A few fallacies, for your consideration... #1 is my personal favorite, correlation vs causality.
Speaking of fallacies, Minimum Wage, Maximum Ignorance. "Once upon a time, the minimum wage, like free trade, was a basic test of whether you were awake in the first week of econ 1." Of all the liberal economic canards, this one is my favorite. Socialism does not work, period. ![Permalink](/images/link.gif)
[Update: Elizabeth Warren: Minimum Wage Would Be $22 An Hour If It Had Kept Up With Productivity. This is a beautiful example of both fallacies highlighted above, combined!]
Paul Graham: The Final Pinch. "There may be nothing founders are so prone to delude themselves about, as how interested investors will be in giving them additional funding." Ouch. ![Permalink](/images/link.gif)
This is pretty cool: Tableware appears to sink into the table. These mats could be useful for explaining gravity :) ![Permalink](/images/link.gif)
Ev Williams, founder of Blogger, Twitter, and Medium, [re]launches a venture fund called Obvious Corp. Cool! ![Permalink](/images/link.gif)
And finally, I agree with Kottke: this skiing line of the year is batshit crazy. Just when you think you've seen everything, you realize "everything" is so much more than you thought.
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