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Category Archives: politics (ugh)
Google’s Driverless Car
Everyone’s fired up again. This time, however, the debate is moving in a direction that I can relate to. Here’ Megan McArdle (who has obviously been catching up on my blog archive): Now I’m gloomy again. Why? Not because of the technology. And … Continue reading
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When Molehills Are Mountains
So Obama won. With 50% of the popular vote. Keep that in mind as you read this (from a super moderate Dem): The issue, as it turns out, is that the polls weren’t skewed at all. They just had a lot … Continue reading
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GOP For Deficits, Dems For War (etc)
Here’s Yglesias: Yet insofar as I have to guess, I think short-term growth will be faster under Romney than Obama for three reasons. First, in the post-1980 era you get bigger budget deficits with Republicans in the White House than … Continue reading
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My Sandy Timeline
Mid-April: I move to Hoboken, NJ with my 6-month pregnant wife and Bree and Max, my two 10-pound dogs. Some time in May: a relatively minor storm floods our parking garage and the nearby street. WTF? Lesson: Hoboken is really … Continue reading
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Self-Driving Cars Approach? Doubt It.
Geekdom is a-flutter over Google’s self-driving car project. Google announced a new phase of its self-driving car project Tuesday. The test vehicles, of which there are “about a dozen on the road at any given time,” have so far logged … Continue reading
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Violence in America
I saw this interesting chart suggesting violence in the US is on the decline (original image here): This is via Krugman who doesn’t hesitate to grind his political ax a bit: And that’s one reason I find all these laments … Continue reading
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Underdogs Are The Elite. And They’re Mean About It
Everybody thinks they are countercultural rebels, insurgents against the true establishment, which is always somewhere else. This attitude prevails in the Ivy League, in the corporate boardrooms and even at television studios where hosts from Harvard, Stanford and Brown rail … Continue reading
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Bernanke Failed In The 90s. That’s Why He Fails Today
I find Ben Bernanke endlessly fascinating. This is a guy that built his entire academic career around studying the exact situation we now find ourselves in. Seriously, and by all accounts this was a first rate career, too. Yet now … Continue reading
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NFL Cities Buy Status
Of the 20 stadiums built since the Georgia Dome opened, four have been privately financed. Of the rest, the average public share is 73% of the total cost. That’s the Economist on football stadiums. The impetus is the recent plan … Continue reading
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Michael Bloomberg, Javascript Jockey
Here’s Jeff Atwood with some, perhaps needed, pushback on the whole “everyone should learn to code” thing. The final straw for him was Mayor Bloomberg’s recent tweet: Jeff asks: if everyone needs to code, how would coding make the Mayor … Continue reading
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