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While I agree with you that stupid should hurt, I think one of the reasons the situation is so bad is that a lot of the stupid decisions haven't been hurting the people who make th…

Medical costs are insane, even with insurance. My wife had a serious illness and our out of pocket expenses were around $300K over the course of 3-4 years. That doesn't count the l…

I don't think that Mike Meru has anything to complain about. Professional schools have been this way for a long time --- you borrow a lot of money to go and then make a good salary…

This is what I thought, too. I'm glad I'm not the only one. Maybe the nanny is including some damaging information in the lawsuit, but not the most damaging information. She puts i…

What particularly strikes me about this story is the highly selective concern. What about all the lobbying done by Israel and Saudi Arabia?

Technically, the Ivy League refers to an athletic conference. All of its 8 member institutions on the East Coast. Stanford is in the PAC-12 conference if I recall correctly.

Sadly, your advisor's attitude is common. The mathematics literature seems to be particularly effected. There is incredible opposition to inserting a statement which isn't perfectl…

Aren't self driving cars good for Uber? My understanding is that Uber's plan in the event that self driving cars become practical is to have a fleet of them which can be summoned b…

I am a big fan of Hoffman and Kunze. I also think many would benefit from reading a book on ordinary differential equations after they read a linear algebra textbook. Much of the e…

I couldn't agree more. I think a large part of the problem is the application of trends which make sense in large houses (and houses tend to be pretty big in much of the US) to sma…

Hear, hear. I would add one thing: make sure that you don't advance claims without evidence (this goes for all scientific enterprises, not just writing reviews). Just because your …

I understand perfectly. This is precisely what was (and is still to an extent) said of Jews.

It seems that many posters here believe that it is okay to discriminate against white men because they enjoy "white privilege," whatever that is. There are those who believe that i…

It seems that a large number of posters believe that discriminating against white men is okay because they enjoy "white privilege", whatever that is. Either you believe it is okay …