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This Week in Development: Microsoft, Motorola and Nokia – XDA TV
Posted May 25, 2012 at 02:30 pm by Jimmy McGee
Join us as our friend Jordan returns for another episode of This Week in Development. Jordan begins by covering all the tutorials available on XDA, from Beginning Android ROM Development to porting LewaOS and JoyOS to your phone.
Jordan then talks about the AT&T HTC One X bootloader unlock, S Voice fix, and Samsung Note international source code release. Jordan covers XDA Elite Recognized Developer Chainfire's Windows Mobile 6 market hack and XDA Portal Administrator Will Verduzco's how to root the how to root the Meizu MX video. Finally, Jordan strongly discusses his views on all the copyright and patent wars in the mobile world. Check it out!. . . READ ON »
This Week in Development Quick Take: Samsung Galaxy S III – XDA TV
Posted May 21, 2012 at 02:00 pm by Jimmy McGee
In today's Quick Take of This Week in Development, Jordan covers all the noteworthy articles from the XDA Portal. As Jordan discusses, the most important articles were about the Samsung Galaxy S III. This weekend the Galaxy S III was rooted, official stock firmware was leaked, Samsung S Voice was ripped, and the first custom ROM was released. In related news, the older Samsung Galaxy S II and Note have a serious bug that could brick your device.
Jordan then talks about CM9 Alpha arriving for the Droid X2. Finally, Jordan mentions our new Pro Tip series on XDA TV. All said, this is another video you don't want to miss!. . . READ ON »
This Week in Development: Apple, HTC, Google, Oracle, Motorola and Samsung – XDA TV
Posted May 18, 2012 at 05:30 pm by Jimmy McGee
This week on the XDA Portal, we saw many important stories. To give a run down of these stories, XDA TV Producer Jordan returns with another episode of This Week in Development.
Jordan mentions the Apple versus HTC patent wars and court battles. In more big, rich companies versus other rich companies news, Jordan updates us on the Oracle versus Google trial. In more Google news, the limit on device deauthorization on Google Music is discussed. The lamentable actions by Motorola and the locking down of their devices is mentioned. Finally, Jordan urges you to go check out XDA Elite Recognized Developer AdamOutler's Galaxy Nexus tear down and unboxing.. . . READ ON »
Universal Gingerbread Root for Motorola Devices
Posted April 20, 2012 at 05:00 pm by Former Writer
Not long ago, we brought you a nearly universal Gingerbread root method for Samsung phones. It was really cool, as more than two dozen Samsung devices could be rooted and unrooted two simple files. Since rooting is at the core of device development , new root methods—especially universal ones—are always exciting news.
XDA Forum Member rodrigojfuentes has posted a method that should root all Motorola phones currently running Gingerbread. The method requires users to be running Linux, so Windows and Mac users need to load a Linux virtual machine to proceed.
From there, it's a few commands to obtain and alter the the files, followed by a simple flash. Nothing too difficult, but be sure to r. . . READ ON »
Android 2.3.6 Gingerbread OTA Update Available for Motorola Atrix 2
Posted February 8, 2012 at 01:00 pm by Haroon Q. Raja
While it may not be Ice Cream Sandwich just yet, Motorola has released an official OTA update for the Atrix 2 that updates the OS to Android 2.3.6 Gingerbread and brings several improvements and bug fixes to this popular dual-core device.
The update includes:
- Significant improvements and fixes to the camera app
- Enhanced keyboard
- Visual Voicemail (by AT&T)
- Cloud syncing of text messages and call log (by AT&T)
- Improvements to Wireless Hotspot and Webtop
- Haptic feedback problems fixed
- Decreased call ending lag
- Significantly reduced RAM usage, improving performance
- Possibly more…
As of now, a direct rooting method for this version isn't available so by flashing it directly, you wil. . . READ ON »
Operation Mosh: Petitioning Motorola To Unlock Their Bootloaders Amid Broken Promise
Posted January 5, 2012 at 10:00 am by liwen
2011 came and went, and Google wasn't the only one breaking their promises. Back in March, Motorola said they would unlock their notoriously secured bootloaders before the end of 2011, and guess what? They haven't.
