Friday, January 31, 2020

Sure, but that's seven billion over twenty years

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I knew that CollegeHumor was a powerhouse, but I never realized what kind of numbers until I looked this up . As of November 2019, The Col...
Thursday, January 30, 2020

The way you define your metrics determines what you measure -- Netflix edition

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From Marketplace . “The Witcher” starts with Henry Cavill and his chiseled jaw battling a gurgling swamp monster. According to Netflix, 76...
Wednesday, January 29, 2020

I shouldn’t have to say this, but earth is nicer than Mars

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Furthermore, even allowing for the worst possible case scenarios with environmental disasters and the best for terraforming technologies, ea...
Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Tuesday Tweets -- quantity has a quality all its own

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Lots of tweets this time i said SNL sucks and the head writer got mad and me and, well, i wrote about it https://t.co/3fgl6pir5F — ja...
Monday, January 27, 2020

The situation has evolved in the past three years, but...

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I think that the underlying dynamics have, if anything gotten stronger since 2017. Trump's solid base of support is now, by any reasona...
Friday, January 24, 2020

Remembering the remarkable Mr. Jones

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Ripping Yarns was a fun little show from Jones and Palin. Definitely a must for fans. Jones was a historian and (not surprisingly)...
Thursday, January 23, 2020

Rhetorical Orthogonality

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I'm about to do one of those things that annoys the hell out of me when other people do it, namely taking a well-defined technical conce...
Wednesday, January 22, 2020

Return of the Space Libertarians -- Quest for the Philosopher's Stone

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Wow. We've been at this for a long time. Despite climate alarmist predictions, humans will likely survive for hundreds of millions...
Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Tuesday Tweets

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I know you're all tired of hearing this, but there's something strange about equating electability with white and male in 2020. A...
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Monday, January 20, 2020

Back to the 80K question – part 1: why it matters

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A while back , we had a discussion on the closeness of the 2016 electoral college vote and how best to quantify it. I argued that the best a...
Friday, January 17, 2020

"Now, if we wanted to take the children to see a Komodo Dragon..."

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The moderators of this week's Democratic debate have taken some well deserved heat for asking Sanders to respond to alleged comments abo...
Thursday, January 16, 2020

Two reposts

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One on the electability of women, the other on the lack of electability of a demographic that includes Biden, Sanders, Buttigieg... (apply...
Wednesday, January 15, 2020

The Golden Globes are a perfect example of journalism's non-news addiction

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[Sorry about sending out the draft form earlier] Just to get this out of the way, all major entertainment awards are largely worthless. Poo...
Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Tuesday Tweets

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"Eventually, for a democracy, the information comes out," @JamesFallows says on @ReliableSources . "Democracies eventu...
Monday, January 13, 2020

Efficient infringement -- when it's your fiduciary responsibility to steal stuff

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This is a decidedly unhappy sequel to our previous stories on patent trolls, a grim little good news bad news joke. The good news is that we...