Two more interesting articles on covid mass hysteria
Guess which crackpot started his article on covid in that notorious right-wing publication 'The Guardian' with the sentence "The virus has been used as a...
Behavioural insights as the new scientism?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pf4u3eyTCk I thought I posted this talk from some time ago on Troppo when I gave it back in October, but I can't find it....
Cracking the code: How to tell what News Corp really thinks about the price of links
News Corp is telling us what Google should really pay for linking to its sites. It's telling us in code – HTML code. And the...
Why “final offer arbitration” is Russian Roulette for Google
The legislated "bargaining" process between Google and News Corp is unmoored from reality. Its "final offer arbitration" is unsuited to the task. [caption id="attachment_34634" align="alignleft"...
Saving democracy: one secret ballot at a time
[caption id="attachment_34619" align="alignleft" width="1600"] From Encyclopaedia Brittanica: "Australian ballot: Voters participating in the secret ballot, or Australian ballot, system in the British general elections of...
What to expect during a cold war with China?
In 2005 I did my first economic projections of the major powers (published in a textbook) and concluded from the trends then that China would...
Vaccine delay: is Australia accidentally doing the right thing?
The federal government has overpromised and underdelivered on the COVID-19 vaccine. It deserves to be criticised for that. But delaying immunisation means that Australia may...