The distribution of wealth creates a curious dynamic, a few producers garner all the profits but often a long tail of small producers continues to exist. Denialists like to jump up and down and point as this long tail of marginal small producers. An interesting example of this is the craft beer movement. [...]
Just an FYI, since apparently the Internet doesn’t know this yet. You currently can not use Migration Assistant to export your setup from Mac OS X 10.5.8 (Leopard) to OS X Lion (10.8), as soon as the assistant on Lion makes contact with the one on Leopard it announces that “You need to update Migration [...]
Look at that! Isn’t that amazing! Before a half a million+ cases every year! More here – including: “In the late 19th century, Stockholm was the site of a massive smallpox outbreak. A combination of religious and personal rights-based objections resulted in a drop in vaccination rates to less than half of that of the [...]
One of the ways to make your name in the social sciences is to publish a simple experiment that illustrates how your experimental subjects appear to be incompetent. The pinnacle of this tradition, of course, is Milgram’s experiment showing that people will torture other people entirely because an guy in a white coat asks them [...]
Bad graphic, interesting info…
We all have our preferred way of framing up problems and their solutions. If your a math guy you build a mathy model. If your an Engineer you throw some tech at it. If your a political actor your try to shift the Overton Window. If your a capitalist manager your likely to lean [...]
Mike Konczal has an interesting posting about what becomes of people who are unemployed. I liked most diplomatic observation: “from what I’m seeing the whole idea of dropping out of the labor force from unemployment is completely under-theorized in the literature.” I naive model might assign each person into one of three categories: employed, unemployed, [...]
If your interested in Network Effects this article from the San Francisco chronicle is worth reading. It outline a few ways you might be able to tackle an incumbent firm that owns the natural monopoly of a strong network effect. First they might screw up – which we call “bad execution.” This is the [...]
though tacky, this was fun… … (declare (special indent)) (let ((indent (if (boundp ‘indent) (+ indent 2) 0))) (declare (special indent)) …
This is an amazingly thought provoking technique for collecting and presenting survey results. It is just better. Imagine, if you will, how the usual newspaper headline would summarize this data. You could use this to survey employee moral. Marketing people could use this to survey customers. I find the comments very interesting; again, imagine the damage [...]
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