Jul 15, 2015
+++ATD, or Engineers, in SPACE!
Like a boss, right as the DSN showed a downlink from New Horizons, I tweeted, Signal from New Horizons reads, "+++ATD" plutoflyby — James P. Howard, II (@howardjp) July 15, 2015 In…
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Jul 13, 2015
Where is New Horizons Going?
When we saw the picture above, I let Chase know that when I was his age (5), Pluto was still a planet, but it was just a far away and lonely dot.…
Jul 1, 2015
Georgia Neese Clark for the $20
Jack Lew, Secretary of the Treasury, announced a couple of weeks ago that the ten dollar bill would be redesigned by 2020 and would feature a woman, instead of Alexander Hamilton. For…
Jun 30, 2015
Valacer's Article on the NFIP
It's not groundbreaking, but Jeffrey Valacer has a new article in the Pace Law Review that provides a solid legal history of the National Flood Insurance Program. It's not paywalled. Image by:…
Jun 29, 2015
Beware of Zombie Agencies
According to this Politico article, House Financial Services Chairman Jeb Hensarling has released a statement saying the Ex-Im Bank windup is expected to take between 12 and 18 years. This is because…
Jun 23, 2015
Don't Let the Ex-Im Bank Expire
From my latest piece in The Conversation, why we should not let the charter for the Export-Import Bank of the United States Expire: Almost 90% of its loans support small businesses, which…
Jun 23, 2015
CBO's Analysis of Ex-Im Bank
I just read the CBO report applying fair value accounting to the Export-Import Bank of the United States. The numbers are interesting. It's essentially a benefit-cost analysis, but it doesn't work. But…
Jun 22, 2015
Take It Down, Amazon
John Price writes here, in the wake of Charleston, that the Confederate flag is a flag of treason and terrorism, not heritage.[^flagnote] It is no different from the ISIS flag. It represents…
Jun 21, 2015
I'm Going to MathFest...
This August, I will be speaking about my Virtual Bumblebees. Here's the abstract: Based on Langton's Ant, this talk briefly describes a simple simulation environment for quasisocial behavior. The world is a…
Jun 20, 2015
So I'm Going to Mars...
...Society's 18th Annual Convention this August. I will be speaking about governance in space. Here's the abstract: Extended human space exploration requires governance structure that does not yet exist. While the Moon…
Jun 18, 2015
Don't Kill the Mac
The Wall Street Journal has an editorial that Apple should drop the Macintosh product line and focus on portable consumer electronics, the iPhone and its spawn. Since the WSJ has a crappy…