Nat Tuck @nat@ferrus.net

Lol facebbok lobbyists. https://boingboing.net/2018/10/09/bushies-under-the-bed.html

This seems like the obvious interpretation of the state of the US economy. Why is this wrong?

https://michael-hudson.com/2018/09/the-lehmans-limp/

Huh. Being a paperclip AI is amusing.
http://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html

I just ordered an RPLidar A2. I bet a solid state 2D lidar for under $50 will come out next year. I better actually do something with this one before that happens.

https://www.seeedstudio.com/RPLiDAR-A2M8-360-Degree-Laser-Scanner-Kit-12M-Range-p-3074.html

@kristina Here's an interesting comparison of a randomized controlled trial with an observational analysis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtUYKGz1v-c

@kristina https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/remove-cookies-button-ver1x/

@kristina Apparently Boston was going to fix school start times but didn't due to popular protest.

Apparently doing the obviously correct thing is politically difficult: https://apps.bostonglobe.com/ideas/graphics/2018/09/equity-machine/

@kristina I think this may be rlevent to your interests. https://xkcd.com/2048/

@marksherman You know about teaching. Are elementary school teachers really trying to teach reading by osmosis? https://www.apmreports.org/story/2018/09/10/hard-words-why-american-kids-arent-being-taught-to-read

More stories of irregular elections / ballot tampering in the United States: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYXvLb_fhPY

After all the dumb things the EU has decided this week, at least they're getting one thing right: https://www.dw.com/en/eu-to-stop-changing-the-clocks-in-2019/a-45495680

Interesting thought: "Free will" is a bad model of the world, and targeted propaganda exposes the weaknesses of that model. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/sep/14/yuval-noah-harari-the-new-threat-to-liberal-democracy

Here's an interesting discussion of how moving off centralized platforms in response to their reprehensible actions doesn't really work out:

http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/07/22/freedom-on-the-centralized-web/

I have a new mathematical model for evaluating investments. It says that mailing me cash in an envelope will give you the best returns. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQHs8SA1qpk

The UBI argument has been the same for 50 years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtpgkX588nM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnZKKvG5rQQ

The "market based" health care system in the US costs an extra $6000/family/year for bureaucracy compared to the Canadian system.