Link. Would love an industry standard light mount
Daily Archives: September 1, 2018
DC: “The city is much more bipartisan, in some respects, than it has ever been, more united than it may currently seem in its hatred of Donald Trump.”
Link. The Resistance is deeper and broader than it sometimes seems
NYT reviews “retire early” movement.
Link. Skips over how they manage healthcare. In US that is the fatal flaw.
CA net neutrality law: “prohibit promotions of free streaming for apps”
Link. I thought NN was dead.
Microwaves new suspect – “team was increasingly sure the diplomats had suffered brain injury.”
Link. Motive unknown. Weird historical context
“HCQ exposure did not increase the cancer risk.”
Link. Despite inhibiting autophagy.
“our Solar System is moving relative to the CMB at 368 ± 2 km/s.”
Link. More than 800,000 miles an hour.
“India’s system (the “Academic Performance Indicator”) is basically set up to weigh scientific publications by the kilo (a problem China has had, too)”
Link. Inane local policies that have damaged worldwide science. I now ignore anything from Indian and Chinese institutions!
UBI and “bullshit jobs”.
Link. Cognitive surplus. Tokyo retail employment in 1980. Monopsony effects. Keynes predictions. Automation. Gig economy. Complex and fascinating.
Rupert Murdoch and the extortion industry
So now we know there is an industry in legal extortion; a market solution to the problem of power and Id.
Businesses collect damaging information about wealthy people. Then they negotiate between parties on the cost of suppression.
We have known this as the tabloid industry. I suppose that was a cover story.
Rupert Murdoch started in that industry.
It would be interesting to know mortality rates of the sellers.
Trump new legal fave a specialist in “prepublication negotiations” over defamatory media reports.”
Link. So did everyone know there was a legal extortion industry?
Reality, math, and computing with electrons and physical systems.
Link. Dethroning mathematics.