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I like this idea. It could also make the nba and nfl more racially diverse.

The problem is the assumption of linearity. Things are good now but it seems to me things are getting better at a decelerating rate, and some trends have even started to reverse in…

“ or wild economic gyrations stemming from desperate attempts to stave off said deflation.” Seems certain as it’s already begun and once it has begun there’s nothing stopping it.

I have a similar reaction to a lot of YouTube psychology. So much confirmation bias and other nonsense passing for facts. It takes a lot of caution and care to discuss behavior wit…

But the virus is “all natural”! You can trust Mother Nature more than a bunch of creepy pharma-scientists. Didn’t you see Godzilla?

The soft bigotry of different standards is talked about but rarely is the premise carefully examined. Can there be a single standard? Maybe the problem is expecting a good essay, c…

Security is impossible. As long as there are incentives, nothing will be secure. It’s just a matter of incentive/difficulty. With enough incentive stuxnet or solar winds or omb are…

It’s odd to hear so much focus on America and American politics. We have more liberal drug laws than other non-western countries but the discussion always has a lot of American exc…

We should ask Duck Cheney’s daughter about the diversity of her party, she seems like a poster child for that.

Half America hands it’s brain to one party, the other half to the other party. Many problems stem from this.

“Don’t hate the player, hate the game.” Indeed. It is a scale problem. We have too many producers of research, too few destroyers of research, like Gelman. Show me the incentive an…

I thought I had covid before news of covid even came out. Was googling “novel pneumonia type illnesses” and reading about sequelae. I had had close contact with wuhan travelers in …

Psychology. You can’t know anything and not know something about knowing.

Unless they are Comcast. Then it’s ok to work on a sliding scale.

Because we think we’re better. Thinking to oneself, “I don’t believe in any conspiracy theories, but those other people sure do!” is to be unaware of the human condition. Ideology …

How could one listen to enough Alex Jones to know this? I like the idea of Alex Jones, paranoid style American politics is a tradition and has its uses, but it’s to me a bit like p…

Is Hillary Clinton and CNN a credible source? https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/15/politics/assange-embassy-excl...

“Is this work so valuable for public health that it outshines the risk to public health in doing it?” The people doing this know nothing about security and that’s the real problem.…

Rent control is the norm in our most expensive rental markets.

This differs by gender. A married woman taking time off for domestic/child rearing/continuing education is very common. An adult male, it’s very uncommon unless you’re rich, which …

This is the direct result of giving out too many phds. There’s no signal, only noise. Trust in our academics, rightfully, in rapid decline. Habermas come to pass.

“he tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 before he died.” Buried lede?

I think this is wrong. It’s Bitcoin alone that is the problem. Ransom demands will exist as long as it’s viable money making enterprise. Asking humans to not to be human isn’t usua…

Indeed they change more than their zealous detractors, whose rigid mindsets cannot update priors despite abundant evidence contradicting their sacred beliefs, namely that the pious…

Rich parents are very different. Imagine sending your children off to boarding school! But that’s seen as perfectly normal in rich people culture, and has been for centuries.