Friday, June 29, 2018

"The monster on your TV set"

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I wish I knew the exact date on this one. I assume it's some time in the early to mid-70s, late enough that cable TV and services like H...
Thursday, June 28, 2018

Thought for the day

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From Paul Krugman [emphasis added]: What the freshwater school did was to take the actual experience of business cycles and say, “We don’...
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Wednesday, June 27, 2018

If you have Netflix's PR budget, your own journalistic genre is just one of the things you can buy.

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The following showed up in the "Recommended by Pocket" links in my Firefox browser. To be perfectly honest, I only clicked on it ...
Tuesday, June 26, 2018

I'm afraid even the Brothers Grimm would have found Bitcoin a little too fantastic

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I'm edging closer to the notion that the tools which we would normally use to critique journalism are no longer up to the task of discus...
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Monday, June 25, 2018

The name has always been synonymous with hype

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We've been rough on Tesla lately, but this is too good to pass up. From Scientific American:
Friday, June 22, 2018

Cryptocurrencies: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

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“Everything that exists is going to be better.” I have queued the video up to a clip in the middle. It shows a very slick ad for a pump an...
Thursday, June 21, 2018

Another cool think-big engineering solution from the turn-of-the-century

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Engineers still like to play around with the question of how you might get passengers on and off of a train without having it stop. Most of ...
Wednesday, June 20, 2018

Elon Musk is a terrible engineer (and why that is important)

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From Fortune : In a tweet on Friday, Musk posted a GIF of Dr. David Bowman, the main character in 2001: A Space Odyssey running around a ...
Tuesday, June 19, 2018

A Krugman tweet from today, a WCSV post from last August

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So, as I understand it: Trump has imposed vicious border policies partly to fire up the base, because his big "win" -- the ta...

The "Everyone I know shopped at whole foods" Effect and the Wonderful World of Next-big-thingism

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This has a familiar ring to it. Scooter startup Bird is seeking a $2 billion valuation E-scooter company Bird is seeking to raise around...
Monday, June 18, 2018

The idea of ancient astronauts is a bit more ancient than I realized.

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Another interesting nugget I came across while researching the technology project. We've already discussed how the fundamentals of w...
Saturday, June 16, 2018

If you've been spending too much time watching the news...

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you really should take a break.
Friday, June 15, 2018

Perhaps the saddest part is that if some Silicon Valley billionaire gives this project $100 million, I won't be surprised.

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The video at the bottom of the post has been popping up all over the place (I suppose this makes me part of the problem as well). The origin...
Thursday, June 14, 2018

"The Genesis of Invention"

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Take a look at this short essay from an 1875 issue of Scientific American. The date is important here. In the mid-1870s, Americans saw the...
Wednesday, June 13, 2018

Alon Levy alert! Omnicompetence at work

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From time to time, we've referred back to this quote from Alon Levy : There is a belief within American media that a successful pers...