Thursday, January 20, 2022

"the more beautiful it turns, grows so much the weaker"

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 We generally shy away from the Tulipomania section of Extraordinary Popular Delusions. Of the three discussions of bubbles by Charles MacKa...
Wednesday, January 19, 2022

Even with Alejandro Jodorowsky's never filmed Dune, truth can be stranger than fiction, especially when crypto and NFTs are involved

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Jamie Powell writing for FT Alphaville. Yet a fascination with the project’s mind-bendingly ambitious vision remained, so much so that a d...
Tuesday, January 18, 2022

Tax cuts are getting old as a policy idea

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This is Joseph.  It has been more than 40 years since the California Tax revolt and Ronald Reagan in the United States. I was young in the ...
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Monday, January 17, 2022

More from Stephen Diehl -- Decentralized Woo Hoo

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I really should have started reading this guy earlier. His blog and twitter feed just jumped to the top of my crypto/Web3 reading list. In ...
Friday, January 14, 2022

Necessary and Sufficientish Factors

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For certain topics, there are factors that absolutely have to be included in any serious conversation and often good enough for a rough ment...
Thursday, January 13, 2022

Thursday Tweets

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Here’s a major corporation shipping a product that has a “break the law” setting built in. https://t.co/HAblLexbIf — Christof Spieler (@chr...
Wednesday, January 12, 2022

Back on the crypto beat: Turns out that private money is a bad idea

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Stephen Diehl has perhaps the best concise but comprehensive overview of why cryptocurrencies are such a bad idea by pretty much every poss...
Tuesday, January 11, 2022

Health care and central planning

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This is Joseph This tweet thread is worth reading in detail . As a recently repatriated Canadian myself, I think that it is spot on. In fact...
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Monday, January 10, 2022

Some thoughts on the career of Betty White

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 The older I get, the more interesting I find second acts.  White was a pioneering broadcaster -- Ken Levine argues she was literally the...
Friday, January 7, 2022

Damn, this has been sitting in the queue for a while.

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Fortunately (or unfortunately) they seem to have remained relevant. **STOCKS DOWN AS TRADERS FEAR THE GLOBAL SUPPLY OF GREATER FOOLS IS S...
Thursday, January 6, 2022

Policy that ignores the real poor

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This is Joseph. I was reading Slow Boring and was struck by this passage about student loan forgiveness: So while there are certainly lots ...
Wednesday, January 5, 2022

Just to keep this top of mind...

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The NIMBY/YIMBY politics used to be simpler and tended to break fairly cleanly along progressive/reactionary lines. As the debate has shifte...
Tuesday, January 4, 2022

Simpsons > Good Will Hunting (mathematically speaking)

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Mathematician Jordan Ellenberg breaks down Math films & TV shows
Monday, January 3, 2022

Why I see SCOTUS packing as inevitable

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This is Joseph. I have, for a while, held the opinion that the US supreme court is almost certain to be packed. One thing that needs to be c...
Saturday, January 1, 2022

Happy New Year's -- Little Nemo grows up

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Season's greetings from Windsor McCay. Apologies for the formatting. Copy and paste for the full effect. (I hate blogger.)