Interesting Links for 07-06-2016

[andrewducker]

Britain's housing shortage takes marriage, children, and careers off the agenda for millions

(tags: society housing uk relationships marriage )

Panama Papers Show How Rich United States Clients Hid Millions Abroad

(tags: usa tax )

The Condorcet Paradox at work? Rock-paper-scissors in the EU referendum

(tags: referendum europe immigration voting paradox viaFanf )

Uncovering a 30 year old C64 bug

(tags: bug Technology history )

The Five Monkeys Experiment Obviously Never Happened

(tags: monkeys science psychology meme )

Babies don't just look cute, they even smell cute

(tags: cute babies smell sight touch )

The Simulation Argument FAQ

(tags: simulation matrix philosophy reality )

A friend in Edinburgh is starting up a parent+kids choir

(tags: music edinburgh )

Saturday Morning Watchmen - disturbingly entertaining!

(tags: watchmen animation funny )

Genetic variations linked with social, economic success

(tags: genetics genes success )

In US, poverty dampens genetic influence on IQ

(tags: iq genetics genes poverty usa )

Connection established between anxiety control, inflammation, Type 2 diabetes

(tags: anxiety diabetes inflammation )

2001 A Space Odyssey Fail (when every member of the orchestra plays the wrong instrument)

(tags: music fail video )

Disadvantages of purely functional programming

(tags: programming )

NoScript is harmful and promotes Malware!

(tags: advertising web OhForFucksSake )

Psychopathic colleagues can be helpful and co-operative

Or, perhaps more accurately, "psychopathy is a mixture of different traits, not all of which are necessarily harmful."
(tags: psychopath psychology work )

It’s Not Just Robots: Skilled Jobs Are Going to “Meatware”

(tags: work Technology thefuture )

Comments

[casimirian]

Thanks for the information about the malware. Where did you find this article?

[redbird]

Yes, that's definitely a "who do you trust?" moment, between something I've been using for a while (which is no guarantee) and a warning from liltinkerer, someone I've never heard of.

[andrewducker]

It was on YCombinator - and people there were taking it seriously.

[casimirian]

I unsubscripted from No-Script for now.

[marahmarie]

Honestly I don't use NoScript myself. I used to use it, plug it on my blog and think it was all that until I realized it really is destroying the Internet. Using Ghostery or any reputable adblocker is more flexible, allows pages to load faster (yes, faster) and does it more naturally while maintaining much more of their intended appearance. NoScript goes about solving the problem badly. And if you really want its features without all the hassle there are tiny little add-ons like Toggle JavaScript (its actual name) that do the same thing without NS's overkill.

I consider NoScript and NukeThemAll to be the two primary web page destroyers on the Internet (besides Internet Exploder, which still regularly blows up webpages on my Win 8 phone like targets in a simulated wargame -the only thing missing is better graphics when they do blow up. I'd like to see all kinds of sparkly shit, like fireworks, for instance, every time I lose another web page to its antics. Especially since that's like, every 5 minutes).