{"id":181121,"date":"2016-09-24T04:53:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-24T09:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/09\/24\/linkage-269\/"},"modified":"2016-09-24T04:53:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-24T09:53:00","slug":"linkage-269","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/09\/24\/linkage-269\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-vietnam-trade-tpp-idUSKCN11M0YG\">Blow for Obama&#8217;s TPP as Vietnam parliament defers ratification<\/a> (<i>Reuters<\/i>) Good<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@nntaleb\/the-intellectual-yet-idiot-13211e2d0577\">The Intellectual Yet Idiot<\/a> (<i>Medium<\/i>) A description of the people who have the skills to get into elite schools, but not for much else.&nbsp; Money quote, &#8220;The IYI pathologizes others for doing things he doesn\u2019t understand without ever realizing it is his understanding that may be limited.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2016\/09\/got-acne-and-money-heres-a-possibly-effective-zit-cream-thats-now-10k\/\">Pharma company boosts the price of an old acne cream 3,900%<\/a> (<i>Ars Technica<\/i>) To almost $10,000.00 a tube.&nbsp; Yikes!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2016\/09\/guess-much-anti-lgbtq-law-costing-north-carolina\">Guess How Much That Anti-LGBTQ Law Is Costing North Carolina<\/a> (<i>WIRED<\/i>) About $400 million so far.  Bigots made to pay for their bigotry.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2016\/09\/21\/free-trade-lowers-prices-bu.html\">Free trade lowers prices &#8212; but not on things poor people need (and it pushes up housing prices)<\/a> (<i>Boing Boing<\/i>) Free trade deals screwing the bottom \u00be of the populace is a feature, not a bug.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Philomwna Cunk explains time.  (Devastating funny satire)<br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NvpbW7JRu0Q?rel=0\" width=\"500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blow for Obama&#8217;s TPP as Vietnam parliament defers ratification (Reuters) Good The Intellectual Yet Idiot (Medium) A description of the people who have the skills to get into elite schools, but not for much else.&nbsp; Money quote, &#8220;The IYI pathologizes others for doing things he doesn\u2019t understand without ever realizing it is his understanding that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[806],"class_list":["post-181121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}