~marginalrevolution | Bookmarks (79)
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Marc Andreessen and I talk AI at an a16z American Dynamism event - Marginal REVOLUTION
a16z has issued the talks from that event, and we are issuing it too, as a...
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Those new service sector jobs, squatter removal edition - Marginal REVOLUTION
Via the excellent Samir Varma, hail to Handyman Flash Shelton: After local law enforcement couldn’t help,...
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TikTok divestiture - Marginal REVOLUTION
I’ve blogged this in the past, and don’t have much to add to my previous views. ...
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The Irish reject a "Woke" constitutional change - Marginal REVOLUTION
Ireland’s effort to remove old-fashioned family values from its constitution suffered a double defeat Saturday as...
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In Conversation with Próspera CEO Erick Brimen & Vitalia Co-Founder Niklas Anzinger - Marginal REVOLUTION
During my visit to Prospera, one of Honduras’ private governments under the ZEDE law, I interviewed...
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A different perspective on power grid YIMBY and NIMBY (from my email) - Marginal REVOLUTION
Just flagging that while YIMBY is important…it’s only part of the solution. And it’s unclear just...
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We need YIMBY for the U.S. power grid - Marginal REVOLUTION
The amount of new transmission line installed in the United States has dropped sharply since 2013, when...
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It's happening, Albania fact of the day - Marginal REVOLUTION
In the OpenAI blog post they mentioned "Albania using OpenAI tools to speed up its EU...
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Tide turning in Washington State? - Marginal REVOLUTION
From an MR reader: Good story here about one man in Washington state fighting the battle...
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What can be learned from Singaporean health care institutions? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Besides the usual, that is. Max Thilo of the UK has a new and excellent study...
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Further data on alcohol use amongst American youth - Marginal REVOLUTION
This paper provides the first long-run assessment of adolescent alcohol control policies on later-life health and...
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The Continuing Influence of Fast Grants - Marginal REVOLUTION
Fast Grants, the rapid COVID funding mechanism created by Tyler, Patrick Collison and Patrick Hsu continues...
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Monopolized organ collection - Marginal REVOLUTION
The nation’s 56 organ procurement organizations collect organs — mainly kidneys — from deceased donors at...
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Hazlett on T-Mobile/Sprint - Marginal REVOLUTION
Tom Hazlett whose op-ed on the T-Mobile Sprint merger I quoted earlier writes me: A few...
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Shruti Rajagopalan interviews Doug Irwin - Marginal REVOLUTION
Doug of course is one of the top trade economists. Here is the audio, video, and...
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Access to Medical Data Saves Lives - Marginal REVOLUTION
ProPublica: In January, the Biden administration pledged to increase public access to a wide array of...
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Paragraphs to ponder - Marginal REVOLUTION
But anyone who actually wants to help people will eventually find themselves occupying positions of authority....
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Give Innovation a Chance - Marginal REVOLUTION
Elizabeth Currid-Halkett writing in the NYTimes discusses her son’s muscular dystrophy and his treatment with the...
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Avoiding Repugnance - Marginal REVOLUTION
Works in Progress has a good review of the state of compensating organ donors, especially doing...
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How did Madrid become the capital of European liberalism? - Marginal REVOLUTION
But in the case of Madrid, the last 25 years have been a clear move towards...
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Revisiting the T-Mobile-Sprint Merger - Marginal REVOLUTION
T-Mobile’s takeover of Sprint was controversial among analysts. “If this merger is not anticompetitive,” Eleanor Fox, a...
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The California tax burden is driving people out - Marginal REVOLUTION
That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column, here is one bit: California’s highest income...
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What should I ask Coleman Hughes? - Marginal REVOLUTION
I will be doing a Conversation with him, based in part around his new book The...
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Is El Salvador special? - Marginal REVOLUTION
But Bukele copycats and those who believe his model can be replicated far and wide overlook...