Results for “those new service sector jobs”

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1. How did changes in tennis rackets alter the game?

2. Tex-Mex is underrated.

3. An oddly instructive piece (NYT, Virginia Woolf).  Not a recommended reading, however.  Is this what Tocqueville had in mind?

4. Cat hotel opens in Iraq.  And those new service sector jobs, Gerald Murnane Australian bartender edition (NYT).

5. How arrow-wielding men mapped Britain in the 1940s.

6. Is jazz music moving to shorter formats?  And a housing/transit bargain for NYC.

1. Europe is dropping the ball on AI and in some ways positively discouraging it.  And too many crummy firms in Europe: “Using a new survey, we show that the dispersion of marginal products across firms in the European Union is about twice as large as that in the United States. Reducing it to the US level would increase EU GDP by more than 30 percent. Alternatively, removing barriers between industries and countries would raise EU GDP by at least 25 percent.”

2. Remember when Clearchannel was going dominate all radio, forever?

3. Marcel Gauchet on democracy and the sweep of history.

4. How two economists got access to IRS tax data.  Bravo to them I say, but it’s worth noting that the shift from regression-driven to data set-driven economics has been a remarkably inegalitarian development, widely praised by most top academic economists.  So often progress means a willingness to disregard or even stomp on egalitarian norms.

5. The economics of why some restaurants need to leave Queens.

6. Kling on the new Chetty-Hendren-Jones-Porter results.

7. Those new service sector jobs: Iraqi war architect Paul Bremer now a ski instructor in Vermont.

1. Live stream your life for China those new service sector jobs.

2. Why is there such a thing as “women’s chess”?

3. “When he wasn’t blackmailing lords and being sued for libel, William Playfair invented the pie chart, the bar graph, and the line graph.”

4. More on companies implanting microchips in their workers.

5. David Brooks on what happened to “cool.”

1. My Cato podcast on The Complacent Class.  And Ben Sasse on how to raise an American adult.  I am excited to read Ben’s forthcoming book.

2. The Korean balancing artist video (those new service sector jobs).

3. Peter Coy profile of Peter Navarro.

4. Michelle Dawson to become a knight (chevalière).

5. Indian barber cuts customers’ hair with fire (video at link with story).

6. Quite wrong ratings of Rolling Stones songs.

7. WaPo obituary of William Baumol.

1. Elida Almeida music video from Cape Verde.

2. Andrew Sullivan on neo-reaction:

Among many liberals, there is an understandable impulse to raise the drawbridge, to deny certain ideas access to respectable conversation, to prevent certain concepts from being “normalized.” But the normalization has already occurred — thanks, largely, to voters across the West — and willfully blinding ourselves to the most potent political movement of the moment will not make it go away.

Here is the longer piece, of interest throughout, here is good commentary from Rod Dreher.  And here is Henry on Trump through the lens of Polanyi.

3. “Man pays tribute to friend by flushing remains down 17 MLB ballpark toilets…Tom McDonald says gesture is fitting for his friend, who was a plumber.”  Link here.

4. School segregation is back.

5. Those new service sector jobs: “Facebook says it will hire another 3,000 people to review videos of crime and suicides following murders shown live.”

6. A Master’s degree for 7k? (NYT)

7. A new project from Russ Roberts: “My latest econ education project is It’s a Wonderful Loaf: http://wonderfulloaf.org.  It’s about the emergent order that is the market for bread. It’s an animated and annotated poem plus resources to learn quite a bit about emergent order if you want to go deeper.”

8. Glenn Kessler on preexisting conditions.

1. Herbert Spencer on euthanasia.

2. Slaughtering the radioactive wild boars of Fukushima.

3. My Bloomberg podcast on complacency.  And Michael Barone reviews Complacent Class.

4. The fifty greatest conductors of all time?

5. Those new service sector jobs: “That time I hired a professional masturbation coach.”  The link doesn’t show “it” directly, but still I think would count as not safe for work.  And is sex overrated?  Safe for work.

