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Charity Navigator Pushing for Results
What matters in evaluating charities is results, but most charities either don't have or don't share the necessary evidence. The GiveWell approach with AMF, SCI, and Give Directly has been a...
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Variable Pricing
Mary sells tasty pizza from her food truck. Charging $2/slice, she always has a long line. A friend points out that charging a bit more would probably mean selling fewer slices, but with the higher...
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The standard view of Mutually Assured Distruction (MAD) is something like: During the cold war the US and USSR had weapons capable of immense destruction, but no matter how tense things got they never...
View ArticleAvoiding Distinctions With Abbreviations
In casual English I can talk about "veg advocacy", "being trans", or "Swarthmore alums". These abbreviations are helpful where more formal English would require a distinction I might not want to make:...
View ArticleInscrutable Blog Notes
When I get an interesting idea that I might want to make into a blog post I'll get out my phone and make a note. I'm generally in a hurry doing this, because I'm in the middle of something else or...
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