Of course you can't 'trust' what people tell you o... -Douglas Adams

Of course you can't 'trust' what people tell you on the web anymore than you can 'trust' what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.

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Douglas Alexander is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament and held various positions in the UK government.

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A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools....
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Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do....
Of course you can't 'trust' what people tell you on the web anymore than you can 'trust' what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restauran...
Because the Internet is so new, we still don't really understand what it is. We mistake it for a type of publishing or broadcasting, because that's wh...
Computers are still technology because we are still wrestling with it: it's still being invented; we're still trying to work out how it works. There's...
We no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn't worked out how many legs chairs shoul...
I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons....
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by....

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Obama, startled that components of government behave as interest groups, seems utterly unfamiliar with public choice theory. It demystifies and de-rom...
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Thus, the focus on this main political goal must become more visible in EU politics and to achieve this, we need a political impulse. It must be clear...
It's been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: 'I'm going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.' You've just got...
Especially among journalists, politics is not a pursuit that's held in high esteem. We tend to be cynical about it - but I actually believe in democra...
As Mike Tyson says, everybody has a plan until they get hit in the mouth. The one thing we know about American presidential politics is you're going t...
Anyone in politics would like to have great economic numbers....
I don't know anything about politics. Like, zero. Nothing....
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No one wants to die, and no one wants to die poor. These are the two fundamental truths that transcend culture, they transcend politics, they transcen...