SerialStateLineXer
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SerialStateLineXer
1hr ago
I just realized: Is porn called smut because it's "dirty?"
SerialStateLineXer
4d ago
And the dissent was all conservatives. The Democrats were happy to throw chronic pain patients under the bus in order to preserve an obviously wrong interpretation of the Commerce Clause because it's the source of the Federal Government's power to regulate purely intrastate affairs.
SerialStateLineXer
5d ago
Gonzales v. Raich
SerialStateLineXer
7d ago
Caplan's record, as he readily admits, is somewhat less impressive when you account for the fact that he wins by consistently betting in favor of consensus and the future being like the past. He's not successfully predicting black swan events, but arbitraging others' overestimation of the frequency of black swan events.
SerialStateLineXer
11d ago
In 9th grade we had to memorize and recite a poem. As a flex, I memorized The Raven, but then my teacher said it was too long and wouldn't let me recite the whole thing.
SerialStateLineXer
30d ago
Nice. I've been in the top 0.5% in Japan for a couple years now, but that's bush league. It might not even put me in the top 5% in the US.
SerialStateLineXer
1mo ago
You can clearly see that "business today" is AI generated fake USA today, "economic times" is fake The Economist / Financial Times, etc...
The Economic Times is a real Indian newspaper, isn't it?
SerialStateLineXer
1mo ago
She's not going to want to look at you with 20/20 vision.
SerialStateLineXer
1mo ago
Surely learning Georgian is unlikely to increase your earning power meaningfully, so the claim must be about correlation, not causation. Most Americans who speak Spanish are Latinos, and Latinos tend to make below-average incomes. Most people who speak other languages are either positively selected immigrants, or natives who were smart and conscientious enough to learn another language as adults. So they tend to make more.
The Complete Works of Saki. Pen name of H. H. Munro, a bitchy gay early 20th century British writer. Mostly wrote short stories, which are delightful.
SerialStateLineXer
1mo ago
this study seems to show some convergence in educational outcomes with Hispanics (although it includes all kinds of Asians)
The problem with cross-sectional comparisons of different generations is that each generation is from a different wave of immigrants. This study was published in 1998, using data from students who were in eighth grade in 1988, meaning that the 3rd+ generation were from families that had been in the country since long before the 1965 reopening of the country to Asian immigrants. And 20% of 3rd+ generation were Pacific Islanders and 50% "other Asians"; who knows what that means?
Because the legacy Asians come from very different cultural and genetic backgrounds, you can't necessarily attribute to generational differences to assimilation.
SerialStateLineXer
1mo ago
Remember a hot business studies chick in my dorm slept with half the econometrics track guys to get them to do her maths homework.
I was good at math! Why did nobody tell me about this opportunity?
SerialStateLineXer
1mo ago
Bones heal, pain is temporary, and chicks dig scars.
SerialStateLineXer
2mo ago
I jumped off the deck using a helium balloon to slow my descent. The really painful part was finding out that cartoons had lied to me.
SerialStateLineXer
2mo ago
Right. That makes it completely different from DEI.
SerialStateLineXer
2mo ago
I just started on MA two weeks ago, and it's pretty cool. I tested 58% into MF II and am now up to 23% of the way through MF III.
I took linear algebra, discrete math, and multivariable calculus in college many years ago, so it's like 80% review, which is why I'm powering through so fast, but I'm learning a surprising amount of new stuff because my classes didn't go as deep. I'm looking forward to proofs, diffeq, and abstract algebra, and hopefully real analysis will be ready by the time I get to it. I expect to slow down as I get a bit further in. I don't think I can sustain this pace on new material.
SerialStateLineXer
2mo ago
It's not just that it doesn't aggravate the injury. It makes it better.
What I meant by "for stability" is that you probably don't want to do heavy one-handed swings with a fresh back injury.
SerialStateLineXer
2mo ago
You know what's good for kettlebell-induced back pain? More kettlebell swings! 2-handed for stability. I tweaked my back pretty bad doing one-armed swings with a 32 the other day, so I switched to two hands for a few sets, which got me back to about 70%, and the pain was all gone by the next day.
It probably depends on the exact nature of the injury, but it's worked pretty reliably for me.
SerialStateLineXer
2mo ago
How did he get through the interview? Was it on-site, or could he have used AI?
SerialStateLineXer
3mo ago
This is pretty bleak: Adjusted for inflation, South Africa's GDP per capita is up less than 7% since 1974.
SerialStateLineXer
3mo ago
realizing that the government's deficit is the private sector's surplus, which most people find desirable and wouldn't want to cut.
You're reasoning from an accounting identity, and I won't stand for it.
Yes, in order for the private sector as a whole to be a net creditor, the government must be a net debtor, but that's meaningless. There's no reason we should care about the private sector being a net creditor.
Note that this does not mean that the private sector can't accumulate net positive wealth without government debt. Private wealth did not decline along with net federal debt in the late 1990s, but grew rapidly. Real wealth is physical assets, not entries in a ledger.
It's true that if government doesn't run deficits private investors can't invest in government bonds, but they can buy private bonds or invest in equities. The government borrowing doesn't alleviate private actors of the burden of borrowing so that others may be creditors, but adds to the burden of private borrowers by driving up interest rates and reducing the amount of capital corporations can get by issuing stock.
If there's enough demand for government bonds that government can borrow at rates low enough to invest in infrastructure that will add enough value to pay for itself, that's a reasonable thing to do, but government borrowing does not, in itself, enrich the private sector.
Under no circumstances should the government borrow 6% of GDP at 4% interest at the peak of the business cycle in order to subsidize middle-class consumption.
SerialStateLineXer
4mo ago
Is it your position that the surrogates are criminals, too, or that they're willing victims who are just too stupid to know what's good for them?
SerialStateLineXer
4mo ago
Make more Jews, please. We're running out.
SerialStateLineXer
4mo ago
I have a 10x coworker, and from what I know of our company's pay scale, he makes around four times what an entry-level engineer makes, and probably twice what an unremarkable mid-career engineer makes.
It's in the water. People do it without even knowing.
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