In the future, everyone will be CEO for 15 minutes
I have a young daughter, so I am quite puzzled about all the fuss over Polanski. Because if it were my daughter that Polanski had raped, there would be no issue 32 years later with extradition and ‘he should be forgiven’, since he would have been dead for the last 30 years at least.
The Gormogons: Letterman Made the Smart Call.
Especially given the timing of the Polanski thing, this would be brilliant. But I’m pretty sure that he had decided to go public well before the Zurich incident.
The bigger problem, which I already discussed in an earlier essay, is that the anti-EMH crowd really can’t come up with any useful implications for their theory.
Sure there is – the useful implication is that if markets are irrational, then the only way to go is via an economy that doesn’t depend on irrational markets, it instead depends on the gentle guiding hand of Elite Technocrats.
Elite Technocrats, you see, are immune to irrationality. All of those bizarre behaviors embedded in humans because of their genetics? Pfft. Not applicable to Elite Technocrats. The ridiculous status games and mating displays humans constantly go through? Elite Technocrats are unencumbered by such primitive behaviors.
That’s why we should trust them to manage the economy. They are the angels who live among us!
Yes, I’ve been blessed by another hacker. This is so much fun 
The damage was meaningful, but not catastrophic. I was able to recover most of my code (but not quite all) and I’m working on the websites.
Right now, it appears that the service provider was hacked, not my personal site, but I’m not entirely sure.
Good news – I had some backups of my code, on other machines (because the hacker’s scripts were very thorough).
Lesson learned – create a tar file backup of my source code repository, so they don’t F&ck with it.
Do I have to start wearing a tinfoil hat?
Answer: No – this analysis is so obvious a blind monkey could find it in a pile of bananas.
I find this quote rather silly:
Wal-Mart (WMT), the former poster child for corporate villainy, once again has surprised both its critics and its corporate peers by backing President Barack Obama’s plans to force employers to provide health insurance to workers, the Wall Street Journal reports
It’s funny because it’s completely backwards. Wal*Mart wasn’t a villain for paying relatively low wages – they offered jobs at certain wages, and people compete vigorously to take them. That’s hardly what one could call “villainy”.
On the other hand, backing Obama’s health care plan is absolutely villainous, because it is way for Wal*Mart to hurt their competitors who don’t currently offer health insurance (forcing them to raise their prices), and make it harder for new entrants to join the discount retail market. And if it’s harder for new entrants to join the market, Wal*Mart can raise its prices with less fear of competitive threat.
(and then have some pie)
I would guess this is because as you age, your muscles and bones maintain themselves better because you have more to carry around (but not enough to overlard, er, overload your heart). Also, those fat reserves can come in handy in emergencies, etc. Still, it does seem a bit counter-intuitive.
Anyone want a pop-tart?
In 1927, for example, President Calvin Coolidge’s sixteen-year old son Calvin Jr. developed a blister playing tennis without socks. It became infected. Five days later, he died. Before the advent of antibiotics, tragedies like this were routine.
1927???? Holy cow.
*Update* - they changed the article and removed all of these numbers, and added an amusing mistake: 1.5F (-17C) – heh.
If today’s generation acts on climate change, the average US temperature will rise 0.4C-1.83C (4-6.5F) by the end of this century, said the draft, which was finalised in April.
If it does not, average temperatures could rise by about 2.1C-4.3C (7-11F) with catastrophic consequences for human health and the economy.
First, there’s no way those pairs of numbers go together, unless you roughly double the number, and add three.
Assuming that 180 degrees Fareinheit == 100 degrees Celsius (32 – 212 vs 0 – 100), then 0.4 degrees Celsius == 0.4 * 1.8 –> .72 degrees Farenheit, and 1.83 Celsus –> 3.3 Farenheit.
I mean, if I said the temperature rose from 25 degrees Celsius to 25.4 degrees Celsius, that’s…
C*9/5+32 == 77 –> 77.72 Farenheit.
A little over a year ago, I had an idea for a YA novel that would use an infant dragon as the protagonist. It turns out that someone’s already written that, so I can just enjoy their hard work instead!
