Jamie Hall

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Get good at Git

August 17, 2019August 17, 2019

How do you actually use Git, in practice?

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The Conduct of Monetary Policy

April 29, 2019August 18, 2019

Some strong opinions on administrative orders

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The canal to nowhere

March 9, 2019August 18, 2019

Could we be repeating the mistakes of the Ming Dynasty? Yes! (No.) Maybe?

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When MMT and a Job Guarantee were tried before, they didn’t work

March 7, 2019August 18, 2019

Those who forget the mistakes of the past are… something something.

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The epistemology of Tiny Train World

February 25, 2019January 24, 2020

When I was learning philosophy in the late 1990s, it seemed very important to figure out the limits of tolerance […]

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The Armchair Scriptdoctor’s Library

February 21, 2019January 24, 2020

Netflix has changed the incentives for watching bad films. With a monthly flat fee, they encourage you to take a […]

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The Deal of the Art

February 20, 2019

Inside the enormous exhibition hall containing the annual Basel art fair, at the Victoria Miro Gallery booth, a young couple […]

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Pastry, stress, and software engineering

February 11, 2019

At the halfway point of preparing pastry or cake for the oven, it always looks like a bowl of shit. […]

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We buy cheap books

February 10, 2019September 27, 2019

The many sides to retail productivity growth

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Matthew Yglesias’s knee and the future of human civilisation

February 8, 2019August 27, 2019

A doctor’s appointment illustrates what’s gone wrong with technology, and how we might fix it.

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