~marginalrevolution | Bookmarks (22)
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My contentious Conversation with Jonathan Haidt - Marginal REVOLUTION
Here is the transcript, audio, and video. Here is the episode summary: But might technological advances...
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Be careful what you announce about your expected value maximization - Marginal REVOLUTION
Judge Kaplan: A man willing to flip a coin as to the continued existence of life...
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Is there Hope for Evidence-Based Policy? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Vital City magazine and the Niskanen Center’s Hypertext have a special issue on the prospects for...
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Opening Borders - Marginal REVOLUTION
Open borders hasn’t been getting a lot of good press recently but next week Bulgaria and...
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R.I.P. The Scottish Enlightenment 1697-2024 - Marginal REVOLUTION
The Scottish Enlightenment will die on April 1st 2024, exactly 327 years, eight months and 24...
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Pacific Heights: A Movie Ahead of Its Time - Marginal REVOLUTION
Pacific Heights is a 1990 movie starring Michael Keaton, Melanie Griffith, and Matthew Modine. Conventionally described...
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My excellent Conversation with Marilynne Robinson - Marginal REVOLUTION
Here is the audio, video, and transcript. Here is the episode summary: Marilynne Robinson is one...
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Marc Andreessen and I talk AI at an a16z American Dynamism event - Marginal REVOLUTION
a16z has issued the talks from that event, and we are issuing it too, as a...
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We need YIMBY for the U.S. power grid - Marginal REVOLUTION
The amount of new transmission line installed in the United States has dropped sharply since 2013, when...
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Tide turning in Washington State? - Marginal REVOLUTION
From an MR reader: Good story here about one man in Washington state fighting the battle...
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How did Madrid become the capital of European liberalism? - Marginal REVOLUTION
But in the case of Madrid, the last 25 years have been a clear move towards...
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What should I ask Coleman Hughes? - Marginal REVOLUTION
I will be doing a Conversation with him, based in part around his new book The...
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Is El Salvador special? - Marginal REVOLUTION
But Bukele copycats and those who believe his model can be replicated far and wide overlook...
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Milei update, a further report will be pending - Marginal REVOLUTION
🇦🇷Milei's has hit the limits of his reform agenda w/ the govt being forced to rescind...
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Two Updates on the Value of Vaccines - Marginal REVOLUTION
1) From the recent annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene (abstract...
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Back to the Future: Power Dishwashers! - Marginal REVOLUTION
Why do today’s dishwashers typically take more than 2 hours to run through a normal cycle...
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Why Britain's economy is failing - Marginal REVOLUTION
In the past five years, the number of applications to connect to the electricity grid —...
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Are cities for tourists or residents? - Marginal REVOLUTION
And at what margin? A new ideological struggle is brewing, yet we have not yet recognized...
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Uber and Traffic Fatalities - Marginal REVOLUTION
Abstract: Previous studies of the effect of ridesharing on traffic fatalities have yielded inconsistent, often contradictory...
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U.S. high-skilled immigration - Marginal REVOLUTION
Major win for the US on high-skilled immigration policy: “USCIS data show that the number of...
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The Sullivan Signal: Harvard's Failure to Educate and the Abandonment of Principle - Marginal REVOLUTION
The current Harvard disaster was clearly signaled by earlier events, most notably the 2019 firing of...
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Sebastian Bensusan on Milei reform impressions (from my email) - Marginal REVOLUTION
This was great: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2023/12/argentina-reform-impressions.html I think the biggest things that you missed are: 1. He is...