October 2009
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“Insofar as the public option has been presented as a big part of the answer to...”
– Ezra Klein: Will the public plan have higher premiums than private insurance?
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“[I]n 2004, Jackson and three colleagues set out to determine whether the...”
– Do flu vaccines work?
peterfeld:
retropolitics:
ryking:
Harry Reid is expected to introduce a health care bill that includes an opt-out option for the states — meaning everyone living in a state controlled by the GOP in 2013 (when health care reforms would kick-in if passed) can kiss the public option good-bye.
What is the problem? I’m 100% in favor of health care reform that only benefits people who live in...
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“For 2009, total foreclosures are estimated to be 2.4 million. But coupling...”
– John Hussman
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The next crisis is already under way →
crazynutjob:
Everyone has referenced Einhorn’s latest. It’s good, but this was the best thing I read today. Punchline:
What you should draw from this is the following:
The Great Moderation is revealed as an illusion once we reach the zero bound, where interest rates are near zero. At this point the asset-price reflation can no longer rely on interest rates alone, but must also use...
Homesick by Kings of Convenience
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“Today, my younger cousin announced his plans to live forever. I told him it was...”
– MyLifeIsAverage
Wall Street’s motto.
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“The notion that battery E.V.’s and plug-in hybrids might be too quiet has gained...”
– Counter-productive.
Hybrid Cars May Include Fake Vroom for Safety - NYTimes (via dpstyles)
My family beta tested the GM EV1 in 1997 for two weeks. That car was practically silent. You really could sneak up on pedestrians and that was before everyone had white earbuds in. GM’s solution was...
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“The [U.N. Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species] office in...”
– Is the Bluefin Tuna an Endangered Species?
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“Traffic lights that were once co-ordinated for car speeds were adjusted to cater...”
– Copenhagen: Bicycling paradise of the day
Can anyone explain Williamsburg Yeti?
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Malcolm Gladwell: Football, dog fighting, and... →
[L]ate last month the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research released the findings of an N.F.L.-funded phone survey of just over a thousand randomly selected retired N.F.L. players—all of whom had played in the league for at least three seasons. Self-reported studies are notoriously unreliable instruments, but, even so, the results were alarming. Of those players who were older...
Introducing: The Book of Odds →
The Book of Odds is a searchable online database of “odds statements,” the probabilities of everyday life. You can search it by keyword or by the odds themselves — for instance, how many things stand a 1 in 142 chance of happening to to you. The average American is more likely to live without ever visiting a dentist than to live without a TV in her home.
A married man is about as likely to cheat...
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“The most important thing coming from investors in Asia, where I am, is despite...”
– Stephen Roach
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“Is this bill all that I would want? Far from it. But when history calls, history...”
– Senator Olympia Snowe will vote yes. Live Blogging the Finance Panel Vote on Health Care Bill - NYTimes.com
“One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore...”
– André Gide
“[W]hat I wonder is how come you often see people wondering why jets aren’t...”
– Matt Steinglass - Across the planet in 20 hours is fast enough, thanks
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“This is an odd award. You’d expect it to come later in Obama’s presidency and...”
– Josh Marshall (via langer, saadiq)
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Hiroshima vs Detroit -- 64 years later →
(via azspot)
These pictures are exactly as you’d expect them to be but still worth the look.
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“Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world’s...”
– The Nobel Prize committee (via highlow, robot-heart-politics, apsies, azspot)
“One interesting thing that I’ve always found about the film business from...”
– Nicholas Tabarrok
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“As the bounty of coastal waters dropped, fisheries moved further offshore, to...”
– Daniel Pauly in Aquacalypse Now: The End of Fish (via crazynutjob)
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“To glean a sense of the dimensions of the organization department’s job,...”
– FT
If you have any interest in China or communism, you must read this article. Incredible.
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“There is clearly a Chicago/Rio coalition here, where a group of IOC members...”
– Did Prediction Markets Get Chicago Wrong? via felixsalmon.
It didn’t occur to me how much of a win Rio is for NBC or whoever has the Olympics coverage for 2016.
Michael Milken: Prosperity rests on human and... →
Worth reading the whole thing but here are my favorite parts:
The return on investment in education is apparent in a comparison of Singapore and Jamaica, former British colonies that once shared many similarities. In the early 1960s, each had a population of 1.6m and almost exactly the same gross domestic product per capita – about 2,200 current US dollars. Then they diverged. Jamaica stuck to...
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“In his bid for reelection next November, the five-term Connecticut senator is...”
– Chris Dodd’s Extreme Makeover
“The only ‘radical’ aspect of me left is my pure and unwavering hatred for any...”
– Colin Fuller interviewed by Let Them Eat Meat
Generally love the content on Let Them Eat Meat (a blog mostly about how sickly vegans look) but the interviews with ex-vegans are fantastic.
I hate to say it but...
mikehudack:
justinday:
I wish the KMart at Astor Place was a WalMart. Sure WalMart is evil, but they do a better job of serving the customer than KMart ever will. KMart has put zero thought into the location, it’s just a transplant of the same crap you’d find at any other KMart. When I went to the closest WalMart to Burning Man they had turned the whole store upside down making sure they...
Watchwordbk:
blazey:
A BK x Blazey colaboration.
A Bunch of us went to woodstock last fall. BK sat on the footage for a year and asked me to edit it together. I excitedly accepted the challenge. I hope you enjoy.
song: Winter Fade by Animal Collective
If you all didn’t already know. Blazey is a G at editing. And when you get a moment, please watch it in HD, the footage is beautiful.
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