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mefi.rupa/#mefi.2007:14:41 <@esch> duckstab: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FreakonomicsBlog/~3/128657380/
mefi.rupa/#mefi.2007:16:18 <@cortex> I'm leveraging my experience hollering at idiots on metatalk: i'm hollering at idiots at the freakonomics blog in my spare time.
mefi.rupa/#mefi.2007:16:21 <@cortex> http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/08/17/feed-interrupted-another-rss-issue/#comments
mefi.rupa/#mefi.2007:16:22 <@bp> http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/08/17/feed-interrupted-another-rss-issue/#comment-102226 - is that seriously Dave Winer
mefi.rupa/#mefi.2007:18:35 <@esch> I'm pissed that the freakonomics feed isn't full post anymore.
mefi.rupa/#mefi.2007:21:43 <@cortex> The fine readers of the Freakonomics blog post their questions for Mefi's Own Adam (and Jamie).
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mefi.rupa/#mefi.2008:21:09 <+lrrr> antifreez was a full feed, like before. Terrible move Freakonomics, absolutely terrible. (Not to mention, maybe you need to throw away almost your entire life paradigm in 2 lines
mefi.rupa/#mefi.2008:21:09 <@Krrrlson> hey, i just finished reading freakonomics
mefi.rupa/#mefi.2008:11:51 <@[31d1]> "Having read a lot of alarmist blog posts lately, I can say categorically that nobody is more qualified to comment on America's financial condition than a Ruby on Rails programmer who read Freakonomics.
mefi.rupa/#mefi.2008:19:31 <@limepi> Having read a lot of alarmist blog posts lately, I can say categorically that nobody is more qualified to comment on America's financial condition than a Ruby on Rails programmer who read Freakonomics.
mefi.rupa/#mefi.2009:11:28 <@tehloki> lysol: have you read freakonomics, with the part about how roe v. wade triggered a massive crime drop
mefi.rupa/#mefi.2009:16:26 <@tarheelcoxn> heh. http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/17/bicycle-inflation-in-paradise/
mefi.rupa/#mefi.2009:18:44 <@limepi> hello i read freakonomics and also gang leader for a day
mefi.rupa/#mefi.2010:02:06 <@tehloki> okay i think josiah + superfreakonomics have converted me to the "anthropogenic climate change is mostly bullshit" camp
mefi.rupa/#mefi.2010:02:06 <@tehloki> mostly superfreakonomics
mefi.rupa/#mefi.2010:21:46 <@tehloki> from reading superfreakonomics i have determined that until it's more profitable in both capital (currently true) and votes (currently incredibly false) politicians will not push for sensible drug reform
mefi.rupa/#mefi.2011:02:27 <@tehloki> i'm watching freakonomics: the movie
mefi.rupa/#mefi.2011:19:59 < mach5> freakonomics doc was good
mefi.rupa/#mefi.2011:19:54 <@rob> outside of the fact freakonomics is mostly silly
mefi.rupa/#mefi.2012:14:06 <@esch> because malcolm gladwell is second in DSing by armchair economists only to the Freakonomics guys
mefi.rupa/#mefi.2012:23:19 <@Krrrlson> i am pretty convinced by the freakonomics thing about abortion causing a reduction in crime rates in america
mefi.rupa/#mefi.2012:00:31 <+shake> Abe i like to be put off by the freakonomics thing about vicodin/whatever is where you are viewing an image, it centers it on lifehacker.com.
mefi.rupa/#mefi.2012:21:16 <@tacodog> finally saw the Freakonomics movie on netflix. it was ok.
mefi.rupa/#mefi.2012:21:16 <@Juffo-Wup> huh i didn't know there was a freakonomics movie
mefi.rupa/#mefi.2012:01:52 <@pyna> YOUTUBE: Steven Levitt: The freakonomics of McDonalds vs. drugs
mefi.rupa/#mefi.2013:14:45 < doublehappy> My Dad is one of the people I am complaining about, along with almost the entire internet, and some of my less... intellectual friends. "I think you're wrong about that, Jason, because I read in Freakonomics that it's better for real estate agents to lie."
mefi.rupa/#mefi.2013:16:14 <@dmd> http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/09/01/suicide-vs-homicide-by-state-per-100000/
mefi.rupa/#mefi.2013:16:00 <@Juffo-Wup> lololol sending fake dead cats to crematories for SCIENCE: http://freakonomics.com/2013/10/14/the-troubled-cremation-of-stevie-the-cat-a-new-freakonomics-radio-podcast/
mefi.rupa/#mefi.2013:00:35 <@iank> i listened to a freakonomics thing about pregancy and risk
mefi.rupa/#mefi.2014:13:02 < m[at]> http://freakonomics.com/2014/02/07/the-downside-of-smoking-pot/?preview=true
mefi.rupa/#mefi.2014:15:25 <@tacodog> http://freakonomics.com/2012/08/20/this-website-only-open-during-business-hours/
mefi.rupa/#mefi.2014:13:30 <@iank> freakonomics amyebe
mefi.rupa/#mefi.2015:12:06 <@krrrlson> which freakonomics thing
mefi.rupa/#mefi.2015:12:06 <@Juffo-Wup> the freakonomics abortion theory?
mefi.rupa/#mefi.2016:20:16 <@tehloki> lol one of the guys from freakonomics is trying to sell a beta mox jet on twitter
mefi.rupa/#mefi.2017:23:48 <@tehloki> I heard about this on Freakonomics for some reason
mefi.rupa/#mefi.2017:16:41 <@mach5> pyna: didnt freakonomics cover this
mefi.rupa/#mefi.2017:22:31 <@tehloki> Freakonomics
mefi.rupa/#mefi.2017:22:32 <@tmkf> tehloki: yeah god i hate freakonomics
mefi.rupa/#mefi.2017:12:01 <@tehloki> he said more about it on a freakonomics
mefi.rupa/#mefi.2018:17:31 <@tehloki> there was a freakonomics episode about how giving people health insurance actually makes people go to the doctor more & thats bad
mefi.rupa/#mefi.2018:02:57 <@tehloki> note: this is based off whatever studies cited by the freakonomics podcast in like 2014
mefi.rupa/#mefi.2018:16:27 < dh1_> FREAKONOMICS
mefi.rupa/#mefi.2018:16:30 <@necKro> freakonomics only ever applies if you're Prince's accountant
mefi.rupa/#mefi.2018:12:42 < knifebutt> 2. ABCDE is a Yahtzee roll with letters instead of numbers. The Mom should be ashamed. It's like the Asswipe Johnson SNL skit or that chapter in Freakonomics with Lemonjello and
mefi.rupa/#mefi.2020:15:58 <@tehloki> i listened to a freakonomics about how weird this deduction is and i dont think i fully understood how you get the amount you can deduct then either
mefi/2020-02-06.log:[15:58:14] <tehloki> i listened to a freakonomics about how weird this deduction is and i dont think i fully understood how you get the amount you can deduct then either
mefi/2021-10-28.log:[14:45:06] <dh4> harry predicted this using freakonomics
mefi/2022-11-05.log:[12:28:30] <esch> first ep is talking about why Freakonomics is a disaster
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