So, what do we do? Of course, start a petition. This has worked wonders with HTC, and, only a few days ago, ASUS. Both quickly gave in to the pressure and eventually provided (or are in the process of doing so) official unlocking solutions. Motorola originally said they were doing the same, but they didn't, and here's what they get for it:
OPERATION: Make Ourselves Heard (#OPMOSH)[...]
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Is WebOS Only Mostly Dead? We'll Find Out in Two Weeks
Posted December 1, 2011 at 08:00 am by Russell Holly
There isn't a sadder story in the mobile world than that of WebOS. It had such potential as a platform. Multitasking was pretty good, the modders and hackers really took a liking to how much you could play with it, and it really seemed like it had a pretty bright future ahead of it. Unfortunately, it suffered from a sever case of really awful hardware. With the exception of the Touchpad (which has a forum on XDA), which was sadly too late to save the platform, all of the hardware that ran WebOS was inadequate. Having already suffered the blow of being sold to HP, the platform seemed like it was on its was out after the TouchPad failed. With the livelihood of over 600 employees, not to mention my desire to have a fourth . . . READ ON »
[BREAKING] Google Purchases Motorola Mobility
Posted August 15, 2011 at 10:16 am by Ben Elliott
After the original Eclair-premiering Droid redeemed a failing Motorola way back in 2009, the company's dedication to the Android platform became set in stone. We've seen awe-inspiring devices such as the Droid X and the Atrix along with more forgettable entries to the canon of the little green robot, including the Backflip and the Devour. Yet, barring the original Droid, Motorola's smartphones have been plagued with issues including an unworkable UI (MotoBlur), oft-delayed updates and, perhaps most annoyingly in the XDA community, locked bootloaders.
More recently, Motorola stepped once again into the Google limelight with the introduction of the Xoom, Google's flagshi. . . READ ON »
The Weekly Q&A: Week 27
Posted February 27, 2011 at 06:00 pm by ElCondor
Every week, we select five questions and answers, found on the forums. Even though some of these questions and answers might not be of help for you, they might still be interesting to read.
Q 'Why is the first test score in Quadrant always lower than the following ones ? '
A There's no expert explanation to this fact, but we guess that it has got something to do with the OS keeping the processes and data in memory. It could also be the CPU that's been revved up after the first test.
- Q&A originally posted in the Droid Incredible General thread.
Q 'How can I install apps on my Inspire 4G from the market that are blocked by AT&T?'
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Dr. Salim Nazzal* This is a quick and generalized paper, which gives evidences of which might explain why the Zionist regime has been more capable of resisting the pressures of the culture of human rights and self determination while the apartheid regimes have vanished. Despite the similarities between the white Racist regime, in earlier South Africa and those of the … [Read more...]
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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, who is the Racist of them All By Dr. Elias Akleh* It seems that Durban Anti-Racism Review Conference II that started last Monday April 20th in Geneva has concluded with the worthless ineffective declaration with 143 articles calling for the protection of vulnerable minorities, and urging states to combat impunity for crimes of genocide. It also … [Read more...]
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Despite claiming continued support for Israel, a majority of US residents want a change in policy towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A decisive plurality said US aid to Israel is "too much", and a majority want to see Israel penalised for building new settlements on Palestinian land. These were some of the findings of a Zogby International interactive survey of 4,320 … [Read more...]
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Stanley Gibbons, the Jersey-based, London Stock Exchange-listed stamp and rare coin dealer, has opened offices in Singapore and Brazil.
The company's announcement of these new facilities comes 18 months after it established its first Asia office in Hong Kong.
The Singapore office is located in Suntec Tower One on Temasek Boulevard, and is being headed up by John Fairs, an experienced asset and portfolio manager whose most recent role was with Vulpes Asset Management.
In Rio de Janeiro, the office is on Avenida Genaro de Carvalho, in the Recreo district.
Gibbons said it was opening the offices in response to a "growing demand" from wealthy investors in Asia and Brazil who are looking to diversify their investment portfolios.
According to the company, there are estimated 60 million stamp collectors worldwide, more than two-thirds of whom are based in Asia.
