That's rather how I feel when people talk about the latest fashion among investment banks and hedge funds: high-frequency algorithmic trading. On top of an already dangerously influential and morally suspect financial minefield is now being added the unthinking power of the machine.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/opinion/29wilmott.xml

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It's also possible to induce a state of "psychological distance" simply by changing the way we think about a particular problem

http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/2009/07/designing_for_creativity.php

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I think this is exactly the kind of story you can't get from bloggers in their jammies.

The rules are different for drivers and immigrants, who are required to provide identification upon request.

Airports used to be called "fields"—as in La Guardia Field and O'Hare Field. All you needed was a grassy landing strip and a windsock, and perhaps a shack for the passengers, who simply walked over to the planes.

We were talking past each other I suppose.

http://prospect.org/cs/articles?article=are_depressions_necessary

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Globalization opened up opportunities to find new people to exploit their ignorance.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/207390?from=rss

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Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backward.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/article;jsessionid=7C96B8F42CF75C94FD30CD5C94F3035C.w5?a=402861&f=28&sub=Columnist

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After all, these guys have never needed to speak inspirational words to others like them, as Sotomayor has done. They've had codes, handshakes and clubs to do that.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/article;jsessionid=7B27802F6C25FC5C0B451287C8B08B2C.w5?a=402789&f=28&sub=Columnist

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Try to reason it out in your head, step back and analyze all the angles for your partner's reasoning.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_best_way_to_confront_a_cheating_wife_when_you_have_undeniable_proof

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A new report compiled by the Institute for Advanced Studies stated Monday that, aw, you probably wouldn't be interested and who really cares to begin with.

http://mobile.theonion.com/siteserver/site?t=J9lUeTuRV1mH0o9AZYuhuA&sid=onion

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"I have always understood, absolutely to prescribe," Edmund Burke observed in parliamentary debate in 1774,‪ "whenever we are involved in difficulties from the measures we have pursued, that we should take a strict review of those measures, in order to correct our errors if they should be corrigible; or at least to avoid a dull uniformity in mischief, and the unpitied calamity of being repeatedly caught in the same snare."

http://www.nationalinterest.org/Article.aspx?id=21640

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Though he once complained he could "never seem to get the clarity and concision" he wanted, this failure held the key to his fiction's uncanny impersonation of the educated American mind—a mind choked with manipulative jargon and self-conscious prattle.

http://www.thepointmag.com/death1.html

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Childhood is a branch of cartography.

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22891

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