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Florida, 2020: 63,217 domestic violence arrests The British arrest stats subsume DV harassment cases, and the original Times reporting quoted a police officer stating that they are…

Addressing the hypothetical person you’re describing: car infrastructure may solve some needs, but it is in direct conflict with other needs. Give every adult a guaranteed parking …

The general topic and some specific ways to estimate a correction are described under this term: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequential_analysis

(Maybe I’m reading too much of a narrative into what you wrote, but–) I don’t think it’s causal like that; it doesn’t have to be. In particular, “wealthy, modern urban cores” tend …

AI CoT may work the same extremely flawed way that human introspection does, and that’s fine, the reason we may want to hold them to a higher standard is because someone proposed t…

It does not come about magically from monetary or even fiscal policy. The demand for housing (and other construction) was and is real. People find use for, and like having much spa…

>This makes me think that our formal [definitions] of "intelligence" […] and what we intuitively look out for, are really two different things. Just two? You can name so many more …

“Transparency” as leaks from abuse is very, very different from transparency as a policy of easy access – and neither makes you necessarily better informed. In short, a biased sele…

For one, finance is a macro force multiplier; it can make or break entire other industries. There’s also a bit of selection (global top) and survivorship (plenty of less visible no…

To expand just a bit more, the map is very blurry. Nation states tap into some real and old sentiments, but are not just a translation of those to a modern political language. They…

Mars is on (or above) a wiped out Earth level of difficulty already

Counter: https://www.vox.com/2016/5/9/11502464/gilens-page-oligarchy-... (and it isn’t a left vs right thing, Vox is replying to a whole bunch of coverage from all angles; I’ve mos…

I hope you’ll get a better answer, but a minimal solution is to use snscrape ( https://github.com/JustAnotherArchivist/snscrape ) to download a raw JSON dump of a user timeline. So…

It’s not a closed system or a zero sum game. The average loan has positive expected value in terms of new, real goods and services being created – so it can be accompanied with an …

Yes. If the (overall) nominal money flows decrease but (overall) real economy size stays the same – to the extent that it’s going to change prices for no “real” reason – people and…

Finding new particles and studying astronomical events has a larger nugget of similarity with the psychology modus operandi than you may think. They’re studying rare or unique obje…

Yeah, yet this bonduary traces a fuzzy and surprising route. Lives are on the line in microbiology, yet Bik uncovered thousands of suspect image errors there ( https://en.wikipedia…

This is just not true. In the act that established SPR ( https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/COMPS-845/uslm/COMPS-845... ) there’s much about supply, little about national security…

Trimmed inflation measures exist, but this one is not it. They’re not used in a sneaky way, they’re clearly named “trimmed CPI”, “trimmed PCE” etc.

Coordination games and public goods games (which arguably model insurance) work best when people don’t adversely self-select, but coordinate around the social optimum (for insuranc…

In general, stock buybacks aren’t socially undesirable, but in this case would be more troubling I guess as they signal the company feels its R&D spending potential was already sat…

Like the idea and execution a lot! Being IANAF, I like to refer people to chapters 4–7 of this lecture from Robert Shiller’s “Financial Markets” Yale course: https://youtu.be/_B_24…

Probably not news to anyone who works with big data™, but I learned, after additional searches, that using (something like) duckdb as a CSV parser makes sense, especially if the al…

No it’s not. See e.g. https://twitter.com/matt_levine/status/1545152093501227009 , https://twitter.com/MorganRicks1/status/1545404990457536512 . In what meaning are you even using …