Monday, May 2, 2016

When is the presumption of reasonableness reasonable?

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From Wikipedia [emphasis added] Since the first corps was established in 1990, more than 42,000 corps members have completed their comm...
Friday, April 29, 2016

Actually, Whole Foods are both high-price and high-volume

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I have said before, I am in many ways generally sympathetic to the utopian urbanists. The problems they address are real and substantial an...
Thursday, April 28, 2016

Damn, apparently Krugman has gotten to the College Humor staff

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I was going to save this for later, but events seem to be picking up speed... One of the things that impresses me about College Humor th...
Wednesday, April 27, 2016

The Monsanto House of the Future

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More on the retro-future thread. Maybe "thread" is too strong a word. So far, it has mainly been fragments. Hopefully, this is b...
Tuesday, April 26, 2016

The “Prisoner's Dilemma” moratorium

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[Perhaps the nicest thing about having a blog is being able to shoot off an angry post when a news story annoys you.] I'm not sure wha...
Monday, April 25, 2016

Remembering the St. Francis Dam

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I'm not going to spend a lot of time pointing out the obvious. Anyone who's been following the pubic works debate should find someth...
Friday, April 22, 2016

"Likely not peer reviewed"

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Occasionally gross but otherwise safe for work. From the good people at College Humor.
Thursday, April 21, 2016

Suspensions and calm-down rooms in Boston

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If you've been following the no-excuses debate, you should definitely check out this story by Peter Balonon-Rosen. Last year, state ...
Wednesday, April 20, 2016

A missing data parable that links to secondary data use

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This is Joseph. Thomas Lumley points out a terrifying example of mean imputation gone terribly wrong .  It turns out that the source of ...
Tuesday, April 19, 2016

It still counts as commuting when you do it in an airplane

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In all of these posts about urban development, there is an underlying idea that I should probably spell out explicitly more often. My con...
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Monday, April 18, 2016

Striving to empower positive, problem-solving team members to aspire to inspire to create a culture of yes

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A hybrid of business speak and the language of motivational seminars has become disturbingly ubiquitous in the corporate world and has star...
Friday, April 15, 2016

Trump, Hitler and an excuse to post a College Humor video [slightly NSFW]

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Even if Trump doesn't get nomination, we're certainly going to have to make it through endless Fourth Reich analogies, many if not m...
Thursday, April 14, 2016

Intro to epi -- relative life expectancy

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From an actuarial standpoint...
Wednesday, April 13, 2016

When moving to a high density urban area increases commuting distance

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[preemptive apologies if I get something wrong in the following. I don't know much about the Bay Area and this kind of writing in the da...
Tuesday, April 12, 2016

When threads collide -- anti-trust and copyright

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[via Brad ] This piece on the new age of trusts by David Dayen does an excellent job discussing the extent of our growing monopoly/monops...