Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Fourteen: The New Yorker Lays Out the Template for Pro-Uber Propaganda
Dissecting the New Yorker’s fawning profile of new Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi.
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Gaius Publius: Stephen Hawking on What Killed the World of the Jetsons. Prelude to Thoughts on a Guaranteed Jobs Program
Hawking showed a not-surprisingly acute grasp on the implications of technological unemployment.
Read more...Worksheet for the 2018 Midterms (More Democrat Biographies and #MedicareForAll Support)
Democrat support for #MedicareForAll considered by party faction and occupation.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 4/2/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Open Thread
Read more...Stabilising the Real Economy Increases Average Output
This column summarizes research indicating that stabilizing the real economy raises the long-run level of output.
Read more...Wolf Richter: Collapse of Cryptocurrencies in Q1 – Even the Biggest Crashed 67% to 88%
Cyrptocurrencies’ wild ride is looking more and more like a skydive with no parachute.
Read more...The US Arms Machine: Why Wars R Us
Putting some facts and figures of the scale of the US arms merchant business.
Read more...Tesla Encounters the Material World
The likely failure of Tesla’s hyper-automated manufacturing process, and the externalities of battery fires in electric vehicles.
Read more...Is It Time to Delete Facebook?
Could it be that public indignation at the Facebook profile harvesting scandal will lead to new regulation that could impede the value of some tech-based advertising models? Will it lead to a consumer backlash?
Read more...Climate Policy: When Starting With the Most Expensive Option Makes Sense
Why much of what you thought you knew about climate change mitigation is wrong.
Read more...How to Democratise Brexit and Take Back Control of our Future: An Appeal to Jeremy Corbyn
Now that the Brexit realities are starting to sink in, pundits are finding new magic sparkle ponies to tout as possible solutions.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 3/30/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Steel tariffs, Trump bounce, the Democrat base, Tesla manufacturing ills, Uber technology woes, Facebook Fracas, hip hop, Wittgenstein’s emojis
Read more...How Many Opioid Overdoses Are Suicides?
Time to look harder at the reasons for rising opioid deaths.
Read more...Why We Should Not Be Surprised Trump Could Do a Deal Over Nuclear Weapons with North Korea
Believe it or not, Trump has had a long standing interest in nuclear proliferation.
Read more...Gaius Publius: How to Turn Off Third-Party Data Access to Your Facebook Account
A how-to for people who can’t give up on Facebook but want to reduce their snooping exposure.
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