Results for “service sector”

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1. More on the New Mexico footprints and their dating.

2. Markets in everything, those new service sector jobs.

3. Summary of current results on corporate taxes and economic activity.

4. One attempt to model Petro in Colombia.

5. A disputation on the economic costs of climate change (WSJ).

1. The pandemic as time machine (NYT).

2. Who really disapproves of single-parent families?

3. Nicholas Kristof on the new Melissa Kearney book (NYT).

4. Meloni is not stopping Lampedusa arrivals — what is the equilibrium here?

5. Has there been a savings glut?

6. Those new service sector jobs, Taylor Swift journalism edition.

1. Beauty induces higher stock market participation and thus higher returns.

2. “Afuera!”

3. Sri Lankan food is becoming more popular.

4. Those old service sector jobs.  Circa 1933, with Einstein.

5. The new Katherine Rundell book (UK only) is receiving rave reviews (Times of London).

6. New Knausgaard novel is coming.

7. Markets in everything, security breach division, dept. of uh-oh.

1. Negative real wage growth accounts for negative macroeconomic perceptions.

2. Those new (Chinese) service sector jobs.

3. Octopuses redesign their own brains when they get cold.

4. “It irritates lots of folks to note this, but US trade with the Indo Pacific actually picked up after Trump said no to TPP”

5. Tharman is stepping down to run for President — wishing you luck!

6. GPT-4 evaluates my London LSE lecture.

Goods producers increase their capital expenditure and employment in response to a cut in marginal corporate income tax rates or an increase in investment tax credits. In contrast, companies in the service sector mostly use any tax windfall to increase dividend payouts. We base our conclusions on a novel measure of U.S. firm-specific tax shocks that combines changes in statutory tax rates faced by each firm with narrative identified legislated U.S. federal tax changes between 1950 and 2006.

That is from a new NBER working paper by James Cloyne, Ezgi Kurt, and Paolo Surico.

1. AI creates the young Paul McCartney voice?

2. How we run the Emergent Ventures Unconference.

3. The case for privatizing education.

4. How much of the obesity epidemic comes from the energy expenditure side?

5. Professional mermaids, those new service sector jobs.

6. Magnus comments on chess strategy.

1. Note to self: do not play Bongcloud against Vladimir Kramnik.

2. You shall know a word by the company it keeps.

3. Pithy one-liners that will be popular with neoliberals?

4. “A funny state of affairs that isn’t getting enough attention is that the US government is suing Facebook for allegedly monopolizing social media, and simultaneously seeking to ban its biggest rival.” Link here.  Oh, and I forgot to ask: are your views on the Twitter files consistent with your views on USG possibly banning TikTok?

5. Kara Swisher interviews Sam Altman (New York).

6. Those new service sector jobs.  Ph.D. in ancient philosophy edition.

7. Canada wild pig invasion map.

1. Does male physical labor boost sperm count and thus fertility?

2. Nathan Labenz on many things GPT.  And new Windows update will bring AI-powered Bing to the taskbar.

3. Those new service sector jobs: Prompt engineer.

4. Further Austin Vernon defense of aircraft carriers.

5. Chotiner interviews Jeffrey Sachs, do read it (New Yorker).  And on the China-Russia relationship.

6. Japan’s hometown tax.

1. Is the former colonizer now popular in the colonies?

2. Progress on small modular nuclear reactors?

3. Who is a liberal? LiberalismUnrelinquished.

4. Those new service sector jobs: “I’m a pastor living in rural Arkansas, and I make up to $3,000 a week with my side hustle using ChatGPT to make pitch decks for startups.”  And California man goes to Disney every day for eight straight years.

5. MIE: remote kissing device.

6. Data on pharmaceutical blockbusters.  Very good post.

7. Scott Aaronson on ChatGPT, an extreme view much but not all of it correct.  And ChatGPT and robotics.  And Snap to incorporate a persona-based version of ChatGPT.

1. Tim Groseclose rough estimate of Chinese Covid deaths, it is pretty high.

2. More from Manifold on H5N1.

3. Find the human art behind AI images.  And OpenAssistant.  And weird and offensive remarks on PoMo and AI.

4. Tim Bresnahan on the FTC and the Meta decision.  Lots of insight per word.

5. Master of his Domain? The tone of the discussion is clinical, and there are no problematic photos, but do note the topics of the post are prurient ones.

6. Those new service sector jobs: “I made nearly $2 million in 2 years selling my nursing-school study notes on Etsy and TikTok.”

1. Will Norway be growing more islands?  (The Norwegian century)

2. Hanania defends the media.

3. Claude vs. ChatGPT.

4. Arnold Kling on whether books are overrated.

5. Those new service sector jobs.

6. Jonathan Raban, RIP.

7. Cursor, to build from the ground up with LLMs.

1. “Looking for work, they stumbled upon an audition call at Dive Bar, and emerged into the world of professional mermaidhood.”  Those new (old?) service sector jobs…

2. Timeline of the Sober Curious movement.

3. Various short essays on Adam Smith.

4. Andrew Batson best music of 2022.

5. The Economist on The Repugnant Conclusion.

6. Okie-Dokie.

7. “For much of her career, Mary Waisanen, a 43-year-old structural engineering technician in Virginia Beach, Va., would say yes when asked to work overtime to meet deadlines. The extra hours brought her a pay bump. But after watching TikToks about how to reach a healthy work-life balance, she says, she realized that she shouldn’t need to work extra hours to make ends meet.”  WSJ link.

8. Agentic simulation for GPT?

1. Stephen Carter best non-fiction of the year list.

2. Bahamas views on SBF (NYT).

3. Contemporary opera is now outselling classic opera at the Met (NYT).

4. You people are crazy those new service sector jobs $480 an hour.

5. Paul McCartney stops into New Jersey cafe.

6. Central Paris will ban non-essential car traffic for 2024 (Bloomberg).

7. The year in AI.

8. Why don’t people click on links?  One hypothesis of mine is that people like scanning link titles (and not clicking), but from a credible source, simply so they can feel they didn’t miss anything big.

1. “With this shirt you are allowed to get 1 Everyday Value Slam everyday [at Denny’s] for until 12/31/23.”  What should such a shirt cost?

2. Incentives matter.

3. Those new service sector jobs.

4. Jolly Swagman podcast with Andy Matuschak.

5. “A simple decomposition illustrates that immigrants are responsible for 36% of aggregate innovation, two-thirds of which is due to their innovation externalities on their native-born collaborators.”

6. Crypto wash trading (lots of it).

1. Why did comedy die?

2. Those new Brazilian service sector jobs (in Portuguese).

3. “After Denmark’s Queen Margrethe stripped the royal titles from four of her grandkids, news has surfaced that Norway’s Princess Märtha Louise may suffer the same fate.”  Link here.

4. Knausgaard talk on the novel, recommended to me I have not heard it yet.  But for this installment of The Norwegian Century you need to ff to about 29:00.

5. AI writes a thread on productivity hacks.

6. The real Stable Diffusion art.

7. Regulating the homeless (Ezra Klein, NYT).