The GameStop Short Squeeze: Why Almost Everyone is Wrong About It
2021-02-01 Brian DeChesare A low spin description of what has happened with GameStop’s stock.
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Most surgeries are ineffective
2021-01-21 Paras Chopra surgery is different than medicine. All new pharmaceutical molecules are subjected to rigorous clinical trials where they’re tested against placebo or doing nothing. In many countries, there’s no such procedure for surgical treatments. If there is a…
The Dow’s Return by Day of the Month
2021-01-12 Eddy Elfenbein Nearly the entire gain of the Dow has come during the first six days of the month.
Former ACLU Head Ira Glasser explains why there’s no such thing as “hate speech”
2021-01-16 Tom Parker “If the government is going to be the one to decide what hate speech to ban, it’s not going to be the same speech as the speech you hate.”
On US Capitol Security — By Someone Who Manages Arena-Rock-Concert Security
2021-01-13 Bruce Schneier There’s not ever going to be enough police or security at any event to stop people if they all act in unison; if enough people want to get to Vanilla Ice at the same time, they’re going…
Things You Should Never Do, Part I
2000-04-06 Joel Spolsky Netscape … [made] the single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make: They decided to rewrite the code from scratch. The reason that they think the old code is a mess is because of a…
FireEye Hacked
2020-12-09 Bruce Schneier FireEye [a cybersecurity company] was hacked by — they believe — “a nation with top-tier offensive capabilities”
Abortion is Wrong: Steelmanning a Position I Do Not Hold
2020 Taylor G. Lunt . . . I don’t agree with the pro-life opinion I expressed in this essay. This was a thought exercise: take on a position I disagree with, and try to make it as strong as possible.…
Kamala goes full commie with video praising “equality of outcome.” Let me show how horrid this idea actually is.
2020-11-02 Joel Abbott “Equitable treatment means we all end up at the same place,” said Harris, finishing her idea of a utopia on earth. This all sounds nice. It sounds great on the surface. It doesn’t even sound socialistic to…