Wednesday, March 31, 2021

"Every fool aspired to be a knave"

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If you can't spot the relevance of this excerpt from Charles Mackay's Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds , ...
Tuesday, March 30, 2021

Even if scoundrels and fools get huge returns, that doesn't mean the reasons for avoiding scoundrels and fools no longer apply

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This well-written paragraph, from @RobinWigg article in the @FT on " #Archegos poses hard questions for #WallStreet ", capture...
Monday, March 29, 2021

Vitamin D

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This is Joseph There seems to be an odd discussion of micronutrients that suggest that large doses are beneficial. I first encountered this ...
Friday, March 26, 2021

AstraZeneca dust-up

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 This is Joseph Statement from AstraZeneca  was titled (emphasis mine): AZD1222 US Phase III trial met primary efficacy endpoint in preventi...
Thursday, March 25, 2021

Repost: I wonder where Republicans got the idea that they could get away with using false claims about election fraud to justify voter suppression

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  TUESDAY, MAY 3, 2016 Context only counts if it shows up in the first two dozen paragraphs The New York Times has a good piece on the impac...
Wednesday, March 24, 2021

He came to extend the light of consciousness to the stars and we accused him of having a messiah complex

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I am accumulating resources to help make life multiplanetary & extend the light of consciousness to the stars — Elon Musk (@elonmusk)...
Tuesday, March 23, 2021

There's also a Laffer connection if you follow the links

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Cathie Woods ,  the founder, CEO, and CIO of ARK Investment Management is probably the most prominent and possibly the most  influential ...
Monday, March 22, 2021

E.W. Niedermeyer points out an important paradox with autonomous systems -- if Tesla's FSD didn't suck so much, it would be dangerous

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Those who follow Tesla Twitter, particularly from the critical side, have been seeing quite a bit of this. The last four seconds of this v...
Friday, March 19, 2021

When we said drones will revolutionize the industry, we should have been more specific

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Go back eight or ten years and take a look at the predictions for drone delivery services. You'll see that we aren't nearly as far a...
Thursday, March 18, 2021

The story is "Tesla has one message for customers and investors, and another one for legal authorities." The meta-story is that the bastion of conventional wisdom is telling this story.

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Did you know that Tesla is the first automaker to announce both purchase and subscription options for a product that doesn't exist? What...
Wednesday, March 17, 2021

I love LA... Penultimate Snow

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Last week and this past Monday, the weather included some late winter storms, very probably the last of the year. The snow line got down to ...
Tuesday, March 16, 2021

Vaccine nuance

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This is Joseph. Are all covid-19 vaccines precisely equal? No. Should you care very much which one you get? Also no. This seems like a contr...
Monday, March 15, 2021

If David Wallace-Wells was all that concerned about vaccine hesitancy, maybe he shouldn't have promoted the myth of a West Hollywood autism epidemic

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 I've been meaning to do an in-depth thread on David Wallace-Wells -- the issues of climate change, megafires and global pandemics are f...
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Friday, March 12, 2021

This is getting dumb

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This is Joseph Matt Yglesias commenting on the NYT : Also noted by Alex Tabbarok :  AZ has on the order of 50 million doses nearly ready to...

Defunding the police

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This is Joseph. I am a big fan of reading history. While I admit I have a Western European and Classical period bias in my reading, it isn...