March 2011
39 posts
“I hesitate to pile on much on the tree ring studies at this point, as they have...”
– Duty to Disclose | Climate Skeptic
“When prosecutors put together their case at trial (at least in the US) they have...”
– Duty to Disclose | Climate Skeptic
“Accreditation constraints and social signaling constraints (a market failure, I...”
– Marginal Revolution: Archibald and Feldman respond on education
Sawickipedia: Even though I graduated from Duke, I am not sure I buy the value of Duke vis-a-vis a UCF in this example. I am not at all jonesing for my kids to go to Duke or any other “name” college. Honestly I would be...
“Fifteen years ago, I gave a speech entitled “Rethinking Financial Regulation,”...”
– Calculated Risk: Fed’s Hoenig: Financial Reform: Post Crisis?
“Yet the idea that taxpayers should bail out senior creditors of massively...”
– FT.com / Comment & analysis / FT Columnists - Ireland needs help with its debt
To everyone who wonders what happens when the Corporations effectively take over a country and a continent please take a look at Europe and specifically Ireland. Irish citizens got SCREWED in this Corporate...
“Walker’s office responded that Obama must know that most federal employees...”
– Walker’s budget address to outline sharp cuts - JSOnline
February 2011
36 posts
“Only in America can you be pro-death penalty, pro-war, pro-unmanned drone bombs,...”
– John Fugelsang (via andoneheadcanneverdie)
And only in America can you be pro-fetus-killing and anti-death penalty and still call yourself a humanitarian. Southpark has explored this dual hypocrisy many times in wonderfully hilarious ways.
“The U.S. effective corporate tax rate on new investment was 34.6 percent in...”
– Greg Mankiw’s Blog: Tax Fact of the Day
“The federal government can offer a product that solves that problem. Individuals...”
– A Proposal to Help Pay for Old Age - NYTimes.com
Sawickipedia: Intriguing. Need to think more about this idea.
“according to Willem Buiter, chief economist at Citigroup. CNBC.com “We...”
– US vs China - US Will Be the World’s Third Largest Economy: Citi - CNBC
Sawickipedia says: As soon as I stop laughing, I’ll take the over (as in the # of years til China passes the US). Laughable to think that China’s GDP which is less then 40% of the size of the US’s will...
Key Senators Block GOP Efforts To Upend Net... →
vruz:
vruz: tough call. support the broken law and those very specific interests favoured by it, or support GOP and whatever may come in a blank cheque without real regulation?
you just can’t win. bad, bad, barack obama.
@vruz (yes I know you’re off tumblr for now) - this is a bullshit indictment of R’s given the D’s started this mess. Honestly you should be taking a...
Zynga's doing all right b/c they have leverage
rafer:
@caterpillarcowboy they are doing exactly the right thing by hedging out of FB. They can spend those huge ad buying dollars elsewhere and still make money — and FB knows it. I’m talking about this at the KL Facebook Dev Garage this Saturday: Get in, Get big, Spread out.
@rafer - i think the potential problem w/ your message is no one has gotten big on FB platform since the time of...
“So there you have it. Illegal immigrants: 393,000. Lying moms: one. Bankers:...”
– Why Isn’t Wall Street in Jail? | Rolling Stone Politics (via wiesen)
This article made me more upset then i’ve likely been over the last two years w/ Wall St. And what’s so frickin upsetting is how we let Wall St buy off both political parties and get away with this bullshit. ARGH.
Posterous by the Numbers: 12.3M Blogs and 9.2M... →
caterpillarcowboy:
I read this as: Posterous’ current plan is fucked, time to pivot or return investor money and go home.
@davelifson even worse only 30% of their users appear to be US
“I believe in heavy taxation, heavy regulation. Without heavy government...”
– Chris Hedges (via azspot)
Sawickipedia: Here’s the rub - I in no way think regulation can _not_ be co-opted by corpratists. That’s their game and they rule at it. See the net neutrality rules bought by Verizon and Google. There is no regulatory system that I’ve seen that...
