Gordon's Notes

Commentary: politics, science, technology and humanity. Secular humanist.

Saturday, December 31, 2016

Crisis-T: blame it on the iPhone (too)

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It’s a human thing. Something insane happens and we try to figure out “why now?”. We did a lot of that in the fall of 2001. Today I looked b...
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Friday, December 23, 2016

Investment things I learned in Crisis-T

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All the money Trump will take from the poor and give to the rich has to go somewhere. So share prices should rise. On the other hand, a 10%...
Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Save America. Vote GOP.

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In the real world HRC is President and the GOP is beginning a painful reform process that will lead to a far better conservative party and a...
Saturday, December 17, 2016

Piketty's latest work on inequality is wrong about education.

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The NYT has a readable summary of Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman’s US income research . Much of it is familiar, but I was ...
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Thursday, December 15, 2016

Resistance prelude: Orchid Island, Taiwan

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I hope to write about my response to “crisis-T". Yes, that T. The anti-O.  This is a prelude to that post. It’s a note about Orchid Is...
Monday, December 12, 2016

Fallows: "the most grievous blow that the American idea has suffered in my lifetime"

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The Atlantic, Jan/Feb 2017 Despair and Hope in Trump’s America - James Fallows - The Atlantic … I view Trump’s election as the most griev...
Saturday, December 10, 2016

Automated purchases of index funds - how to view and discontinue at Vanguard

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It’s dull stuff, but if you’re a lazy investor it’s hard to beat dollar cost average investing. Every month dollars automatically flow from ...

It's time to take those gains

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I’ve seen this movie before … How the Twinkie Made the Superrich Even Richer … The Teacher Retirement System of Texas has invested in the...
Saturday, November 26, 2016

Blame IT

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Peak Human . Accelerated globalization .  Weak mass media. Weaponized Facebook. Crisis T.

Peak Human and Mass Disability are the same thing

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For reference - DeLong’s  Peak Human  and my  Mass Disability are synonyms. Both refer to a surplus of productive capacity relative to labo...
Thursday, November 24, 2016

Crisis-T: stop talking about white *men*

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I don’t believe exit polls that claim half of white college women voted for Trump — though clearly that must have been true in many parts of...
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Monday, November 21, 2016

I can't recommend the Mac any more

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I don’t think Mac users should switch, but I can’t recommend any newbies join MacShip. Aperture users abandoned. Sierra’s scary data shifti...
Saturday, November 19, 2016

Excerpts from Remnick's recent Obama interview

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Read it … Obama Reckons with a Trump Presidency - David Remnick - The New Yorker Nov 28, 2016 issue … I’m half Scotch-Irish, man!” he sai...
Thursday, November 17, 2016

The electronic health record problem list - how I'd do it for the third time

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I did corporate research and development in clinical software for about 20 years. During that time I couldn’t write about informatics ideas....
Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Crisis-T: What's special about rural?

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I think 40% of Americans are disabled in the context of the modern work environment   because of automation and globalization . That’s why w...
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