Archive

2018

January

• January 7, 2018 » The Merits of the State and Local Tax Deduction
• January 1, 2018 » GOP Tax "Reform"

2015

May

• May 16, 2015 » Programming Competition
• May 16, 2015 » Courage

2014

October

• October 25, 2014 » Ebola

June

• June 14, 2014 » How to install Samsung ML-2510 printer drivers on Mac OS X
• June 14, 2014 » How to install CTags on Sublime Text

January

• January 25, 2014 » Financial Leverage: An Allegory for Technical Debt
• January 17, 2014 » Diminishing Marginal Returns vs. Winner-Takes-All Markets

2013

October

• October 9, 2013 » The Failure of the American Democracy

September

• September 29, 2013 » The Mythical Engineer
• September 29, 2013 » A Framework for Evaluating Extended Warranties

July

• July 13, 2013 » Testing Import
• July 6, 2013 » About This Website

2011

April

• April 28, 2011 » Understanding Likelihood Estimates on Intrade.com

March

• March 20, 2011 » WiFi Problems
• March 19, 2011 » Robbing Us a Penny at a Time
• March 13, 2011 » Android-based Amazon Tablet
• March 2, 2011 » Job Application Fee a la College Application Fee

January

• January 19, 2011 » Health Insurance in the Pre-Modern Age

2010

December

• December 20, 2010 » A Step Into the "Real World"

August

• August 14, 2010 » The Return of Hubris to Germany
• August 12, 2010 » P = NP
• August 6, 2010 » A Summer of Learning

June

• June 29, 2010 » Bing Shopping Needs a Brand

May

• May 9, 2010 » Adjusting Retirement Age Dynamically

April

• April 11, 2010 » The Economics and Politics of Climate Change
• April 11, 2010 » The Chinese Yuan and the Imminent Inflation Explosion

March

• March 17, 2010 » The Valuation of the Chinese Yuan
• March 8, 2010 » Breakdown of Test Mistakes

February

• February 24, 2010 » Spam
• February 2, 2010 » StringBuffer vs. StringBuilder
• February 2, 2010 » StringBuffer vs. StringBuilder

January

• January 8, 2010 » Economic Paradigm Shift

2009

December

• December 22, 2009 » Political Discord at the Copenhagen Summit
• December 3, 2009 » Why This Recovery is Good for the Long Run
• December 3, 2009 » The Abbreviated Case for the Jobless Recovery

November

• November 22, 2009 » University of California, Incorporated
• November 7, 2009 » It Worked for Salt--It'll Work for Rice
• November 4, 2009 » The Law of Conservation of Procrastination

October

• October 11, 2009 » Obama and the NPP

September

• September 12, 2009 » My Perspective on Health Care Reform
• September 9, 2009 » Protecting Your Legacy--It's "Human Nature"
• September 3, 2009 » Inefficiency Shouldn't Be Rewarded

August

• August 11, 2009 » How to Win a Zero-Sum Game
• August 11, 2009 » Given Time, Anything Can Change Part Two
• August 10, 2009 » Verge of Recovery?
• August 4, 2009 » The Cost of Raising a Child
• August 3, 2009 » The Power of Visualization
• August 2, 2009 » How to Be Right
• August 2, 2009 » Hatchbacks and Electric/Hybrid Vehicles
• August 1, 2009 » Solid State Drives--The Solution in the Meantime
• August 1, 2009 » High Speed Trading

July

• July 26, 2009 » California Solves Budget Crisis--for Now
• July 19, 2009 » The Value of Life as a Terminally Ill Patient
• July 18, 2009 » Hearing Aids on the iPhone
• July 12, 2009 » Lean Up And Man Up, GM
• July 12, 2009 » Are Government-Backed Corporations Inherently Less Profitable?
• July 11, 2009 » Chrome OS: Maybe Later
• July 11, 2009 » Asking for GDrive? You're Asking the Wrong Company
• July 10, 2009 » AIG: Have You No Shame?
• July 9, 2009 » Deciding Emissions Targets--It's a Global Responsibility
• July 7, 2009 » Second Stimulus? Do It Right
• July 7, 2009 » If I Designed the Stimulus Package...
• July 1, 2009 » I Use Internet Explorer 8

June

• June 30, 2009 » Reuse, Don't Recycle
• June 28, 2009 » Sunblock Critique
• June 27, 2009 » Crowdsourcing: Why?
• June 24, 2009 » The Classic Correlation vs. Causation Pitfall
• June 24, 2009 » Listen to Warren
• June 24, 2009 » Killing Is Okay
• June 23, 2009 » To Do for the Summer
• June 21, 2009 » Well-Disguised Effort to Broaden the Drug Market
• June 21, 2009 » Margin of Sampling Errors: What Do They Mean?
• June 19, 2009 » Everlasting Cell Phones
• June 16, 2009 » What Makes Bing Different--From a Bing Employee
• June 13, 2009 » Public Encroachment Stage One: Microsoft vs. EU
• June 12, 2009 » Product "Service Agreements": Scams
• June 5, 2009 » Making Judgments: It's Human Nature
• June 4, 2009 » Free Advertising

May

• May 19, 2009 » Abuse of the Monopoly Power to Force Transfer of Wealth
• May 17, 2009 » The Tension Between Fair Outcomes and Fair Mechanisms
• May 15, 2009 » The Curse of True/False
• May 15, 2009 » Intending to Be Understood
• May 15, 2009 » English Confuses Me
• May 13, 2009 » The Format of an FML
• May 13, 2009 » Stop Stomping, Fat Neighbors!
• May 13, 2009 » My Next Laptop
• May 13, 2009 » Examinations and Procrastination
• May 13, 2009 » European Union Fines Intel
• May 12, 2009 » The Perfect System of Price Discrimination
• May 4, 2009 » Quarantine Them!

