Viewing profile — schemester

Nonsense. By 2007 it was already a settled matter. There had been decades of attempts to tease out environmental influences. We’d seen that no amount of education funding, governme…

[flagged]

th asserts “If 500 people submit talks and 394 are men, then ~79% will likely be by men.” I didn’t misunderstand. That is simply nonsense.

[flagged]

The FTC doesn’t have that power.

No, of course not, if your military doesn’t develop tech faster than the competition then you lose.

Why don’t you complain about Facebook and YouTube doing this?

No, political ideology is genetic.

He and Buffett (among many others) have often talked about these misaligned incentives in the past. He is not sharing any novel insight here.

How much more money do engineers or engineering firms make by designing dams that fail and boats that sink?

Banks are a specific situation where employees can get one-sided rewards for increasing exposure to tail risks with other people’s money. It’s to avoid misaligned incentives with d…

Those are powered on when the laptop is on.

East Asia is also depopulating.

You don’t. It’s one choice in the electricity market.

Being homeless is better when there’s less crime.

Derrick Lemond Simmons had a prior conviction for aggregated assault with a deadly weapon in 2001, according to another article (not just an arrest: https://www.azfamily.com/2023/0…

The sets {x+n : n in Z} where x in R are almost entirely sets comprised of only noncomputable elements. We don’t even need AoC to choose an element from each: pick the smallest pos…

If the layout had copyright protection, this would still be fair use.

The school is not remotely elite, that is a fact, and the list of majors it offers is a tell. You think I’m saying the majors list _causes_ it to be elite or not. Or you don’t real…

Explain how this isn’t non-elite. https://colby-sawyer.edu/academics/majors

I don’t know who regulates what, but short-term loans are not securities.

Of course a mutual fund isn’t going to beat the market in each year. It would have to time the market perfectly through what we’ve gone through. That involves placing bets on other…

What shaming? A candidate likely to job-hop is just less valuable.