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It's not basic supply and demand--indeed, most economists are pro immigration. Bryan Caplan went as far as advocating for open border (admittedly he's more libertarian than most). …

Profit margin is the wrong metric in this debate. The person you are replying to is saying that the insurance companies as a whole is a waste, including all the salaries paid to th…

I'd love to learn phonetics, but with written materials like this it feels like learning to ride a bike by reading a book. I'm still at a loss with regards to how to actually make …

I stalked the post's author (your?) LinkedIn and didn't see any background in statistics. How do you know to design this experiment so nicely?

Excellent experimental design and analysis! Is there a way for me to buy you a coffee (or some cash equivalent)? I'd love to incentivize such rigor in online discourse. An obvious …

Buddhism is about recognizing that everything is one, i.e. there's no sky/earth, but just sky-earth as one thing altogether. Of course you don't have to believe it or find it usefu…

Does your son have other alternatives to learn programming and make money other than Roblox? If there are, then it's a great lesson about looking outside of one's immediate circums…

Could you elaborate on how this Hamilton framework is a case of Dependency Inversion (which in my understanding is about removing dependency on low level class and using dependency…

According to the media and from watching my professional circle, it seems that many are indeed changing jobs with significant pay raises--the so-called Great Resignation. I'd like …

A great way is to encourage them to question the rules that they have to follow, including your own. That's something they already do, and most enjoy doing. We just need to guide t…

Facebook, as a business, is primarily interested in making money and would love to avoid all these messy issues regarding what to censor so that it can focus on selling ads. Theref…

Awesome! Could you speak a bit about what you have in mind to incorporate actual experiment data into the algorithm?

This is an accurate summary of the article. However, in my personal experience, it is not an accurate summary of the Bay Area. The startup scene may be truly this toxic, but I thin…

Could you suggest a low cost option for meditation retreat? I'd really like to do one, but the idea of paying $1000 for what's supposed to be a no-frill, minimalist, anti-materiali…

The article you linked says the opposite of what you quote. Right after the quote, the article's authors say that these claims [about Europe being economically interdependent befor…

I read through the top 3 links and would love to hear you elaborate more on how these are counterpoints to the assertion that the Times would not print a story not independently co…

I also interpret the article as the author grieving her mother, whose Koreaness is the most distinguishing feature. Had her mother been unique in her love for a particular music ge…

We go to H Mart mainly for their vegetables too, especially leafy green veggies (so many different kinds of choy!). I think leafy greens tend to go bad faster in general, and that'…

I used to dislike "rich kids." What worked for me is to look inside and ask myself exactly why I don't like them. It turns out that, at least for me, there isn't any valid reason. …

Econometric models typically do not say anything about causality. For example, the coefficients in OLS are just correlation, i.e. one unit increase in X is associated with $\beta$ …

I honestly don't know why it's better to ban denial rather than trying to engage and educate. It's been very confusing to me. Could you please explain?

What are the recommended background readings to best prepare founders for this program? IMO it helps a lot when participants already use the same framework and speak the same langu…

I used to get stressed listening. Now I just re-frame the problem to solve as "making the other person feel better" -- this way I don't feel the urge to offer solutions. As enginee…

Since location and family income are perfectly observable variables, shouldn't we use them directly instead of race?

That's the opposite of my experience and understanding as a fresh PhD. In my field, social science, PhD students 100% own their research agenda. We get paid via a combination of gr…