Tuesday, July 12, 2022

Ten years ago at the blog... we were talking about SCOTUS leaks.

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  Monday, July 9, 2012 The increasingly self-serving ethics of journalism (As usual, Brad DeLong gets cred...
Monday, July 11, 2022

An amusing footnote to Joseph's Elon Musk post

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Following up on Friday's post . Elon Musk talks a lot about humanity, and his love of humanity, and his need to save humanity in a way t...
Friday, July 8, 2022

Are we running out of people?

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This is Joseph.  I noticed that this tweet from Elon Musk: Showed up just after this story : I also see this pinned tweet: It seems...
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Thursday, July 7, 2022

Sometimes the future is what it used to be.

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Back in 2017, we had a thread discussing a series of predictions Arthur C. Clarke made in 1964 about life in the year 2000, in particular...
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Wednesday, July 6, 2022

When optimal is suboptimal

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Whenever a metric maxes out it creates problems. Back in my teaching days, I used to try in vain to explain to colleagues and particularly...
Tuesday, July 5, 2022

Tuesday Tweets

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pic.twitter.com/tzvU7MH6rM — Margaret E. Atwood (@MargaretAtwood) June 30, 2022 As previously mentioned , Ohio is a pro-choice state/ O...
Monday, July 4, 2022

Ten years ago at the blog...

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  Happy 4th from 1909 "America's wealth gap -- in 1776" The good people at Marketplac...
Friday, July 1, 2022

Things could always be worse...

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No connection to any to any of our ongoing threads, but if you're interested in sketch comedy, you really need to see this series from T...
Thursday, June 30, 2022

The fact that people think a commute might justify building high-speed rail suggests you're probably talking about an exurb

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  At the risk of self-promotion, if you're not a Californian and you're trying to follow the housing crisis, I'd highly recommen...
Wednesday, June 29, 2022

$835 million may not sound like a lot of money, but look at it in context

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This remarkably nonchalant New York Times piece on executive compensation deserves a deep dive (and not in a good way), but for now, I want...
Tuesday, June 28, 2022

Twelve years ago at the blog: In retropect, I should have mentioned "Head"

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  Wednesday, June 30, 2010 Bob Dylan, the Monkees and the flooded landscape analogy Seth Godin's comments on Bob Dylan and the...
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Monday, June 27, 2022

You now can choose from two companies taking deposits for imaginary campers for a truck that doesn't exist yet

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Along with the asset bubble, I blame CGI. Back in the day, it took time, money and talent to come up with a good, let alone photo-realistic ...
Friday, June 24, 2022

"Do you know the way to San Jose?" and how long the trip will take?

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With one notable exception, storytellers and songwriters have pretty much ignored San Jose. Even in “Do you know the way,” the point of the ...
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Thursday, June 23, 2022

Thursday Tweets -- And the "I tried to overthrow democracy and all I got was this lousy MAGA hat" T-shirt

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NEW: Jan. 6 committee member Adam Schiff says they have texts showing that Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows wanted to send Georgia electio...
Wednesday, June 22, 2022

If we need to burn off an area the size of Maine, the Mill Valleys are expendable

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  A bit more background on one of reasons the New York Times housing article we've been discussing made me so angry (though in fairness,...