Reading Feed (July 2019)
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Blog: Marginal Revolution | We need a new science of progress
Blog: IIED | The rise of Nairobi’s concrete tenement jungl — h/t Tyler Cowen.
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Blog: Marginal Revolution | Air Genius Gary Leff on market power for airlines
Blog: Shtetl-Optimized | Links, proofs, talks, jokes
Blog: Overcoming Bias | End War Or Mosquitoes?
Blog: Schneier on Security | Attorney General William Barr on Encryption Policy
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Blog: Slate Star Codex | Against Against Billionaire Philanthropy
Blog: Marginal Revolution | The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets
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Blog: Marginal Revolution | Divorce and higher education
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Blog: Marginal Revolution | Saturday assorted link
Blog: Luke.Muehlhauser | William Rathbone, effective altruist?
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Blog: Marginal Revolution | Street-by-street zoning
Blog: Schneier on Security | Insider Logic Bombs
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Comic: xkcd | Spreadsheets
Blog: Marginal Revolution | Age-Weighted Voting?
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Blog: Slate Star Codex | Book Review: The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Blog: Marginal Revolution | Human Capitalists
Blog: GiveWell | Experiments in GiveWell communication
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Blog: Marginal Revolution | A carbon tax in a Hotelling model
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Blog: Marginal Revolution | Escape from Rome
Blog: Marginal Revolution | Are the Contents of International Treaties Copied and Pasted?
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Blog: Marginal Revolution | From the comments, what if big business hated your family?
Blog: Otium | The Costs of Reliability — "A question that used to puzzle me is 'Why can people be so much better at doing a thing for fun, or to help their friends and family, than they are at doing the exact same thing as a job?'"
Blog: Marginal Revolution | Zoning Out Shade — "The criminalization of shade goes beyond land-use regulations; it extends to the way we design public spaces. Despite more and more cities encouraging street trees as a valuable source of shade, many state transportation offices continue to ban them, privileging ease of maintenance over outdoor comfort..."
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Blog: Shtetl-Optimized | Fake it till you make it (to the moon) — "Apollo could happen, but only because of a wildly improbable, once-in-history confluence of social and geopolitical factors. It was economically insane, taking 100,000 people and 4% of the US federal budget for some photo-ops, a flag-planting, some data and returned moon rocks that had genuine scientific value but could’ve been provided much more cheaply by robots. It was dismantled immediately afterwards like a used movie set, rather than leading to any greater successes. Indeed, manned spaceflight severely regressed afterwards, surely mocking the expectations of every last science fiction fan and techno-utopian who was alive at that time."
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Blog: Marginal Revolution | Bryan Caplan on Spain
Blog: Marginal Revolution | EU markets in everything?
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Blog: Marginal Revolution | My Conversation with Neal Stephenson
Blog: Marginal Revolution | The AEA’s New Data Policy
Blog: Marginal Revolution | Pessoa, Philosophical Essays
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Blog: Marginal Revolution | What is the America-China trade war all about?
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Blog: Marginal Revolution | Compensating Kidney Donors
Blog: Marginal Revolution | How to prevent brain drain?
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Blog: Marginal Revolution | How I practice at what I do — "self-recommending", as the phrase goes. cf Marginal Revoution | Deconstructing Cultural Codes
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Blog: Marginal Revolution | Learn like an athlete, knowledge workers should train
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Blog: The Atlantic | My Friend Mister Rogers — h/t Tyler Cowen
Blog: Schneier on Security | Resetting Your GE Smart Light Bulb
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Blog: Wired | In New York, Friendships Run Along Subway Lines — h/t Tyler Cowen.
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Blog: Marginal Revolution | Taipei notes
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Blog: Slate Star Codex | Gay Rites Are Civil Rites
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Blog: Ben.Kuhn | Why Nations Fail and the long-termist view of global poverty
Blog: Marginal Revolution | Bryan Caplan, against populism
Blog: Marginal Revolution | Should the citizenship question be put on the Census?
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Blog: JeffTK | Where are the new instruments?
Blog: Marginal Revolution | Robin Hanson on coercion and feedback
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Blog: Compass Rose | Blatant lies are the best kind!
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Blog: Nature Letters | Time is running out for sand — h/t Tyler Cowen.
Blog: Don't Worry About the Vase | Everybody Knows
Blog: Marginal Revolution | The Food of Sichuan, by Fuchsia Dunlop
Blog: Shtetl-Optimized | Sensitivity Conjecture resolved
Blog: Don't Worry About the Vase | Everybody Knows — cf My Faults My Own | Everybody knows.
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Blog: Marginal Revolution | My contrarian, eccentric take on the Democratic debates
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