Tuesday, August 4, 2020

Tuesday Tweets

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We've seen a number of costly failures in the coverage of the pandemic, but the failure to convey the difference in risk between indoor ...
Monday, August 3, 2020

There's something almost quaint about discussing Netflix's business model in 2020

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Netflix’s price earnings ratio may be high (>80), but at least it has a price to earnings ratio. It can accused of being at opaque com...
Friday, July 31, 2020

Does posting a TED talk show we're open minded or does it just mean we've lowered our standards?

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How architecture helped music evolve | David Byrne
Thursday, July 30, 2020

"You know that theory, that the White House makes the man..."

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I'm not drawing any analogies here, but the comparisons are interesting.
Wednesday, July 29, 2020

Paul Krugman has no shame -- Wednesday Tweets

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All boaters or just likely boaters? https://t.co/fS9jRC0KN5 — Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) July 27, 2020 A funny part about this 1918...
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Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Implosions don't normally work this way

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One of the major failures of imagination we are seeing from almost everyone, including really smart commentators like Jonathan Chait, is...
Monday, July 27, 2020

Tales from the V-shaped recovery

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Powerful used car salesman energy pic.twitter.com/3bPmrkD97F — The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) July 24, 2020   Presented without...
Friday, July 24, 2020

Misc -- Tolstoy, Fairy Godfather statistics, reactionary ghosts, Lenny on Dmitri

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“The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest t...
Thursday, July 23, 2020

“If you see that kind of disconnect, it doesn’t go on indefinitely.”

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A bubble in the middle of an economic collapse in the middle of a pandemic Tesla's insane stock price makes sense in a market gone...
Wednesday, July 22, 2020

Wednesday Tweets

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Even more than racism, misogyny is the gateway drug of the alt-right. Suspected NJ Judge gunman: "The cult of Feminism is turning yo...
Tuesday, July 21, 2020

A couple of plot turns in the Tesla saga

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First, the one that everyone saw coming... Musk has made $2.2B net today. In comparison, that's almost 2 years worth of R&D spe...
Monday, July 20, 2020

The Wages of Strauss -- “I think I made a mistake. I thought this was a hoax.”

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A sad, shocking story from the chief medical officer of San Antonio’s Methodist Hospital: A 30-year-old who attended a “Covid party” and ...
Friday, July 17, 2020

Lockdown Jukebox

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Working from home I've been burning through a lot of instrumental music. (You come to miss the background noise.) I've been digging ...
Thursday, July 16, 2020

It's a V-shaped recovery if you start with a V that's almost a right angle and you tilt it sharply to one side.

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Bullet points from ApartmentList.com     32 percent of Americans did not make a full on-time housing payment in July, up slightly fro...
Wednesday, July 15, 2020

There is no argument so dumb it cannot be recycled

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This is Joseph Really? “There has never been a more critical time for Americans of all ages and backgrounds to be aware of the multiple ...