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Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

My Point, and I Do Have One

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The sober, important side of last night’s post about blog production rates is that we’ve reached a point where, if you believe people are supposed to work for a living during the day, [...]

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

Iran is made of people!

By Thoreau
Eric Martin:
Bottom line: people don’t react with gratitude when you bomb them.  It’s not rocket science nuclear physics.
But, if we took that line of reasoning seriously, we’d also have to conclude that bombing every wedding party in Waziristan is a bad idea.

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

In which I crown myself program officer for Science Blogging

By Thoreau
Jim has set the new production quotas for political bloggers.  Being a libertarian writing on a political topic, he naturally urges a market-based system of cap and trade with auctions.  I am a physicist, so  I declare myself to be both the Program Officer who dispenses the quotas and the Dean who collects the [...]

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

Who Blogs Too Much?

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Picking up from the Kevin Drum-Matt Yglesias exchange on the Red-Queen race of contemporary pro-blogging, I will name names of people who blog too much among the folks I read. Some of the people are folks [...]

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

Beating the market?

By Thoreau
It’s often said that in the long term just about every investment analyst or advisor has under-performed the market on his stock picks, so the best investment strategy is an index fund or some other very diversified portfolio.  But is that right?  I would think that you could get substantially better returns by adding [...]