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Re: Jeffrey Epstein and MIT: FAQs

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Post by kiliantics » Tue, Jan 14, 2020, 4:18 PM UTC

mratsim wrote: post #300

cotelletta wrote: post #293

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They are academics, so likely, no. Notoriously bad at actually accomplishing something with real world constraints, an actual timeline, and customer requirements.

While I have a lot of critics for Academia in particular regarding code publication or reproducibility or the chase for the next conference paper, this is completely uncalled for. Their real world constraint is publish or perish, and they do have a timeline: the next conference. And their requirements does not include usability and maintenance. Also writing a good paper is a long endeavor, often frustrating, sometime…

Yeah but all of that actual work is typically done by grad students and then professors just put their name on the top of it. (Even the grant proposals are often written by grad students.)

Re: Jeffrey Epstein and MIT: FAQs

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Post by smsm42 » Wed, Jan 15, 2020, 12:36 AM UTC

ZeroGravitas wrote: post #297

smsm42 wrote: post #291

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One day, in your setup, is 86bn (plus change). By Wikipedia data, the richest person is Jeff Bezos with 113bn. So who are the two-day-ers? Poorest of them must have almost 173bn, who are those?

Putin and Gaddafi (before his death) have both been estimated to have 200 Billion in wealth.

I think it's impossible to properly evaluate Putin's assets as they are not economical property in classical sense of the word. If Putin loses his power, his assets could very well be $0. If he doesn't, he probably could control a lot more than he nominally owns, and a lot of stuff he controls is owned by all kinds of figureheads. So we'd have to exclude autocrats and such from the equation - what they have isn't really what we mean as property, at least in Western world.

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Post by michaelmrose » Thu, Jan 16, 2020, 1:21 AM UTC

jrs235 wrote: post #303

michaelmrose wrote: post #280

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It just came out where precisely that comeys daughter erased the tapes?

"some people are saying"

Some people are saying that the safest place to deposit your paycheck is into my account! Great returns guaranteed. Which is to say that I will return to an island getaway and it will be great... for me.