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Pension funds have a different time horizon / cash flow needs than individual investors (namely, they need to meet their liabilities every month) and so are going to have a more co…

>You can't evaluate how good of a writer someone is unless you already know what they are trying to explain. I object to this premise. Trivial counterexample: Is it impossible to e…

Tehanu is my favorite in the series; I'm sorry you feel that way! > And Ged kills a guy (which he didn't in the first three books) and gets to have sex right after, pretty explicit…

Would you mind quoting a source?

You might be a non-native speaker, but the title is trying to say his works evoke a darker America rather than that being a work he's written.

Yes but the only way repeated cooperation can be maintained is if players can “punish” defectors by also defecting for a certain # of turns (thus making the PV of breaking ranks an…

However, in Montaigne's essays he often doesn't have a clear thesis at the beginning of the essay. You are reading his (magisterial) thinking transcribed onto the page. The OP gest…

Charitably, I think what OP was getting at is that there was no pressure to arrest / prosecute Shkreli quickly because his actions hadn’t in actuality physically or monetarily harm…

> A high % of the people in your company primarily care about vision, goals, and priorities. To them, that is a strategy. Would be nice if the author defined what he thinks “strate…

You got me—funny thing is I took a couple analysis courses in school so I should have been more careful making such a strong statement.

Essays by Montaigne. The best way I can describe Montaigne is it’s like talking to a brilliant, compassionate best friend.

AFAIK "standard distribution" is not a defined mathematical term; usually it's shorthand for standard normal distribution. Can't comment on intelligence distributions.

Any symmetrical distribution will have the mean equal the median.

>am I using that reference right? Looks right to me! Although interestingly it’s unclear which book / Book you’re referring to, as the expression comes from Exodus 2:22: “And she b…

Literally that’s the point of the article.

Truly those squirrels were blessed.

I did some work at a utility company a few years back where I had access to a database of every historical outage across the system along with such info as the diagnosed cause. Tho…

That’s a good point. I was imagining some sort of anonymized records database—turns out you can look up specific names which I agree yields some undesirable outcomes.

Invasive to whom ? I'm certainly not going to be feeling outraged by medical records disclosure when I'm dead. Do with me what you will when I'm gone--I care more about my experien…

“We are I know not how double within ourselves, so that we do not believe what we believe, and we cannot rid ourselves of what we condemn.” -Montaigne

Agreed. Playing through Elden Ring made it clear to me how impressive Breath of the Wild was in retrospect. Even without any meaningful awards (or because of?) the exploration in B…

Yes I do mean exactly that. It's entirely possible for both these things to be true: - Everyone believes that if they and everyone else had a 32 hour work week, they'd be happier -…

Seems like we're mixing up couple things here--(a) the level to which a government represents the people and (b) the powers that a government should have. It's easy to lose sight o…

Eh whether government should have the right to do this takes a backseat to the fact that the government is the only way we can do this. The government is the only coordinating mech…