schemester

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by schemester 10mo ago
Nonsense. By 2007 it was already a settled matter. There had been decades of attempts to tease out environmental influences. We’d seen that no amount of education funding, government employment, government schools, adoption by white pare
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by schemester 11mo ago
th asserts “If 500 people submit talks and 394 are men, then ~79% will likely be by men.” I didn’t misunderstand. That is simply nonsense.
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by schemester 3y ago
The FTC doesn’t have that power.
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by schemester 3y ago
No, of course not, if your military doesn’t develop tech faster than the competition then you lose.
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by schemester 3y ago
Why don’t you complain about Facebook and YouTube doing this?
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by schemester 3y ago
No, political ideology is genetic.
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by schemester 3y ago
He and Buffett (among many others) have often talked about these misaligned incentives in the past. He is not sharing any novel insight here.
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by schemester 3y ago
How much more money do engineers or engineering firms make by designing dams that fail and boats that sink?
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by schemester 3y ago
Banks are a specific situation where employees can get one-sided rewards for increasing exposure to tail risks with other people’s money. It’s to avoid misaligned incentives with delayed (by years) feedback.
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by schemester 3y ago
Those are powered on when the laptop is on.
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by schemester 4y ago
East Asia is also depopulating.
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by schemester 4y ago
You don’t. It’s one choice in the electricity market.
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by schemester 4y ago
Being homeless is better when there’s less crime.
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by schemester 4y ago
Derrick Lemond Simmons had a prior conviction for aggregated assault with a deadly weapon in 2001, according to another article (not just an arrest: https://www.azfamily.com/2023/02/18/man-accused-killing-cow
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by schemester 4y ago
The sets {x+n : n in Z} where x in R are almost entirely sets comprised of only noncomputable elements. We don’t even need AoC to choose an element from each: pick the smallest positive element (the element in (0,1]). There is nothing spec
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by schemester 4y ago
If the layout had copyright protection, this would still be fair use.
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by schemester 4y ago
The school is not remotely elite, that is a fact, and the list of majors it offers is a tell. You think I’m saying the majors list _causes_ it to be elite or not. Or you don’t really think that.
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by schemester 4y ago
Explain how this isn’t non-elite. https://colby-sawyer.edu/academics/majors
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by schemester 4y ago
I don’t know who regulates what, but short-term loans are not securities.
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by schemester 4y ago
Of course a mutual fund isn’t going to beat the market in each year. It would have to time the market perfectly through what we’ve gone through. That involves placing bets on other people’s opinions of companies instead the company itself
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by schemester 4y ago
What shaming? A candidate likely to job-hop is just less valuable.
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by schemester 4y ago
You are describing a static, failing company’s CEO. If you never overextend, you were too conservative and weren’t making the best decisions.
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by schemester 4y ago
Both are instances of trying to get the best deal, just as employees do when negotiating salary, so there isn’t anything hypocritical there.
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by schemester 4y ago
That blind audition claim is actually pretty weak: https://www.wsj.com/articles/blind-spots-in-the-blind-auditi...
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by schemester 4y ago
Coal and wood are possible. Maybe off-the-grid solar is still allowed.
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by schemester 4y ago
The optimal amount of headline fraud is also non-zero.
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by schemester 4y ago
Hours worked, career selection. In short there is no arbitrage to be found and employers aren’t leaving money on the table.
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by schemester 4y ago
With tetrahedra, at first I was expecting the n dimensional analog of taking a triangle, area n^2/2, plus the half-squares, area n (1/2), for the sum 1+…+n to equal n^2/2+n/2. This would require 4 dimensions for sum of
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by schemester 4y ago
The Harvard/MIT or “HMMT” contest has teams and team rankings, much like the ARML.
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by schemester 4y ago
And Gainesville is the location of University of Florida, not some random 133000 person city.

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