Month: September 2019

Upon reading the “about Us” of Unz Review, which is as follows “A Collection of Interesting, Important, and Controversial Perspectives Largely Excluded from the American Mainstream Media,” and other publications of the so-called “alternative media,” one may be under the mistaken impression that the views espoused in these websites and publications are ignored, neglected, suppressed,… Continue reading The “alternative media” is often not that much of an alternative

I have been thinking about the Greta Thunberg story and what it says about why conservatism is ineffectual or even counterproductive. It’s the job of the left to be outraged and offended, and it’s the job of the right to take great pains to show how not racist and sexist it is. But other times,… Continue reading The Greta Thunberg Story

September has been a terrible month for WeWork, whose CEO stepped down, delayed its IPO until the end of 2019, and had its valuation cut by as much as 80% from as high as $50 billion just a month ago, to around $5-10 billion today. Consequently, there has been a plethora of stories about how… Continue reading No, WeWork failing is not a failure of capitalism, nor the end of the post-2009 tech boom

Oh no…it’s happening Speaker Pelosi has called for an impeachment inquiry After every attempt to unseat and defame Trump for the past two years has failed, investigating Trump’s supposed interference with Ukraine aid is the left’s latest angle of attack. The left’s desperation is really showing that they need to invent a scandal to try… Continue reading Impeachment inquiry: Prediction: Nothing will happen

This is a pretty fascinating article How Costly is Chinese IP Theft? It agrees with what I have been thinking for the past year, which is that the conventional media narrative about China is almost certainty wrong or misleading, and that this China stuff is overblown. It’s very hard to measure the extent of theft,… Continue reading The Cost of Chinese IP and Trademark Theft (it’s probably not that much)

Bill Ramz Paul Gates has another video You can tell he has an engineering background because his thought process is concise and direct, and he doesn’t ramble that much. I agree that teaching the employed to code as a solution to technological unemployment and globalization, is delusional. It’s hard enough teaching junior and high school… Continue reading Teach the Unemployed to Code? yeah right

Bill Gates Paul put out this video: Politics are overrated. Bill seems to have taken more black pills than usual. He’s not wrong about the lack of progress under Trump, or how things mostly feel the same–albeit with some incremental changes here and there– regardless of who is in power. But I think what he… Continue reading Politics are overrated? it depends

This article is going viral on UNZ Why Harvard Is Right to Discriminate Against Asians. This article is pretty bad and makes major unsubstantiated claims. I am surprised Ron Unz would even publish it. Insulting his readers’ intelligence for a few thousand clicks seems like a poor trade-off. A high profile lawsuit by East Asian… Continue reading Why Harvard Is Right to Discriminate Against Asians: Response

Every few months or so, publications such as Wired remind us about the plight of Reddit moderators, who are on the front lines of fighting spam and trolls, all for no pay. Should we feel grateful or sorry for them. I don’t. If being a Reddit moderator is such an unenviable position, why is it… Continue reading Don’t feel too sorry for the Reddit moderators

I keep being right over and over again. Back in March 2019, I wrote that the first term of the Trump presidency was effectively over and that there would be no legislation ,or much of any progress on anything. So far, it looks like i was right. Progress on ‘the wall,’ in spite of $2.5… Continue reading The opportunity, lost