SerialStateLineXer
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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
3d 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
3d 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
10d ago
Bones heal, pain is temporary, and chicks dig scars.
SerialStateLineXer
17d 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
19d ago
Right. That makes it completely different from DEI.
SerialStateLineXer
22d 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
30d 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
30d 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
30d ago
How did he get through the interview? Was it on-site, or could he have used AI?
SerialStateLineXer
2mo ago
This is pretty bleak: Adjusted for inflation, South Africa's GDP per capita is up less than 7% since 1974.
SerialStateLineXer
2mo 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
2mo 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
2mo ago
Make more Jews, please. We're running out.
SerialStateLineXer
2mo 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.
SerialStateLineXer
2mo ago
Things go up and down
Ideally more than 13 times.
SerialStateLineXer
3mo ago
You can still get a lower premium with a high deductible, right?
SerialStateLineXer
3mo ago
Any major Social Security savings are going to have to come from legislation, because the formulas for payouts are dictated by law. Maybe they find some people cashing dead parents' checks, but I don't expect that to be more than a small single-digit percentage, if that. Plus there's no real room for discretion, since payouts are only based on contributions and age of retirement.
There's some room for fraud in disability, but rooting that out without inspecting each individual on a case-by-case basis might be tough. Maybe they can look for doctors with anomalously high rates of diagnosing disability that can't be explained by specialty.
There's a lot more room for fraud in Medicare and Medicaid, because there's much more room for discretion. Again, reviewing individual cases is probably not possible, but maybe they can find providers with anomalous numbers.
SerialStateLineXer
3mo ago
I'm 100% on team HBD, because that's where the evidence strongly points, and I'm sick of midwits trying to smear those of us who can actually follow the science as racists, but "normalize Indian hate" sounds an awful lot like actual racism to me.
SerialStateLineXer
3mo ago
He's an executive branch appointee acting with the permission of the elected President. That's how the executive branch has always worked: The President appoints people to oversee various aspects of the executive branch, because it does way too much for one person to micromanage. The President can fire him at any time if he disapproves.
If there's a problem here, it's that the executive branch is doing things the executive branch has no authority to do, not that an unelected appointee is making decisions.
SerialStateLineXer
3mo ago
Anything's possible, because laws aren't real, but the President has a constitutional mandate to "take care that the laws be executed faithfully," which includes making the expenditures specified in law. Anyone who's "harmed" by the reduction in spending (e.g. by getting laid off, or by not getting the benefit of the legally mandated spending) has standing to sue, and contrary to the histrionic claims of the left, I think the conservative majority on the Court actually cares about upholding the law.
SerialStateLineXer
3mo ago
Payroll expenses are about 5% of federal spending. Laying off half of the employees would have only a minimal effect on total spending.
SerialStateLineXer
3mo ago
I regard it as what happens when libertarians who read Hacker News and Ayn Rand stop believing in liberty.
No, it's more that they stop believing in the ability of democracy to deliver liberty. The whole point of competitive government is that exit is a better guarantee of liberty than voice.
SerialStateLineXer
3mo ago
"Gulf of America" is kind of silly, though. The US borders many bodies of water. The Gulf of Mexico is the one that has Mexico on the other side.
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.
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