Stanley Gibbons is no stranger to the depth of the pockets of Singapore's resident philatelists. In 2010, one of the company's Singaporean customers paid what turned out to be the top price that year for a British stamp. (For the record, it was the King George V 6d "IR" Official, which is currently valued at around £400,000.)
Keith Heddle, group investment director at Stanley Gibbons, said Asian investors currently account for 18% of the value of portfolios under the company's management.
"Our investor base in Asia is growing fast, as high net worth individuals adopt the asset class and look at alternatives not just to mainstream options, but also to fine wine, art and most recently, gold," he added.
Heddle was in Singapore this week to host a launch reception for the new office at the British High Commission.
Stanley Gibbons was founded in 1856, listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1997, and is a key player in the collectible stamp market. It says it currently has more than £60m under management on behalf of investors, and possesses a £12m "wants list", comprised of rare items individuals are hoping to land for their collections.
In addition to stamps it also handles rare coins, medals and collectible "signatures", that is, documents and objects signed by famous people. In addition to opening regional offices, it has also been looking to expand its online retail operation, to rival eBay and similar arenas through which individuals buy and sell stamps and other items.
Last year it posted a pre-tax profit of £5.3m on sales of around £35.6m. Also last year, the company's stock price rose by 40%.
In a 2011 article for International Adviser, Paul Gambles, managing partner of Bangkok-based MBMG, considered the growth in the market for stamps as an investment, and how Stanley Gibbons had evolved over the years. "As stamps move ever closer to satisfying the essential requirements of investment asset, they should join, if not supplant, antiques, cars, wine and other collectibles as a valuable status asset of choice for extremely high-net-worth clients," Gambles observed.
However, because stamps "will never trade like equities, bonds or financial assets", and the market for them lacks transparency and liquidity, he noted, they cannot merit serious consideration in mainstream portfolios.
"At best, the decision to buy stamps is always going to be one of personal preference and taste, rather than of risk-reward metrics or forecast returns on investment."
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108 charged with Medicare fraud; bogus claims hit $455M
Doctors, nurses and other healthcare providers from around the nation—107 in all—were charged Wednesday in what federal officials in Washington called a "nationwide takedown" against medical professionals they said fraudulently billed Medicare out of nearly half a billion dollars in bogus claims. The sweep of arrests in seven major cities, where some $455 million was allegedly fraudulently billed, marked the highest amount of false claims in a single raid in the history of the federal strike force. The strike force was convened to combat rising fraud in the medical industry; the Obama administration said the scope of the investigation means that it is continuing to get tough on those preying on the Medicare assistance system during the recession.
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Massive Attack Announce New Album
By Ryan Dombal on November 24, 2009 at 10:50 a.m. EST
Almost seven years after their full studio album, 2003's 100th Window, trip-hop pioneers Massive Attack are ready to release more dubby darkness into the world. Their fifth full-length, Heligoland, is out February 9 via Virgin in the U.S. (February 8 in the UK). (Heligoland is "a small German archipelago in the North Sea," according to our friends at Wikipedia.)
The album features an enviable list of vocal contributors: Damon Albarn, TV on the Radio's Tunde Adebimpe, Elbow's Guy Garvey, Martina Topley-Bird, Hope Sandoval, and Horace Andy. Albarn also plays bass on the track "Flat of the Blade". The Adebimpe-featuring track "Pray for Rain" and the Andy-featuring "Splitting the Atom" were both featured on the recent Splitting the Atom EP.
The Bristol duo also tapped Portishead's Adrian Utley to play guitar on a track, and DFA's Tim Goldsworthy contributed here and there. As previously reported, a Heligoland remix album by none other than Burial is in the works as well.
Heligoland's ten tracks are listed in order below:
Massive Attack Plan Burial Remix LP
By Ryan Dombal on October 7, 2009 at 1:25 p.m. EDT
Home page photo by Kevin Westenberg
It seems safe to say that if it weren't for Massive Attack, there may be no Burial. The throughline between the two artists' dense, rhythmic, apocalyptic soundscapes is easy to make out. So when Massive Attack's Daddy G told ClashMusic that there's a remix project in the works featuring Burial doing his thing to several tracks off of Massive Attack's upcoming full-length, the news was as welcomed as it was rational.
