A lottery is a tax on... people who are good at reasoning about risk-adjusted returns?
Rescued from the drafts folder because John Oliver has rendered it timely . People who consider themselves smart sometimes joke t…
Showing posts with label economics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label economics. Show all posts
Ars on the YouTube-on-Windows-Phone fracas
Disclaimer: I used to work for Google, although not on YouTube. This post reflects only my personal opinions. So many crocodile …
Progressives should not support an Internet sales tax
Sales tax is one of the most regressive taxes. Sales taxes fall on those who spend money, not those who save it, and rich people…
What should an email client cost?
(Clearing out the backlog of old drafts...) This was pretty spot-on . $15 for a really well-written piece of complex client soft…
The death of refrigerators
Suppose that, around the time microwave ovens were invented, business analysts had a market category for "electrical devices…
On the nature of software ownership, yet again
Being a Google employee, I shouldn't comment on the specific case , but I do think this is an opportune time to repeat that b…
D. Lowery on copyright infringement: How to alienate potential allies through intellectual dishonesty, illustrated by example
Young people's cavalier attitude towards copyright infringement is maddening, but this essay by D. Lowery comprehensively m…
Federal budgets and applied public choice theory
Atrios writes something so true you should affix it in your memory for the next two decades : There's literally nothing that …
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