Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- I found the American dream... in China. A castings story.

- The moral case for dropping the atomic bombs. Dropping the bombs was the right choice no matter how some may want to change the history.

- Glenn Reynolds on 25-years of blogitude. Congrats professor!

- Family money is fine - so is making fun of nepo babies.

Linky Links

Stuff I found Interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Did a private equity roll-up worsen the LA fires? Wasn't aware of this aspect but agree its time for State AG's to take action.

- A list of Trump's initial Executive Actions. It's 6-pages long right now!

- Noah Smith on reshoring American manufacturing is possible. Think the combination of robots, AI combined with import tariffs trump cheap oversea labor. See what I did there?

- Was unaware of Captain Cromwell. Where do we find such men?

Interesting Thread

Interesting thread on how JIT (Just In Time) manufacturing is counter productive.

Especially in these days of supply chain disruptions. 

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- In Trump's first 30 months over 314,000 manufacturing jobs have been added in comparison to Obama's Administration. Wait - I thought we were told those jobs weren't coming back?

- I consider myself a proponent of marijuana but to ignore the possible harmful side-effects is foolish. (I also consider myself a proponent of alcohol but those negative side-effects are better understood and documented.)

- Today would have been Vera Rubin's 91st birthday. She should have won the Nobel Prize for her discovery and confirmation of the the existence of Dark Matter.

- Maybe we should skip manned missions to Mars and go to Jupiter's moon Io instead.

- Wow - is 3.6 septillion yottawatts of power a lot of power? Sounds like a lot.

- Netflix hit with class action shareholder lawsuit following dismal Q2 earnings

- Cool Boris Johnson story.