Wednesday, April 20, 2022

The first amendment

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This is Joseph. The first amendment is a very American idea and not one that is widely shared by other countries. It is a unique response to...
Tuesday, April 19, 2022

The Beast in the Jungle and the Next Big Thing

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I've been thinking a lot recently about the Henry James novella The Beast in the Jungle . If you've never read it (or have read but ...
Monday, April 18, 2022

Tales of the Crypto -- either slightly early or really late Tuesday tweets

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Web3 writing has been breaking into three broad camps.   The first believes (or would like the marks to believe) that blockchains and the r...
Friday, April 15, 2022

Ten years ago at the blog -- since Gelman brought it up...

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Andrew's recent post on plagiarism got me to thinking about this thread from back in the day.   Saturday, April 21, 2012 Like complaini...
Thursday, April 14, 2022

The shadow docket

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This is Joseph. I think that this is a very big deal : Chief Justice Roberts voted with Justices Breyer, Sotomayor and Kagan in dissenting f...
Wednesday, April 13, 2022

Self-organizing fraud (or plain old fraud)?

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Another fine piece by Russ, that will of course immediately get flooded with hate from bot accounts. Note that neither Russ nor the Research...
Tuesday, April 12, 2022

Housing cost inflation

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This is Joseph. Mike Moffat posted this interesting graph : The clear loser was Winnipeg, going from a little over $100K to a little over$ 3...
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Monday, April 11, 2022

Megan McArdle, Disney, and the defending the indefensible adjacent.

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One of Megan McArdle's go-to moves is to take some truly reprehensible Republican policy and come up with an argument that while it does...
Friday, April 8, 2022

When the methods make you worried

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This is Joseph Thomas Lumley has a great piece on a recently published article . Go read that first, we'll still be here. In it he looks...
Thursday, April 7, 2022

Something offbeat: subverting expectations

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This is Joseph. Back in the day, there was a lot of discussion about how shows like Game of Thrones felt refreshing because they subverted e...
Wednesday, April 6, 2022

The big question now is when will Elon name himself founder of Twitter?

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[For those who just tuned in to the Tech Messiah show, Musk retconned himself in as a founder of Tesla and of the company that would become ...
Tuesday, April 5, 2022

It's not quite like Ponzi buying the Boston Post, but...

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Elon Musk just became the largest shareholder in Twitter with almost 9% of the company. This would be big news whoever the buyer was, but it...
Monday, April 4, 2022

"Incorporation by reference"

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Cory Doctorow has a disturbing thread (rolled up here ) on how for pro-fit entities have managed to set up a system where you actually have ...
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Friday, April 1, 2022

Eight years ago at the blog -- reposted because of the April Fools connection and because I really liked the title on this one

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  Tuesday, April 1, 2014 Being a management consultant who does not suffer fools is like being an EMT who faints at the sight of blood An Ap...
Thursday, March 31, 2022

"You say this daily walk will reduce my risk of death from cardiovascular disease by 30%, but also increase my risk of death by bear attack by 300%? That's a 280% increased! I'm not a sucker; I'm staying inside."

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 It's an odds ratio cartoon. We're contractually obligated to run it.