Interesting Links for 18-05-2020

[andrewducker]

Smooth sharks are kryptonite for people for who have to be right all the time

(tags:sharks troll funny )

Turns out I'm socially liberal and economically left-wing. I'm shocked!

(tags:politics quiz viaDanielDWilliam )

Children from more disadvantaged families have fewer educational resources and parental support for home learning.

(tags:inequality school children pandemic )

Pizza Arbitrage - why the food delivery business is so awful

(tags:food delivery economics business Doom )

Dutch spies helped Britain's GCHQ break Argentine crypto during Falklands War

(tags:netherlands uk falklands cryptography history war )

What *are* are they teaching British kids about WWII?

(tags:wwii propaganda OhForFucksSake UK education )

Comments

[danieldwilliam]

For the record and for solicitation of further interesting comments ought I to post some of the thoughts from our chat about the Pizza Arbitrage here?

[calimac]

2. The political-values test says that many such tests "attempt to spin the questions to have the respondent come out in agreement with their own political view." True, but I've taken the well-known slanted libertarian test and came out the same conventional left-liberal I've always been.

However, I mostly avoid such tests because my response to the questions doesn't fit onto the sliding agree/disagree scale offered. That's certainly true of the first question which is all you can see until you answer it. (I hate tests that don't let you review the whole thing before responding.)

4. The main lesson I took away (sorry) from this is: if ordering food by phone, don't use the number on Yelp. Check the restaurant's own website.

[cmcmck]

So am I!

Who knew eh? :o)

[conuly]

That shark post, though. Some people just have no sense of humor.

[anna_wing]

My closest match is democratic socialism, which doesn't surprise me, though obviously all those questions were geared to a very specific ideological approach. Utilitarian consequentialism doesn't seem to be in their philosophical spectrum at all.