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Citation sorely needed. What’s the name of that opportunity fund?

It’s about who owned the land in 2017 and who was governor. Some states were less corrupt than others, but as a general rule OZs were and are mostly political grift with a few legi…

Governors. Many tracts were selected as political favors to donors to developers who already owned significant acreage in the OZ.

In many states OZs were selected as political handouts and were placed in areas where development was already planned. The characterization that they lifted up poor regions is pure…

A two earner household with a cop and a nurse benefited from SALT. The average beneficiary of opportunity zones is generationally wealthy. A pair of tech workers pulling down 7 fig…

It adds insult to injury that a billionaire real estate mogul made EXACTLY this argument when selling his tax policy and business conduct (I’m just being a good businessman, and I’…

> Anyone can read the source code, or (more accessibly) the docs and get a pretty good understanding of how it works. I really hope this argument is made in court.

> it's hard to imagine most US presidents deriving joy from music They're people, not gods. People like music.

This was a fairer take when there weren't elected officials and sports stars hyping crypto.

It's not 2008 or even 2013. You can get crypto at a coin counting kiosk in any grocery store in middle America. The psychology driving crypto for the last half decade or so is the …

>>> UST loses peg >> There's a certain delight [1] in watching increased market volatility exposing how understanding merkle trees and consensus protocols doesn't make you an exper…

> This seems to be mostly false, in the sense that many schools run huge class sizes for many core courses (cough couch Berkely) and in practice non-TA instruction Berkeley is not …

> so yes some problems are best solved by government, but innovation isnt one of them. 1. I've worked in gov labs, industry labs, and academic labs. Mostly industry labs. People an…

This is exactly right. In huge swaths of the US, your local county's Mosquito Control department is probably a small number of full timers (maybe one or even zero), some budget for…

> Professors command high salaries I guess it depends on what you mean by "high". At most institutions, faculty will make $50K-$60K starting, max out at $100K, and often do not hav…

Have you ever managed an intern? Inexperienced labor often has negative value-add. > Make the business students hash out contracts with vendors A second semester senior without a j…

The vast majority of Christian Church-affiliated colleges in the USA are either catholic (Jesuit in particular) or Mainline. In both of those cases, the denominational ties do not …

I am from Missouri and still provide a lot of advice to first gen college folks in that region. I don't know anything about Berea, but I cannot recommend College of the Ozarks. I c…

I'm a proponent of affordable open access. I think that work produced using even a penny of federal grant money should only be published in open access venues where publication fee…

> the privilege is being able to get a salary without caring about his activity that adds the most value for society... working most of your time documenting why you should get a p…

"First, they don't" is the top-most answer. Also, the multiple is closer to 10x for strong faculty candidates if we're talking about teaching-focused roles. A lower-tier college/un…

> paper mill incentives In the USA, publishing a large number of low-quality papers is at best unhelpful for getting grants. It's probably (very!) harmful. > funding commitees will…

1. At least in CS, the role of a PhD is typically different. There are many groups in industry where entire orgs up to SVP are PhDs, and those groups are growing quickly. Hell, con…

First, they don't. There's a HUGE CS faculty shortage. CS faculty positions outside of R1 are insanely hard to fill and the average quality of faculty tends to be quite low. Some l…

That's just another popularity contest with all of the exact same perverse incentives. How do you think people get on conference committees / journal boards? We should stop worryin…