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In Defense of Microsoft (or, You Cannot Have Your Cake and Eat It Too)
In the latest episode of his excellent podcast, Hypercritical, John Siracusa discusses what ails Microsoft. His central thesis is that Microsoft has invested too much effort catering to the highly...
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Energy Economists Having Fun
I would be remiss not to link to a post by my colleague Catherine Wolfram at Haas. The short story: using a Kill-A-Watt meter she found that Severin’s Dell uses 50 times as much energy when idle as...
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Bizarro World
Apparently the Flashback Mac trojan is getting significant traction. Gruber notes the irony that the first real widespread Mac malware infection is getting less press than previous proof-of-concept...
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Palmdale Spur
Clem Tillier recently (and convincingly, in my view) argued that a Tejon alignment for the California High Speed Rail System would be significantly cheaper and faster than the proposed Tehachapi...
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“Desktop Class”
Like many, I was surprised by the new 64-bit A7 at today’s Apple Event. I didn’t think it would be possible to double CPU speeds again in one year (vis a vis the already fast A6), and I certainly...
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MUNI–
If you’ve ever ridden San Francisco’s MUNI system, you might have felt that it’s run by political hacks and buffoons. You might have felt that the average MUNI worker doesn’t care about anything...
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Update: “Desktop Class”
Re: last week’s post on the feasibility of ARM-based MacBooks, the A7 benchmarks are out, and it looks like an A7-based MacBook Air could be reasonably competitive with the Intel MacBook Airs. The...
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On Roads and Apple Cars
An abundance of evidence suggests that Apple is developing a car. Significant to their motivation may be the fact that automotive sales exceed $1 trillion of revenue per year in the US alone, and thus...
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Polls
In the first week of my graduate econometrics course, I try to emphasize the difference between using regression results for the purposes of prediction versus using them to make causal inferences. If...
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Is the Boeing 737 MAX safe?
Photo by Oleg Belyakov, CC BY-SA 3.0 Two high-profile crashes in less than six months have raised questions about the safety of the latest iteration of the Boeing 737, the MAX. Aviation authorities in...
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