Substack cometh, and lo it is good. (Pricing)

Open Thread, 8/14/2016

The-Ocean-of-ChurnI just bought my friend Sanjeev Sanyal’s book, The Ocean of Churn: How the Indian Ocean Shaped Human History. Sanjeev is a polymath with varied interests, some of which intersect with my own. A few years back I had the pleasure of having dinner with him and Reihan Salam, and the server kept unapologetically offering drinks one of us had ordered to the wrong person. I don’t think we look that much alike!

The top start-up mecca in America is far from Silicon Valley. It’s cheap to live here, and fun for young brogrammers. Also, not too long a flight from elsewhere. As Mark Krikorian observed on Twitter being a blue bubble in a red state means that Austin can take advantage of low-cost and low-tax public policies, while maintaining a culturally liberal social aesthetic.

Bought Python Essential Reference.

Hubby and Lewontin on Protein Variation in Natural Populations: When Molecular Genetics Came to the Rescue of Population Genetics.

Sausage Party is a surprising mix of high and lowbrow.

Update: If I don’t post your initial comment, posting five additional times won’t result in your comment being posted.

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