Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Alon vs. Elon

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Alon Levy is a highly respect transportation blogger currently based in Paris. He's also perhaps the leading debunker of the Hyperloop (...
Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Steam-powered airplanes

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I'm going to connect this up with some ongoing thread somewhere down the line, but for now I just thought I'd share this really cool...
Monday, January 29, 2018

Tesla and the New York Times – – adding a historical component to the hype-and-bullshit tech narrative

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This New York Times piece ["Tesla the Car Is a Household Name. Long Ago, So Was Nikola Tesla". By John F. Wasik DEC. 30, 2017 ] i...
Friday, January 26, 2018

Add Adam Conover to the list of replication bullies

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[Spelling error corrected.] Most people in the news media missed the joke when Jon Stewart took over the Daily Show, or, more accurately, ...
Thursday, January 25, 2018

A Turn of the Century Childhood's End

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This may go against conventional wisdom, but what we now call New Age beliefs (normally seen as children of the counter-culture) are largely...
Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Where quack medicine meets political corruption meets pyramid schemes

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This piece from the LA Times' indispensable Michael Hiltzik this excellent New Yorker article by Rachel Monroe Orrin Hatch is leavi...
Tuesday, January 23, 2018

The Grandiosity/Contribution Ratio

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From Gizmodo [emphasis added] Zuck and Priscilla laid out the schematics for this effort on Facebook Live . The plan will be part of the ...
Monday, January 22, 2018

Arthur C Clarke and the futurist's inflection point

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Clarke circa 1964 : Trying to predict the future is a discouraging and hazardous occupation because the prophet invariably falls between tw...
Friday, January 19, 2018

Removing the senate

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This is Joseph I normally have great respect for Ezra Klein.  His stuff is awesome and I always click on his articles.  Which is why this...

Feel kind of bad about making fun of Soylent now

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Remind me to throw in some raw water jokes next time I write something about the culture of Silicon Valley.
Thursday, January 18, 2018

Double blind peer review

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This is Joseph I was reading this piece by Andrew Gelman and this led me to this other article in the comments .  The discussion was a jo...
Wednesday, January 17, 2018

Montclair SocioBlog makes a good point

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This is Joseph I don't completely agree with this sentiment , but I think it is worth deconstructing the underlying thinking pattern t...
Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Infrastructure thoughts of the day

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This is Joseph Some thoughts on transportation and infrastructure. Duncan Black points out a new proposal to create dedicated lanes for ...

Too busy for a real post...

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... but not too busy to give you a flying machine fix Looks almost too pretty to fly, but it did. Scientific American June 17, 1905....
Monday, January 15, 2018

When the YIMBYs don't have the answer

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This is a bit LA specific but you can probably generalize the conclusions to other areas. While there are certainly cases where simple sol...
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