Garett Jones has a post regarding claims that the government will cut health care costs. The comments are great and the explicit tie-in to the old-timey socialist trope that competition is "wasteful" is vital to this discussion. Competition is not wasteful; on the contrary, it is the best mechanism we have for eliminating waste.
Maui Photos
Photos from the Maui trip.
It’s proven now, idiot White Sox fans.
Even Science hates Hawk Harrelson. It is truly a great day for baseball fans everywhere. For the record, even though I'd also give a pass to Rick Manning as a former player, I think he's a terrible human being. Read this and you'll understand why.
Romer Out
Paul Romer is no longer involved with the charter city process in Honduras. Steve Sailer's take is fair, but a bit snide. Government (and the oligarchs who prop it up) are the problem, and so there's little incentive for them to introduce competition and institutions which may end up ruining their control of national power.…
Using nmap To Scan For SQL Servers
Brian Kelley has a good post on how to use nmap to find SQL Server instances on a network. If you can focus on a particular subnet, you can also use other techniques like sqlcmd -L,but using nmap allows for a lot more flexibility. Bonus: Brian also rants about common sense (or the lack thereof). I…
Trevor Bauer
This is a bit old by this point, but it's a fascinating discussion with Trevor Bauer, already one of the smarter pitchers in the game. Question: how much better would Greg Maddux have been if he had the same technology Bauer has (e.g., 480 fps video)? Maddux has been my go-to example for "pitching nerd,"…
Is Stack Overflow Secure?
Troy Hunt has a great post on whether or not Stack Overflow is secure. The answer is, "it depends." Security isn't just about buying equipment and configuring systems; it's about figuring out what you need to protect and which scenarios you need to cover. SO doesn't encrypt data on the site and you could steal…
It’s Not Voter Fraud If You Vote For The Right Party
Here is a good reason for national voter rolls, or at least web services that you can use to identify whether a person is registered in multiple locations. Of course, this wouldn't solve the common tactic of busing in people and having them cast provisional ballots in multiple counties. But hey, they mostly vote for…
Thriving On Failure
Over at Power Line Blog, John Hinderaker and Steven Hayward are trying to figure out why President Obama isn't getting blown out despite being a miserable failure. Hinderaker believes that the number of people on the dole has given rise to a core Democratic constituency who will be even more vocal when times are bad…
Honoring Russian Vets
Hilarious. What's funny (in a sad way) is that none of the people putting this thing together realized that those weren't American vessels.
36 Chambers - The Legendary Journeys: Execution to the max! 