Normally, I don’t like any version aside from the true original, but this guy is pretty amazing, especially when he starts adding harmony.
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Normally, I don’t like any version aside from the true original, but this guy is pretty amazing, especially when he starts adding harmony. According to The Economist, Putin may run in 2012. Any surprise? (Hat tip: Stephanie) Normally, tips provide waiters and waitresses with an incentive to provide customers with good service. However, in Indian restaurants, I am routinely faced with waiters who mumble, never smile, and generally behave as though you are burden and their job is a chore. One possible explanation for this is that they may feel that serving others [...] David Byrne has a short post on Budapest. While a lot of the attractive features of the city will remain for years to come, Byrne’s post implicitly makes the case for visiting now. Laughter is the best medicine… (Via Students for Liberty.) Chris sends my way this article on how too much government has been slowly sucking the blood out of California. I wonder if California suffers from a kind of resource curse. Normally, the resource curse is used to explain why countries with an abundance of natural resources have underperforming economies and corrupt governance. In California’s [...] Hehe. Maybe this is why PhD programs have difficulty attracting American students, but are able to attract students from abroad. Incentives matter… I recently watched this excellent Bloggingheads.tv between Will Wilkinson and Tyler Cowen. The topics discussed revolve around Tyler Cowen’s new book Create Your Own Economy. One interesting take-away: While the specialization we have seen beginning with the Industrial Revolution can lead to alienation, there is another side to the coin: The deeper specialization becomes in our [...] See here. Basically, people are calculating TARP returns by only looking at investments with positive returns. This is like determining how well my stock portfolio is doing by looking only at my favorable investments and ignoring all others. If a hedge fund calculated its returns this way, we could call it fraud. We should hold [...] See here. I think that number of atheists/secularists in this country has reached a critical mass. There was a time when coming out as an atheist was as or more difficult than coming out of the closet as a homosexual for a lot of people in this country. This is changing. More and more people [...] |
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