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Costs in Landlording
Property management headaches typically go down at the high end because there’s more $ per unit, and the things that break tend to be per unit/person. You also have more $ to fix things and can do it...
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Beware Simple Models
This is a story of how harmless choices can make a harmful world. Thus begins a rather interesting and fun post by Vi Hart and Nicky Case on “The Parable of the Polygons,” which explores a simple model...
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Uber’s Popularity Means Driverless Cars Won’t Be Ride-For-Hire
I’m not 100% sure I believe this, but I think that the argument is fairly persuasive. Tell me what you think: Assuming that we come to a work much like our own, but in which it is both technologically...
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What Are Markets?
Man and politics came before markets! If we wanted to, we could organize a social system of greater equality. So says Robert McGregor in a comment thread over at Marginal Revolution. Well, McGregor...
View ArticleGuaranteed Income vs. Guaranteed Jobs
Yves Smith at Naked Capitalism has an interesting post on the late 18th Century/early 19th Century English Speenhamland system, and as more or less an aside, mentions being somewhat baffled by a reader...
View ArticleSilicon Valley Job Search Inside Baseball
When I was looking for a job two and a half years ago, I heard about innumerable companies that I have and had no desire to ever, ever work at that described themselves as “social media marketing.”...
View ArticleNeuroscientists are Dumb
Unique switch strategies related to each of these trial n outcomes were also identified: after losing participants were more likely to ‘downgrade’ their item (e.g., Rock followed by Scissors) but after...
View ArticlePredictions are Hard
In February 2015, I made some predictions. Specifically, I predicted that the 2016 update of the Apple Watch would sell about as well as the 2015 version, and that 2018 would be the first year in...
View ArticleNo Return to Apple’s Glory in Cars
Recently, Neil Cybart got a lot of attention on Hacker News for an article claiming that Apple would “pivot” into cars. This is a very, very stupid claim. The reason it’s very, very stupid is that...
View ArticleApple Will Not Buy Tesla for $75b in Two Months
So Jason Calcanis thought, back in February 2015, that Apple would buy Tesla. He said it was “a lock (in my mind).” Predictions are hard.
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