Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Rasputian Causality

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There's an exaggerated (but not all that exaggerated) account of the death of Rasputin that goes something like this: the controversi...
Monday, October 30, 2017

Richard Thaler and 401(k) contribution limits

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This is Joseph Richard Thaler is narrowly correct in that reducing contribution limits to 401(k) accounts would be progressive .  Duncan B...
Friday, October 27, 2017

The TV movie Hyperloop may have looked cheesy, but at least you could stand up and walk around.

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In 1973, Gene Roddenberry attempted to launch a post-apocalyptic science fiction series in the Buck Rogers vein largely built around a subte...
Thursday, October 26, 2017

Tax Policy

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This is Joseph I am mostly out for a few weeks, but this is a very interesting piece : Three or four decades later, scholars are able to...
Wednesday, October 25, 2017

I just realized we've been at this for at least six years.

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Every year or two, some attention-hungry politician realizes they can get puff-peace coverage by pulling themselves up as the taxpayers frie...
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Tuesday, October 24, 2017

When we say the Mars/Tesla connection goes way back, we mean way back

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[No, not that Tesla, this Tesla.] I was meaning to run something topical today (probably something that will run later in the week), but fo...

If the following consists of an old painting from Galaxy Magazine, you'll know I didn't finish today's post

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From June, 1951
Monday, October 23, 2017

Baum miscellanea

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A few weeks ago, while working on a blog post (I don't remember which one) something (I don't remember what) brought to mind a detai...
Friday, October 20, 2017

When I said retro-TV...

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This guy actually made a version of a 19th century television by fashioning an old vinyl LP into a Nipkow disk .  This one works ...
Thursday, October 19, 2017

The content bubble -- when reality sinks in

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[Couple of small edits. Fixed title and added a link I'd forgotten.] Quick refresher, the content bubble   refers to the explosion in ...
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Wednesday, October 18, 2017

The New York Times has a self-congratulations problem.

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This isn't exactly a new complaint (you can find similar charges going back to the 19th century), but the frequency seems to be on the r...
Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Apropos of absolutely nothing (I mean, seriously, I can't think of a single 21st century example of this), here's an excerpt from the Big Con.

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Not the Jonathan Chait book but the classic 1940 study of confidence games, particularly the "long con." It's the book that la...
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Monday, October 16, 2017

Originally I was joking when I compared this to a hyperloop

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But the more I think of it, the more serious the comparison becomes. We are, after all, talking about another "marvelously impractica...
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Friday, October 13, 2017

"How College Loans Got So Evil"

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Warning to video viewers, thanks to the pivot to video , things are about to get really ugly really quickly. The trouble is that while the v...
Thursday, October 12, 2017

You probably never thought of a hobbyist market for x-ray machines

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Couple of points. For starters, wow! I knew people were way too nonchalant about the potential dangers of radiation in the...
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