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| The best articles from economist.com, according to Hacker News. |
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2018 | | American tech giants are making life tough for startups (economist.com) |
| 645 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 128 comments |
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2012 | | Thinking too much can be bad for you (economist.com) |
| 336 points | 4 years ago with 252 comments |
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2018 | | Teenagers are better behaved and less hedonistic (economist.com) |
| 277 points | 4 years ago with 434 comments |
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2015 | | Girls perform better academically in almost all countries (economist.com) |
| 267 points | 3 years ago with 559 comments |
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2018 | | The rise of universities’ diversity bureaucrats (economist.com) |
| 257 points | 2 years ago with 338 comments |
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2017 | | As crime dries up, Japan’s police hunt for things to do (economist.com) |
| 201 points | 5 years ago with 336 comments |
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2014 | | Why is everyone so busy? (economist.com) |
| 198 points | 6 years ago with 142 comments |
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2018 | | The antidote to civilisational collapse – An interview with Adam Curtis (economist.com) |
| 171 points | 3 years ago with 213 comments |
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2011 | | Game theory in practice (economist.com) |
| 143 points | 8 years ago with 23 comments |
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2018 | | AI thinks like a corporation (economist.com) |
| 140 points | 5 years ago with 60 comments |
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2018 | | Which firms profit most from America’s health-care system (economist.com) |
| 122 points | 4 years ago with 161 comments |
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2013 | | Why are your friends more popular than you? (economist.com) |
| 120 points | 8 years ago with 94 comments |
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2015 | | Badly educated men have not adapted well to trade, technology or feminism (economist.com) |
| 117 points | 7 years ago with 88 comments |
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2006 | | IKEA: Flat-pack accounting (economist.com) |
| 113 points | 15 years ago with 31 comments |
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2016 | | The way out of burnout (economist.com) |
| 107 points | 1 year ago with 84 comments |
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2017 | | Efficiency eludes the construction industry (economist.com) |
| 103 points | 3 years ago with 133 comments |
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2013 | | Giving money directly to poor people (economist.com) |
| 102 points | 6 years ago with 97 comments |
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2010 | | The World in 2036: Nassim Taleb looks at what will break, and what won't (economist.com) |
| 97 points | 4 years ago with 111 comments |
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2008 | | Quality of a man’s sperm depends on how intelligent he is, and vice versa (economist.com) |
| 85 points | 10 years ago with 31 comments |
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2013 | | The internet’s fifth man (economist.com) |
| 82 points | 4 years ago with 45 comments |
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2016 | | A.I. will have implications for education, welfare and geopolitics (economist.com) |
| 82 points | 6 years ago with 32 comments |
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2010 | | Doctoral degrees: The disposable academic (economist.com) |
| 77 points | 11 years ago with 88 comments |
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2016 | | The economics of the Birkin bag (economist.com) |
| 69 points | 1 year ago with 66 comments |
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2009 | | Tongue Twisters: In search of the world’s hardest language (economist.com) |
| 62 points | 3 years ago with 49 comments |
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2013 | | A Review of Graeber's Essay on “Bullshit Jobs” (economist.com) |
| 57 points | 9 years ago with 46 comments |
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1955 | | How work expands to fill available time (economist.com) |
| 52 points | 15 years ago with 3 comments |
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2019 | | Death of the Calorie (economist.com) |
| 49 points | 3 years ago with 99 comments |
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2010 | | The Disposable Academic: Why doing a PhD is often a waste of time (economist.com) |
| 47 points | 11 years ago with 57 comments |
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1955 | | Parkinson's Law: work expands to fill the time available (economist.com) |
| 46 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 0 comments |
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2014 | | Slumps that shaped modern finance (economist.com) |
| 44 points | 5 years ago with 6 comments |
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2015 | | Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception (economist.com) |
| 42 points | 6 years ago with 1 comments |
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2018 | | Japanese houses have limited lifespans (economist.com) |
| 36 points | 1 year ago with 51 comments |
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2017 | | The Body in the Buddha (economist.com) |
| 32 points | 2 years ago with 10 comments |
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2016 | | American children are drowning in self-esteem (economist.com) |
| 27 points | 1 year ago with 5 comments |
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2017 | | 1834: The First Cyberattack (economist.com) |
| 22 points | 1 year ago with 8 comments |
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2004 | | Out with the long (economist.com) |
| 18 points | 1 year ago with 4 comments |
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