Results for “those new service sector jobs” 170 found
Monday assorted links
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.
Monday assorted links
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.”
Wednesday assorted links
1. Will Norway be growing more islands? (The Norwegian century)
4. Arnold Kling on whether books are overrated.
Tuesday assorted links
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.
Monday assorted links
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?
3. Those new service sector jobs.
4. Jolly Swagman podcast with Andy Matuschak.
6. Crypto wash trading (lots of it).
Wednesday assorted links
1. New books expected out in the latter half of 2022.
2. 1960s British kids predict the year 2000.
3. Those new service sector jobs (and their pay).
5. Carbon from the Congo? (New Yorker) There might be lots of it.
Friday assorted links
Wednesday assorted links
1. Arnold Kling reviews Talent.
2. Prison consultants those new service sector jobs (NYT, interesting throughout).
3. Racialized dog names and time to adoption.
4. Saudis set up anti-aging fund.
5. Problems with Colombian infrastructure.
6. Those new service sector jobs: “Snoop Dogg employs a full-time blunt roller who makes between $40,000 and $50,000 a year”
Saturday assorted links
Wednesday assorted links
1. New non-profit for geothermal energy.
2. New Allison Schrager podcast, first episode with Joel Mokyr.
3. Who owns the publicity rights to Einstein?
4. Yann LeCun on AI risks. And why (some) octopus mothers self-mutilate and kill themselves.
5. “The subscribers presumably think they’re talking directly to the woman in the videos, and it is the job of the chatter to convincingly manifest that illusion.” (NYT, those new service sector jobs)
6. Virginia Postrel has a new Substack.
7. Mihm on the Henry Ford parallel (Bloomberg).
Tuesday assorted links
1. “People emotionally tied to robots can undermine relationships with co-workers.”
2. Metaculus giving about 75% odds that Putin is still in power a year from now. And Fiona Hill on the mind of Putin.
3. Russians have dollar-denominated mortgages.
4. Those new service sector jobs who needs a bear conflict manager?
5. Do you really want that private ambulance in Sweden?
Sunday assorted links
1. Those new service sector jobs: grizzly bear conflict manager.
2. A new zoonotic origins paper. And another here. And a very good thread on those papers.
3. Russia and Ukraine in the air cargo market.
4. The game theory of currency competition with crypto and CBDCs.
5. Why the Russians are struggling.
6. More on the gay academic achievement gap.
7. What Covid discourse sounds like (SNL, YouTube video).
Saturday assorted links
2. Japanese Columbo.
3. “Bar-tailed Godwits regularly travel more than 7,000 miles non-stop.”
4. “Latvia bans unvaccinated lawmakers from voting, docks pay.”
5. “Millions of people not fully vaccinated against Covid in the regions of Upper Austria and Salzburg will be allowed to leave their homes only for reasons considered essential to life, such as going to work, grocery shopping or visiting the doctor…” Link here.
6. Those new service sector jobs? And why academics remain in the academy. And further deflation in the Austrian brothel, including for fourteen-year-olds.
Wednesday assorted links
1. More. Please forgive the source and the pop-ups.
2. Those new service sector jobs: the rising number of dog lawyers in Canada.
3. The decentralized origin of standard weights.
4. The longer-term economic consequences of pandemics, over 220 years.
5. Why Africa’s island states are generally freer (The Economist).
6. Transient pacemaker that dissolves harmlessly in your body. And another step toward a pancoronavirus vaccine.
Sunday assorted links
1. Those new service sector jobs.
2. How much would be collected from a higher capital gains rate?
3. Fairfax County police chief under fire for earlier behavior.
4. “The Pfizer vaccine’s “280 different components, manufactured in 86 different sites across 19 countries, driven partly by the research of Turkish migrants to Germany, is globalization in a needle.”” Link here.
5. Income at the margin for Supreme Court Justices (Bloomberg). Is this a problem or not?
6. The difficulties of being Australian (Pakistani).