How it helped wreck Puerto Rico’s economy.
Let’s do it here!
[Update a while later]
Minimum wage, maximum ignorance.
It’s almost as though they want to blight the lives of the young and working poor.
Category Archives: Economics
Empty Dorms, Empty Mansions
Bill Nye The Fascist Guy
And NASA isn’t covering itself in glory here, either.
@nuclear94 #ProTip: Actual scientists don't propose jailing people who disagree with them. @BillNye @neiltyson
— Apostle To Morons (@Rand_Simberg) April 15, 2016
I was in the same room with Nye a couple nights ago, at a reception. I felt like I needed a safe space.
Yesterday’s Launch Panel At NSS
Tory Bruno and Gwynne Shotwell have very different space-business philosophies. I think that Gwynne is right, but the good news is that for now, the two companies are more complementary than competitive. And the Air Force will want to continue to maintain two providers.
Bezos’s Space Vision
Alan Boyle interviewed him on stage on Tuesday afternoon. Here’s the transcript.
What he said may have been new concepts to many, but they’re all ideas that go back decades. The difference is that he’s funding them himself, and not waiting for the government to do it.
Energy Policy
What happens when you send a philosopher to Congress. Morons like Barbara Boxer are shown to be morons.
The Orion Fantasy
Bob Zimmerman has some thoughts.
How Falcon 9 Learned To Land
A nice video of the history.
Locovorism
I think worshiping local foods is stupid; our ancestors were all locovores, of necessity (unless you call hauling a mammoth carcass miles an import). Their diet generally sucked.
But I’m amused to see how rife with fraud the movement is.
Donald Trump Versus Howard Roark
If Trump really is an Ayn Rand fan, I suspect it’s because (like other Democrats) he views The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged as how-to manuals, rather than cautionary tales.