Thursday, June 3, 2021

Linette Lopez: "Cryptocurrencies are for speculators, criminals, and cosplayers"

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Lopez is one of the sharpest journalists currently working the business beat. Marketplace loves her. Elon Musk hates her. She combines first...
Wednesday, June 2, 2021

Mid-week tweets

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Arguing on Twitter.. 😅 pic.twitter.com/NKh9Gt517r — The Feel Good Page 🌻 (@FeeIGoodPosts) May 26, 2021 This undercuts our solution ...
Tuesday, June 1, 2021

The Lab Leak Hypothesis -- tell me why I should care (6/1/21)

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Six months from now, sure. Maybe sooner if we can regain our momentum on shots-in-arms here and up vaccine production worldwide. When we rea...
Monday, May 31, 2021

Thoughts on the complexity of trade

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 This is Joseph. Matt Yglesias talks about the free speech implications of the U.S.-Chinese economic integration: That being said, it seems ...
Friday, May 28, 2021

Muskmas in May

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In case you've forgotten the reason for the season, we coined the term as a catchier version of the Musk Day proposed by by Neil Straus...
Thursday, May 27, 2021

"He knows Elon knows"

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For those wanting to cut through the hype and bullshit around autonomous vehicles on land or in the air, there are few sources better than r...
Wednesday, May 26, 2021

Content accumulates. Intellectual property rules.

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I wasn't planning on doing another post on the value of television content libraries this soon -- lots of other stuff going on -- but th...
Tuesday, May 25, 2021

While we're on the topic of old TV shows...

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Check out this 2020 multi-panel cartoon from the New Yorker. The first few panels will give you a taste but you'll need to click to see...
Monday, May 24, 2021

A billion dollars would go a long way in Mayberry

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A note on pandemic TV viewing from USA Today . Last year, NBC's "Friends" – which ended its 10-year run in 2004 – was the most...
Friday, May 21, 2021

The nice thing about writing a post on tax increases is that you can dust it off in ten years later and be confident that most people still won't understand marginal tax rates.

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And with another Democrat again trying to roll back Republican tax cuts, we are likely to see another wave of just-scraping-by stories. FRID...
Thursday, May 20, 2021

At least some of them are wearing masks

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There's a certain strangely consistent dream logic here. If you can get yourself into these people's heads, you can almost follow th...
Wednesday, May 19, 2021

I vaguely remember that bars had a simple and reasonably effective way of checking who was legally allowed to drink. Perhaps we could do something similar.

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As mentioned before (until regular readers are sick of hearing it), we have a problem with convergent thinking and solution-phobia. Add to t...
Tuesday, May 18, 2021

Better than Trump is no longer good enough -- we need to address the CDC train wreck

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This is going to be our big thread for the next few days.  I am trying to think of a case where a federal agency's mishandling of messag...
Monday, May 17, 2021

"It's OK to say I'm vaccinated because..." [Why people might not honor the honor system.]

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The public discourse is broken part 8,394. We've had a lot of discussion about whether or not the fully vaccinated can meet without mask...
Friday, May 14, 2021

The tragic waste of a sunny day

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  It should have been a turning point; it ended up a joke . William Bryan, acting head of the US Department of Homeland Security's Scien...