Friday, March 31, 2017

It's been too long since we've watched a video of a railgun test

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Jalopnik's Kristen Lee catches us up . Of course, I'm still holding out for something a bit more ambitious .
Thursday, March 30, 2017

Jon Chait and game theory

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This is Joseph Jon Chait: If Republicans are telling Democrats that any attempt to filibuster the Republican nominee will lead to the Re...

US Healthcare reform

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This is Joseph. I want to highlight a couple of issues about free market health care Ezra Klein: But in health care, the cheapest...
Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Without precedent, beyond analogy

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Sometimes, the best examples come after the post has run. Last month  we made the following point about attempts to draw analogies between T...
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Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Maybe Paltrow and Tom Brady* could go into business together

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In journalism, as in all things, there is no such thing as an original sin. Press-release pseudo-reporting and publicist ghostwriters have b...
Monday, March 27, 2017

Self driving cars

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This is Joseph Over at Vox, Timothy B. Lee makes an argument about self-driving cars : We don’t have enough data yet to say how today’s ...
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Friday, March 24, 2017

R.I.P. Chuck Berry

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This has always been my favorite ,
Thursday, March 23, 2017

Does this solution work at scale? A question we should ask more

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This is Joseph Lawyers, guns, and Money points to this article by Emmie Martin.   It details the journey of a young woman out of student ...
Wednesday, March 22, 2017

"Nobody told me there would be a test!"

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The good people at Gizmodo pass on a clever (although, I suspect, doomed) idea for improving the quality of our online discourse: From Bry...
Tuesday, March 21, 2017

It's always reassuring when Josh Marshall agrees with you

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We did a post last month on game theory and the relationship between Trump and the GOP [emphasis added]: However, while the relationshi...
Monday, March 20, 2017

How did the press develop a top quartile worldview?

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Admittedly, it is always dangerous going to Business Insider for a representative anecdote, but this is a conversation we've been having...
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Friday, March 17, 2017

Bialystock's Paradox: Paul Ryan, Supergenius edition

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Paul Krugman makes an essential point about the press's favorite serious Republican idea man: Start with Ezra Klein, who speculates t...
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Thursday, March 16, 2017

iPhones versus health care

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This is Joseph. There was a recent comment to the Jason Chaffetz's comments that people might allocate resources to health care instea...
Wednesday, March 15, 2017

“Raised the IQ of both places”

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 We are talking about journalistic standards rather than IQ scores, but other than that, the old joke certainly holds. From Politico via LGM...
Tuesday, March 14, 2017

Picking up immediately where we left off with the war on data

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In our last installment , we talked about how delegitimizing trustworthy sources of data and analysis is a fundamental part of Straussianism...