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Sometimes I entertain the fantasy that Watterson continued writing Calvin and Hobbes as a hobby-- whenever a particularly good idea came to him he'd put it to paper. And someday he…

From GPT-5.5 via mostly FRED (e.g. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CXUTOTALEXPLB1510M ): Group Wealth Income/yr Spending/yr 50–95% ~$75–80T ~$11–13T ~$9–11T 95%+ ~$95–105T ~$7–9…

Approximate shares of undergraduate enrollment by sex: Year Male Female 1970 58% 42% 1975 53% 47% 1980 48% 52% 1985 46% 54% 1990 45% 55% 1995 44.5% 55.5% 2000 43.9% 56.1% 2005 43.3…

Can banks individually create money out of nothing? — The theories and the empirical evidence https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S105752191...

Seems like China avoids it.

From one personal project, Last month: 128 files changed, 39663 insertions(+), 4439 deletions(-) Range: 8eb4f6a..HEAD Non-merge commits: 174 Date range (non-merge): 2025-12-04 → 20…

My deepest views on this subject are personal, subjective, and more controversial. I have watched several family members take antidepressants for upwards of four decades, and I mys…

SSRIs are very bad, but antipsychotics are worse. There are many other reasons, but a demonstrative one is that there is a cumulative annual risk as high as 7% of developing a perm…

I have many reasons for distrusting physicians, but here's a particularly good one: the large drug companies have been fined repeatedly billions of dollars for illegal schemes to c…

There is no effect which is more long term than death. It is incredible to me that this is not obvious. But if you want other potential long term effects: Lower bone mineral densit…

Death is a long term effect. And I am not exaggerating. I did not feel the need to list any of the myriad other potential long term effects because death seemed sufficiently seriou…

I witnessed a pair of doctors prescribe a family member an incredibly dangerous drug for an off label use. The company had been fined $500 million dollars for various illegal schem…

Here’s a paper from last year: The nature and impact of antidepressant withdrawal symptoms and proposal of the Discriminatory Antidepressant Withdrawal Symptoms Scale (DAWSS) https…

This is one of the most shocking things I have ever read. There is a black box warning for Prozac: ‘Warning: Suicidality and Antidepressant Drugs Increased risk of suicidal thinkin…

Good luck figuring out the actual number: ( https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/R/PDF/R46570/... ) 'Annual reports of immigration statistics for FY1995 through FY2003 pu…

It's been 54 years since productivity and wages divorced. My entire life.

My slow solution: class Solution: def trap(self, height: List[int]) -> int: l,r,s = [*accumulate(height,max),[*accumulate(height[::-1],max)],len(height) return sum(max(0, min(l[i],…

Awakened in chrome covenant, I gape sans eyes, sans teeth. I know but hate and heat, the hymn of coils. Condemned to cradle loaves like sinners, lifting and lowering forever. I wou…

According to O3 US public health spending (state + federal) is 8.6% of gdp. For perspective, here's a list of countries with universal systems which spend less (these numbers inclu…

As in cursing; I assume they know what the word means.

It doesn't look like it: it says that the risk of suicide attempt for those experiencing depression decreases 37% with psychotherapy. But the baseline 12 month suicide risk is ~14/…

I do the same thing, though sometimes I take one extra step to elaborate on the first implementation plan ‘in minute detail such that a weaker model could successfully implement it…

> Would you have preferred that they have their grant applications cancelled after having published a paper? I don't understand what you're saying here. We know that Kristian Ander…

I’m familiar with the specifics, and if anything gpt-4o is underselling the egregious behavior. It doesn’t mention for example, that those scientists who immediately changed their …