6. Ariel Rubinstein reviews Dani Rodrik, also safe for work.

1. The great (media) unbundling.  And should Disney buy Netflix?

2. Japan’s hi-tech toilets to get standardized symbols.

3. Drive driverless cars for a living (those new service sector jobs).

4. Some Trump budget proposals, including eliminating the NEA and NEH.  And detailed (but still incomplete) analysis of the proposed tax reform, from Treasury.

5. More on the new French Polynesian floating city, including the tourist angle.

6. Robert Shiller says stock prices will fall, at least he is taking a stand.

7. The excellence of Timothy Taylor.

1. Incompetent leaders as a protection against elite betrayal.

2. “Competition is fierce to become a panda nanny in China, but what is the job really like?”

3. Is the Frankfurt School actually relevant?  Is Piero Sraffa actually relevant?

4. People Walker: those new service sector jobs.

5. At least this has been retweeted over five thousand times.

1. My life as a Whole Foods DJ booker those new service sector jobs.

2. The political power of black women.

3. Antiprioritarianism (pdf), by Hilary Greaves.

4. Was the internet hack driven by commandeered Internet of Things?  I cannot verify what is in there, but it is potentially a very important and also disturbing post, via Binyamin Appelbaum.

5. The evidence for universe acceleration may be flimsier than we had thought.  And do you think this is a bigger story than #4 in this list?

6. No one bid for John Nash’s Nobel Prize — was that the Nash equilibrium?

7. Chemical bike lock causes vomiting in thieves.

1. Why is Russia escalating in Ukraine?

2. Those new service sector jobs: consultant to autodidact physicists.

3. Do Greenland sharks live for 400 years?  And it seems they don’t reach sexual maturity until 150, and their age is dated with reference to the “golden age” of nuclear bomb testing.

4. “About your cat(s)…”

5. “Zhang’s parents apparently allow him to carry the doll but are still very insistent that he should still get married.”

6. Yes, yes The Great Satan but John Cochrane is right too.

1. “Streaming, brought to you by jets.”

2. The Welfare Trait: “Over the past five years, he has accumulated a mass of evidence about the personalities of welfare claimants and concluded that individuals with aggressive, rule-breaking and anti-social tendencies — what he calls the ‘employment–resistant personality profile’ — are over-represented among benefit recipients.”

3. The Animal Soul project (photos).

4. Those new service sector jobs: “Yukigassen is professional snowball fighting…”

5. Editing Wikipedia for pay.

6. “Can Wisconsin make a sex offender who’s completed his sentence wear a GPS monitor on his ankle for the rest of his life?”  Posner says yes.

7. Why pawn shop prices differ.

1. Do horses prefer wearing clothes, and how do we know?

2. The lists of Susan Sontag.

3. Monitoring bank phone calls.

4. Rick Searle reviews Average is Over.

5. We the economy, curated by Morgan Spurlock.  And why partyism is wrong.

6. MIE: selling places in clinical trials?  And ManServants, those new service sector jobs (caveat emptor).

7. France moves closer to private sector funding for culture.

1. Did Victor Hugo really write naked?

2. Will the legal cap on San Francisco office space prove binding?

3. A family’s lost love letters.

4. Are books getting longer?

5. Professional snapchatters (those new service sector jobs).

6. Which ethnicity is most likely to be familiar with Bitcoin?

7. The great pharmaceutical stagnation.

1. Do we need a conservative literary movement?

2. Is there a new liberaltarian alliance in Washington?  And Thomas Edsall on what young Democrats believe.

3. Growth across Mexican regions, or what went wrong in Campeche?  And reforming Pemex won’t be that easy.

4. How concentrated is wealth at the very top? (pdf)

5. Caplan vs. Borjas on immigration and the trillion dollar bill.

6. Equine markets in everything, those new service sector jobs.