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Category Archives: Law & Society
Quote of the Day
Hey, it’s been a really long time since I posted a quote of the day. So here’s one for you all: A society in which smart, hard-working young people with generic ambitions tend to become hedge fund and private equity … Continue reading
Posted in Law & Society
Tagged economics, James Kwak, quote of the day
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So what just happened?
I’ve been pretty quiet lately, and haven’t had a whole lot of time or energy for baking. But we just had this, um, shocking result in an election, and I wanted to put a few words down about it. Everything … Continue reading
Posted in Language, Law & Society, States of mind
Tagged discrimination, disparate impact, racism, semantics, Trump
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Quote of the day
(A teacher in a sorcery school is giving an impromptu lecture:) “Each of you may live a long time; each of you is of significant strength. You could do good, if you could judge all the consequences of what you … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Law & Society
Tagged Graydon Saunders, quote of the day
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I stumbled across some whiners on Twitter today who hate their country so muchhate Hillary Clinton so much that they would rather have their vote not count at all, or worse, throw the election to Donald Trump, rather than vote … Continue reading
2016-08-01
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Quote of the day: One of many things wrong with the Internet industry
This has been making the rounds of, yes, social media — at least among the lefty circles I move in — and will appear soon in the paper New York Review of Books: [MIT psychologist Sherry] Turkle argues against using … Continue reading
Posted in Broadcasting & Media, Computing, Law & Society, States of mind
Tagged addiction, Sherry Turkle, social media
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Quote of the day: Fred Vultee on the usual suspects
Wayne State journalism prof. Fred Vultee is always good for a line when it comes to the depraved weasels at Fox News: Outrage appears to have a lot more to do with who you are than with the scale of … Continue reading
Posted in Broadcasting & Media, Language, Law & Society
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Computing apportionment for the U.S. House of Representatives
Several months ago, I started a really simple project to compute Congressional apportionment, using the method defined in current law, with the intent of considering several different scenarios. I haven’t really had time to work on this since then, but … Continue reading
Posted in Computing, Law & Society
Tagged apportionment, House of Representatives, politics, U.S. Census
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It’s snowing again where I live. I wonder where they’re going to put it all? Every time I start to wonder why Boston deals with the snow so poorly, and think about how we had more snow when I was … Continue reading
2015-02-07
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Quote of the day: Dan Davies on “microfoundations of macroeconomics”
In the “Bull Market” collection on Medium, Dan Davies writes: The actual investment decision is carried out by a corporate manager. He wants to maximise his own income, so he is going to do what he thinks will generate a … Continue reading
Posted in Law & Society
Tagged Dan Davies, economics, quote of the day
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Quote of the day: Tal Yarkoni on peer review
In a footnote to a recent blog post, Tal Yarkoni writes: On a tangential note, this is why traditional pre-publication peer review isn’t very effective, and is in dire need of replacement. Meta-analytic estimates put the inter-reviewer reliability across fields … Continue reading
Posted in Law & Society, Science
Tagged peer review, psychometrics, quote of the day, research, Tal Yarkoni
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