Monday, August 20, 2018

A few points to remember about the recent (ongoing?) Meltdown of Elon Musk.

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[If you haven't been keeping up with the story, here's a good write-up from the superior Times.] 1. First off, we all know that...
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Friday, August 17, 2018

Shows with legs – – more background on the Netflix thread (and an excuse for a Friday post of MeTV promos)

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[corrected -- Dragon hears "nonrival" as "nonviable"] I've probably spent too much time on this thread already, b...
Thursday, August 16, 2018

Trump and testifying

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This is Joseph There have been a lot of calls for president Trump to testify about his actions in office,  for some pretty understandable...
Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Revisiting the Big Swinging Check Syndrome

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From W ikipedia Season Episodes Originally aired Nielsen ratings First aired Last aired Rank Average viewers (millions) 1 22 September ...
Tuesday, August 14, 2018

What does Netflix really want? Look at the content quadrants

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To make sense of the company's approach toward original content, it is useful to think in terms of long-term IP value vs the hype-genic,...
Monday, August 13, 2018

"Hype is the fog of business" or "you should've known something was up when Netflix bought the billboard company"

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How do you decide if a business scenario is viable? What heuristics do you use? How do you form your informal informative priors? How do ...
Friday, August 10, 2018

A few moments with Dick Cavett

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I've got a post coming up about the IP value of various TV genres. At the very bottom are talk shows which can pull great numbers initi...
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Thursday, August 9, 2018

Health Care and the poor

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This is Joseph.  And I am confused. Jon Chait: The state-level Republican crusade to deny the Medicaid expansion also hurt insurers. Me...
Wednesday, August 8, 2018

The dangers of Twitter

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This is Joseph, stealing Mark's normal beat. It seems Elon Musk tweeted that he had buyers lined up to take his company private at $42...
Tuesday, August 7, 2018

SCOTUS game theory

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This is Joseph I want to talk about this tweet in terms of game theory : What I am interested in is whether this would ever be a g...
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Monday, August 6, 2018

Kevin Drum on Medicare for all

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This is Joseph This as a remarkable development : The libertarians at the Mercatus Center did a cost breakdown of Bernie Sanders’ Medica...
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Friday, August 3, 2018

Really? This was actually advanced as an argument?

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This is Joseph How does one even parody this? At the same time, the draft says that people will drive less if their vehicles get fewer ...
Thursday, August 2, 2018

Socialism and its sub-textual meaning

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This is Joseph. I want to start with this tweet: And then point out this article : The reason this generation of democratic soci...
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Wednesday, August 1, 2018

Netflix Exit Strategies -- Comcast?

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I apologize for writing these out of order, but one of the lessons I've learned as a blogger is that, if you want to speculate on someth...

More on transit from Alon Levy

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This is Joseph This tweet thread by Alon Levy is worth reading in full .  In particular: Tech has been extremely successfully in solv...