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An interesting article on “power law” problems where, unlike the unexpected bell curve, the majority of the problems\/costs are caused by a tiny minority of cases<\/a> — the most hardcore homeless, the “bad apple” cops, the few really polluting cars– and how solutions to these problems are often counter-intuitive or seemingly unfair.<\/p>\n

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An interesting article on “power law” problems where, unlike the unexpected bell curve, the majority of the problems\/costs are caused by a tiny minority of cases — the most hardcore…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-law"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":128300,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/13\/senate-majority-considers-weakening-the-minority-filibuster-again.html","url_meta":{"origin":9147,"position":0},"title":"Senate Majority considers weakening the Minority filibuster (again)","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 13-Oct-15 7:30pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So all those GOP Senators who were so adamant that the filibuster was the critical tool to maintain civility, order, and to prevent radical law-passage by a tyrannical majority -- back when they were the minority in the Senate -- are now beginning to wonder if they should chip away\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4581,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/08\/04\/growing_pains.html","url_meta":{"origin":9147,"position":1},"title":"Growing pains","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 4-Aug-03 2:00pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Interesting article on my city and its various financial problems. 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