As anyone with a lick of sense predicted, California’s new worker “protection” law is crushing free lancers.
Category Archives: Business
Quantum Computing
Researchers are getting tired of all the hype.
The UK
…has finally decided in favor of Brexit.
This is good news, both in the win of a party that finally wants to be responsive to the people, and in the loss of the party of socialism and anti-Semitism.
Not a lot of time or energy for any further analysis, given that I got up at 5 AM (2 AM PST) to catch my flight to be back home today, but it seemed like quite a great week for Trump overall. In fact, even the impeachment charade in the House may be part of his good week.
[Friday-morning update]
American leftists thought that Corbyn’s inevitable victory would be their model.
Good luck with that. 🙂
[Update a few minutes later]
Mark Steyn says “Boffo Boris.”
[Update a couple minutes later]
All the Brexit defectors lost their seats.
The good news just keeps rolling in.
[Update a couple more minutes later]
No, Boris is no right winger. Well, Trump isn’t really a conservative, either.
On The Road Again
I’m on a layover in Charlotte, on my way to DC for a few space events and a meeting with my lawyers to prepare for trial. Be good in comments.
[Thursday-afternoon update]
Just got back from DC. Was too busy to blog, but hopefully back to a regular schedule now. I think/hope that was my last business trip of the year.
[Bumped]
David Gibson
On the passing of the Oberlin plaintiff. Places like Oberlin and Evergreen are despicable.
The Chinese Regime
Is it on the brink of disintegration?
This wouldn’t necessarily be a good thing; the resulting chaos could be disastrous not just for the Chinese people, but the world.
The UK Election
Is Boris on track to get a majority?
The new swing voter in the UK is the reason the Tories are on track for a large majority government. The new swing voter is the fiscally liberal, socially conservative voter who wants more money spent on northern towns and health care in regional areas and less money spent on “elites”, which routinely means whoever that voter isn’t a fan of. They’re wary of immigrants, mad at the Blair-era broken promise of only 13000/year net immigration from the 2004 EU Accession states – 250000/year would come in the decade after – and is annoyed by social issues that grip the modern left. This class of voter was staunchly Labour for decades, especially in the aftermath of Margaret Thatcher’s term in office. These voters were tempted by Theresa May last time, but went home to Labour because Corbyn did enough to reassure that Brexit would happen. With Labour policy now being a second referendum with an option to Remain – and every senior Labour politician outside Corbyn saying no possible deal is better than staying in – their likelihood of repeating their 2017 trick is somewhere between small and non-existant.
That would be a shake up.
Note Taking
I detest having to write by hand, but when I was in school, there was no such thing as a laptop. Not sure what I’d do now, or why handwritten note takers get better grades.
Only Fifty Percent?
Half of Republican college students have experienced a professor going off on an anti-Trump tangent.
[Update a few minutes later]
Related: You’ll be as shocked as I am to learn that the federal government is just the name for things we all do together, like funding worthless college degrees.
Commercial And Milspace
Greg Autry and George Nield write that it cannot afford congressional inaction.