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the reason for the weirdness is that it doesn’t look like a recession in the labor market. Layoffs have been almost exclusively limited to tech, and within tech pre-profit or highl…

Twitter influence is now a not-insignificant leg up in faculty hiring and academic politics. It’s becoming really hard to take academic science seriously.

> and not being able to get much stronger with training Actually, the problem is the opposite. Their muscles get too strong too quickly and then they blow a pulley because their te…

Ashima Shiraishi was arguably the strongest female climber in the world when she was 13, Tommy Caldwell won a climbing competition against some world-class talent at 16, and it's n…

GP said “and out of the way”.

This is only kind of true. If you are asked "why is X true?" and you go on critique the epistemological basis for saying that something of type X could be true or not, you may be g…

> it is force of law that prevents large scale arbitrage of the form in this article. This is actually exactly analogous; many people don't realize that the status quo of "multiple…

I'll give some examples in the most strong-man way possible: by choosing the standard library of a famously verbose language (Java). Here are a few examples, with increasing levels…

> Why is it that software engineers in a few decades have come to the conclusion that proper variable naming is important and abuse of sigils a bad idea but mathematics don't feel …