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- VDH: Remembering the gloom and doom of the 1992 elections - on the upcoming midterms. He's not wrong.
- Athletes are supporting the Support College Sports Act. Thinking this may put it over the top.
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- The EU's Say-Do Gap Goes to Sea. The EU's official motto should be "Do as I say - not as I do."
- There are those who mistake identity for truth. Some good points.
- They hate him because he's speaking the unvarnished truth. And not apologizing or seeing permission to do it.
- One does not simply decommission a nuclear carrier. Two from Commander Salamander today mostly because I was late to the first.
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Tonight is both the opener for the Red Sox-Yankees playoffs and the Bruins season opener. Even though the clicker will be busy my thoughts will be on the Protect College Sports Act which passed the Senate by a vote of 77-22. Will what passed the Senate make it out of the House?
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"After 1932, New Zealand, Japan, Greece, Romania, Chile, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden began seeing industrial production levels rise again - but not the United States...
The big question about the American depression is not whether war with Germany and Japan ended it. It is why the Depression lasted until that war. From 1929 to 1940, from Hoover to Roosevelt, government helped to make the Depression Great...
There remains a question. If so much of the New Deal hurt the economy, why did Roosevelt win reelection three times? Why, especially, the landslide of 1936? In the case of the third and fourth Roosevelt terms the answer is clear: the threat of war, and war itself."
Turns out the only thing we had to fear was war.
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- An ode to Tesla's Cybercab. My next car may be a Cybercab.
- Paul Graham: The Top Idea in your head. What do you think of in the shower?
- Midterms diplomacy. "Iran is waiting for Democrats to take back Congress."
- Will AI replace the university? I'd look for homeschool AI first to set the precedent.
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Reportedly the Senate will vote today on the Protect College Sports Act. On the fence about the measure but did see an ad that claimed the college sports is out of hand and Congress needs to step in. That ad just made me think of Ronald Reagan saying the scariest words we're I'm from the government and I'm here to help. Is that what people really want?
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Yesterday it rained so I sat on the couch and watched some great college football games. Today the Nor'easter continues so I will sit on the couch and watch NFL games. The grass needs the rain - many of the men in the northeast nod in agreement.
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"Socrates' technique was to make his interlocutor, who started with a thesis, agree to a series of statements, then proceed to show him how the statements he agreed to are inconsistent with the original thesis, thus establishing he has no clue as to what he was talking about. Socrates used it mostly to show people how lacking in clarity they were in their thoughts, how little they knew about the concepts they used routinely - and the need for philosophy to elucidate these concepts."
This helped clarify how the Socratic method works but in Taleb's words Fat Tony then eviscerates Socrates. I tended to agree with Fat Tony. Which perhaps was Taleb's objective.
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- What is driving up US interest rates?
- From the archives: Laird Hamilton's 5 rules for healthy living.
- We need to bring back cultural monuments. Needs to be remembered that the Coliseum in Rome was sponsored by Emperor Nero but Donald Trump - a professional builder - gets protested for trying to build a ballroom on the White House or a classic Triumphal Arch in DC.
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President Trump is scheduled to be at today's Texas at Tennessee game. There's no doubt the man loves football. You have to wonder how the history of the country may have been different though if the NFL let the former NJ Generals owner buy a franchise. Would he have still run for President? Talk about sliding doors.
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- Trump hosts Xi - DC implodes. I remember when Gavin Newsom hosted Xi and cleaned up San Fran and got rid of the homeless to do it. The media was silent.
- Still blown away by this piece of history. Reminder Metcalfe was the inventor of Ethernet.
- How Silicon Valley knows its people.
- Are we getting closer to flying cars? More on Lift Aircraft.
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Reminder - when in doubt when reading something here and you're not sure if I'm serious or joking - 9 times out of 10 I'm kidding. Enjoy yourself. Don't take anything too seriously but remember many a truth is said in jest.
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- Did Lane Kiffin make a mistake in leaving Ole Miss for LSU?
- Niall Ferguson: Apocalypse Now. Have a lot of respect for Ferguson as a historian but as a prognosticator - sorry not so much.
- Glenn Reynolds: A tale of two centuries.
- Matt Ridley: How seriously should we take AI doom warnings?
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Wished for the return of football but didn't consider that that would also mean the cooler days and earlier sunsets of fall. Right now it's in the 40's when I get up and it only reaches the mid sixties even on a sunny windless day. At least we get Atlanta vs Greenbay for when it gets dark tonight.
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President Trump gave a speech at the UN yesterday. Haven't seen or read the whole speech so don't want to comment. Saw some snippets but not the whole thing. Probably get the feed from Fox News - they covered it even though they're "boycotting."
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