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Boudreaux nails it

wojtek · 2015-01-29

Don Boudreaux over at Cafe Hayek arrives at the problem with concerns about income inequality: If a millionaire embarks upon a life of successful house burglarizing, the problem with this activity isn’t that it further increases income inequality; the problem is that the activity itself is immoral and destructive And so it is with any …

Write semi-manual code

wojtek · 2015-01-192015-01-19

Everyone who owns an DSLR camera is highly appreciative of both its automatic and manual modes. Automatic mode – the green rounded rectangle that lets us point and click – is great for most of the shots we take. However, sometimes the lighting is odd, the subject is strangely positioned, or we just need to …

How many wind turbines is that?

wojtek · 2015-01-122015-01-12

Someone did it an fairly good back-of-napkin estimate of the infeasibility of fast charging of electric vehicles. I can’t charge a car next to my house, I have street parking, and the idea of having to schedule a charge as though it were a haircut rules EVs out for me entirely. But the most important …

Dollar shocks

wojtek · 2015-01-062015-01-12

John Tamny at Forbes clearly explains the cause of the changing price of oil. http://www.forbes.com/sites/johntamny/2015/01/04/to-promote-their-cheap-oil-narrative-conservatives-dismiss-ronald-reagan/ Hint: It’s not a conspiracy!

Red meat and illness

wojtek · 2014-12-312015-01-12

This seems particularly significant I’ve never been a fan of the just ‘cuz school of nutrition. Most recommendations regarding saturated fat and meats have sounded an awful lot like it. The paper, however, seems to establish a causal link between immune response to mammalian meat and many disorders, confirming results that lacked explanation. First time …

Advertising for non-impulsive visitors

wojtek · 2014-12-202014-12-21

A theory on promotion efficacy across viewer context and its correspondent attention level: If I’m advertising my services as a lawyer, real estate agent, or renovator, then an article about Justin Bieber, or ISIS, is not only catching too many of the wrong people, it’s actually also catching the right people at the wrong time …

Narcissism

wojtek · 2014-10-102014-12-21

The great thing about narcissism is that, if you truly are awesome, then it’s perfectly justified.

Regulatory capture in telecommunications

wojtek · 2014-10-042014-12-21

There are probably several ways that this takes place, but as far as I can tell this takes two forms, originating from both interests (regulators and carriers). The first is from the carriers themselves, who demand, and generally tend to get, high prices in compensation for providing a “common good”. They are usually required to …

Interventionism

wojtek · 2014-09-292014-12-21

If one claims, as I often do to my leftist friends, that the intentions guiding state action over her citizens cannot be disentangled from the inevitable disfigurement by the political process, then the same argument must also be applied to actions impacting on foreigners. Specifically, if premature withdrawal and consequent cocking up of foreign wars …

When jogging, make sure to wear proper jogging attire.

wojtek · 2014-06-202014-12-21

Not because you’re a snob, but because, to an outside observer, you could be either disciplined and self-motivated, or someone who’s running, late (as always) for an appointment, and going to arrive sweaty and gross. So, which image do you choose to project? Of someone who’s got their shit together? Or someone who’s can’t even …