Quantumfreakonomics
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Quantumfreakonomics
8mo ago
I believe the school administration cited the Canadian Human Rights Commission as to why they couldn't do anything about him. The CHRC could have put the blame back on the school administration by publicly stating that male teachers wearing comically-oversized prosthetic breasts in the classroom isn't protected conduct, but they didn't.
Quantumfreakonomics
8mo ago
Thank you for proving my point. You can take potshots at which specific events happened at which specific locations. You can point out places where the initial investigators were wrong. What I have never seen is an explanation for what happened to all the Jews? Were the pre-war censuses wrong? Were the post-war censuses wrong? Where did they go? Pretty much every Jew can tell you about family members who died in the Holocaust. Are they all wrong?
Quantumfreakonomics
8mo ago
like a woman I know who talked about the need to ban gas stoves for the environment while a handyman was installing her new 50kBTU outdoor propane patio heater which feeds from the same tank as her removed gas stove.
Some people are so lacking in understanding that they don't even know when they're using the wrong units.
Quantumfreakonomics
9mo ago
At the free market equilibrium, you’re probably right that not too many professors would be able to pull that off, but at any given university there must be at least one harem worth of women perfectly willing to sleep their way to the top.
Quantumfreakonomics
10mo ago
Wikipedia claims that; the opinion of the court claims Lemon had already been effectively set aside.
Yeah, by previous Roberts court opinions like American Legion v. American Humanist Association
SFFA overturned neither Bakke (which was a mess of a set of opinions, and in fact the ruling was in favor of Bakke) nor even the later Grutter which endorsed Powell's opinion in Bakke. The ruling was that Harvard and UNCs programs were impermissible under Grutter.
If your take is, "actually affirmative action has been illegal the whole time," I guess you might be right, but that's kind of missing the point.
I only wish it overturned US v. Miller.
It did. The two opinions are fundamentally irreconcilable. Nobody knows how much of the NFA is constitutional at the moment.
Quantumfreakonomics
13m ago
I would have a much easier time believing his, “Aw shucks, I had no idea we were signing that. Must have been those silly lawyers,” routine if there wasn’t a long history detailing Altman’s penchant for plausibly-deniable power grabs.
Quantumfreakonomics
17d ago
EA had 46 billion dollars in committed funding in 2021, and was growing at 37% per year, according to 80000hrs.
Look at the date. How much of this "commitment" was from SBF?
Quantumfreakonomics
26d ago
People seem to be operating under the assumption that there is a set of deterministic “statuses”, and then there is a different set of non-deterministic free-will “choices”, but actually it’s all deterministic (modulo some weird quantum mechanical stuff).
Free will is essentially a legal fiction. It is incredibly useful, but it isn’t actually true. Yudkowsky’s decision theory paper uses the phrase “surgery on a world model” when describing how one considers counterfactuals. I think that is a good way to put it. In some sense it is impossible for someone who is homeless at any given time to have not been homeless, because in the physical universe that exists they are in fact homeless, but this isn’t very useful when designing a legal system that creates actual justice.
Quantumfreakonomics
2mo ago
Republican primary ballot propositions be like: "Authorize military force to deploy to the border to stop ILLEGALS yes/no" "Eliminate all taxes yes/no"
Quantumfreakonomics
3mo ago
The literal word is "shepherd", but there are some locations where it is clearly referring to some sort of church leader.
Quantumfreakonomics
3mo ago
Court opinions (and arguments) are an underrated source of entertainment. One side is by definition always wrong, and you can hire a fancypants lawyer to argue almost anything. Hilarity ensues.
I know the Supreme Court has lots of available resources. Do you know any other courts that have easily available (searchable) opinions?
Quantumfreakonomics
3mo ago
Why would you want gerrymandering to have more influence?
Quantumfreakonomics
4mo ago
If "none of the above" were allowed to win, what happens when a supreme court justice dies?
Quantumfreakonomics
4mo ago
I realize that many people are in fact loyal to Trump. My point is that this is stupid and counterproductive. If you have a good reason that this is actually smart and productive, I would love to hear it.
Quantumfreakonomics
8mo ago
…Yes? Perhaps I’d feel different if I actually had a daughter and had watched her grow up, but this doesn’t feel like that big of a dilemma. If you don’t want Elon Musk solving the fertility crisis with your daughter, then you don’t want to win. Your reproductive fitness incentives are aligned with hers.
Now, with my wife/gf? Absolutely not. He can get fucked
Quantumfreakonomics
8mo ago
The difference now is that Musk owns a piece of the media. (((New York and California executives))) can't implement a complete blackout on negative stories anymore. News will leak out through Twitter. People on Twitter will keep pointing out that all the hitpieces are written by people with names like Steve Israel or Yonat Shimron. Americans can simply look around and see that Jews are rich and well-connected. The median American probably doesn't know a single Jew personally. If they do, that Jew is probably richer and higher-status than they are. The disproportionate representation of Jews in positions of power is so stark that denying it without full media/information control will nuke the ADL's credibility.
Quantumfreakonomics
8mo ago
Where on Earth were you where there was
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an alligator gar, and
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water clear enough to see an alligator gar?
Quantumfreakonomics
8mo ago
Quantumfreakonomics
8mo ago
I don't think public opinion on the situation was favorable to the state.
Pretty sure you’re wrong. Violent persecution of religious sects is surprisingly popular.
Quantumfreakonomics
8mo ago
That means the employers have to sit there and take it while the union gathers up enough employees to form a monopoly. Unionized employees are worth less to the company than non-unionized employees. Are employers allowed to lower an employee’s wages if they join a union? Jamming this price signal has economic consequences.
BTU is a unit of energy. The relevant parameter for engines or other energy-conversion devices is power, energy per unit time. Some quick googling indicates that the convention in the patio heater business is to quote BTU ratings with an implied "per hour", so a 50kBTU patio heater outputs 50,000 BTU per hour (for anyone still wondering what the hell that means, 50,000 BTU is about 2 liters of liquified propane).
This sounds pedantic, but this implied unit convention is far from universal. In some industries, the "BTU value" of something has implied units of energy-per-unit-volume or energy-per-unit-weight. I had enough context in your example to know that there was an implied "per unit time" involved, but I didn't know immediately if it was per second, per minute, per hour, or per day.
Quantumfreakonomics
9mo ago
Going to second “Dispelling Beauty Lies”. The guy who wrote it gives off serious quack energy, but pretty much everything in the article rings obviously true to me.
Quantumfreakonomics
9mo ago
the relevant law is quite clear that such instruction may be offered in grades 9-12.
Is it? I read the law and didn’t see that anywhere.
But there is no apparent basis for the College Board to believe this.
Look carefully at the language the state is using: “the Department believes that AP Psychology can be taught in its entirety in a manner that is age and developmentally appropriate.” They don’t say that AP Psychology is taught in a manner that is age and developmentally appropriate. They don’t say that AP psychology as the college board recommends it be taught is compliant with Florida law. They sent a letter to The College Board asking them to review their courses for compliance with state law. The clear implication is that Florida wants The College Board to change something about their courses.
On the object level, I totally believe that the modern incarnation of AP Psychology is chock full of postmodern critical theory bullshit, and that Florida is well justified keeping it out of the classroom, but on the meta level, The College Board is correct that the Florida Department of Education is trying to ban their preferred version of AP Psychology.
Hearsay is the wrong term, but there are hard-coded exceptions to evidence rules which only apply to sexual assault and not to other crimes.
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