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Roger Simon on Moral Narcissism and Libertarians
from: May 24, 2016 at 07:50AM
“I think that libertarians share with progressives a certain adolescent inability to admit the benefits of an institution they dislike. In the case of progressives, the difficulty is with admitting the benefits of free markets. In the case of libertarians, the difficulty is with admitting the benefits of government. For all the misguided actions that government takes, you should not take it for granted that you will have internal peace or effective urban sanitation without it.
Moral narcissism allows one to disengage from reality. Paradoxically, the moral narcissist tends to deny that humans have a propensity to be evil while believing in the evil of one’s political opponents.”
# 2016.05.24 – 07:51
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A great @JamesFallows post https://t.co/WsuA5jiYri pic.twitter.com/ppmZjl8BVC
— Derek Thompson (@DKThomp) May 23, 2016
# 2016.05.23 – 07:30
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home is pure, joyful cinema
“Nimoy loved the supporting players, and his film bestows each of them with a Hall of Fame moment. Scotty: “A keyboard. How quaint.” Chekov: “Nuclear wessels.” Uhura: “But where is Alameda?” McCoy, undercover as a surgeon, asks an old lady in a hospital what’s wrong with her. Kidney dialysis, she says. “Dialysis!” McCoy sputters — an actual honest-to-god sputter, DeForest Kelley’s voice like an old engine cackling. “What is this, the Dark Ages?””
# 2016.05.21 – 00:38
P vs. NP and the Computational Complexity Zoo
P vs. NP and the Computational Complexity Zoo
# 2016.05.21 – 00:13
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V. important. (Basic idea: make employmt benefits portable, so temps etc get them.)
Elizabeth Warren’s Next Crusade https://t.co/SR3gGSYiLq
— hilzoy (@hilzoy) May 19, 2016
# 2016.05.19 – 13:20
Rapping, deconstructed: The best rhymers of all time
Rapping, deconstructed: The best rhymers of all time
# 2016.05.19 – 11:04
Pick & Roll Defense – Ron Adams – Basketball Fundamentals
Pick & Roll Defense – Ron Adams – Basketball Fundamentals
# 2016.05.18 – 22:54
Tweet by lschmeiser
Most ppl have to negotiate proprietary, siloed information systems & THAT is what eats time, not texting friends for restaurant refs 6/x
— Lisa Schmeiser (@lschmeiser) May 18, 2016
# 2016.05.18 – 12:39
A guy just transcribed 30 years of for-rent ads. Here’s what it taught us about housing prices
“It’s a chart that almost perfectly predicts the San Francisco housing market using only three variables:
1. The number of jobs located in San Francisco County.
2. The number of places in San Francisco County for people to live.
3. The total amount of money that is paid to everyone who works jobs in San Francisco County.”
# 2016.05.17 – 11:24
Employment, construction, and the cost of San Francisco apartments
“In the long run, San Francisco’s CPI-adjusted average income is growing by 1.72% per year, and the number of employed people is growing by 0.326% per year, which together (if you believe the first model) will raise CPI-adjusted housing costs by 3.8% per year. Therefore, if price stability is the goal, the city and its citizens should try to increase the housing supply by an average of 1.5% per year (which is about 3.75 times the general rate since 1975, and with the current inventory would mean 5700 units per year). If visual stability is the goal instead, prices will probably continue to rise uncontrollably.”
# 2016.05.17 – 11:24
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Women of the TARDIS: A Guide To Doctor Who’s Surprisingly Feminist Series Nine https://t.co/wtS5TT3RPy by @thebillyseguire
— Rogues Portal (@RoguesPortal) May 17, 2016
# 2016.05.17 – 10:47