Tuesday, April 30, 2019

"The notion of singularity ... is a religion"

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This essay from Joi Ito makes a lot of points that will feel familiar to regular readers (mistaking S-curves for exponential when discussin...
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Monday, April 29, 2019

Revisiting the New York Magazine pseudo-science thread -- now with consequences

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And pretty damned horrifying ones at that . As of this week, there have been 695 cases of measles in the U.S. across more than 20 states ...
Friday, April 26, 2019

The fact that I had to Google the topic because I'd forgotten the name of the company should tell you something

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[On a somewhat ironic note, I put the wrong name in the original version of this post.] A big part of the dotcom boom was the idea that t...
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Thursday, April 25, 2019

Hail Marys and the limits of the hype economy

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Events are moving quickly and in a very bad direction for Tesla . The company reported Wednesday that automotive revenue in the first qu...
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Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Elon Musk's self-confidence shouldn't inspire much confidence

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More good work from Timothy B. Lee on the Tesla beat [emphasis added]: Tesla is less than two years away from full self-driving, CEO Elon...
Tuesday, April 23, 2019

It's entirely possible for Netflix to be a fantastic success and a disastrous failure

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Not just Netflix, of course. For any of the numerous companies with both huge valuation and sky-high price to earnings ratios, healthy grow...
Monday, April 22, 2019

Elon Musk's latest sounds "worse than pointless"

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At this point, I don't think that Musk actually expects to get any real money out of the DC to Baltimore tunnel proposal directly, but h...
Friday, April 19, 2019

It's been an eventful week.

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I think we should all take this advice for now and come back refreshed and ready to go Monday morning. An important message for everyon...
Thursday, April 18, 2019

“Uber for astrological readings” is still a more rational investment than the actual Uber

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I'm afraid there's less to this story than meets the eye. All snark aside, astrology has been a popular and profitable segment of th...
Wednesday, April 17, 2019

I really should frame this in terms of the hype economy and magical heuristics, but you all have heard it before

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Scott Lemieux points us to this from the New York Times The offering, which could value Uber at around $100 billion, is expected to reve...
Tuesday, April 16, 2019

South of 92nd St.

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For about a dozen years now, I've been saying that one of these days Watts is going to gentrify. Back then, the response I got from resi...
Monday, April 15, 2019

Back on the TV beat

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I'll probably be coming back to connect some more dots -- it's a complicated story -- but there's been an interesting developme...
Friday, April 12, 2019

Misc

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I've always been fascinated with cross-pollination The music started in the hearts and drums, from another land Played for ever...
Thursday, April 11, 2019

“All the technology we need to do this already exists,” and other red flags

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Perhaps the 21st Century is making me cynical, but this does feel familiar. There's a genre that we've seen a lot recently. Someon...
Wednesday, April 10, 2019

It's so nice to not be debunking a tech story for a change

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 We've been making the point for a while now that the vanity aerospace industry's role in the hype economy has a way of obscuring an...