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Because if that anecdote is true, Morgenbesser is clearly insane. Drill down on your intuition about why he's insane and you arrive at "he's violating IIA".

The 'else' after the 'if' is unnecessary, but so what? We're not running out of letters. IMO including an "else" makes it clearer.

huh? great-grandparent said nothing about square roots

Which is itself a special case of the rule for the difference of two nth powers...

> You only take a job in business operations if you aren’t smart enough to be an engineer (or designer, or product manager, or…) The article claims that this is false. But in fact,…

You seem to be implying that we should focus on reducing demand. That could be true, but "X implies Y" does not necessarily imply that the best way of eliminating Y is to eliminate…

So politicians are in a conspiracy to not stop problems? Sounds unlikely to me, I think it's more like: * Many politicians, like most people, are idiots. Partly because many voters…

The article uses misleading numbers. Sure, that 2% bonus is worth $60k if you compound it over 40 years. But that number is almost irrelevant . What's relevant is the opportunity c…