Blog: Via Meadia: Democrats Win Supermajority in California
Why Startup Founders are Always Unhappy
Why Startup Founders are Always Unhappy
“My theory is that a founder’s happiness is tied to the rate of change of their startup’s success. In other words, your happiness graph is the first derivative of your success graph.”
Will The Right’s Fever Break? Ctd – The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan – The Daily Beast
Will The Right’s Fever Break? Ctd – The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan – The Daily Beast
“A political party can adapt and change; a fundamentalist religious party loses its entire authority if it admits error, because its message is based on religious texts that are held to be inerrant. The biggest obstacle in front of today’s GOP threfore remains theo-political fundamentalism, and how it can be overcome.”
We Should Probably All Calm Down a Bit: Kevin Drum
We Should Probably All Calm Down a Bit: Kevin Drum
“Oh, and smart people on both sides of the aisle should start thinking seriously about how to handle a future in which smart machines do more and more work and humans do less and less. I’m dead serious about this.”
Status Quo Ante | RedState
Status Quo Ante | RedState
“Yes conservatives, we must account for this. The Romney campaign to the hispanic community was atrocious and, frankly, the fastest growing demographic in America isn’t going to vote for a party that sounds like that party hates brown people.”
Is Demography Destiny? by Megan McArdle
Is Demography Destiny? by Megan McArdle
“I’m not sure how enduring this ‘Emerging Democratic Majority’ will prove to be. Some reasons for my skepticism”
U.S. Republican Party will recover when they stop behaving like yahoos | Full Comment | National Post
Immigration is only part of the problem Republicans have with hispanic voters – Spectator Blogs
Immigration is only part of the problem Republicans have with hispanic voters – Spectator Blogs
Because it is not just about immigration. It is about belonging. It is about respect. It is about being part of the American family.
The Best | Dustin Curtis
The Best | Dustin Curtis
“Everything I carried had to fit into a backpack, so I spent the time to carefully research and buy only the very best of each individual item I was carrying. The best towel. The best pen and notebook. The best headlamp. The best headphones. The best wallet. Everything I owned had been carefully designed by a person who cared deeply about the problem being solved.”
When quants tell stories | Felix Salmon
When quants tell stories | Felix Salmon
“At heart, the campaign was marrying quantitative skills with storytelling, to unbeatable effect. Which stories should the campaign tell, to any given group of people? How should it tell those stories? And who should it get to deliver those stories? The database answered all those questions”
The Prattleground States | Bill James
The Prattleground States | Bill James
“First, divide the nation into 50 Districts, each District into 50 Regions, each Region into 50 Wards, and each Ward into 50 Precincts. There will be 50 Districts, 2,500 Regions, 125,000 Wards and 6.25 Million Precincts. If you had 312.5 million people voting—about the population of the United States–then there would be 50 voters in each Precinct.”
Blog: Wired Science: Study: The Universe Has Almost Stopped Making New Stars
Money talks, but NHL fans don’t want to hear it
Money talks, but NHL fans don’t want to hear it
“the fan is saying: don’t treat me as if I don’t matter… Don’t make me think about the money. I don’t want to think about the money.”
Blog: The American Conservative » Rod Dreher: Conservatism: What Next?
Rany Jazayerli: The GOP And Me.
Rany Jazayerli: The GOP And Me.
“Look, I don’t want to be a party-line voter. It does Muslims no good to be identified with a single political party – we run the risk of being taken advantage of by the Democratic Party, while having our needs completely ignored by the Republicans. And I look forward to the day, hopefully in the near future, when I once again vote for a Republican candidate.”
Blog: Brain Pickings: The Beatles Perform Shakespeare in Color, 1964
Sabermetric Research: Arguments vs. studies
Sabermetric Research: Arguments vs. studies
“In social science, the best arguments prove more than the best studies. Hands down.”
Worse Than You Ever Imagined
Worse Than You Ever Imagined
36 million unnatural deaths in China from 1958-62. That’s a World War scale of magnitude, and we barely ever hear of it.