Saturday, March 31, 2012

"The nation's most densely populated urbanized area"

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This report from the census department highlights as aspect of the urbanization debate that tends to be overlooked (or worse ): The Ce...

California remains in rough shape

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The source of this quote is a father of two and Iraq war vet who works for the Atlantic council: In addition to the barbarism that is our ...

The rise of DC

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Aaron Renn : So we have New York entrenched as America's first city, and Washington, DC increasingly its new "Second City." ...

A programming question relating to board games

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Specifically hexagonal games. I'm trying to write out concise descriptions (almost pseudocode) of some games played on hexagonally tiled...
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Exciting academic career opportunity

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Remember that Washington Post op-ed about all those great community college jobs with excellent pay and almost no work? (Sure you do, I tal...
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Friday, March 30, 2012

Canada (finally) removes the penny from circulation

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The CBC news story is here . Why can't we do the same here in the United States?  Is there anybody left who sees a penny as a real unit...
Thursday, March 29, 2012

More on seventeen thousand -- bounding the problem

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As I mentioned before , David Levy has come in for plenty of criticism over his recent Washington Post piece , but there's one more poi...

Free roads, health care and This American Life

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Shortly after reading Joseph's post , I finally got around to this to this extraordinary examination of the small government movement fr...
Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Roads and Free markets

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A really interesting post by Timothy B Lee: Assembling the land needed for a long-distance road is prohibitively expensive without govern...
Monday, March 26, 2012

Seventeen thousand and change

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My first job after getting my master's in statistics in the Nineties was as a lecturer at large state university. It was a full time, 9-...
Sunday, March 25, 2012

Weekend gaming -- mutant sprouts

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A while back I posted a recommendation for a popular pencil-and-paper game: On the subject of topology, my game of choice is Sprouts, inven...
Saturday, March 24, 2012

Mark and I both remarked on this post

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Noah Smith:  A homeless girl turns out to be a science genius. I see stuff like this all the time. My brother-in-law grew up in a trailer ...
Friday, March 23, 2012

Consequences

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Matthew Yglesias has a really good point on economic policy : But of course "the policy of economic austerity" is not a living b...
Thursday, March 22, 2012

More on the growth fetish -- Facebook vs. Groupon

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There is a worthwhile exchange going on between Felix Salmon and Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry . I've already quoted Salmon , but Gobry makes ...
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Venture capital and the growth fetish

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Felix Salmon has another smart post on venture capital and the way he feels it distorts American business: Another way to look at this ques...
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