The stupid law is hindering coronavirus responses in California, probably killing people, but Newsom is sticking to his guns.
Imbeciles, elected by morons.
Category Archives: Business
FAA-AST
They’ve completed their reorganization to ramp up launch activity. But I thought they were going to be restored to their own office reporting to the SecDOT? Is that not happening?
COBOL
Want to make money? Brush up on it, or learn it.
Boeing
Will it still be able to charge a premium for its vaunted “spaceflight expertise”?
Boeing had been riding on its laurels for too long a time. As I noted in the book, companies don’t have experience; people do. With Gerst gone, there’s a new sheriff in town at NASA.
Goodbye, Meritocracy
..Hello…what?
We certainly aren’t well served by the current college-admissions process, but there is also too much pressure to get a subpar (at best) education for the actual purpose of getting a credential.
Regulations, Post-Virus
The burden of proof should be on those who want to reimpose them.
It Begins
Germany just sent a £130B bill for ‘coronavirus damages’ – sparks fury in Beijing.
[Monday-morning update]
I don’t know if that original story is valid, but apparently Israel and U.S. law firms are suing the CCP for trillions. Even if they have no mechanism to force payment, this will certainly diminish China in the eyes of the world, and it could provide a legitimate excuse for defaulting on the money we owe them.
The Great Depression
The media continues to peddle BS history about it (unfortunately, because it was what they were taught in government schools).
It was sad to see Emily Compagno the other day on The Five say that FDR was elected to deal with Hoover’s “inaction.” So even conservatives believe this nonsense.
Hoover’s policies were disastrous, but they were the very opposite of inaction, and he was the furthest thing from laissez faire. If Coolidge had had a third term, likely the economy would have recovered within a year. Hoover created the depressions, but FDR made it great.
[Update a few minutes later]
Our garbage media.
[Update a while later]
A review of Amity Schlaes’s new book on how poverty won the war on poverty, including some of the history of the Depression.
[Late-morning update]
In reading that history, I had not known that Walter Reuther had sponsored the Port Huron Statement (I lived sixty miles west, in Flint) at the time. It reminded me of a post I wrote early in my blogging career, almost two decades ago now (where did the years go?) about my brief period as a junior-high campus radical.
Remdesivir
…seems to be at least somewhat effective.
If we can find what works for treatment, and only isolate the most vulnerable, that’s the best path forward to re-open the economy in the absence of a vaccine.
[Update a while later]
Time to dump epidemic models? All models are wrong, some are useful, but it’s not clear that these have been, though they’ve certainly been used to implement policies that a lot of people wanted to implement before the pandemic.
[Bumped]
China’s Honeymoon In Africa
The thrill is gone.