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> you quickly run out of blood to write in and start writing in "well that could've been worse if the starts had aligned, let's write a rule about it". I'm also convinced this is a…

There was an article on Bloomberg or WSJ that said the Director in the acquisition had a Teams chat where she said "sometimes you don't need to do due diligence at all" lol

> "we've implemented all best practices, contracted out the hard parts to world-renowned experts, and had third party audits to verify that - there was nothing more we could do, th…

Vegas and prediction markets consistently had Trump as the favorites. Polling companies are in the business of media deals and government contracts. They will develop methodology a…

This is what it feels like -- board is filled with academics concerned about AI security.

Almost more of a "takeover" by the board after it's successful lol

If any level of government funds your institution you should have to releases the data. The code I write is not my code, it's the banks.

The article is leaving out the fact that the $10k threshold is not at the discretion of the bank. It comes directly from the Bank Secrecy Act ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_S…

It's much more of a financial intelligence collection operation. The intelligence community has access to information about every transaction with greater than $10k (lower threshol…

I think the answer is simpler: people care about their careers and their family first. Think, "If the data says something that gets in the way of my career well I don't care about …

I mean, the failure of a lot of experiments to replicate is extraordinarily well documented... Not to mention the corollaries from the Wikipedia article ( https://en.wikipedia.org/…

The primary problems arise from (1) mass education and (2) cheating. Project-based learning can't be managed with 40:1 student teacher ratios. The best learning has always come fro…

The field of study of occupation licensing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupational_licensing It's absurd to think someone needs to take a $1k 'Philosophy of Mathematics' class …

> In South Dakota and a number of states in the south and rural districts, yes it is another story, and it is bad. I suspect this is because teaching is arguably the most stable jo…

Half the reason to be a teacher is because half the job is having fun. Most curricula is set in stone and requirements are nationally standardized (US and Asia). You more or less g…

I don't have a BS in Education (BA in Philosophy), which means you have to go through their M. Ed. program with licensure. You must take Educational Theory/Pedagogy core courses al…

> 1. For as much as we spend on education, teachers seem to be grossly underpaid - to be getting robbed of their share of the budget. Where does that money go? Counterpoint: teache…

Federal government literally spends over $1T on healthcare for the elderly. The healthcare issues in the country have never been about the old.

> The other irony is that likely she does it for exactly the same reasons as why science media is often bad: economics. Can we all stop blaming 'economics'. Economics says people a…

For the record, the evidence of 'widespread' fraud is extremely weak: See Antoinette Schoar's (MIT) work: https://www.nber.org/papers/w20848 It makes for a good news story that reg…

> we printed money and it helped. I mean, did it? What evidence do you have for this claim? Vaccines absolutely helped. But now everyone's wages are going down -- it was basically …

They are signaling. Push came to shove and the unfortunate reality is that Ukraine isn't that important to most countries and the risk of a greater war is worse. The lesson here is…

American Medical Association (and other medical/pharma/health workers associations) > IBM

> Researchers are incentivized to write papers that seem impressive (and intimidating) rather than clear and intuitive. Ah, a fellow economist lol. Lack of clarity is a strategic a…

Bingo -- they struggle through their 20s until they realize they need to pick a practical career in their early 30s.