thwayunion

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by thwayunion 3y ago
> I think the parent is saying that ipso facto joining a cult means that they weren't actually 'very smart', only in appearance. If by "intelligent" we mean the conventional thing -- learns new things easily,
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by thwayunion 3y ago
Right? I'd like to see a video. They must've just maintained control of the ball? Or were they actively keeping both goals?
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by thwayunion 3y ago
Meh. I was working on a personal project yesterday to answer some questions I had about how liquidity risk works for money market mutual funds, and to forecast/nowcast liquidity risk and NAV risk for a bunch of funds. Mind you: I don&#
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by thwayunion 3y ago
If so, that's an even stronger reason that the shift toward "the parent is always correct" on the right is extreme and stupid. My parental rights end where the rest of the class's fair allocation of the teacher's
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by thwayunion 3y ago
> I wish democrats would engage in this issue But teacher and admin time isn't free. People with high political media engagement have lost their damn minds and are now offended about everything . Including thousand year old statu
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by thwayunion 3y ago
Common Core is just a set of standards. This is a bit like criticizing the API because one specific implementation of the API is garbage; you may be right, or wrong, but what you're criticizing is not relevant to the API design, at lea
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by thwayunion 3y ago
The article does mention they used a curriculum from Hillsdale College, so I wouldn't be surprised if there's some general creepiness imbued into the course design. That said, I can teach an entire course on statistics without men
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by thwayunion 3y ago
> According to the BNPL industry, fees and interest make up a small portion of their overall revenues. Whether that's wholly accurate is another story. It may also be irrelevant; I'm more interested in their forward-looking f
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by thwayunion 3y ago
> dice? Or coins? The labs were about these things (and cards), and therefore gambling. We had to do purely abstract labs instead. The issue is that probability is hard to teach even with visceral physical examples of sampling from distr
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by thwayunion 3y ago
The issue with "Parental rights are supreme" is that there are tons of parents whose demands will make it impossible for your kid to learn much of anything. In our district, we had to put AP CS on hold because apparently RNGs are
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by thwayunion 3y ago
> Aren't politicians involved whenever the will of the voters is being enacted? What if most parents in MO support what the politicians are doing? What if they called their representatives and asked them to take action against lib
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by thwayunion 3y ago
It applies to PEOPLE of all ages. The law is about public libraries, NOT public school libraries. 100.00% of FY 2022's allocation went to NON-school public libraries.
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by thwayunion 3y ago
There is a clear difference between Hustler and a graphic novel that contains some sexual representations. You are employing an old and tired strategy: latching onto any lewd expression and then dismissing the rest of the work whole cloth a
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by thwayunion 3y ago
Someone will reply to this with a list of news articles purporting to contradict you, and all of those articles will be about controversies surrounding books available in high school or public libraries.
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by thwayunion 3y ago
Then you're okay with the status quo and can ignore the ongoing moral panic about school libraries. The books that people are flipping shit about are not currently and never have been available in elementary school libraries. Also, alm
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by thwayunion 3y ago
>>> If a parent wanted to give this book to their child at an appropriate age, that'd be fine, but just hanging out on a shelf at primary schools with very young kids seems like too much. >> I've read that book
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by thwayunion 3y ago
> Are the politicians pushing for this from rural areas? Predominantly. > Seems like either they are serving their constituents, or they'll be voted out next time? It satisfies an immediate vengeance, but is very "cut of
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by thwayunion 3y ago
The flip-side of urban areas subsidizing rural areas: rural lawmakers threatening to cut funding is something of a nothing burger.
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by thwayunion 3y ago
It's Missouri, so I highly doubt the money is equally distributed among libraries. You can see where aid goes here: https://www.sos.mo.gov/library/development/stateaid/default And then you can look up or
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by thwayunion 3y ago
Huge caveat is that some BNPL services don't require credit checks.
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by thwayunion 3y ago
I can't remember the last time I paid for groceries with anything other than a credit card. Or even saw someone else pay for groceries with plastic, which is hopefully CC or EBT since using debit cards at POS is kind of risky.
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by thwayunion 3y ago
BNPL doesn't make much sense if you have access to typical quality credit lines. The x% cash back on groceries, plus a month of interest on deferred payment, is probably a better deal than the extra duration on the credit line you migh
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by thwayunion 3y ago
The level of sexual activity and number of partners may be lower than people in the early 20s (btw, that's certainly not universally true). But that's only one part of the transmission story. The other part of the story is asymp
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by thwayunion 3y ago
If someone doesn't file a Form 990, they are out for themselves and want to fuck (sorry... extract value from) everyone who isn't a (majority) share holder. Open AI is not the first for-profit philanthropy. It's just another
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by thwayunion 3y ago
It's extremely obvious to anyone who works on real systems. > (after all, we don't even really understand most of the mechanics on either side, human and ai) We don't need mechanistic explanations to observe radical diff
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by thwayunion 3y ago
> I think we already solved that problem by making sure the vast majority of humans never agree about anything. Hah! clever :) I guess the issue is "behaves how the skip manager of the ICs you are tying to automate expects, modul
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by thwayunion 3y ago
Monetary policy says that the most dangerous thing is when inflation expectations become un-moored, which is deeply and fundamentally psychological. If you've lived through that, you probably have a better understanding of the most dan
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by thwayunion 3y ago
> Who is destroying capital and why? Capital destruction doesn't have to be intentional. Hurricanes, fires, floods, wars, and pandemics can destroy capital. A bunch of chickens being killed due to bird flu is an example of capital
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by thwayunion 3y ago
Basically, yes; technically, not quite. The outflow that is posing serious risks is the flow from regional banks' check and savings accounts into brokerage accounts and then into repos/treasuries. It's unspecified if those br
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by thwayunion 3y ago
The question is about systemic risk to the fund, not the brokerage. SIPC insures the brokerage, not te position; if SPAXX goes to zero, you ain't getting nothing from SIPC. And, to be clear: money market mutual funds ARE exposed to liq

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