It seems silly to be attached to equipment, but I was very fond of my external monitor, which was attached to a G4 tower, then a Tibook, and then a Macbook Air. It lived to be the ripe old age of over 13 years and died right before my eyes as I hit “publish” on the DC meetup post of this evening.
Read more...Let’s meet starting at 5:30 PM at the Marriott at Metro Center.
Read more...How Fed policies exacerbate inequality and dampen growth.
Read more...How Russian trusts allow Russian oligarchs to beat Putin.
Read more...Clinton’s Gensler gambit is smart politics, but if you think it means she is seeking progressive advice you are being played – successfully.
Read more...A key principle of land use in the United States is that homeowners can often veto new buildings on nearby land that other people own. A trade agreement that’s currently in the works could have a huge impact on that long-established system of local control.
Read more...Elizabeth Warren makes a bold call for wide-ranging, serious financial reform.
Read more...A Greek default does not mean an inevitable Grexit. But even in the event of a default in the Eurozone, the costs to Greece of staying in the Eurozone are set to rise.
Read more...Aversion to Hillary Clinton among bona fide progressives is far more acute than Democratic party loyalists recognize.
Read more...This anodyne-seeming section from a video at Privcap on The Future-Proof LPA [Limited Partnership Agreement] contains a real bombshell
Read more...Many of the concerns about Big Data focus on the surveillance apparatus used to collect it, or on the naive modeling approaches, like attributing causality to mere correlations. Here Black addresses an established problem: that of deliberate abuse of models.
Read more...A new article in ComputerWorld (hat tip Chuck L) describes how the screw-ups resulting from lousy electronic medical records are large and frequent enough to have caught the attention of attorneys.
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