Thursday, September 2, 2021

Thursday Tweets

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I've been meaning to do a post on the really terrible job the press (particularly in NYC) with rising sea levels and bigger storm surges...
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Wednesday, September 1, 2021

A bit of historical context

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Kulldorf's tweet is a little less surprising if you know a bit about his recent activities and affiliations . We could make this a disc...
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Tuesday, August 31, 2021

More Baumol

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 Another aspect of this story I should have mentioned, while spending on digital effects has exploded, it's still difficult for the effe...
Monday, August 30, 2021

And then back to unsupported hypothesis?

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We've frequently been told that what appears to the lay person to be a speculative economic theory is actually an established and uncont...
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Friday, August 27, 2021

Isaacson knows how to nail a job interview

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From Walter Isaacson's recent  NYT review of two recent books on Elon Musk: In his famous “Think Different” ad for Apple in 1997, Steve...
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Thursday, August 26, 2021

Self-driving cars and reverse centaurs -- are we approach autonomy backwards?

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Provocative thread on the human-automation relationship, anchored by a provocative metaphor: the centaur. Question is, does technology serv...
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Wednesday, August 25, 2021

Repost: "A propaganda-fed base has no capacity to self correct, rather it continues follow unsustainable paths that only gain momentum"

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 While the details have been unexpected, the general trends have been evident for a while. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2017 Russians, Straussians,...
Tuesday, August 24, 2021

Housing shortages

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This is Joseph. One place where Mark and I disagree is whether the YIMBY (yes in my backyard) movement can make arguments dumb enough to mak...
Monday, August 23, 2021

It's not just we're going to have more fires; it's that we need more fires.

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There is a tendency to treat global warming and Western megafires as one thing when they are two related but distinct crises requiring,  in ...
Friday, August 20, 2021

Should we be concerned that the good response is the only one that won't get you published?

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From XKCD
Thursday, August 19, 2021

If ever the road to political hell was paved with reformers' good intentions...

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Not  surprisingly,  Michael Hiltzik has the essential explanation of how we got here. Herbert Croly, one of the nation’s leading progressiv...
Wednesday, August 18, 2021

Self-cons and lies of obfuscation

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Finally got around to reading the Big Short. (An actual physical-not-virtual book printed on paper, just like in the before times.) Lots to ...
Tuesday, August 17, 2021

“Teslas are running into stationary objects. They shouldn’t be.”

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One of the keys to the success of Elon Musk has been his ability to work the regulators, bullying, playing the martyr, suggesting (directly ...
Monday, August 16, 2021

"Why does he mean more to you than us?”

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I come from the buckle of the Bible belt and I stay in touch with friends from back home. Nothing here is that new to me, but even if you...
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Friday, August 13, 2021

Ten years ago at the blog -- Conservation of Cynicism

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  It's all really the same thread. Back in 2011, we were talking about the consequences of the conservative movement cultivating cr...