Friday, August 30, 2019

Townsville has always been a hub of evil science innovation

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From Gizmodo : There’s a certain allure to the geoengineering approach, particularly from the techno-optimist mindset that’s  in vogue ...
Thursday, August 29, 2019

This is a lot of money for an awfully short suborbital flight.

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From Space.com SpaceShipTwo is designed to be lofted by a carrier plane called WhiteKnightTwo. At an altitude of about 50,000 feet (15,000...
Wednesday, August 28, 2019

Bethany McLean made her name covering Enron, which is never a good sign

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There's a major expose out from Vanity Fair on SolarCity. Give a read. We'll talk more later. Until then, here are some rules I s...
Tuesday, August 27, 2019

Tuesday Tweets

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Charlie Daniels has become the kind of right winger Charlie Daniels used to chase around parking lots. https://t.co/yXXU7wlcPI — Mar...
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Monday, August 26, 2019

The hyperloop is a masters' class in controlling the narrative

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Here's how you do it. 1. Set the topics For a brief window a few weeks after the initial white paper, boosters of the hyperloop co...
Friday, August 23, 2019

Let's kick the weekend of right

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Cabell "Cab" Calloway III was one of the most dynamic entertainers of the 20th Century, but this was one time he couldn't dom...
Thursday, August 22, 2019

"A public-private partnership" ... nothing ominous about that phrase

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Just so we're clear. We are edging closer to see hundreds of millions, perhaps billions of tax dollars go to highly dubious projects, n...
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Wednesday, August 21, 2019

One of the advantages of having been blogging this long is that when someone says something really stupid, you've probably already written a rebuttal

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For example, say that a Washington Post columnist/torture enthusiast/Manafort minion (or Stone crony -- I'm not entirely clear on that p...
Tuesday, August 20, 2019

Tuesday Tweets

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Kudlow is as close as you'll find to a human knight/knave puzzle. Point 1/ https://t.co/PdX0Qe2VPn — Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) A...
Monday, August 19, 2019

The essential takedown of the Mars delusion

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If you have followed this story at all, you have to read this article by George Dvorsky. The Red Planet is a cold, dead place, with an atm...
Friday, August 16, 2019

3 Martini Shots from Rob Long

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Thursday, August 15, 2019

After following Uber and Lyft, it's almost refreshing to find a tech company that's competent at being evil

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Back in Arkansas, we used to talk about Wal-Mart "killing a town twice." The company would open a store in a small town, drive the...
Wednesday, August 14, 2019

Agent-based simulations and horse-race journalism

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[This was never my area of expertise, and what little I once knew I've mostly forgotten. Since lots of our regular readers are experts o...
Tuesday, August 13, 2019

Tuesday Tweets

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These seem to stand on their own. Humans love to socialize, it is a basic human need. When new technologies facilitate it, suddenly we ...
Monday, August 12, 2019

Repost, repost, repost (I want to revisit this thread)

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Monday, February 4, 2019 America is a country bitterly divided into two groups – – treatment and control. The following would sound p...