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Here’s an interesting article on the allure of really bad ideas<\/a>, and why it’s so difficult for all of you other<\/u> people <\/i>to divest yourselves of your silly and destructive cognitive errors and join me in my own pristine, logical, and inarguably right-thinking positions and well-considered beliefs.<\/p>\n

(via Dodd<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s an interesting article on the allure of really bad ideas, and why it’s so difficult for all of you other people to divest yourselves of your silly and destructive…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":128774,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/12\/the-seductive-allure-of-design-over-function.html","url_meta":{"origin":5577,"position":0},"title":"The Seductive Allure of Design over Function","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 12-Nov-15 7:10am","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm not an Apple user, so I have no direct skin in this game -- aside from recent moves by Google (with \"Material Design\") that have generally (a) made things look prettier, but (b) introduced some of the design issues discussed to the Androidverse. 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