Why Do You Believe You’re the Same Person You Were Yesterday?
Someone switched off your alarm this morning, and you’re sure it was you. What makes you the same person who set it? The second post in Open Questions.
Not All: The Right Answer to the Wrong Claim
Not all” is the right reply to “all”. Aimed at a claim about some, it answers nothing and ends the one conversation worth having.
Paying Off the Billion-Dollar Mistake
C# could never get rid of null. Instead, it has spent twenty years paying the debt down in instalments, and one line of code tells the whole story.
The Price of Admission
Twenty-five years of the euro, and what cooperation actually costs
Panasonic ES-LS9A, two and a half years in: would I buy it again?
I’ve just ordered replacement blades for my Panasonic ES-LS9A. Paying to keep a two-and-a-half-year-old shaver going, rather than replacing it, already answers the question
Destroyed With Facts and Logic
The popular atheist case against religion was already shallow, and the same habits carried straight over to feminism.
Victorinox Pioneer X Alox, 16 months in: would I buy it again?
A Swiss Army knife is one of the few things I’d recommend to anyone. It’s small enough to keep on you, it lasts for years, and it handles the little jobs that come up all the time, from opening a package to tightening a loose screw.