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Brian Hurt

Brian Hurt has written 124 posts for Enfranchised Mind. You can follow Brian on Twitter at @.

Nuclear Rationality

By Brian Hurt | Published: March 20, 2011

In the wake of Fukushima, an awful lot of irrationality has been going around about nuclear power. Some of it, I’ll grant, is on the anti-nuclear side of things. Especially with people thousands of miles away being terrified of radiation. But, at least from what I’ve seen, far more of it has been on the [...]

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I officially hate Apple

By Brian Hurt | Published: February 16, 2011

So Apple announced it’s new rules for apps on their iPhones and iPads accessing paid content. The rules are pretty simple, albeit it evil: If you provide an app to view your paid content on the iPhone/iPad, you have to be able to register for the paid content via the app, If you register for [...]

Posted in Software Business | 9 Comments

Why does this ad make me more inclined to vote for Rand Paul?

By Brian Hurt | Published: October 16, 2010

As you read this, please remember that I strongly disagree (and that’s putting it nicely) with Libertarianism, and that I’m a liberal, progressive, and staunch Democrat (if I leave the Democratic party, it’ll be to the left). But yeesh…

Posted in Classic, Politics | 9 Comments

Ten Million Dead- a response about H1N1

By Brian Hurt | Published: October 9, 2010

This will be a short (and hopefully not too incoherent) post, as I’m still recovering from a cold. But I have to respond to Robert’s post on the overhyping of the H1N1 Avian flu. First of all, there’s a reason why the CDC has kittens every time flu season rolls around. This is because the [...]

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And now slapstick is endangered…

By Brian Hurt | Published: September 12, 2010

Irony died shortly after birth. Satire was critically wounded by a combination of Poe’s Law and the Onion becoming prophetic. But now, we’re starting to lose straight up slapstick: Dresden, Germany, resident Petra Kujau, 51, was fined $380,000 this week and given a two-year suspended sentence for selling 300 copies of masterpieces by artists like [...]

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