Hear Massive Attack's Collaboration With Tunde From TV on the Radio
By Ryan Dombal on September 3, 2009 at 11:20 a.m. EDT
Home page photo by Kevin Westenberg
Massive Attack's new EP Splitting the Atom is out October 6 in the U.S. (October 5 in the UK) via Virgin. That's the surprisingly colorful cover up there. The EP features vocals from Horace Andy, Martina Topley-Bird, and Elbow's Guy Garvey.
Now, you can listen to the release's marquee collaboration, the near-seven-minute "Pray for Rain" featuring TV on the Radio's Tunde Adebimpe. It's dark, it's epic, it's as apocalyptic as you want it to be:
Tunde Adebimpe to Guest on Massive Attack EP
By Tom Breihan on August 25, 2009 at 5:00 p.m. EDT
Bristol trip-hop originators Massive Attack have a new EP coming out on October 5 in the U.S. and the UK, on Virgin. The EP, called Splitting the Atom, will contain four new Massive Attack songs, two of them in remixed form. And all tracks feature a guest vocalist of some note. Given that the group has a stellar record of working with outside vocalists (Liz Fraser on "Teardrop", we see you), this is good news. Details on the new release, via the www.massiveattack.ie fansite and confirmed by Virgin, after the jump. (Thanks to Kevin Krein for the tip.)
News in Brief: Massive Attack, Mr. Oizo, Willie Nelson, Kanye West
By Tom Breihan on January 21, 2009 at 5:30 p.m. EST
-- On February 17, Rapster Records, the company that brought us the stuff-Daft-punk-sampled compilation Discovered, will release Protected, a compilation of stuff that Massive Attack has sampled. Somehow it's not all old Horace Andy reggae songs; rather, it features tracks from Al Green, James Brown, Isaac Hayes, Rufus & Chaka Khan, and more. The folks at Rapster will probably spend the next year looking for another venerable electronic-music group with an album title that can be turned into a past-tense verb. Dug Your Own Hole maybe?
-- Perhaps in an effort to no longer be known as the guy who once provided a theme song for a headbanging sock puppet, French house producer Mr. Oizo will release his new record on the uber-cool Ed Banger label. Lamb's Anger, his first album as a Justice labelmate, will see American release on January 26.
-- Septuagenarian stoner Willie Nelson has teamed up with the band Asleep at the Wheel to release an album called (of course) Willie and the Wheel. This will be Willie's tribute to the fondly-remembered pre-country genre of Western swing, since even Willie will tell you Bob Wills is still the king. (References to Waylon Jennings lyrics in Pitchfork News! Groundbreaking!) According to a press release, the idea for a Willie Nelson/Asleep at the Wheel collaboration has been in the works since the 1970s, when the late producer Jerry Wexler first suggested it. Bismeaux Records will release Willie and the Wheel on February 3. Other people, meanwhile, are (justifiably) paying tribute to Willie.
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Columbia, MO - A first half goal from DePaul proved to be the winning margin today as the No. 11 University of Missouri women's soccer team fell 1-0 Sunday at Walton Stadium. With the loss, the Tigers' record now stands at 2-1-0, while the Blue Demons improve to 3-0-1.
It did not take long for the Tiger offense to begin testing Blue Demon goalkeeper, Claire Hanold, as senior forward Kristin Andrighetto got off two shots in the first ten minutes, both of which rolled wide of the net. DePaul had a good chance to go ahead in the 17th minute as Tara Strickland settled a pass at the top of the box and shot, forcing a sprawling save from senior goalkeeper Tasha Dittamore.
DePaul would find the back of the net in the 25th minute, when Morgan Celaya sprung Shannon Williams with a through-pass down the middle. Celaya took a touch at the top of the box before putting her shot past Dittamore to give the Blue Demons the lead. The Tigers had a chance to level the score just before half time on a free kick from sophomore Mallory Stipetich, but the shot went wide left.
Missouri got its best chance to get on the board early in the second half. In the 50th minute, senior Michelle Makasini got the ball at the top of the box and laid it off to a waiting Andrighetto near the left post, but her shot went high of the crossbar. DePaul almost extended their lead just minutes later, but sophomore Kelsey Blincow found herself well positioned on the goal line to block a Michelle Scandora shot.
