Sorry we took such a long break. Tom was moving. Roger was at CES. And we had to think about outsourcing. Also why stagnation without inflation is not all bad.
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East Meets West 302 – What to eat?
Moving, getting rid of things, gout, medicine, and eating right.
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East Meets West 301 – Hardship: a ship made out of concrete
Roger’s got a bum foot. Do unions get a bum rap? How important is money?
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East Meets West 300 – Inside my navel
We review the election, how choosing your news outlets can have bad effects, how math became a partisan issue.
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East Meets West 299 – Future perfect
Roger fixes his audio, Government does some things well, PSAs done right and wrong, How film and TV predicts the future, also Disney bought Lucasfilm.
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East Meets West 298 – Serial time
Roger parties does a horrible job of promoting an awesome comic. We recall MathNet, what you watch when you’re young, do standards of violence and sexuality in entertainment go in cycles? All that and more. Is a slow recovery better than boom and bust?
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East Meets West 297 – Migrate!
Why people feel powerless. Are we better off in tribes than we are now? Was Hobbes right? What would be the best way to be governed? Does one system work for everyone? What replaces nation-states? Migratory patterns of humans. What should immigration policy be like?
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East Meets West 296 – Is the Republic lost?
Roger and Tom review the US presidential debate and Tom shares his thoughts on the first half of Republic, Lost by Lawrence Lessig.
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East Meets West 295 – Greasy sickness
Roger relates his water heater problems. We talk about the weather but it’s really interesting. Voting with your cups at 7-11. Our love/hate relationship with malls. Roger’s dietary issues.
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East Meets West 294 – TL;DL
We had a great show but then Tom didn’t press record. So here’s a summary of what we talked about.
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