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...friend's e-mail about her recent bad date. Mail Goggles doesn't work - no math questions appear and the e-mail is sent. "Maybe you have to sign out and sign back in," suggests Laura. That works. If this is a necessary step, though, it's a huge flaw in the Mail Goggles system; nobody signs out of Gmail after every...
...Hidden Flaws and the "Reasonable Man" Medieval jurists like Maimonides identified a more specific kind of bad advice. They tackled the idea of the "hidden flaw," which, Levine points out, leads directly to a demand for fiscal disclosure. "If you sell an animal, you had to disclose to the buyer what the hidden flaw is," he explains. Not only that: "the disclosure has to be made so that a 'reasonable,' or average man can decide" whether to buy. Once again, almost the entire chain of transactors in the mortgage crisis is guilty: predatory brokers for not alerting working-class borrowers...
...Chris Patten's What Next?: Surviving the Twenty-First Century went to the printers, Russia has sent troops into Georgia and the global financial system has cracked so badly that some are pontificating about the end of capitalism. Yet Patten's ambitious book is so good that this inevitable flaw doesn't matter...
...Perhaps this “flaw,” if you’d like to take it so far, is due to an insane focus on mastery of the difficult so distracting that I can’t focus on the simple...
...current standoff, says Hourcade, is that in order to keep the capacity to build nuclear weapons out of Iran's hands, the West is offering Tehran incentives to forego certain activities - such as uranium enrichment - that it is legally allowed to pursue under the Non-Proliferation Treaty. "The flaw with the carrot and stick approach is that Iran's leaders - backed by wide consensus in Iranian society - view as a sovereign right the development of a civil nuclear program as they see fit, meaning any carrots designed as a swap for that are regarded as illegitimate as the disuasive sticks...