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A Long Slumber [Flash Fiction #1]

It was only in the second before the club made contact with the back of his skull that he realized that they had crept up on him. He'd been squatting on the ground, trying to set light to a bundle of twigs

books

What I'm Reading, November 2020 Edition

* The Dream Machine [https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dream-Machine-Licklider-Revolution-Computing/dp/014200135X] , M. Mitchell Waldrop. A biography of J.C.R. Licklider who was a pioneer of computing and human-computer interaction. This is an important piece of history that people interested in computer science should

economics

Why Are The Prices So Damn High?

This [https://www.mercatus.org/system/files/helland-tabarrok_why-are-the-prices-so-damn-high_v1.pdf] provocatively named paper tries to understand why prices in healthcare, education, and a few other sectors have increased so much. The focus is on the US but I believe the results hold for

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