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Do we need scare quotes around "censorship" when reddit is telling them particular names are unmentionable in any context?

Anyone who believes that "master" is some kind of slur and takes the opportunity to take offense over it is not someone you want causing problems in your organization.

Have you heard of "cowboys"?

Not true. There is a reason why people sort products by popularity. This is just a variation.

People interested in this approach should compare Rich Hickey's Datomic.

Because Asians broadly speaking do not depend on favors from the ruling elite for their position, thus they are politically unreliable (although currently mostly aligned with them)…

Diversity substantively means fewer whites and asians. The goal is a 100% diverse school system.

Please add this to the column of "things evil right wing twitter anons were investigating years beforehand", so you can update your estimates of their future credibility.

MMT does not depend on or imply the relation between debt and inflation, it addresses the metaphysics of "government debt" as such. In fact it suggests you should not "inflate away…

20% of all dollars were created in 2020. The only thing preventing that from translating into the broader price level is that money velocity collapsed due to the Covid shutdowns. I…

Those emails are textbook schizophrenia.

"Securities" is a pretty well understood term. Mutual funds, the most legible way to get an estimate of the holding cost of securities (since they are required to transact at net a…

BTC trivially avoids, eg, chargebacks. It is effectively the only money transmission mechanism that verifiably does do.

Did you know that vanilla financial securities also require upkeep? Approximately 0.5% of the value of all financial assets is burned every year (and potentially an order of magnit…

What's the energy cost of a financial sector that takes a ~3% cut of all retail transactions, puts up physical bank branches to manage money, empowers a federal reserve to manage t…

Even fairly strong correlations break down on restricted ranges of inputs. Eg, if you're hiring between 80-90th percentile candidates (top ones get better offers, lower ones get fi…

That is specious. People remember during the opening days of the Covid fiasco, when "disinformation" encompassed interpretations of publicly available data that were forbidden exac…

How much evidence is there that the "reddit onslaught" actually moved the price, as opposed to them being the stalking horse for more sophisticated actors with more capital exercis…

The important question for any piece of analysis is "would we actually do anything different if this comes out one way or another?"

Simultaenous with pausing buys of GME they were allowing accounts and positions to be opened and margin trades to occur, so it cannot be that they simply needed to limit their capi…

The position of essentially every platform is that you can shut down however you wish to draw a circle (a person, a subforum, a website, a business, a demographic) as long as you c…

He delayed publication for years (in the proverbial desk drawer) while he attempted to develop a positive and politically acceptable spin on the results (self censorship). He is al…

> Data collected by eminent political scientist suggests ethnic diversity, amongst other things, massively lowers social trust > "Wow just wow what a 'racist campaign for the retur…

Unfortunately most research on social capital and mistrust has been desk-drawered or heavily self censored due to the political implications. https://www.chronicle.com/article/robe…

You can consider "hyperinflation" as a consensus that the government is lying about the value of its currency. How does a consensus develop that someone is lying? It's a complex pr…