Ezra Klein: "These are now negotiations among Democrats, done with the intention of finding policies popular enough that Republican voters will back them, even if Republican politicians will not."
\n" }, { "id": "post-vaccination-risk", "url": "http://faisal.com/a/2021/04/04/post-vaccination-risk.html", "title": "Vaccine Cheat Days Are Adding Up", "date_published": "2021-04-04T22:32:14+00:00", "content_html": "Katherine J. Wu: "humans have a tendency to spin ambiguity into the most favorable outcome available"
\n\nDisclosure: I used to work for Professor Downs.
\n" }, { "id": "it-is-time-to-give-democratic-socialists-a-chance", "url": "http://faisal.com/a/2021/03/21/it-is-time-to-give-democratic-socialists-a-chance.html", "title": "A Clinton-era centrist Democrat explains why it’s time to give democratic socialists a chance", "date_published": "2021-03-21T20:17:37+00:00", "content_html": "Zack Beauchamp: "All of these with the idea that you would then collect a broad political coalition behind what is, indeed, Mitt Romney’s health care policy and John McCain’s climate policy and George H.W. Bush’s foreign policy. And did George H.W. Bush, did Mitt Romney, did John McCain say a single good word about anything Barack Obama ever did over the course of eight solid years?"
\n" }, { "id": "a-love-letter-to-passive-voice", "url": "http://faisal.com/a/2021/03/15/a-love-letter-to-passive-voice.html", "title": "The End of Silicon Valley as We Know It?", "date_published": "2021-03-15T04:14:46+00:00", "content_html": "Tim O'Reilly: "That fractured landscape is not what was predicted—internet pioneers expected freedom and the wisdom of crowds, not that we would all be under the thumb of giant corporations profiting from a market in disinformation. What we invented was not what we hoped for. The internet became the stuff of our nightmares rather than of our dreams. We can still recover, but at least so far, Silicon Valley appears to be part of the problem more than it is part of the solution."
\n" }, { "id": "we-hate-you-now", "url": "http://faisal.com/a/2021/03/14/we-hate-you-now.html", "title": "We Hate You Now", "date_published": "2021-03-14T05:49:47+00:00", "content_html": "Quinn Norton: "Unlike any other pandemic in history, our level of scientific knowledge and ability to communicate globally gave us the power to stop this virus. This is humanity’s first self-inflicted pandemic."
\n" }, { "id": "national-security-risks-of-late-stage-capitalism", "url": "http://faisal.com/a/2021/03/01/national-security-risks-of-late-stage-capitalism.html", "title": "National Security Risks of Late-Stage Capitalism", "date_published": "2021-03-01T20:37:08+00:00", "content_html": "Bruce Schneier: "There is no good reason to underspend on security other than to save money [...]"
\n" }, { "id": "there-is-no-republican-party", "url": "http://faisal.com/a/2021/02/28/there-is-no-republican-party.html", "title": "There is No Republican Party", "date_published": "2021-02-28T22:53:13+00:00", "content_html": "Jared Yates Sexton: "And, like any runaway train, there are only two possible outcomes as to what will happen."
\n" }, { "id": "choose-boring-technology", "url": "http://faisal.com/a/2021/02/28/choose-boring-technology.html", "title": "Choose Boring Technology", "date_published": "2021-02-28T02:55:21+00:00", "content_html": "Dan McKinley: "It is basically always the case that the long-term costs of keeping a system working reliably vastly exceed any inconveniences you encounter while building it."
\n" }, { "id": "frys", "url": "http://faisal.com/a/2021/02/24/frys.html", "title": "Fry’s Electronics is shutting its doors for good", "date_published": "2021-02-24T15:22:22+00:00", "content_html": "Matthew Keys: "If you’ve ever visited a Fry’s anytime in the past two to three years, none of this will come as a surprise."
\n" }, { "id": "500000", "url": "http://faisal.com/a/2021/02/23/500000.html", "title": "500,000", "date_published": "2021-02-23T07:05:37+00:00", "content_html": "\n" }, { "id": "the-massive-ovrelooked-potential", "url": "http://faisal.com/a/2021/02/18/the-massive-ovrelooked-potential.html", "title": "The Massive, Overlooked Potential of African DNA", "date_published": "2021-02-18T09:31:13+00:00", "content_html": "Wired: "Last week, the NIH launched an initiative to update the human reference genome (about 70 percent of which belongs to one white man from Buffalo, New York) to more fully represent the genetic diversity of the human species."
\n" }, { "id": "the-people-the-suburbs-were-built-for", "url": "http://faisal.com/a/2021/02/16/the-people-the-suburbs-were-built-for.html", "title": "The People the Suburbs Were Built for Are Gone", "date_published": "2021-02-16T09:05:25+00:00", "content_html": "Shayla Love: "We really have made it almost a right to park as opposed to a right to housing. Cars have much more protection than people do."
\n" }, { "id": "fiends-torment-ronald-coase", "url": "http://faisal.com/a/2021/02/14/fiends-torment-ronald-coase.html", "title": "In The Eternal Inferno, Fiends Torment Ronald Coase With The Fate Of His Ideas", "date_published": "2021-02-14T23:43:58+00:00", "content_html": "The Yorkshire Ranter: "As often happens, the first half of this insight was more successful than the second."
