thought isaac chotiner did a great interview a couple months ago with raja shehadeh expressing fears of this kind of attack from desperate palestinians
https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/how-israels-democratic-crisis-affects-palestinians
How Israel’s Democratic Crisis Affects Palestinians
Isaac Chotiner speaks with the lawyer Raja Shehadeh about how the protests in Israel and hard-right turn of Netanyahu’s government will affect Palestinians.
One of the most remarkable things to me about all these studies that turn out to have misused data, etc., is that most researchers apparently keep incredibly poor records; there's no audit history for changes; Excel is somehow the gold standard. I guess that's true in business, but I somehow thought there would be university, journal, and professional standards that required very specific one-way archiving of data, etc.
this chart changed my fucking life
the most troublesome part about vivek ramaswamy is from a story i heard pablo torre tell on a podcast where ramaswamy would raise his hand in lecture in the shape of a "v".
all the best to michael lewis who no longer has easy access to the subject of his book just across the bay. on the other hand, maybe he's already done with his book.
maybe human progress comes through some effort at trying to achieve a pie in the sky idea, but, i don't know, maybe we can focus on things that are public goods? build extra rail capacity? more efficient city planning?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-11/air-taxi-startup-vertical-to-pause-flight-tests-after-crash
Vertical Aerospace to Pause Flight Tests After Air-Taxi Prototype Crash
The crash of Vertical Aerospace Ltd.’s only electric air-taxi prototype this week will force the startup to pause flight tests until regulators complete an investigation.
I have never been so personally called out by a meme in my fucking life.
maybe there is none ... and maybe they're not even looking for a financial return? (i mean, we hear about owners complaining about how much cash they have to sink into running a team that they don't or barely make operating profits, which tend to not matter because they end up selling the team for billions more than they paid.) then how bad is the outlook for oil that instead of investing in their primary business they are willing to throw bad money after good into sports where you probably won't reap the profits based on the cost basis going in? how desperate are you to try to make this tourism thing happen for a place that consistently tops 110F in the summer? and how expensive is sports about to get for the rest of us at these valuations?
i'm not entirely sure i know where this train of thought is going but it feels like the money saudis are trying to throw at sports leagues is the last money in? it's not really clear on what basis these sports teams and leagues are actually valued but one obvious measure is whatever the next guy pays for a slice of the action. whatever that last guy pays for a team is the comparable basis for another team's value. the sums of money the saudis (and, i guess, oil funds in general?) are trying to dump on sports are so astronomically high that it's hard to think there are others who would be willing to, or even can, pay that much. and if there are no other billionaires or sovereign wealth funds that want to or can buy, then what's the saudi exit strategy?
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