claymmm

That's it, HN is dead to me. "How I Monetized My Passion" is self-parody. When you can't tell the difference between parody and the real thing you're a goner.

People always shoot the messenger for pointing this out, so I'll expect about a million downvotes for it, but in case you case didn't know it already GNXP is the cryptoracist camp along with Charles Murray and Steve Sailer. Seriously, check out some of the comments.

Okay, now you can downvote me.

This is exactly like an arsonist burning down a building to collect insurance. It's plain old fraud.

Brilliant!

BTW, I actually read the book. It's alright but really repetitive after the first couple of chapters. McCloskey overwrites as usual.

The diet pill example ("Oomph" and "Precision") from the Ziliak and McCloskey's book really made it clear for me:

http://books.google.com/books?id=JWLIRr_ROgAC&lpg=PA25&#...

According to "Viking Age Iceland" the Icelanders mostly settled disputed by tit-for-tat revenge killing of each others' slaves. It was all really grim.

http://www.amazon.com/Viking-Age-Iceland-Penguin-History/dp/...