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>it's that you can't apply statistics to prove this at all If there are not statistical differences, then there are no performance differences. Cheating by definition should imply …

>It only takes using an engine move once or twice to completely demolish a much better opponent in a game. That's not true. Pick an engine, set to a few hundred points above your s…

>You either have evidence or you don't. This quasi economic modeling of chess players is ridiculous Modeling provides the best evidence in all aspects of life (design, science, inv…

>this really weird brute force statistical analysis Care to explain why you call the method "really weird"? Is there a flaw in the statistics that you can correct? Here's [1] his p…

You can look at oil prices when the war started and see the jump. There was no such jump at any announcement of Biden. The evidence is clear and easily checked.

>Pay attention when you get a mortgage. I've done quite a bit of modeling for predictive house pricing and investment questions, so I am very aware of how mortgages, math, and hous…

The article covers that.

>ideally it would be designed to not take you more than say, 8 years to pay off Making minimum payments always increases the length. How do you define your pay off? For the record …

Making the loans shorter will make monthly payments scale up, making mortgages less affordable for people.

>Allow bankruptcy for college loans. Making loans higher interest to handle increased risk, making it even harder for someone to pay for college.

Very few people are going to be able to follow in your path, which is why looking at statistical outcomes is a much better way to analyze features of a choice.

>I live in a country where college is paid by the taxpers, May I ask which country? Whenever I look at education stats for a taxpayer college funded system versus the US, there are…

Yes, it's easy to get an outcome you like by removing context. But go ahead and do minimal work at all your jobs, then report how well that worked for you. Then we can empirically …

With minimal effort expect a minimal career. Don't complain when late in life you have minimal success.

If you even looked at the research, they sample all programs for which there is code to be viewed, and find such bugs. Of course you could show that sampling is an invalid way to g…

Yes, and you replied "Nice excuse. But just wholly untrue." I just provided thousands of examples where it is true. To offset all that evidence can you provide, say, millions of ex…

My other post listed several thousand use after free bugs in hundreds of commercial programs, so your "zero times W is zero" claim is not accurate in practice.

From the literature on bugs, even this specific bug is common far beyond "C and Google code". And, if you really want to restrict to your goalpost moving subset, then go ahead and …

Often the person leaving has not been that good of a contributor due to wanting to leave, while a replacement is new and likely more inclined to work hard. On a big team, people fi…

Are you claiming that use-after-free bugs do not scale with codebase size? If so, please provide evidence, because that would be amazing.

>The mistake is thinking everybody else is in it too Which project of similar size doesn't have bugs? You seem to imply most don't, which is empirically untrue. https://scholar.goo…

>"Scale of your codebase" is a clever excuse, but it doesn't wash. Bugs scale with the size of the codebase, for every entity on earth.

>get rid of any engineer and the minimum impact is 3-6 months code and culture familiarisation On a big project, say 100 devs over 3 years, 6 man months is 1/600th of the work, so …

Deutsch Bank has been hit with $600M for laundering, $7.2B over mortgage assets, $2.5B for interest rate manipulation, among a lot of other fines. These are some pretty astounding …

>The (vast majority of the) Tornado Cash contracts Thousands of little contracts doesn't absolve a financial institution from a few many-billion dollar illegal transfers, especiall…