April

• April 30, 2009 » Monopoly Signaling in the Internet Market
• April 29, 2009 » Correlation and Causation
• April 25, 2009 » Don't Play With Kids
• April 23, 2009 » Programming Mishaps Series
• April 23, 2009 » Makefile Mishaps
• April 19, 2009 » WTF!
• April 18, 2009 » Repetition
• April 15, 2009 » Learn to Count
• April 14, 2009 » This Is What's Wrong with Health Insurance
• April 14, 2009 » AdBlock for Google Chrome
• April 11, 2009 » Misuse of "Stack"
• April 11, 2009 » Formalization of an Informal Assignment
• April 8, 2009 » I Want My Sleep Too
• April 5, 2009 » The Long Term Tradeoff of Pursuing Simultaneous Degrees
• April 1, 2009 » The Social Contract: The Origin of Human Morality

March

• March 29, 2009 » DailyCow Publicly Endorses COW
• March 26, 2009 » The Corollary to the Malthusian Thesis
• March 26, 2009 » Taxes--We Can Do Better
• March 25, 2009 » The Curse of a Mathematician
• March 24, 2009 » Great Example of Positive Eugenics
• March 24, 2009 » Goldman In Talks to Return TARP
• March 24, 2009 » Don't Mess With Me, Bitch
• March 24, 2009 » CS 61C Project 2: Three Mistakes That Cost 5 Hours
• March 20, 2009 » Bitches Got Owned
• March 17, 2009 » Pope to Africa: God Wants You Gone
• March 17, 2009 » New! Bookmark Button
• March 17, 2009 » Heads I Win; Tails You Lose
• March 15, 2009 » Political Motives in Public Policy
• March 15, 2009 » Cigarette Tax: Good!
• March 15, 2009 » Black Hole vs. Supernova
• March 14, 2009 » The Fragile Nature of International Cartels
• March 14, 2009 » Extended Warranties: They Don't Make Sense
• March 14, 2009 » Birth Control Provision Amended
• March 14, 2009 » Apples to Apples: "Sultry"
• March 11, 2009 » Castrating Rapists
• March 9, 2009 » Americans Becoming Less Religious
• March 8, 2009 » The Confidence Man: His Masquerade
• March 7, 2009 » I Should Have Studied

February

• February 28, 2009 » Online IQ Tests: We Are All Deluded
• February 26, 2009 » My Custom Bookmarklets
• February 26, 2009 » Hypocrisy of the Fiscal Conservatives
• February 26, 2009 » General Motors Headed for Bankruptcy
• February 21, 2009 » Do Games Improve Academic Performance?
• February 17, 2009 » Things Will Get Worse
• February 17, 2009 » Commendable Step Toward Accountability
• February 16, 2009 » The Poison Pill of International Trade: Protectionism
• February 13, 2009 » Republicans Are Screwing Us Over
• February 11, 2009 » This is what happens to pages I can't control
• February 11, 2009 » Jinghao
• February 5, 2009 » What a Coincidence!
• February 3, 2009 » Executive Pay Limit
• February 2, 2009 » Can We Blame the Banks?

January

• January 30, 2009 » Consolidation in the Drug Industry
• January 28, 2009 » I'm Better Than a Stanford Professor
• January 26, 2009 » Happy Chinese New Year!
• January 22, 2009 » Oil Is Going to $30 (Within a Quarter)
• January 21, 2009 » WTF
• January 21, 2009 » The Legacy of Bush Junior
• January 20, 2009 » The Symmetry of the Destruction
• January 19, 2009 » The Irony of Crude Diplomacy
• January 19, 2009 » Deficit Control in the Future
• January 18, 2009 » A Thanks for Our Freedom
• January 17, 2009 » Getting Money the European Way
• January 17, 2009 » Are We Setting a Dangerous Precedent by Pursuing Microsoft?

2008

December

• December 9, 2008 » First Step in the Right Direction

October

• October 1, 2008 » The Link Between Sluts and Hicks

July

• July 29, 2008 » Woot Price Calculator

June

• June 30, 2008 » Solution to Nicotine Addiction

May

• May 17, 2008 » Save the World, Raise Oil Taxes

April

• April 1, 2008 » Perspectives on Society and Life

March

• March 17, 2008 » Are You Christian? Who Cares...Right?

January

• January 2, 2008 » The Life of a Tiger

2007

December

• December 13, 2007 » A Plea for Pragmatism
• December 5, 2007 » The Predictable Universe

November

• November 8, 2007 » Hiding from Reality
• November 6, 2007 » Milking It For What It's Worth: Atheists Are Wealthier? So What?

September

• September 17, 2007 » ChemCow