“Democratic lawmakers on the panel also defended Mr. Genachowski and several said...”
– New Flare-Up in Capitol Over ‘Net Neutrality’ - WSJ.com
Sawickipedia Says: Gotta love ‘em corpratist democrats. Yeah that phone oligarchy thing did wonders for the US economy. Not. Kind of explains their whole anti-wikileaks stance.
“I was struck by this argument, which I had never heard:
The overriding...”
– Marginal Revolution: Is the cow a silo of option value?
Sawickipedia says: Fascinating. Makes complete sense.
“Wildman actor Charlie Sheen, barely out of hospital from his latest reported...”
– Being sober is boring: Charlie Sheen
sawickipedia says: the guy is honest. a train wreck, but honest. I think the issue is the potential fatal externalities from his behavior.
“It is against this backdrop that you should be especially dismissive of any and...”
– Obama’s Budget is a Fantastic Comedy - Blogs at Chris Martenson
“Fantasy or comedy? I couldn’t decide which way to label the Obama budget,...”
– Obama’s Budget is a Fantastic Comedy - Blogs at Chris Martenson
“Consider that a million btu in oil costs $16.37 (average of $95 dollars a...”
– Vexed By Natural Gas | Gregor.us
“**Note 3: It is entirely possible that post-scandal the capital will be...”
– Bronte Capital: Guanxi vs Analyst: Carlyle and the coming collapse in Asian Private Equity
“The analyst guys are cock-a-hoop. They think that now the great Analyst-Guanxi...”
– Bronte Capital: Guanxi vs Analyst: Carlyle and the coming collapse in Asian Private Equity
Sawickipedia: Network Capitalism is wayyyy too politically correct a term for crony capitalism but I agree with the point and look forward to the comeuppance on anyone who effectively stole from the public...
“Alas I think Carlyle’s business model in Asia is fundamentally flawed: we can...”
– Bronte Capital: Guanxi vs Analyst: Carlyle and the coming collapse in Asian Private Equity
Sawickipedia says: Fascinating blog post on the value and pay for cronyism in the US vs Asia.
Caterpillar Cowboy: AOL buys Huff Post, Tumblr... →
siminoff:
When I saw that AOL bought Huffington Post for $315 million today, the first thing that came to my mind, is Tumblr next?
AOL is looking to produce content, that is why they bought Tech Crunch and now Huffington Post. While Tumblr is uncontrolled content vs. what they…
Tumblr seemingly has a few options - build an ad platform that shares the majority of rev w/ their pubs for...
“The school closed from May 14 to 18, but there was no indication that this...”
– New Study Sheds Light on Spread of Swine Flu - NYTimes.com
“Social networks were apparently a more significant means of transmission [of the...”
– New Study Sheds Light on Spread of Swine Flu - NYTimes.com
“A platform without a well-formed app store presents a huge challenge to...”
– Four Lessons From Evernote’s First Week On The Mac App Store (via brianoberkirch)
Rafer sez: Disagree. Sometimes it’s the right this and sometimes it’s the easy way out. The analysis make-vs-buy as always, this time from the dev’s perspective. What’s more expensive? Hiring (and then living with)...
What will become of health insurance companies... →
“When I went to see Ev Williams and Biz Stone at the Inforum Club in October,...”
– Twitter Touts “Social Responsibility” But Threatens To Leave SF Over Local Taxes - SVW
Let’s make sure we’re clear on few things: board of directors have a legal responsibility to safeguard and maximize shareholder value. Shareholder value is based solely on the price of...
“What it means for SEO Google has a serious problem, and I’m sure that they have...”
– How Organized Spam is Taking Control of Google’s Search Results | SEOmoz
“We want our Netflix! That’s the message Canadians are sending to their elected...”
– Canada’s Netflix Rebellion Against Bandwidth Caps: Online Video News «
Crony gov’t sponsored corporatism at its finest. Gotta love it when large oligarch’s can leverage the central government to mandate their corporate profits.
Note to Canadian Internet entrepreneurs: I guess...