Author: yorksranter

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This exchange, and chart, illuminate the biggest challenge and biggest opportunity for Ed Miliband. . @jamestplunkett But not feed through into consumer confidence on own finances yet. Big challenge. pic.twitter.com/rKOVK2NnyK — Matthew Oakley (@MJ_Oakley) December 5, 2013 So, people expect the UK economy to be doing a bit better. They see an inflection point in…

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Shorter me: economists should study business more, and in an ideal world, industrial sociology, before they try to do cognitive psychology Peter Dorman at Econospeak takes issue with a Robert Frank piece about workplace safety, which has all the whoopee doo Econ-101 problems you’d expect. I think, though, that there is a really big issue…

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Borderland Beat needs no introduction, as a great and indeed heroic blog. This week, it has excelled itself. Here is an interview with an American lawyer, a member of an elite Mexican-American family that straddled the border and the law with minimal concern, who became a defence brief to the cocaine traffickers, and eventually one…

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Here’s something cool. According to the Zarya Blog, a Russian Dnepr rocket just orbited no fewer than 32 satellites, including one package that deploys no fewer than nine subsatellites. They’re a huge variety of scientific and engineering experiments. At the same time, a NASA Minotaur rocket was launched from the Wallops Island range, with some…

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This blog has to move, apparently. Bytemark, Beasts, Squid, Linode, or somewhere else? Jesus what an autumn. First e2fsprogs ate my HDD. I still have to go back and hack on that. Then we migrated the work e-mail, with the result thanks to Microsoft that although a load of archive e-mail has the right headers…

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