Month: February 2021

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/24/opinion/covid-icu-nurses-arizona.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog/gamestop.html

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN2AO2I1

This is what happens when government runs areas of the economy. Private companies can go bankrupt when they get obsolete, but government agencies have massive political pull and are never dismantled. The nation that can figure out a bankruptcy process for government agencies will be the leader in future centuries.

https://twitter.com/StephenKing/status/1364549697529143299
The risk of death or serious injury in cars is a certain rate per hour. This actually adds up to the average person being in a car accident every 18 years. The average person will be in 4 car accidents in their lives.
I have already been in one serious crash and one minor crash, how about you?… read more “Risk”

https://thorstenball.com/blog/2020/09/08/how-can-you-not-be-romantic-about-programming/

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2013/09/the-real-population-problem/

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2015/09/you-call-this-progress/

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2015/02/peak-what/

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2015/03/bbc-questions-indefinite-growth/

We live like kings today, on the backs of roughly 100 energy slaves each (human metabolism is 100 Watts, but Americans enjoy 10,000 W of continuous power).