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Heart disease is grossly overrepresented because the default cause of death is “cardiac arrest”. This is because that the definition of death is heart stoppage in most states. So i…

I’m not defending anything about a lab leak. I’m addressing the previous poster’s question about why there were attacks on Asian Americans and not Russian ones. The lab leak theory…

At the time the US had a president that routinely used race-baiting as a divisive political technique. He admired Vladimir Putin and defended Russian actions, so the Russian people…

Did you watch the hearing? He specifically said that licensing wouldn’t be for the smaller places and didn’t want to impede their progress. The pitfalls of consolidation and regula…

If there are rules and they sometimes have exceptions or inconsistencies, that doesn't mean that there aren't any rules. English is phonetic in that way. Sometimes the phonetics ar…

I find it interesting that some people feel that moving away from cities and towards a more natural lifestyle means moving to a farm or ranch. As Steven Pinker notes in his brillia…

This is an economics problem and this teacher should work with their Econ department to change the rules for course auditing and increase reputational costs to disincentive this be…

Here’s a bigger thought. Imagine a world where serial killers get caught a lot earlier before killing scores of people. The government is not the only enemy.

We were about to be a two Tesla house this year and now there is 0% chance we’ll be that after the latest shenanigans. Although my car is well made, I’m a little embarrassed to dri…

Sad loss. One might wonder how much faster technology’s state of the art would have progressed if we had more people like Fred Brooks working in the field.

It makes versioning not seem so bad by introducing you to hotter hells.

This sounds really patronizing. I would be careful with that phrasing. People who don’t want their problem solved often know the solutions and don’t like the tradeoffs or change th…

or an HBO Max account.

Great question. There is a study on a program in Kenya from a company called GiveDirectly that tries to analyze that very question: https://files.givewell.org/files/DWDA%202009/Int…

Apple. Do not track. Ad impressions plummet. Revenue drops. Hiring stops. That’s why Facebook is trying to get you to stop looking at your phone and strap on an oculus….. there are…

This comes up every few years and it is important to note that the opposite is true. Most unhappy families have drug abuse or interpersonal abuse at play. Most happy families are h…

Society values investment strategies and medical innovations. If society finds out it has been defrauded, then society tries to reclaim its investments and punish the fraudsters.

Allies are dying today. Someone could help save them and you are talking them out of it?

Defending an ally from an enemy is not something the US government punishes people for. If you want to help the people of Ukraine then #standwithukraine.

Nice defenestration reference. Slow clap.

As I learned from a smart trader: the right guess at the wrong time is just as wrong as a wrong guess.

Environments don't create primadonnas. It's a matter of attitude and maturity. Being an expert doesn't make a person insufferable.

You might be a giver looking for another giver to build something bigger together. It isn’t correct that givers only want takers. Think of it like cofounders.

Having the same job title and having the same job performance are two very different things. If one person is grossly outperforming another do you have to write them a new job titl…

Automatic versioning of data and CDC (change data capture) broadcast of data deltas to external systems.