verylongname

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by verylongname 7y ago
I'm not sure why this is getting downvoted. The United States has a system of de jure discrimination against white and asian men. Moreover, there is a great deal of de facto discretization against them as well. Many people seem to t
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by verylongname 7y ago
Personally, I think complex analysis is important. I really like Serge Lang's book "Complex Analysis." It is supposedly a graduate level text, but the first half of it covers the basics at a level suitable for upper divisio
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by verylongname 7y ago
I think it is about status signalling for the parents and the social status prospects for the children more than its about career prospects for the children. What college your children attend seems to have a big affect on your social status
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by verylongname 8y ago
What are the problems with just increasing the dosage over time. This sounds to me like a very reasonable approach to someone with intractable pain.
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by verylongname 8y ago
I inherited a house and condo from my parents. They are in California and purchased long ago, so the property taxes on them are ridiculously low (the condo, worth about 700K has a property tax valuation under 150K ... thank you California
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by verylongname 8y ago
Indeed. And there is also a continuous shortage of farm workers, or at least workers willing to do backbreaking seasonal labor harvesting crops for substandard wages. Astonishing.
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by verylongname 8y ago
I think overhead rates at most big state schools are around 50%, and I believe they are higher at a lot of elite private universities. This is the link I got when I googled "Yale overhead rate": https://your.yale.edu&#
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by verylongname 8y ago
Its very hard to turn down a request to review a paper you are qualified to comment on from an editor you know, or who regularly handles your papers. Editor X from Journal Y sends you a paper which you are well-qualified to review. You&#x
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by verylongname 8y ago
Quite aside from the question of whether or not its okay to discriminate as long as it is principally whites who are harmed, I find this statement from the ACLU to be bizarre. I think it is fairly obviously wrong. Moreover, the plaintiffs
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by verylongname 8y ago
Assuming the basic facts claimed by the author are correct, this is really bad. I'm not referring to the behavior attributed to the U Chicago professor and her husband, either. That might be exaggerated by the author (the account is
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by verylongname 8y ago
Tech seems to be converging to the norms of other highly paid professions. I'd bet that at least 40% of Goldman Sachs' hires come from Harvard, Yale and Princeton. How about the big law firms? I know they don't really hire
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by verylongname 8y ago
See CalTech for an example of an elite school that has race-blind admissions. As far as I can tell, it hasn't put any pressure on the Ivy's to change. Incidentally, Caltech's latest class is roughly 50% Asian and about 30%
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by verylongname 8y ago
It was "recentered" in 1995. The right side of the distribution was essentially truncated. A 1600 on the pre-1995 SAT was quite an accomplishment (I don't have data at my fingertips, but in most years, fewer than 10 student
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by verylongname 8y ago
The bargaining power of workers is being undermined by large-scale immigration and by trade policy. The National Academy of Sciences report on immigration found that current immigration policy diverts a shocking 500 billion dollars a year
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by verylongname 9y ago
Indeed, statistics is fine, but I think the problem is larger than scientists being poorly educated. It looks to me like an awful lot of scientists aren't acting in good faith. I don't think that their conduct necessarily rises
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by verylongname 9y ago
In order to owe $60,000 in back taxes, you had to have income. Where did that income go? Were the original loan amounts even higher? Loans of $140,000 sound awfully high for an undergraduate degree. Did you attend a professional school (
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by verylongname 9y ago
The law puts most of the burden on drivers quite intentionally, and I think properly. My general impression is that the average driver doesn't understand the law and don't appreciate the extent to which it is designed to favor pe
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by verylongname 9y ago
I'm sure there is a lot of waste in the UC Office of the President. But Universities have become huge, complicated behemoths with many functions besides education. I recently saw a breakdown of where the money for one of the UC campus
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by verylongname 10y ago
Because you get a lot of free press.
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by verylongname 11y ago
Moreover, in most of California, the supply of housing has been artificially restricted using overly stringent zoning rules and laws. I'm in favor of reasonable zoning rules, but in my city the only justification for limiting new cons
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by verylongname 11y ago
Actually, 100 points is an underestimate. At elite schools, there is a significant difference between the average SAT scores of admitted white students and admitted black students --- usually several hundred points. The average SAT scores
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by verylongname 11y ago
This is hardly surprising given the greater than 100 point difference in average SAT scores between the two groups.
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by verylongname 11y ago
This. I'm sorry to say that I agree. What is really astonishing is the low quality of the police forces in cities in the United States which pay police very very well (when all of their benefits are taken into account).
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by verylongname 11y ago
You are just defining the class of Riemann integrable and Lebesgue integrable functions using Jordan measurability. There is nothing wrong in this, but there is nothing different in it either. It is equivalent to the standard limit of sim
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by verylongname 11y ago
But the only obstruction to developing convergence theorems for Riemann integrals is that the limit of a sequence of Riemann integrable functions need not be Riemann integrable. This, of course, follows from the standard convergence theore
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by verylongname 11y ago
Lebesgue integrals differ in several key respects from Riemann integrals. Intuitively, Riemann integrals involve partitioning the domain of a function into disjoint intervals (a_1,a_2), (a_2,a_3), ... (a_{n-1},a_n) and approximately the a
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by verylongname 12y ago
Perhaps when it comes to undergraduate work, there is a problem. But Rokhlin, Coifman and Spielman are all members of that department. I would be pleased to have any one of them as a thesis adviser. There are no doubt other faculty membe