Tuesday assorted links

1. How much will the demand for dilithium crystals go up?  And is there a free lunch after all?  (Isn’t the universe as a whole a large free lunch?)  Possibly speculative.

2. The new Jeff Sachs paper on robots.  And Moore’s Law at fifty.  Are routine jobs disappearing? (yes)

3. If a person buys insurance against small losses, is there a way to make lemonade from that lemon?

4. How universal is the left-right political spectrum?

5. New job opportunity: economist at LinkedIn.

6. The case for composting.  Dementia and sexual consent.

7. And how is Spain doing these days?

8. David Brooks on cop-cams.