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> middle-man firm who are creating the security and trying to unload it. If the investment bank only facilitates the transaction, then the key incentive that could tilt the transac…

I think that's the intent, but it seems to only have incentivized discovering another proxy for race. For example, I recently watched an infosec talk 'hacking your credit score.'[0…

I agree. He interviews a lot of fascinating people with highly-specialized backgrounds. To research their work and understand it enough to have great conversational flow and remain…

The name was chosen very carefully for a specific purpose, nothing to do with proclaiming moral high-ground. Eric explains the various meanings in a video he uploaded to his channe…

He doesn't consider himself a physicist either.[1] [1] https://youtu.be/2wq9x2QcZN0?t=2025 At 33:45 of the podcast after he gives the kinetic-potential energy analogy to describe h…

I'm very much like you, and I think startups/small companies with a flat management structure (i.e. level obfuscation as another commenter phrased it) or where most managers have e…

There's a fascinating youtube channel called X-Pilot that does videos on flight incidents/disasters. The creator gathers a lot of really interesting info and does a brief step by s…

True, which is why looking at so generally makes it seem paradoxical. I can't recall where it read it, but I think it's the result of some phagocytic, either auto- (i.e. lysosomes,…

I'm sure they are, so they a pass those lovely negative externalities onto the customer because they know it's in demand and only they provide that service. If only they had a comp…

Agreed. I recently heard in a talk an example of NLP being used to help rank sellers by analyzing messages between buyers and sellers, before and after transactions. Another exampl…

MIT & Harvard, NCBI says Research Support, US Gov't, P.H.S. (I believe that stands for public health services, based on googling US Gov't PHS). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/…

Very interesting. I was able to find the patent, but not the whole paper. Seems to suffice as a substitute. https://patents.google.com/patent/US4181128

The criteria for adaptive evolution, in the classical Darwinian sense, are: 1). Reproduction. 2). Variation between the products of reproduction. 3). Heritability between those var…