Bernard Stanford ✡︎
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Let's think step by step.
At some point in TurboTax 2023's development, somebody did a find-replace of "tick" for "checkmark." Which is great, since only Commonwealth countries call a checkmark a tick. But now you can make a donation in New York for "Lyme and Checkmark-Borne Diseases."
Interesting thread from a litigator on the Hulk Hogan vs. Gawker case. Famously, this case was funded by Peter Thiel with the goal of destroying Gawker, which it succeeded in doing. Medieval era common law had a prohibition on this exact kind of conduct, which was called…
With Terry Bollea's (Hulk Hogan's) death yesterday, it's a good time to look back at the biggest thing I was ever involved in. For over 3 years, I spent more than half of my worktime on one case-- Bollea v. Gawker. It was Charles Harder's case-- I handled "the appeal side".
A housing market can be "affordable" overall because it has sufficient supply relative to demand. But within a market, being "affordable" means a unit is: (a) non-market; (b) somehow mispriced; or (c) bad. "Affordable housing" often just refers to bad, undesirable housing.
If you flip this around I think you can see why modern life is so frustrating for progressives, why they’re so neurotic about everything, and upset all the time. If you ignore all the trade-offs, if you just simply don’t care about the morality of forcing third parties to pay for…
What you should notice immediately, though, is the difference in who should be responsible for solving this problem. On the one hand, you could have the mother not work, in which case her and her husband are directly solving the problem of childcare for their own family. On the…
When I wrote "Twilight of the Liberal Jew" in 2023, I suggested that the most politically influential American Jews under the age of 40 were @benshapiro, @libsoftiktok, @StephenM, @ezraklein, and @finkd. Updating the list now (for <42 years old) I'd add @sama and @bariweiss.…
These political shifts among Ivy League Jewish students are remarkable:
Everyone talks about immigration policy. Nobody talks about emigration policy. We could be identifying our worst citizens and paying them to leave.
One of the common questions in development econ is why so many countries had positive growth trend breaks after WWII. This papers claims it was due to deliberate US tech transfer, with individual firms seeing 25-50% productivity improvements and speeding tech adoption by years.
Coffee soda exists and is glorious.
Has anyone tried making coffee with sparkling water? Is that a thing? Just curious.
The workers in a capitalist system can start a business if they wished. They could have their own pizza shop and pay themselves $78 an hour; they don’t. As I’ve pointed out before, Marxist don’t want to build their own means of production, they wish to seize it. Already built,…
Forget the 2% defense spending target - NATO should require its members to actually be free countries.
Insane. Six weeks in prison for sending a racist tweet. No threat or incitement to violence, but "clearly racist": six weeks in prison.
Increasing immigration enforcement without changing immigration law is a total dead end. Enforcement is tough and spurs backlash, and the next Democratic president can just loosen enforcement anyway. Legislative change is the name of the game.
The economic value of the H-1B program could be increased by 88% without changing the number of visas if we stopped giving them away at random.
this seems far more damning to me than the birthday card. the birthday card admits various possible explanations. this one, you're stuck with either 'she lied to the FBI repeatedly' or 'Trump knew'
Insane. Six weeks in prison for sending a racist tweet. No threat or incitement to violence, but "clearly racist": six weeks in prison.