Friday, November 1, 2013

Moral underpinnings of income

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John Sides brings up something that has long puzzled me : But, unlike with programs that do provide direct subsidies, most Americans do no...

Beware of shifting standards -- more fun with the Netflix narrative

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This is another example of the Netflix narrative and press release journalism , but I probably would have flagged this even without those ...
Thursday, October 31, 2013

An under-appreciated consequence of extremely long copyrights

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This is one of the unforeseen consequences of extremely long copyright terms : Not only have many copyright holders failed to keep their o...
Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Martians and metadata

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Just in case you don't know the story : The War of the Worlds is an episode of the American radio drama anthology series The Mercury T...
Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Intellectual Property

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We have not talked about copyright for a while, but this is an evergreen point: More recent characters never enter the public domain beca...
Monday, October 28, 2013

Rocco Pendola confirms some suspicions I've had about HBO and Netflix

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Why should you care about Netflix? It depends. If we're talking about Netflix the company, I can't think of a strong reason that...
Sunday, October 27, 2013

Negotiating costs

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A correspondent to Talking Points Memo makes a point that matches my experience : I've spent years making medical decisions based on...
Saturday, October 26, 2013

Weekend blogging -- supply your own metaphor

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Friday, October 25, 2013

Directionality

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There was a lot of concern that the Affordable Care Act would lead to fewer full time jobs.  The most immediate effect was the opposite: mor...

A Motley Fool uupdate -- the Avengers probably can beat up the Agents of SHIELD

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Just to recap: about a month ago Motley Fool ran a post with the provocative suggestion that the television program Agents of SHIELD could ...
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Thursday, October 24, 2013

Alternative thoughts

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I read this passage : For some people, disability insurance has become a way of exiting the labor force. It's hard for me to get into...

Journalistic decline and GOP dysfunction

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Picking up from Tactics, Schmactics ... When we talk about the mainstream media and the right-wing media and all the other little sliver m...
Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Efficient wage markets?

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One grows increasingly skeptical of the claims that wages are a perfect reflection of market values : The gap between skyrocketing CEO pay...
Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Tactics, Schmactics -- why I don't buy the latest trope on the government shut down

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[I haven't seen anyone frame the discussion in the following way, but a lot of the points I want to make in this thread have been made r...
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Monday, October 21, 2013

An army of sock puppets

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I'm working on a thread on the role of information and misinformation in GOP dysfunction. In the course of that thread, I'll probabl...