I wonder how these people are counted in measures of economic growth and inequality. And is this an equilibrium? How long can it last?
You might want to check it out:
The point of this blog is to watch, and analyze the death of the progressive model using the lens of classical liberalism. . . .
Maddog is trained as a pipe fitter, welder, a paper maker, wilderness medical technician, equipment operator, historian, and attorney with specialty in administrative, appellate, construction, medical, and workers' compensation.
And that doesn't consider the awesome list of activities and accomplishments of Maddog's wife.
(Full disclosure: Maddog has been reading the Door for a while and has linked to, and commented on, entries here.)
. . . and they'll be no new posts until Monday.
(If you're disappointed about that, please note that this blog currently has over 17,000 posts and over 16,000 comments. Have you read them all?)
John C. Dvorak predicts sponsored posts--"native advertising"--will take over the Web and "In the future everything you read will be unreliable, except for the few marginalized nooks of real information."
(Just so you know: the Door has not, is not now, and will never accept sponsored posts.)
A blog presenting excerpts from great papers in economics, math, physics and statistics.
If you had trouble accessing this site over the last week, I apologize. My blog software and hosting company, Typepad.com--usually excellent; I strongly recommend it--has suffered a very nasty distributed-denial-of-service attack. I hope the worst is over now.
I, for one, am not at all sorry to see them go.
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My minions--see Despicable Me--are currently massing to demand a recount.
. . . decisively refuted: "Eight Toxic Foods: A Little Chemical Education" and "Pandora Paid Over $1,300 for 1 Million Plays, Not $16.89".
(The post at the first link attacks an article whose' premise is that we shouldn't be eating foods banned in Europe. Two additional points: 1) science shouldn't be conducted just by majority vote and 2) why should we believe the Europeans are right? Their regulators permitted pregnant women to take thalidomide. And France gets about 75% of its electricity from nuclear power--are they right about that, too? Why don't "consumer advocates" want to follow them on that?)