Thursday, February 28, 2019

More on that terrible New York Times hyperloop articles -- the "skeptics"

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Picking up where we left off on the painfully credulous New York Times Hyperloop story , here are a few passages I want to single out. “Fr...
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Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Repost -- a bit of historical context for the highspeed rail discussion

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People in the late 19th century fully expected to be commuting at a hundred miles an hour in the next ten or twenty years... Rememb...
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Tuesday, February 26, 2019

Repost -- Proto-hyperloops

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For some reason, it has become obligatory to cite pneumatic trains as precursors of the hyperloop despite the fact that the technology had l...
Monday, February 25, 2019

The latest piece on the Hyperloop from the New York Times doesn't just take false balance to the next level; it takes it to the level after that.

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This article by Eric Taub is the kind of multilayered awful that requires multiple passes to address. Just to catch up those who are coming...
Friday, February 22, 2019

I'm a sucker for this sort of thing

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First a quick dose of cool design... This is what industrial product design engineering students learn pic.twitter.com/TyvaxJHXhR — ...
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Thursday, February 21, 2019

Cryptocurrencies pay for themselves in schadenfreude alone

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First there's this... There's no stupid like "Supposedly smart people who think they've invented a brilliant new way to...
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Wednesday, February 20, 2019

This is perhaps the worst hyperloop story I've read in any major newspaper (and that's a highly competitive category).

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The New York Times' Eric Taub really goes for the gold here. For depth of buried lede alone, he may have set a record. Way down in th...
Tuesday, February 19, 2019

I was going to come up with some sort of snarky left-handed compliment but I'm tired and my heart is not in it.

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So I'm just going to come out and say that Reveal is doing excellent work and you should definitely check it out, particularly these sto...
Monday, February 18, 2019

Why the state of emergency might be Trump's least bad political option

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Since into the first shutdown (Joseph can back me up on this one), I've been arguing that a declaration of the state of emergency was hi...
Friday, February 15, 2019

Two suspense campaigns

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Probably completely unrelated. The World-Record Instagram Egg Is Going to Make Someone Very Rich by Taylor Lorenz Last week, a staffer...
Thursday, February 14, 2019

When it takes the FOIA to get at the bad data behind a study

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Following up on our 2016 thread , Timothy B. Lee has a great piece up at Ars Technica on how the National Highway Traffic Safety Ad...
Wednesday, February 13, 2019

Chipman wins Twitter

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The best line to date on the Bezos/National Enquirer story. Hard to think of a better demonstration of just how definitively our univer...
Tuesday, February 12, 2019

Causal inference and policy

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This is Joseph I was reading this blog and I noted this paragraph : But Brexiters have created a hermetically sealed logic. Every warnin...
Monday, February 11, 2019

Catharsis

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Picking up from our previous post about approaching the rise of the Trump voter in terms of a social engineering experiment, one of the bes...
Friday, February 8, 2019

R.I.P. Michel Legrand and Carol Channing

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