A hard fought second half saw a combined 18 fouls from both sides, as well as three yellow cards. DePaul's Tara Stickland was carded in the 68th minute, followed by yellows on Missouri's Meghan Pfeiffer and DePaul's Janina Locascio in the 74th. The physical play continued up until the final whistle, as neither side would record a shot on net in the final 15 minutes of the game.
The Tigers will look to rebound from today's defeat next Friday at home against Rhode Island. The game is scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m. Admission is $5 for adults, $3 for youth and seniors, and free to all University of Missouri students with a valid student ID.
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Why is Academic Writing so Bad?
In his recent article "Why Academic Writing Stinks", Steven Pinker highlights many examples of bad academic writing. He argues that academic writing is mostly bad because writing well is hard, writing well about academic subjects especially so.
Pinker mostly discounts the idea that bad writing is a deliberate choice by individual writers made in order to "dress up the trivial and obvious with the trappings of scientific sophistication, hoping to bamboozle their audiences with highfalutin gobbledygook." Pinker admits that this happens occasionally, and is ironically especially common among professors of English.
While I think most of Pinker's article is great, I want to push back against his complete dismissal of the idea that "that academics have no choice but to write badly because the gatekeepers of journals and university presses insist on ponderous language as proof of one's seriousness". Pinker calls this a "myth", but I have first-hand experience that it happens.
I have repeatedly been told by referees that my writing style is "too casual". It's not totally clear what they mean, but I (perhaps self-servingly) take them to be complaining about the very things that Pinker, and other well-regarded academic writers like Dierdre McCloskey, insist are part of good style: not using big words when small ones will do, avoiding jargon when possible, using the first person and active voice- "We run a fixed-effects regression"- instead of the third person and passive voice- "the approach of this paper is to run a regression, utilizing fixed effects."
I try to explain my work in a way that will be relatively accessible to non-specialists; at the very least I would like economists outside of my field to be able to understand my papers. But referees often ask for such explanations to be cut. Contra Pinker, I think this is exactly meant to "prove my seriousness"- including too many explanations for people who aren't in my sub-sub-field leads to referees saying that a paper "reads like a grad-student paper".
Once a referee asked me to cut a paragraph explaining why I used a certain technique because "everyone knows about that". Clearly not everyone does- at best every applied microeconomist does, though even this was doubtful since the first paper on it had been published only 8 years earlier. I think what they meant was that that anyone who would read this paper should already know about it. But that sounds like a self-fulfilling prophecy- if you make your papers unreadable to 99.99% of the world, not many people will read them.
So while I somewhat disagree with Pinker, I hope every academic will read his article. I don't think this will help much. I agree with Pinker that academic writing in general is likely to stay bad- the cost of writing well is putting in hard work to do so, and the benefits to most academics of improving their writing is low. But if more people understood how bad standard academic writing is, they could at least refrain from spending time and effort pushing others to conform to academic writing norms.
PS- Did you know that Dierdre McCloskey's Economical Writing is available online for free? Highly recommended to anyone who writes in a technical field, or anyone who could believe that a book with the title Economical Writing is actually pretty hilarious.
Who Pays the High Health Costs of Older Workers? Evidence From Prostate Cancer Screening Mandates
After a 2-year journey through the journal system, chapter 2 of my dissertation is now published in Applied Economics. The paper focuses on one specific mandate that mostly benefits men over 50. I find that the cost of this mandate is passed on to men over 50 in the form of lower wages. Some men also lose access to employer insurance altogether.
Some of the general lessons from my work so far:
1) There are no free lunches: getting higher benefits means incurring higher costs
2) Laws passed with good intentions can backfire, hurting the very people they are intended to help
3) Employer-based health insurance messes up labor markets
Just the Economics of Contraception Mandates
Today the Supreme Court ruled that closely held corporations like Hobby Lobby cannot be compelled to cover contraception as part of their health insurance. Most people will interpret this decision in terms of respect and status- they like it because they think it shows respect for religious beliefs, or dislike it because they think it lowers the status of women.
