles over which factions get to make the government implement their random opinions. I'd rather folks focused on generating meta-political-opinions, not about particular policies like wars or bank bailouts, but about what political processes best choose effective policies. —Robin Hanson, "Fight the Fighters"