\n" }, { "id": "appendix-f", "url": "http://faisal.com/a/2021/02/14/appendix-f.html", "title": "Appendix F - Personal observations on the reliability of the Shuttle", "date_published": "2021-02-14T23:13:00+00:00", "content_html": "Richard Feynman: "we could properly ask 'What is the cause of management's fantastic faith in the machinery?'"
\n" }, { "id": "usb-naming-is-stupid", "url": "http://faisal.com/a/2021/02/13/usb-naming-is-stupid.html", "title": "USB naming convention is stupid, broken, and needs rebooting right now", "date_published": "2021-02-13T07:41:23+00:00", "content_html": "Katie Wickens: "Certification of which spec you're getting is not mandatory for manufacturers."
\n" }, { "id": "everyday-covid-mistakes", "url": "http://faisal.com/a/2021/02/06/everyday-covid-mistakes.html", "title": "Everyday Covid mistakes we are all still making", "date_published": "2021-02-06T18:42:45+00:00", "content_html": "Linda Geddes: "If you can smell someone’s garlic or alcohol breath, or cigarette smoke, you’re inhaling air carrying not just the smell of the garlic, alcohol or smoke, but any virus that’s leaving their nose or mouth if they’re infected"
\n" }, { "id": "your-brain-tricks-you-into-taking-risks", "url": "http://faisal.com/a/2021/02/04/your-brain-tricks-you-into-taking-risks.html", "title": "How Your Brain Tricks You Into Taking Risks During the Pandemic", "date_published": "2021-02-04T07:44:57+00:00", "content_html": "Daniel Fishel: "There’s only one subset of the population that doesn’t experience optimism bias, Konnikova said — people suffering from depression. 'This is actually something that’s very psychologically protective,' she said. 'It ends up that seeing the world as it is makes you clinically depressed.'"
\n" }, { "id": "san-francisco-is-full", "url": "http://faisal.com/a/2021/01/31/san-francisco-is-full.html", "title": "There’s no substitute for a substitute", "date_published": "2021-01-31T19:23:02+00:00", "content_html": "Steve Randy Waldman: "Outside of the 47 square miles of San Francisco proper are almost 3200 square miles in San Mateo, Santa Clara, Alameda, and Contra Costa counties."
\n" }, { "id": "redditors", "url": "http://faisal.com/a/2021/01/30/redditors.html", "title": "The Redditors Have Revealed A Myth About The Stock Market", "date_published": "2021-01-30T06:28:25+00:00", "content_html": "Zachary D. Carter: "Financial markets cannot tell us what is good and what is bad. They can only tell us what a lot of people thought they could make money on at a certain point in time. The real work of determining what kind of world we want to live in is the proper subject of democracy, not high finance."
\n" }, { "id": "new-covid-strain", "url": "http://faisal.com/a/2021/01/28/new-covid-strain.html", "title": "The New Virus Strains Make the Next 6 Weeks Crucial", "date_published": "2021-01-28T16:43:51+00:00", "content_html": "Ezra Klein: "'What we need to do right now is to plan for the worst case scenario,' Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, told me. 'And when I say ‘worst case,’ I’m potentially talking about the most likely case. Let’s not wait until we wrap the car around the tree to start pumping the brakes.'"
\n" }, { "id": "no-one-knows", "url": "http://faisal.com/a/2021/01/26/no-one-knows.html", "title": "No one knows how much the government can borrow", "date_published": "2021-01-26T08:36:07+00:00", "content_html": "Noah Smith: "And as you know if you’ve ever read any macro theory, it tends to have no real predictive power. For example, a 2020 paper by Obstfeld and Rogoff constructs a model where hyperinflation might happen, or might not. Furthermore, macro models are rarely tested against data, so this paper might reach a totally inconclusive conclusion for totally wrong reasons."
\n" }, { "id": "climate-change-after-pandemic", "url": "http://faisal.com/a/2021/01/25/climate-change-after-pandemic.html", "title": "After Alarmism", "date_published": "2021-01-25T16:08:44+00:00", "content_html": "David Wallace-Wells: "In their retrospective analysis, they found that, despite much consternation about designing climate policy to prevent countries from 'cheating,' there was basically no evidence of any country ever pulling back from mitigation efforts to take a free ride on the good-faith efforts of others. There was, in other words, no collective-action problem on climate after all. For a generation, the argument for climate action was made on a moral basis. That case has only grown stronger. And now there are other powerful, more mercenary arguments to offer."
\n" }, { "id": "the-hill-we-climb", "url": "http://faisal.com/a/2021/01/20/the-hill-we-climb.html", "title": "The Hill We Climb", "date_published": "2021-01-20T20:47:36+00:00", "content_html": "\n\n\n" }, { "id": "covid-vaccine-reactions", "url": "http://faisal.com/a/2021/01/18/covid-vaccine-reactions.html", "title": "Another new coronavirus variant found across California", "date_published": "2021-01-18T15:51:24+00:00", "content_html": "L.A. Times: "So many people have died in Los Angeles County that officials have temporarily suspended air-quality regulations that limit the number of cremations."
\n" }, { "id": "conspiracy-theories-will-doom-republican-party", "url": "http://faisal.com/a/2021/01/17/conspiracy-theories-will-doom-republican-party.html", "title": "QAnon Is Destroying the GOP From Within", "date_published": "2021-01-17T03:13:59+00:00", "content_html": "Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE): "Until last week, many party leaders and consultants thought they could preach the Constitution while winking at QAnon. They can’t."
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