If you are one of the people for whom politics is more about policy than status (there are dozens of us!), you will probably find these papers by me and RomneyCare/ACA architect Jonathan Gruber enlightening. Rather than insisting that the decision should make you happy or outraged, I will leave it to you to connect the dots on what these papers mean for contraception mandates as policy.
How is Regulation like a Snake-Eating Gorilla?
People as diverse as Alfred Marshall, Thorstein Veblen, Freidrich Hayek, and Russ Roberts have said that economists try to be physicists when the subject really has more in common with biology. But while people have said this since at least the 1800's, there are only a couple areas where biology and economics have blended- game theory, evolutionary economics, agent-based computational economics, and some shared statistical techniques. We are still, for the most part, aspiring physicists.
While the actual physics-lite techniques we use work well enough, I think biology is a much better source of metaphors to describe the economy. One I don't recall having heard before is invasive species. Suppose a new invasive species enters an ecosystem, leading to bad results for the native species. People clamor for the government to "do something". So the government releases a new invasive species in order to take out the old one. This does not go as planned. In an episode of the Simpsons (possibly discussed in Homer Economicus, which I still need to read), Springfield is threatened by invasive bird-eating Bolivian tree lizards. Principal Skinner suggests that the problem can be solved by importing a new invasive species, Chinese Needle Snakes, to eat the tree lizards. But what about the new Chinese Needle Snake infestation? Simple, just bring in snake-eating gorillas….
This is a great way of describing the unintended consequences of regulation. The government sees some problem out there in the economy, like expensive housing. In order to "do something" and try to solve the problem, they come up with a solution like rent control, without thinking of how their "solution" could end up being worse than the original problem (by reducing the quantity and quality of housing supplied by the market). Rather than admitting their mistake and reversing course, they act by introducing another solution into the market ecosystem to try to correct the problems stemming from their first "solution"- like requiring rooms to stay available for rent if they were ever rented out. Then developers are even more reluctant to take the risk of building new housing, or investing in the improvement of current apartments. A few more "solutions", and we are well on our way to snake-eating gorillas terrorizing the countryside.
Against Talent
Innate talent really does determine a huge portion of how good we are at various tasks. But for the most part we are better off ignoring this fact.
There is a large innate component to intelligence, but kids deciding it is cool to succeed in class effortlessly based off of smarts leads to big wastes of potential later on. The problem is that your innate ability, or talent, is unchangeable by definition. But the amount and type of effort you spend on something is under your control.
I've been thinking that if I want to become excellent at ultimate Frisbee, it would have to be as a handler rather than a cutter, because cutters can benefit enormously from the innate talent of height and high sprint speed*. But of course, in addition the innate components, a huge amount of being a good cutter is about deliberate practice. In fact, this dominates to such an extent that some of the very best deep threats have no height advantage at all. My wife can beat people deep all day, despite being 5 inches shorter than me and a bit slower. In the NFL, we have the examples of 5'6'' wide receivers like Wes Welker becoming stars. When I say I can't be a great cutter because I lack the height and sprint speed, it is just an excuse for my current mediocrity- one that holds me back from putting in the effort necessary to get better.
I just attended the American Economic Association's conference on teaching. I have thought that I will never be a truly great teacher because I lack natural charisma and extroversion. But two people who seem to be truly great teachers, Dirk Mateer and Kenneth Elzinga, insisted at the conference that they are naturally introverted nerds too, and that they got to be as good as they are through practice and a constant focus on how they can become better. Elzinga said that his college speech professor told him to provide updates on how close he was to the end of the talk, "in order to give hope to the audience"; and that no one else received the same advice, implying he was the worst in the class. But despite a complete lack of natural speaking talent, he became a great teacher through outworking and out-thinking other professors. My favorite example of something no one else would think of, or put in the effort to do if they did think of it, is that he writes a personal letter to every student who fails his class- in his intro to economics classes of 1000 students. The fact that you lack talent- or have lots of talent- should not be used as an excuse for failing to put in the hard work and hard thinking needed to become the best you can be.
