Absolutely Bonkers Paypal Experience
by I, like a lot of people, don’t use email very often these days. I check it maybe every other day, and barely just glance at …
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10% for the Big Guy
We knew back in autumn of 2020 that the “Hunter Biden laptop from hell” was real. Of course, it was totally plausible, for anyone that …
No Anti-Racist in a War
I recall having a conversation several months back with an older fellow in my life. He is sort of an old-school Boomer liberal, with anti-war, …
Cannibal Genocide
by Most people who are aware of Baudrillards work remember the book that has inspired the Matrix series movies, Simulacra and Simulation. But in the height …
Actually, Please Do Nothing At All
There is a certain sort of bias that applies to people on both the right and left sides of the political spectrum. Let’s call it …
We Don’t Need to Belong to the Same Church
I was the person who told people that this new fangled thing called “the world wide web” was the future. I was the 20 year …
On Price Signals & Free Speech
Price signals and free speech are very much connected and perform a similar role in different aspects of society. Prices are information. Price signals in …
The Ongoing Destruction of Accumulated Social Capital (aka The New York Times)
It looks like Kurt Eichenwald, intellectual giant and our moral better at The NY Times, got himself into some trouble on Twitter over the holiday. …
Pandemics and Externalities
When we argue about political rights, we are usually arguing about real or imagined negative externalities and the assignment of costs relating to those negative …
The Model vs. the Data
I’ve been doing research on my next car purchase, and have been specifically focused on safety recently. Much to my surprise, the safety ratings auto …