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Which, [[ceteris paribus|all other things being equal]], should we prefer? Does one have, as a piece of credentialised technical knowledge abo Some domain masters — can we call them that? — will appeal to the related concept of [[Occam’s razor]] — ...

...|Tedium|/ˈtiːdɪəm/|n|}}<br>1. The state of being [[tedious]]; a [[noun]] ''so'' dull that dictionaries regularly define it by reference to its [[adjectiv ...included in hundreds of dictionaries, although perhaps none have rendered so poetic and succinct a definition as Nathaniel Bailey’s entry in his 1756 Ne ...

...that generations of [[legal eagle]]s have just abided by it, never asking what it is or why it is there. The young JC was one such eagle. So if you are in a hurry, stop there: a [[currency indemnity]] is fine; people ...

{{author|Rory Sutherland}}’s ten rules, and how these translate into the [[JC]]’s messed up, post-structuralist view. ...ycho-physics'''” — the difference between perception and reality. How what we see, hear, taste and feel differs from ‘objective’ reality. ...

{{Script|Herculio}}: How now, Ser Jez: how fares thy short?<br> And sold there what I borrowed: <br> ...

...at least as a metaphor, “[[Darwin’s Dangerous Idea]]” explains a lot about how complex decentralised systems of any kind work. ...d duties independent of its directors, offices, servants and shareholders. We take it for granted that the firm, and the natural people engaged on its be ...

...nformation is in the public domain, it is available for everyone to see or know about”}} ...ion that ''could be'' protected by [[intellectual property]] rights, but ''isn’t'', whether because those rights have expired, been forfeited, waived, or fo ...

...us watch it.</ref> electric monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things Someone hijacked the revolution, and we were too distracted to do anything about it. ...

Aren’t so ''smart''.. ...“becoming healthy, funny and physically appealing” — which is most likely what you really want. And, as with all Greek tragedies one can attain the proxy ...

{{a|crypto|{{Image|Snake-Oil-Salesman|jpg|}}}}{{Drop|C|ash, as you’ll}} know if you’ve had the pleasure of the [[JC]]’s [[Cash|frequent tedious perorati ...''trust'' in your token of value — that it really is worth something now, what that worth ''is'', in an abstract sense, that it will still be worth the sa ...

...>[[Lorraine Daston]], in her excellent {{br|Rules: A Short History of What We Live By}}, calls these “thin” rules — specific, formal, algorithmic micro-r ..., stops concentrating, or consults a fortune teller. Models behave badly. We see “[[Normal distribution|25 standard deviation moves, several days in a r ...

...come to mean “cutting one’s fishing line” — giving up the fish altogether. So, “crap, or get off the pot”.}}}}“[[Use it or lose it]]”, in the vernacular. ...agree when you were a two-person start-up above a shoe-shop in Camden. I ''know'', right? ...

I only put that in for a laugh, by the way: I don’t have the faintest idea what that all means. ...in which machines process symbols. It is not true of human language, given how the human interpretative act takes place. ...

...as it is informed so deeply by such a utopian (or dystopian, depending on how you look at it) view. ...just as for those currently redundant young masters of the universe then, we’re on the cusp of a brave new world. ...

{{a|work|{{image|serious people|gif|You know it.}} }}{{quote|“I love you, but you are not serious people.” :—Logan Roy, ''Succession''.}}As we approach the tenth anniversary of the [[great delamination]], it seems, qui ...

...[[Ponzi scheme]] for almost a decade before it finally fire-balled, knows how Cassandra felt. This is his recounting of his whole grisly story. ...[[Bernie Madoff]] was running a [[Ponzi scheme]], precisely why, precisely how, and offered some precise and simple measures by which an investigating aut ...

{{a|book review|}}{{br|The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right}} — {{author|Atul Gawande}} <br> ...'' — don’t dig unnecessarily detailed descriptions of surgery. For you — ''we'' — a business book by a surgeon, analogising business practice from surgic ...

...the practical implementation of [[normal science]], it it hard to explain how innovation happens. As Arthur puts it: ...created out of bow-drills and pottery firing techniques, or whatever else we deem to have existed at the start of technological time.'' ...

...ntentionally amusing quotes from senior people at JPMorgan who are paid to know better: ...oes not ''specifically'' allege that Javice was photogenic but she was, so we are going with this — 24 year-old founded “Frank”, an online tool to help s ...

...cing transactions regulation]], by composing an unctuous reply for you. “''So'' inspiring!” <br> 4. Oh help me we lawyers are all doomed because of ChatGPT-3 ...