"All-Season vs. All-Weather Tires: What’s the Difference?"
December 12, 2024
The Door, yet again, brings you an answer to one of life's most important questions.
The Door, yet again, brings you an answer to one of life's most important questions.
"It’s true that we can’t 'prove' that the Big Bang happened, but that’s not because of a lack of evidence; it’s because science can only ever give us our best current approximation of reality. But if we follow the evidence, there is no other viable conclusion, as all alternative approaches must ignore not just one but several of the aforementioned points."
A bit of evidence in favor of intermittent fasting. (I'll add the footnote that it seems to work for me.)
A valiant attempt to explain the famous Bell's Theorem without any math. (A rare one that Big Al seemingly has lost.)
I love the PR that these are "strict" criteria.
"This graph covers a 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000x improvement in computation/$. Pause to let that sink in." (Data spans 1900 to projected 2025.)
As I've noted before, I'd probably be really happy to vote for a (sensible) politician who just wouldn't lie to me.
Not a surprise: "How Taxing Unrealized Gains Has Caused an Entrepreneurial Exodus".
It seems as though Cliff Asness won't miss him.
Neither will Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.
And over on X they're remembering probably his worst prediction.
James Lileks humorously presents the grave difficulties in actually cutting wasteful federal spending.
(Here's a recently compiled list of ten of the actual items Mr. Lileks refers to.)
Only 75%??
Brief but IMHO convincing.
Get rid of the administrative deadweight and all the red tape they impose, and local districts will be forced to spend their dollars wisely — on the students for a change.
UPDATE: Link fixed now.
More information will probably come out but right now this is not a good look for my former employer, NC State.
"Pretty impressive chart from the [Financial Times]".
A few Liberals are seeing the light. Examples: "The Left-Flank Albatross" and "Nate Silver discovers a problem with our expert class". And this Liberal comedian, performing for what he assumes is a quite Liberal audience makes fun of a Liberal Karen: "Man Gets Dumped on Election Night for Being Right". Made me laugh. (7.5 minute YouTube.)|
I'm grateful for them: I've already taken, a couple of times, drugs that saved me from serious health problems or even death.
Fine analysis by noted economist Alex Tabarrok.
Even if the antitrust case were well-grounded, it's quite reminiscent the Microsoft case: the government is acting right when competition is heating up. See, for example, "Googling Is for Old People. That’s a Problem for Google".
"What’s the point of evaluating a staple foodstuff that always delivers as promised?"
I kinda agree along the lines of "Even bad pizza is good pizza."
UPDATE: Link fixed now.
When the Kop sings "You'll Never Walk Alone" it's just beautiful.
It does seem so, but the workings of markets are often mysterious. (Wall Street Journal, gated, but you can plug in https://www.wsj.com/sports/football/nfl-trade-deadline-cowboys-jonathan-mingo-lions-chiefs into the bottom space of https://archive.ph/ and you should be able to bypass the firewall.)
That's one smart doggie.
Even better is this nu metal cover of the chorus by Maiasaura. (If the whole song is posted I couldn't find it.)
From The Onion. Gave me a big smile.
Kim Weston, excellently repping Motown.
As I travel past my neighborhood's 99.99% unused bike lanes, I wondered what they were there for. I casually assumed they were just more Liberal virtue signaling. I hadn't considered this very sensible explanation.
We need lots of replications--preferably with control groups--but based on this clip it seems effective.
A very long post detailing probably everything you wanted to know about the different types--63!---of Chinese cuisine.