2022
What We Owe The Future – A review by Tim Harford
Tim Harford’s lukewarm review of William MacAskill’s book.If he is right, how could I justify giving £10 to a food bank today when I could set up a charitable trust, let the money accumulate centuries of compound interest before lavishing the proceeds on future generations? Are we morally obliged to live at subsistence levels to maximise the resources available for investment and research so our great-great-great-great-grandchildren will thrive? Such questions have been discussed and analysed at great depth in the literature on climate change. It is surprising to see them waved away with a few sentences here. Is it that surprising, really?
Very happy to discover that my episode ...
Very happy to discover that my episode on Garum, Rome’s museum of food and cooking, is peaking this week in Nigeria. What are they hearing that you haven’t? eatthispodcast.com/garum-museum/
The White House Conference: They Pulled It Off! - Food Politics by Marion Nestle
“We must stop giving breadcrumbs and start building bakeries.”Nice rhetoric. And then …?
First time I have needed to restore ...
First time I have needed to restore files from @arqbackup in a genuine emergency, and it was such a good experience. Smooth, straightforward, did the job. Phew!
It astonishes me that a fad diet ...
It astonishes me that a fad diet can admonish its followers to “drink the Snake juice” without, apparently, a trace of irony. And that reminds me, whatever happened to oil pulling? Not that I really care.
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Friday 16 September, 2022 | Memex 1.1
In the UK at the moment, the average household consumes 3,731 kWh of electricity in a year. That comes to 10.23 kWh per day. So wouldn’t it be smarter — and fairer — to subsidise consumption up to that level, and let households which consume more face the market rate? And pay for the subsidy by a windfall tax on energy companies.
It won’t happen, of course, for the simple reason that it’s ‘unthinkable’.
This is a first. Never before had ...
This is a first. Never before had a sign-up say “Email address is invalid. Can you try a different one?” for a masked email from @Fastmail. Step forward sonix.ai to claim your prize.
An alternative to Marxist explanations of inequality – The one-handed economist
I wish I understood more deeply, but the more I read about Henry George and Georgism, the more inclined I am to believe it to be correct.
Huge congratulations to @WonderbagO on their nomination ...
Huge congratulations to @WonderbagO on their nomination for the @FoodPlanetPrize. Proud to have interviewed Sarah Collins way back when. www.eatthispodcast.com/welcome-t…
This is very bad news for me. ...
This is very bad news for me. On the one foot, NB 624s are the only sneaker-type shoes that come in a width that accommodates my misshapen feet. On the other, I’m reluctant to add to the CEO’s profits. Recommend another brand, please.
Decision, decisions: is a touchbar on an ...
Decision, decisions: is a touchbar on an M2 MacBook Pro worth €100? That’s the price difference from an M2 MBA, and the MBP has a slightly smaller screen and weighs 160 gm more. I’ve never seen anyone rave about a touchbar. So, what’s the deal? All thoughts welcome.
Finished reading: Songbirds, Truffles, and Wolves: An ...
Finished reading: Songbirds, Truffles, and Wolves: An American Naturalist in Italy by Gary Paul Nabhan