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Thursday assorted links

1. Claims about coffee, and how to make it taste better.

2. Ed Glaeser on the changing fact of NYC (NYT).

3. Jacques Delors, RIP at 98 (FT).

4. New breakthroughs in biotech.

5. Age differences in romance.

6. The New Left takes some digs at The Beatles.  An unfair but interesting piece, sometimes getting it right.  Quite a good piece at its peaks.

7. David Brooks’s Sidney Awards go to small magazine pieces this year (NYT).

Wednesday assorted links

1. Cam Peters does his Favorite Things New Zealand.

2. China accusation of the day, anal beads edition.

3. Progress on the Moderna mRNA cancer vaccine.  This shows you just how bad and anti-scientific the anti-vaxx movement currently is.

4. First nuclear reactor since 2016 in the U.S. is now in operation.

5. Wolfgang Schäuble, RIP.

6. Private equity and hospital performance.

7. Gavin Leech on the year in AI.

Boxing Day assorted links

1. Dwarkesh on the arguments pro- and anti-scaling.

2. Defending billionaire-built cities (NYT, Glaeser and Ratti).

3. Open Skies policy for Argentina.

4. Managerial innovations in America from WWII?

5. From the comments:

So reading through the parliamentary rules, this is what I’m gathering about the process:

1. Milei’s government has 10 days to formally submit the DNU to a bicameral commission consisting of 8 senators and 8 congressman (apportioned to their relative majorities in the houses)
2. The commission then has 10 days to submit their formal opinions to their respective houses of congress.
3. Each house votes on the DNU, and cannot introduce amendments or deletions to the proposed DNU.
4. rejection by both houses will permanently strike down the DNU. It does not specify what a split decision means – perhaps it means its not defeated?

With that in mind, to answer your other question If Milei introduced the DNU as a bunch of separate ones, it would seem to me they would vote on the validity of each. Since no amendments can be made by congress, it’s possible that negotiations are occurring right now before Milei’s gov has to formally submit them to congress for review.

Rules link: https://servicios.infoleg.gob.ar/infolegInternet/anexos/115000-119999/118261/norma.htm

Monday assorted links

1. Maybe cash transfers don’t boost cognitive skills by so much.  Hope you enjoyed this year’s presents anyway.

2. Straussian Beatles, Christmastime edition.

3. WSJ piece on the Harvard Corporation.  “One faculty member, citing a carve-out in the Massachusetts Constitution that reserves authority over Harvard to the state legislature, has urged Massachusetts lawmakers to install a government official on the board to provide more transparency and public accountability.”  Brutal throughout.

4. The 2010 Census confidentiality protections failed.

5. What do we know about psychology and poverty?

6. The Milei gamble on the DNUs.

Sunday assorted links

1. Mark Lutter claims:

“With the end of the Great Stagnation and the beginning of the Great Acceleration/roaring 20’s, it’s useful to consider relative status changes. Increase -Events -Brexit -Community     Decrease -Universities -Government -Consulting”

2. Antonio Negri, RIP (NYT).

3. Why pharmaceutical drugs have become so costly to develop.

4. On the “Corporation” that runs Harvard (NYT).

5. Kind of true?: “The unconstitutional decree of President Milei announced on December 20 aims to deregulate not the economy but the entire life of our people and is supported by big businessmen and the “market”.   The opposition is now mobilizing to strike back.

6. “Countries with a higher degree of UV-R exposure tend on average to have weaker states.

Saturday assorted links

1. Interview with Mark Dybul about PEPFAR.

2. Women’s tears!  Worth a sniff?

3. Macmillan Learning spotlight on Tyler Cowen.  Excerpt: “I’ve been working with Alex for over 33 years,” Dr. Cowen said, “and after all of those years, I can still speak about him with affection in my voice.”

4. AI-written novel wins Chinese science fiction prize.

5. “Argentina is one of the most regulated countries in the world and has gotten worse over time. On regulation, it has fallen to a rank of 143 out of 165 countries in the Human Freedom Index.”  Link here.

6. Solow on Friedman.

7. Cass Sunstein on free speech on campus.  And Cass on Knightian uncertainty.

Friday assorted links

1. Curtis Yarvin on techno-optimism.

2. The economics of time travel.

3. Ken Regan on statistically detecting cheating.

4. India fact of the day: “Solar and wind were 92% of India’s generation additions in 2022. It deployed as much solar in 2022 as the UK has ever built. Coal also was down 78%.”

5. The Catalan gridlock.  The role of (Catalonian) economists in encouraging and sometimes leading this movement remains an underreported story.

6. New Sam Altman blog post.

7. “I’m excited to share News Déjà Vu (newsdejavu.github.io), which uses a custom large language model to retrieve historical news articles that are the most similar to modern news articles.” From Melissa Dell.

Thursday assorted links

1. The Milei deregulation announcements (in Spanish).  Here is the recorded message, with subtitles.

2. “Nearly 4% of Cuba’s population reached the U.S.-Mexico border in fiscal years ‘22-23.”  Link here, have you noticed that Latin America is central to the news again?

3. AI discovers a new structural class of antibiotics.  And “The authors got GPT-4 to autonomously research, plan, and conduct chemical experiments, including learning how to use lab equipment by reading documentation (most were operated by code, but one task had to be done by humans)”, link here.

4. Cowen’s Second Law: “The survival time of chocolates on hospital wards: covert observational study.

5. AI quantification rat races you might get caught up in.

6. Zola and why we shop.

Saturday assorted links

1. Those new, super-duper specific service sector jobs, Federal Reserve edition.

2. The culture that is Korean email etiquette — “suffer a lot.”

3. The rise of the “extremely productive” researcher — a paper every five days? (Did they suffer a lot?)

4. Phil Magness appointed to a chair at the Independent Institute.

5. Preliminary results against lupus and other autoimmune diseases.

6. Henry Oliver reading suggestions.

7. Soumaya Keynes on British gains from YIMBY (FT).

Thursday assorted links

1. Robert Edgerton is underrated.

2. Artist Dana Schutz has been un-cancelled.  And Wisconsin DEI markets reestablished.

3. Profile of Byrne Hobart.

4. Doctor shortages don’t seem to affect subsequent mortality.

5. Branko Milanovic on how to treat books and authors.  And Branko’s book recommendations on capitalism.

6. How Israel ended its hyperinflation.

7. The great John Pocock has passed away.

8. Superalignment Fast Grants, from Open AI and Eric Schmidt.