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"I’ve had a running list for most of the past year—things I want to get better at, projects I want to finish, skills I want to develop. At various points there have been four or fi…

Author here. DPC is terrific if you have an option near you! Paired with catastrophic insurance, it's a great bet for relatively healthy people. The DPC Alliance map is well worth …

Author here. I'm definitely not advocating going without health insurance. Just running simple numbers to get some perspective. I'd like to see health insurance act like insurance …

Congrats, man. Love this game. Now get the Word of the Day ported over too!

This is why the internet exists. Incredible catharsis. Love it.

Always hard to put these number in perspective. Here's the one that worries me: Interest payments on the debt are projected to grow to 6.7 percent of GDP in thirty years (right now…

1) The text box for answers should already be clicked and ready to type in. So when you submit your answer, you don't need to click again to get the next question. 2) To move thing…

"For such a liberal city?"

"The Housing: San Francisco has deeply conservative tendencies for such a liberal city. Its housing supply isn't growing fast enough to keep up with rising demand." Restrictive hou…

Here's Alex Nowrasteh on this topic: https://twitter.com/AlexNowrasteh/status/1164862732102963200 1.4% of all arrests in 2014 were federal. Most law enforcement is by local or stat…

This makes me think of Charlie Munger's insistence on checklists: https://www.amazon.com/Poor-Charlies-Almanack-Charles-Expand...

How much extra do NYC renters pay from not building enough new supply? Or from rent control stifling the development of new supply?

I've got to know more about this. Who set it up? Local start up? Bored engineers?

While the full article is gated at WSJ, John Cochrane and David Henderson write about the lack of quantifying economic costs when it comes to addressing climate change. Their last …

Here's the other thing about administrative costs: Medicare's patients cost a lot more per person than private insurance. In other words, if it costs you $500 in administration cos…

This is closer to what James was trying to get across in the article - how you do engagement means a lot. I also say this while happily wearing my Readertron t-shirt. He's right - …

I strongly recommend reading about John Cochrane's notion of equity-financed banking (PDF): http://www.hoover.org/sites/default/files/research/docs/geor... It functionally eliminat…

This is a collection of mental models Charlie uses to explain human behavior. It was basically behavioral psychology before the field exploded. Definitely take the time to read it.…

Sure. Anyone pro- or anti-wind will say whatever argument they can to try to convince people. All I'm saying is before we decide to build more wind turbines, we should have an hone…

That's what I mean. Wind might be generated "for free," but one cost is what it looks like. Another is how many birds it kills a year. ( http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ho…

Right, and making sure the base load of energy generation is stable. We'll get there. I'd just like to make sure we remember that absolutely everything has a cost. The cost of anyt…