*(you can infer that sprint speed probably has a huge genetic component by the fact that of the 76 people who have ever run the 100m in less than 10 seconds, 72 were of West African descent)
When More Taxes Mean Less Government
I am writing this while sitting in the DMV. The Department of Motor Vehicles is often used as an example of how government provides services poorly relative to the private sector. This example is used for a good reason- I would never put up with these sort of wait times if I weren't legally required to "buy" their products, and in the private sector competition means that multi-hour waits are an extreme exception rather than the norm.
But I have yet to see people recognize that the DMV is a great example of how a single-minded obsession with cutting taxes is not the best way to shrink government. Suppose that we cut the DMV budget in half, and cut taxes accordingly. Most people would say we had just successfully shrunk the government. It would be true that the government was taking fewer literal dollars from people, and spending less on its own employees. But government didn't really shrink- it merely changed the way it is extracting resources from the population. Instead of paying more dollars in taxes, people will spend more time in lines at the DMV- a terrible fate. The value of people's lost time could easily exceed the tax savings.
The same idea applies to many regulations. When we went from a draft to an all-volunteer army, government spending went up, but the true size and coercive power of the government went down. We could probably avoid the distortions of the minimum wage if conservatives would embrace wage subsidies, but wage subsidies are clear examples of government spending, while the minimum wage is a hidden tax on employers. Dollars taxed and dollars spent is not a perfect measure of the size and scope of government- in fact, sometimes more taxes and spending can shrink the true size of government.
Of course, there can be other ways to shrink government too. Even better than throwing more money at the DMV so they can hire more employees would be to change the incentives of current employees. Imagine that the manager of a DMV ran a real risk of getting fired when the lines got long, and had the chance to get a bonus when wait times decreased. Private sector-style incentives could lead to private sector-style efficiency. Ideally we can do smarter government, rather than increasing spending. But maybe sometimes, smarter government means more spending, and more spending means a smaller government footprint overall.
Why Academics Are Depressed
Depressed PhD students are in the news again with two articles in the Guardian.
Depression among PhD students is no big mystery; they spend their 20's beating their head against tough problems for ramen wages with the threat of expulsion constantly hanging over them. What is more surprising is that the problem continues once grad school is over.
On the face of it, professors have the sort of jobs no one should complain about. We have no real bosses. We get paid to talk and write about what we are interested in. We are teachers who only have to be in a classroom for 2.5-10 hours a week, 30 weeks a year. We have good pay and, after tenure, unparalleled job security.
But while the job really is objectively great, and I am annoyed every time I hear academics complain about it, I do see why it can lead to depression.
First of all, independence is a double-edged sword. Many of us were drawn to academia by the idea that we would have no boss, could choose our own projects, and weren't even required to work closely with any coworkers. But if one side of a coin is independence, the other is isolation. Academics can do all of their research behind a closed door in their office, or at home, without talking to anyone else. Even teaching can mean talking at students the whole time rather than talking with them.
But I think the biggest problem is that academia makes us compare ourselves to the very best people in our field, and leaves us little room for self-delusion about how we are doing in that competition.
In most jobs, you might not think of yourself as in competition against anyone at all. If you do compare your performance to others, it is probably to others at your own company. It is easy enough to convince yourself that you are the best in your organization, or at least that you are above average. Only a few jobs like sales will have publicly shared, objective measures that can prove to you that you are below average at your job.
The biggest part of the job for most academics is research, and the biggest measures of research are published articles and citations thereof. Research is a national, or even international, game. As a researcher trying to publish articles and get them cited, you are in direct competition with the best and brightest all over the world. It is not enough to be the best in your department, or even the best in your state. The top journals publish only a few hundred articles a year, in a profession with tens of thousands of people.
Most journals have a 80-95% rejection rate. We are regularly told that our work is not good enough- sometimes in excruciating detail, with several pages of referee reports explaining problems with your paper, and sometimes with no explanation at all. Even many of the best articles by the best academics get rejected. This constant negative reinforcement is wearing, and keeps our opinion of ourselves from getting too high. There is a lot of evidence that most people are overconfident about their abilities in general; but depressed people seem to be the one exception, the people who know exactly how good they are. It is not clear how much this is depression-inducing brain chemistry reducing overconfidence versus people with realistic self-assessment becoming more depressed, but the later could explain exactly why academics are depressed.


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